History Characters / GONE

* {{Badass}}: He is one of the few Moofs with combat-oriented powers, and is the one everyone looks to when trouble happens.

* {{Badass}}: As of ''Fear'', Astrid takes an active role in leading the community.

%%* TookALevelInBadass:]] In ''Fear''.

* {{Badass}}: Well, she brains a coyote with a gold brick.

* MrViceGuy: Smokes, drinks, packs a gun. [[{{Badass}} At fourteen.]]

* UnfazedEveryman: He's not a moof. He's not a {{Badass}}. He's just . . . Sam's friend. Until ''Fear''; lampshaded by Caine himself.

* {{Badass}}: Oh boy. Where to start?

* BadassNormal: No superpowers to speak of. Total {{Badass}}.

* {{Expy}}: Of [[LordoftheRings Samwise Gamgee]], extremely loyal to TheHero, [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Incorruptibly Pure]], and [[Badass]].

* {{Badass}}: Orc becomes nigh-invulnerable and super-strong, which comes in really handy.

* {{Badass}}: a mild example. May not be the best with a gun and doesn't have powers but she does manage to hold her own in a fight and can tackle people down, as Quinn says, like a linebacker not to mention [[spoiler: organizing a quarantine in Plague as well as handling all those sick kids and she doesn't back down for a second. You've got to admit that's pretty badass.]]

* {{Badass}}: Despite being a telekinetic and having Drake on his side, Caine mentions that it was difficult to chain her up.

* {{Badass}}: Put it like this: she was one of the first characters to go chasing after Drake. DRAKE.

* {{Badass}}: She's the only one that made DEKKA tremble in fear (in the literal sense AND in the novel of the same name).

* ActionMom: She turns out to be pretty {{Badass}} when we see her on the other side of the FAYZ in ''Fear''.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: He has blond hair and is TheHeavy for the Gaiaphage. [[AdaptationDyeJob However, he's got black hair on the book cover of Lies and Plