History Characters / DreamSMPTechnoblade

** Another example happened when Fundy trapped Techno in a dunk tank at the festival. Unfortunately for Fundy, Techno had a [[SuperNotDrowningSkills Respiration III]] helmet, which negated most damage taken from drowning and increased breathing time underwater. Techno then proceeded to promote his channel while in the process of drowning, and even [[UpToEleven briefly stepped away from his computer in real life to drink a glass of water]]. Needless to say, Fundy was ''not'' happy.

%%->''"Tell the rest of the SMP that having abolished all governments of men, I have ascended to heaven to take on the Kingdom of God."''

** After the Butcher Army captured him, tried (and failed) to execute him, and put Philza, his last true friend at the time, under house arrest, he proceeds to team up with Dream to completely destroy L'Manburg.

-->'''Sam:''' I think we both know that's probably [[BombThrowingAnarchist not true]].

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Often references the absurdity of the roleplay in the server and generally doesn't roleplay, even through key moments of the plot. He's also one of the only members of the SMP whose conversations with his chat are canon (explained as having voices in his head).

%%* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Due to his content creator counterpart passing on from cancer on 30 June 2022, it is unlikely for Techno the character to appear in the series again. Currently, there has been no given in-series explanation for his absence.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Pretty much one of the main reasons why Techno's relationships in Season 1 and 2, especially with Tommy, tend to break apart horribly is a failure to resolve conflict of interests. In Techno's case, likely due to social awkwardness and preference for action, he tends to just skirt around the issue and hope that people will eventually see where he's coming from/or believe that people already share his beliefs. This ends up being a habit that causes him to lose allies quickly, since what they wanted was too different, first with L'Manburg as a whole since they wanted to rebuild a stable political structure while Techno wanted an anarchist society, then with Tommy over whether or not to destroy L'Manburg (Tommy wanted to keep his old nation safe and realized he crossed his own moral beliefs while siding with Techno, which led to his betrayal, while Techno wanted that city-state gone and wiped off the server because it was "government" and later because they tried to kill him). Plus, the Butcher Army going after him is partially caused by the fact he claimed he would blow up the country again if they tried to rebuild the country and reform a government, but ''never told them he'd retired in the meantime'' and was trying to give up on his violent ways, which led to New L'Manburg seeing him as a perpetually looming threat and putting him on the Hit List.

* TraumaButton: While whether Techno himself ''has'' any of these is still unknown, to Season 1!Quackity, Techno ''was'' the traumatic trigger, and initially, even seeing him would cause him to panic. Techno himself, upon learning of this, is [[ButForMeItWasTuesday mostly bemused]] and utterly unconcerned about this, and has no issue with terrorizing Quackity again.

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Techno has one life left. Unlike the vast majority of the server, he only ever had one life to begin with.

* {{Dehumanization}}: [[BerserkButton One of the things Techno hates]] is being dehumanized by others, namely in the sense that they ''only'' see him as "The Blade" [[https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxB8MUBkh9vrWiEitiny0rMT9acRKZLF5e so while he was initially okay with Tommy calling him that]] back in the Pogtopia arc, as time passed and he felt people saw just as a warrior, his opinion on it soured. Unfortunately, he didn't tell anyone this until the Doomsday War when he started to accuse Tommy of "using him from the start" and, well, only seeing him as "The Blade", with little to no previous provocation.

** Namely, Techno is a lot more [[NotSoStoic emotional]] than one would first guess and holds poor grasp on some of his feelings. Mainly, his anger/wrath being the main issue, with his lack of proper expression of it pretty much being the driving force at to why the Butcher Army came for his head following L'Manberg's second destruction.

* TraumaButton: While whether Techno himself has any of these is still unknown, to Season 1!Quackity, Techno ''was'' the traumatic trigger, and initially, even seeing him would cause him to panic. Techno himself, upon learning of this, is [[ButForMeItWasTuesday mostly bemused]] and utterly unconcerned about this, and has no issue with terrorizing Quackity again.

* {{Mooks}}: Ultimately, intimidation via their vast numbers is all they truly have going for them. When faced with decently geared players, they tend to fall off in droves due to their inability to take much hits or do much damage in turn. It says a lot when during Doomsday out of the hundreds of dogs used in that battle they only managed to kill one person - a defenseless and unarmored Tubbo (who was about to die by Techno regardless).

* TheSmartGuy: Shield_of_Hope is praised as such by Techno for getting in Edward's spot in the boat, rendering him unable to come on the woodland mansion mission with Techno and the other named dogs.

* TheDreaded: Most people on the server fear them for good reason: they're airborne, durable, and incredibly powerful creatures with the ability to wreck entire buildings in seconds. Now imagine a ''horde'' pretty much invading your country - it's a grand scale massacre.

* CrowdChant: "[[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD"]] and "TECHNOBLADE NEVER DIES".

* CrowdChant: "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD" and "TECHNOBLADE NEVER DIES".

** After helping to blow up L'Manburg during the Season 1 Finale and then fleeing to the northern tundra to "retire", Techno is eventually confronted by the Butcher Army, all of whom (outside of Ranboo) held grievances against Techno for multiple reasons[[note]]All three for blowing up L'Manburg, threatening to return and ''blow it up again'' if they tried to rebuild the country and reform a new government, and being an overall threat to their country and its intended-to-be peaceful existence; additionally, [[ItsPersonal Tubbo for executing him, and Quackity for giving him PTSD during Minecraft Mondays]], with the bonus of proving New L'manberg was powerful enough to not mess with.[[/note]], and decide to execute him. Initially, the Butcher Army manages to capture him and even get his OP armor. Unfortunately for the Butcher Army, not only does Techno ''survive'' his execution (combination of Dream's interference and Techno's totem) he escapes and proceeds to help ''[[NukeEm blow up their country to kingdom come]]'' in the Doomsday War. As Techno manages to go into retirement again, satisfied that there was (for now) no more government on the server, the splintered remains of L'Manburg had all lost their homes and mostly became lost and disillusioned as a result.

* VillainousAromanticAsexual: {{Implied|Trope}} and ultimately {{downplayed|Trope}}. Techno is [[GreyAndGrayMorality morally grey]] (though his exact shade of grey is still heavily debated), and overall seems to have little to no interest in romance. Early during his time on the SMP, Tommy asked who his favourite woman was, to which Techno replied it was [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas his mother]]; when Quackity asked him out in a moment of panic[[labelnote:Context]]Techno was hunting him down, and Quackity's (non-canonical) stream chat was urging him to ask Techno out[[/labelnote]], Techno turned him down, asking if he had a death wish for trying to do such a thing. Despite this, Techno is able to form attachments and make friends, most notably seen with the members of the Syndicate.
** This is somewhat {{enforced|Trope}} by Techno the content creator explicitly stating he doesn't want his character to be shipped, so [[Fanon/DreamSMP a sizeable part of the fandom agrees]] that Techno the character is likely somewhere on the aromantic and/or asexual spectrum(s).

** After helping to blow up L'Manburg during the Season 1 Finale and then fleeing to the northern tundra to "retire", Techno is eventually confronted by the Butcher Army, all of whom (outside of Ranboo) held grievances against Techno for multiple reasons[[note]]All three for blowing up L'Manburg, threatening to return and ''blow it up again'' if they tried to reform a new government, and being an overall threat to their country and its intended-to-be peaceful existence; additionally, [[ItsPersonal Tubbo for executing him, and Quackity for giving him PTSD during Minecraft Mondays]], with the bonus of proving New L'manberg was powerful enough to not mess with.[[/note]], and decide to execute him. Initially, the Butcher Army manages to capture him and even get his OP armor. Unfortunately for the Butcher Army, not only does Techno ''survive'' his execution (combination of Dream's interference and Techno's totem) he escapes and proceeds to help ''[[NukeEm blow up their country to kingdom come]]'' in the Doomsday War. As Techno manages to go into retirement again, satisfied that there was (for now) no more government on the server, the splintered remains of L'Manburg had all lost their homes and mostly became lost and disillusioned as a result.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Pretty much one of the main reasons why Techno's relationships in Season 1 and 2, especially with Tommy, tend to break apart horribly is a failure to resolve conflict of interests. In Techno's case, likely due to social awkwardness and preference for action, he tends to just skirt around the issue and hope that people will eventually see where he's coming from/or believe that people already share his beliefs. This ends up being a habit that causes him to lose allies quickly, since what they wanted was too different, first with L'Manburg as a whole since they wanted to rebuild a stable political structure while Techno wanted an anarchist society, then with Tommy over whether or not to destroy L'Manburg (Tommy wanted to keep his old nation safe and realized he crossed his own moral beliefs while siding with Techno, which led to his betrayal, while Techno wanted that city-state gone and wiped off the server because it was "government" and later because they tried to kill him). Plus, the Butcher Army going after him is partially caused by the fact he claimed he would blow up the country again if they tried to reform a government, but ''never told them he'd retired in the meantime'' and was trying to give up on his violent ways, which led to New L'Manburg seeing him as a perpetually looming threat and putting him on the Hit List.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Pretty much one of the main reasons why Techno's relationships in Season 1 and 2, especially with Tommy, tend to break apart horribly is a failure to resolve conflict of interests. In Techno's case, likely due to social awkwardness and preference for action, he tends to just skirt around the issue and hope that people will eventually see where he's coming from/or believe that people already share his beliefs. This ends up being a habit that causes him to lose allies quickly, since what they wanted was too different, first with L'Manburg as a whole since they wanted to rebuild a stable political structure while Techno wanted an anarchist society, then with Tommy over whether or not to destroy L'Manburg (Tommy wanted to keep his old nation safe and realized he crossed his own moral beliefs while siding with Techno, which led to his betrayal, while Techno wanted that city-state gone and wiped off the server because it was "government" and later because they tried to kill him).

* FaceHeelTurn: For the entire Pogtopia vs Manburg arc, Techno stated that he was against any form of government and wanted to see the land Manburg was on razed to the ground. After the Manburg-Pogtopia War, while the citizens of New L'Manburg were meeting to turn over the government and restore the land, he killed their new president, Tubbo, released two Withers onto the land, and blew up three stacks of TNT just to clean up what Wilbur missed with his ''11 and a half stacks'' of TNT.

*** Techno has also ''repeatedly'' teamed up with Dream, who can crown and dethrone kings on a whim, has waged war against and destroyed every faction that tries to challenge his power, isolated and abused Tommy for not listening to him, and had a vault full of everyone's most valued possessions to use as blackmail. Granted, he wasn't aware of Exile or the Disc War Finale, but given Dream's nature, Techno should be more wary of working with him, even if Dream [[ApparentlyPowerlessPuppetmaster isn't technically working in a government]], and probably should have asked someone about Dream when he had the chance to.

** When Tommy left him during the Green Festival, and later during Doomsday, Techno was absolutely ''furious'', claiming that Tommy was using him from the start, and had been lying to him about what he was actually planning. This is ''extremely'' rich considering that, a day before the Green Festival, Techno outright ''admitted'' that he was only keeping Tommy around to further his own ends, and had been lying to Tommy for ''weeks'' about his true intentions of destroying L'Manburg (which Tommy had said ''from the start'' that he didn't want to do).
*** When Tommy tries to claim that L'Manburg isn't about government, but people, Techno replies "I'M a person!", and goes on to accuse Tommy of only every seeing him as "The Blade" and [[{{Dehumanization}} treating him like a weapon]]. Not only is this ''blatantly'' untrue (Tommy is TheNicknamer, he's called Techno "The Blade" for months while treating him as a friend, and Techno never complained about being referred to as "The Blade" before that), and another bit of blatant hypocrisy in that he admitted two days before to only keeping Tommy around to use him, it's also a bit rich coming from the guy who stopped treating Tubbo as anything except "government" as soon as he was involuntarily inaugurated on November 16th. This is further hammered in by Tommy's reply to the aforementioned claim, that ''the L'Manburgians are people too''.

* ImprobableAge[=/=]VagueAge: Wilbur has claimed that Techno is presumably in his late [=20s=], but has also had a [[IntergenerationalFriendship longtime established friendship]] with [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Philza]], and started the Antarctic Empire and [[TakeOverTheWorld took over SMP Earth]] with him before the events of the Dream SMP. It also doesn't help that whether Techno is [[MayflyDecemberFriendship mortal]] or not is a question in itself, and Techno himself apparently doesn't know how old he canonically is.

** Pretty much whenever Techno is in conflict with Quackity, expect Techno to usually be the victor. [[TheDeterminator Not that it stopped Quackity from trying to even the score nonetheless]]. Quackity was initially scared of Techno due to trauma from their Minecraft Monday days (which Techno was utterly oblivious about). Thus, Quackity helped hunt Techno down and even became the reason why they were able to catch Techno by threatening to kill Carl. Unfortunately, Techno was able to escape. During his escape, Techno canonically killed Quackity, giving him even ''more'' trauma (though in fairness, said fight was in self-defense after Quackity tried to hunt him down again). Months later, Quackity gained his vengeance by locking Techno in Pandora's Vault with Sam's help. Quackity returned to visit Techno (and Dream) in the prison and almost managed to kill Techno the very same way Techno himself did it. Unfortunately for Quackity, Phil managed to teleport Techno out of prison moments before Quackity could kill him. Although Techno was left shaken and disturbed by the endeavor, he still technically has his canon life intact, and considering Quackity's paranoid [[VillainousBreakdown breakdown]] after Techno's escape, Techno arguably came out on top in regard to this confrontation as well.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Pretty much the main reason why Techno's relationships in Season 1 and 2, especially with Tommy, tend to break apart horribly is a failure to resolve conflict of interests. In Techno's case, likely due to social awkwardness and preference for action, he tends to just skirt around the issue and hope that people will eventually see where he's coming from/or believe that people already share his beliefs. A habit that either got him used (like with Wilbur) or down a friend, since what they wanted was too different (with Tommy).

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Although Techno's chat manifests as voices in his head, their canonical nature is never confirmed. Popular fanon speculates that they may have some sort of supernatural origin, usually in relation to the Blood God, but there are also fans who see them as a surprisingly-realistic interpretation of auditory hallucinations.

*** Techno has also ''repeatedly'' teamed up with Dream, who can crown and dethrone kings on a whim, has waged war against and destroyed every faction that tries to challenge his power, isolated and abused Tommy for not listening to him, and had a vault full of everyone's most valued possessions to use as blackmail. Granted, he wasn't aware of Exile or the Disc Finale, but given Dream's nature, Techno should be more wary of working with him, even if Dream isn't working in a government.
** Techno is against government and has always opposed those who continue them, yet has worked with Eret AKA the ''monarch'' of the Greater SMP. Albeit, justified, in that case since it was to get Michael back and take down the one who kidnapped the kid.
** While he dislikes behind dehumanized, or thought of less as a person, Techno had taken to calling Tubbo, and seeing him, as the 'government' during his time as leader of New L'manberg.

* KarmaHoudini: For the most part, Techno has a tendency to be, at least on paper, the 'victor' when it comes to the CycleOfRevenge, in this case being due to his fighting prowess and tendency for violent destruction when wronged. With a bit of their part interference for good measure.

* {{Dehumanization}}: [[BerserkButton One of the things Techno hates]] is being dehumanized by others, namely in the sense that they ''only'' see him as "The Blade" [[https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxB8MUBkh9vrWiEitiny0rMT9acRKZLF5e so while he was initially okay with Tommy calling him that]] back in the Pogtopia arc, as time passed and he felt people saw just as a warrior, his opinion on it soured. Unfortunately, he didn't tell anyone this until the Doomsday War when he started to accuse Tommy of "us[ing] him from the start" and, well, only seeing him as "The Blade", with little to no previous provocation.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Arguably his biggest flaw.
** Techno claims to be an anarchist because he wants to prevent tyranny, and believes that all forms of government are inherently tyrannical. He's attempted to combat this tyranny by forming the Syndicate, a secret organization that investigates communities by conducting searches and interrogating their inhabitants, with the promise that if they find evidence of a government, they will raze the entire place to the ground.
*** Techno has also ''repeatedly'' teamed up with Dream, who can crown and dethrone kings on a whim, has waged war against and destroyed every faction that tries to challenge his power, isolated and abused Tommy for not listening to him, and had a vault full of everyone's most valued possessions to use as blackmail. It's true that Techno isn't aware of most of what Dream has done, but the fact that he can learn pretty much all of that just by asking someone ''why'' Dream is in jail makes it sound less like him being genuinely out of the loop, and more like willful ignorance.
*** Before ''that'', Techno followed Schlatt's order to execute Tubbo, despite Schlatt being a tyrannical dictator who ''nobody'' wanted in power. Tommy [[LampshadeHanging calls him out on this]] during the Doomsday War, to which Techno tries to deflect by saying it happened months ago... not that those months could ever erase Tubbo's trauma from the incident.
*** Speaking of which, while apologizing to Tubbo about the Manberg Festival, Techno claims that it was "pathetic of [him] to give in to the government"... while having no problems teaming up with Eret, the resident ''monarch'' of the Greater SMP.
** When Tommy left him during the Green Festival, and later during Doomsday, Techno was absolutely ''furious'', claiming that Tommy was using him from the start, and had been lying to him about what he was actually planning. This is ''extremely'' rich considering that, a day before the Green Festival, Techno outright ''admitted'' that he was only keeping Tommy around to further his own ends, and had been lying to Tommy for ''weeks'' about his true intentions of destroying L'Manburg (which Tommy had said ''from the start'' that he didn't want to do).
*** When Tommy tries to claim that L'Manburg isn't about government, but people, Techno replies "I'M a person!", and goes on to accuse Tommy of only every seeing him as "The Blade" and [[{{Dehumanization}} treating him like a weapon]]. Not only is this ''blatantly'' untrue (Tommy is TheNicknamer, he's called Techno "The Blade" for months while treating him as a friend, and Techno never complained about being referred to as "The Blade" before that), and another bit of blatant hypocrisy in that he admitted two days before to only keeping Tommy around to use him, it's also a bit rich coming from the guy who stopped treating Tubbo as anything except "government" as soon as he was involuntarily inaugurated on November 16th. This is further hammered in by Tommy's reply to the aforementioned claim, that ''the L'Manburgians are people too''.
** Related to the above, in spite of being dehumanized (or at least the perception of it) being one of his {{Berserk Button}}s, Techno has engaged in a fair bit of dehumanization himself, from seeing Tubbo as "government" the moment he got inaugurated as President ''involuntarily'', to calling Quackity a non-sentient player (not to his face) during Minecraft Mondays Week 6[[labelnote:*]]MCM Week 6 was canonized by Schlatt during the Manburg Festival[[/labelnote]] and choosing to go after him in that round of Survival Games due to this 'judgement'.

* KarmaHoudini: For the most part, Techno has a tendency, mostly, on-top when it comes to major conflicts.

** After helping to blow up Manburg during the Season 1 Finale and then fleeing to the northern tundra to "retire", Techno is eventually confronted by the Butcher Army, all of whom (outside of Ranboo) held grievances against Techno for multiple reasons[[note]]All three for blowing up L'Manburg, threatening to return and ''blow it up again'' if they tried to reform a new government, and being an overall threat to their country and its intended-to-be peaceful existence; additionally, [[ItsPersonal Tubbo for executing him, and Quackity for giving him PTSD during Minecraft Mondays]][[/note]], and decide to execute him. Unfortunately for the Butcher Army, not only does Techno ''survive'' his execution, he escapes and proceeds to help ''[[NukeEm blow up their country to kingdom come]]'' in the Doomsday War. As Techno manages to go into retirement again, satisfied that there was (for now) no more government on the server, the splintered remains of L'Manburg had all lost their homes and mostly became lost and disillusioned as a result.
** Pretty much whenever Techno is in conflict with Quackity, expect Techno to usually be the victor. During his escape from his execution, Techno canonically killed Quackity, giving him even ''more'' trauma (though in Techno's defense, said fight was in self-defense after Quackity tried to hunt him down again). Months later, Quackity gained his vengeance by locking Techno in Pandora's Vault with Sam's help. Quackity returned to visit Techno (and Dream) in the prison and almost managed to kill Techno the very same way Techno himself did it. Unfortunately for Quackity, Phil managed to teleport Techno out of prison moments before Quackity could kill him. Although Techno was left shaken and disturbed by the endeavor, he still technically has his canon life intact, and considering Quackity's paranoid [[VillainousBreakdown breakdown]] after Techno's escape, Techno arguably came out on top in regard to this confrontation as well.

* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' betray Techno or make him feel as if was betrayed. That is a one way ticket to get getting your country bombed. On that note, corrupt governments and making him feel as if he's ''just'' a weapon to be used also gets under his skin.

* BrutalHonesty: When Dream questions why Technoblade thinks that they are not out of options, Techno responds that Dream is out of options while Techno "actually has friends". This could be interpreted as Techno mocking Dream's VirtueIsWeakness mentality towards attachments.

* CerebusRetcon: Technoblade's NighInvulnerable status, which had often been [[PlayedForLaughs Played for laughs]] comes across as this with the reveal that people don't have multiple lives where he's from. If this is true, then it's likely he became as powerful as he is out of necessity, as one mistake could leave him dead for good, unlike most people who get at least 2 extra lives.

* {{Dehumanization}}:
** [[BerserkButton One of the things Techno hates]] is being dehumanized by others, namely in the sense that they ''only'' see him as "The Blade" [[https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxB8MUBkh9vrWiEitiny0rMT9acRKZLF5e so while he was intially okay with Tommy calling him that]] back in the Pogtopia arc, as time passed and he felt people saw just as a warrior, his opinion on it soured.

** Arguably his biggest flaw is his [[NoSocialSkills awful people skills]]. He may be a good fighter, but when it comes to resisting peer pressure or getting across his ideology, he pretty much falls flat. While Techno has good intentions, pretty much ''every'' major conflict he ended finding himself in was as a result of either being unable to ever properly communicate his intentions to others to form a compromise or the anxiety of the situation has him buckle and go against his core beliefs.

** [[StubbornMule He's also quite stubborn]] and very uncompromising with what he believes in, namely that governments are something that always results in tyranny and should be eradicated. Even if others think otherwise, he will go through with even destructive acts for those beliefs sake, which further alienates him from people that would have been his friends. Something L'manberg learned the hard way (though in that case one can argue it had more to do with the next vice of Techno's...).

** Namely, Techno is a lot more [[NotSoStoic emotional]] than one would first guess and holds poor grasp on some of his feelings. Mainly, his anger being the main issue, with his lack of proper expression of it pretty much being the driving force at to why the Butcher Army came for his head following L'manberg's second destruction.

*** When Tommy tries to claim that L'Manburg isn't about government, but people, Techno replies "I'M a person!", and goes on to accuse Tommy of only every seeing him as "The Blade" and [[{{Dehumanization}} treating him like a weapon]]. Not only is this ''blatantly'' untrue (Tommy is TheNicknamer, he's called Techno "The Blade" for months while treating him as a friend, and Techno never complained about being referred to as "The Blade"), and another bit of blatant hypocrisy in that he admitted two days before to only keeping Tommy around to use him, it's also a bit rich coming from the guy who stopped treating Tubbo as anything except "government" as soon as he was involuntarily inaugurated on November 16th. This is further hammered in by Tommy's reply to the aforementioned claim, that ''the L'Manburgians are people too''.


* IWillFightNoMoreForever: Attempted this when he retired after his first attack on L'Manburg, but after they tried to execute him, he decided to come out of retirement, reduce L'Manburg to empty space, then re-enter retirement once more.

** Similarly, despite being an anarchist, his earliest days on the server has him wearing his traditional skin, a pigman in [[RequisiteRoyalRegalia regal garbs]].

** After helping to blow up Manburg during the Season 1 Finale and then fleeing to the northern tundra to "retire", Techno is eventually confronted by the Butcher Army, all of whom (outside of Ranboo) held grievances against Techno for multiple reasons[[note]]all three for blowing up L'Manburg and being an overall threat to their country; additionally, [[ItsPersonal Tubbo for executing him, and Quackity for giving him PTSD during Minecraft Mondays]] as well as the wanting to kill him as a display of New L'manberg's power[[/note]], and decide to execute him. Unfortunately for the Butcher Army, not only does Techno ''survive'' his execution, he escapes and proceeds to help ''[[NukeEm blow up their country to kingdom come]]'' in the Doomsday War. As Techno manages to go into retirement again, satisfied that there was (for now) no more government on the server, the splintered remains of L'Manburg had all lost their homes and mostly became lost and disillusioned as a result.
** Pretty much whenever Techno is in conflict with Quackity, expect Techno to usually be the victor. During his escape from his execution, Techno canonically killed Quackity, giving him even ''more'' trauma (though in Techno's defense, said fight was in self-defense after Quackity tried to hunt him down again). Months later, Quackity gained his veneagence by locking Techno in Pandora's Vault with Sam's help. Quackity returned to visit Techno (and Dream) in the prison and almost managed to kill Techno the very same way Techno himself did it. Unfortunately, for Quackity, Phil managed to teleport Techno out of prison before Quackity could kill him. Although Techno was left shaken and disturbed by the endeavor, he still technically has his canon life intact, and considering Quackity's paranoid [[VillainousBreakdown breakdown]] after Techno's escape, Techno arguably came out on top in regard to this confrontation as well.

* OneManArmy: He is proficient in combat to the point of being able to equally match three people in a fight with a [[PowerfulPick pickaxe]]. Quackity even identifies him as "the next best thing" to an army during the Red Banquet.

* TheyCallHimSword: "The Blade", though by all means, it's also the latter half of his name. Though by the Doomsday War, Techno has since grown to dislike it since he felt that's ''all'' people thought of him (a warrior).

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Ulimately, he genuinely believes anarchy and having no governments will bring peace to everyone on the server. The problem is his tendency to express such beliefs using extreme violence...like ''helping blow up'' a country.

** [[BerserkButton One of the things Techno hates]] is the perception that he's being dehumanized by others, most prominently being seen with him yelling at Tommy during the Doomsday War for allegedly only treating him as a weapon and seeing him as "The Blade"... even though [[https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxB8MUBkh9vrWiEitiny0rMT9acRKZLF5e he was actively okay with Tommy calling him that]] back in the Pogtopia arc.[[note]]Even if his mindset towards the nickname did a 180 in the months between the two incidents, he definitely never gave Tommy the memo that he was no longer okay with it.[[/note]]
** Funnily enough, Techno [[{{Hypocrite}} has engaged in a fair bit of dehumanization himself]], from seeing Tubbo as "government" the moment he got inaugurated ''involuntarily'', to choosing to target Quackity and [=JunkyJanker=] during the first Survival Games round in Minecraft Mondays Week 6[[labelnote:*]]MCM Week 6 was canonized by Schlatt during the Manburg Festival, making this fair game[[/labelnote]] instead of Yammy and [=LaurenZSide=] because according to him, the latter two were "sentient players".

** To Tommy. Where Tommy seems to be [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex compensating for a lack of confidence with bluster]], Techno is secure in his status as the best [=PVPer=] on the server. Where Tommy wants to redeem Wilbur, Techno seeks to drive him further into madness. When L'Manburg is retaken, Tommy takes the side of the country when Techno razes it to the ground. Most of the internal conflict in Pogtopia came from Technoblade and Tommy antagonizing each other, with [[TheIdealist Tommy believing in hope for a better future]] while [[TheCynic Techno is jaded and only sees the potential for tyranny]].

** To Eret. Both of them played a huge role in a highly traumatic event to the L'Manburgians (the [[LuredIntoATrap Final Control Room]] for Eret, and Tubbo's [[PublicExecution execution]] for Techno), but while Eret has tried to [[TheAtoner make up for her actions]], Techno has not (or as of Season 4, barely). On top of this, Techno is [[BombThrowingAnarchists devoted to anarchy]] and holds a heavy anti-government sentiment, and is [[TheDreaded feared by many]] for a variety of reasons; Eret is the King of the Greater Dream SMP and is fairly benevolent, both as a ruler and as a person outside the royal court.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Arguably his biggest flaw.
** Techno claims to be an anarchist because he wants to prevent tyranny, and believes that all forms of government are inherently tyrannical. He's attempted to combat this tyranny by forming the Syndicate, a secret organization that investigates communities by conducting searches and interrogating their inhabitants, with the promise that if they find evidence of a government, they will raze the entire place to the ground. It says a lot that his methods for freeing people from the influence of government is basically forming the SecretPolice.
*** Techno has also ''repeatedly'' teamed up with Dream, who can crown and dethrone kings on a whim, has waged war against and destroyed every faction that tries to challenge his power, isolated and abused Tommy for not listening to him, and had a vault full of everyone's most valued possessions to use as blackmail. It's true that Techno isn't aware of most of what Dream has done, but the fact that he can learn pretty much all of that just by asking someone ''why'' Dream is in jail makes it sound less like him being genuinely out of the loop, and more like willful ignorance.
*** Oh, and before ''that'', Techno followed Schlatt's order to execute Tubbo despite the fact that Schlatt was a dictator (i.e. "government") while he himself was an "anarchist" (i.e. anti-government). Tommy [[LampshadeHanging calls him out on this]] during the Doomsday War, to which Techno tries to deflect by saying it happened months ago... not that those months could ever erase Tubbo's trauma from the incident.
*** Speaking of which, while apologizing to Tubbo about the Manberg Festival, Techno claims that it was "pathetic of [him] to give in to the government"... while having no problems teaming up with Eret, the resident ''monarch'' of the Greater SMP.
*** Additionally, on a more ambiguously-canon note, the Antarctic Empire he led during the days of WebOriginal/SMPEarth was in itself ''a government'' that tried to TakeOverTheWorld.
** When Tommy left him during the Green Festival, and later during Doomsday, Techno was absolutely ''furious'', claiming that Tommy was using him from the start, and had been lying to him about what he was actually planning. This is ''extremely'' rich considering that, a day before the Green Festival, Techno outright ''admitted'' that he was only keeping Tommy around to further his own ends, and had been lying to Tommy for ''weeks'' about his true intentions of destroying L'Manburg (which Tommy had said ''from the start'' that he didn't want to do).
*** When Tommy tries to claim that L'Manburg isn't about government, but people, Techno replies "I'M a person!", and goes on to accuse Tommy of only every seeing him as "The Blade" and [[{{Dehumanization}} treating him like a weapon]]. Not only is this ''blatantly'' untrue (Tommy is TheNicknamer so him calling Techno "[[RedBaron The Blade]]" is nothing out of the ordinary, and he has never treated him badly), and another bit of blatant hypocrisy in that he admitted two days before to only keeping Tommy around to use him, it's also a bit rich coming from the guy who stopped treating Tubbo as anything except "government" as soon as he was involuntarily inaugurated on November 16th. This is further hammered in by Tommy's reply to the aforementioned claim, that ''the L'Manburgians are people too''.

* KarmaHoudini: For the most part, Techno has managed to get away with most of the atrocities he has committed, and come out on top from the CycleOfRevenge that ensues as a result of said atrocities.

** After helping to blow up Manburg during the Season 1 Finale and then fleeing to the northern tundra to "retire", Techno is eventually confronted by the Butcher Army, all of whom (outside of Ranboo) held grievances against Techno for multiple reasons[[note]]all three for blowing up L'Manburg and being an overall threat to their country; additionally, [[ItsPersonal Tubbo for executing him, and Quackity for giving him PTSD during Minecraft Mondays]][[/note]], and decide to execute him. Unfortunately for the Butcher Army, not only does Techno ''survive'' his execution, he escapes and proceeds to help ''[[NukeEm blow up their country to kingdom come]]'' in the Doomsday War. As Techno manages to go into retirement again, satisfied that there was (for now) no more government on the server, the splintered remains of L'Manburg had all lost their homes and mostly became lost and disillusioned as a result. Overall, it just appears that Techno ''barely'' experienced a loss outside of Tommy turning his back on him during a HeelRealization, while ''all'' of L'Manburg [[ExaggeratedTrope took the biggest L the server had ever given out]].
** During his escape from his execution, Techno canonically killed Quackity, giving him even ''more'' trauma. Months later, after locking Techno in Pandora's Vault with Sam's help, Quackity returned to visit Techno (and Dream) in the prison and almost managed to kill Techno the very same way Techno himself did it. Unfortunately, Phil managed to teleport Techno out of prison before Quackity could PayEvilUntoEvil. Although Techno was left shaken and disturbed by the endeavor, he still technically has his canon life intact, and considering Quackity's paranoid [[VillainousBreakdown breakdown]] after Techno's escape, Techno arguably came out on top in regard to this confrontation as well.

* NoSympathy: Techno shows ''very'' little care for those not in his immediate circle of friends.

* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Throughout the last chunk of Season 1, people kept bringing up the fact that Techno was the one to perform Tubbo's execution, which Techno was sick of, because according to him, "circumstances forced [his] hand". However, unlike Eret, Techno has never tried to make up for what he did in a highly traumatic event.

* OnlyFriend: Following his banishment from New L'Manburg, Technoblade considers Philza his only true remaining friend.

* TheyCallHimSword: "The Blade", though by all means, it's also the latter half of his name. In the Doomsday War, Techno claims that Tommy calling him that (as a point of respect and because Tommy is TheNicknamer) is {{dehumanization}}... which raises a whole other range of issues: 1) he ''told'' Tommy to call him that in Season 1 (and if he had a change of heart, never told Tommy about this), and 2) Techno has engaged in a fair bit of dehumanization himself.

* UnreliableNarrator: Techno considers himself to be very open and honest about his ideals and plans, and felt betrayed both by Pogtopia forming a new government in L'Manburg, and Tommy leaving him to stick by Tubbo's side because he claims they ''knew'' what he was up to. However, Techno is anything ''but'' transparent. He refused to answer questions about his true intentions during the Pogtopia-era, saying "we'll burn that bridge when we get to it", and deliberately downplayed his plans to destroy L'Manburg when Tommy was staying with him, deleting "Destroy L'Manburg" from his to-do list before giving it to Tommy, only referring to his plans as "minor terrorism", and repeatedly telling Tommy that they'd hash out the details later whenever Tommy insisted he didn't want to harm L'Manburg or Tubbo, and just wanted help getting his discs back.

* EliteMook: The Syndicate uses them as such, and each time their enemies have to contend with them if they want to fight Techno or achieve their goals due to how strong and destructive they are. It's telling that when the first wave of Withers are spawned in Doomsday, does the battle for the L'manberg Defenders go from 'manageable' to 'gradually unwinnable'.

* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: One or two Withers are enough to deal major property damage to L'Manberg. ''Fifteen'' being spawned in, in conjuction with Dream's TNT cannons going off? There was practically nothing anyone could do to save L'Manberg.

* {{Mooks}}: Ultimately, intimidation via their vast numbers is all they truly have going for them. When faced with decently geared players, they tend to fall off in droves due to their inability to take much hits. It says a lot when during Doomsday out of the hundreds of dogs used in that battle they only managed to kill one person - an defenseless and unarmored Tubbo.

Technoblade's go-to weapon of mass destruction that he uses in war as his way of causing havoc and destruction against his enemies. At the moment, he has the means to create over fifty of them. He's only used them against L'Manburg: First after the civil war, the second time as a threat to reclaim his weapons, and the most recent time to level L'Manburg.

* EliteMook: Techno uses them as such, and each time his enemies have to contend with them if they want to reach him due to how strong and destructive they are.
* FinalBoss: Of the Manberg vs Pogtopia War alongside Techno himself.

* RedShirt[=/=]{{Mooks}}: The unnamed wolves of the pack classify as this. Notably, Techno brings a large number of wolves with him to help crash the Red Banquet, and when ''all but one'' of the wolves die in battle, Techno reassures his fans that [[NominalImportance none of the deceased wolves were named]].

* RedShirt / {{Mooks}}: The unnamed wolves of the pack classify as this. Notably, Techno brings a large number of wolves with him to help crash the Red Banquet, and when ''all but one'' of the wolves die in battle, Techno reassures his fans that [[NominalImportance none of the deceased wolves were named]].

* {{Hypocrite}}: Arguably his [[FatalFlaw biggest flaw]].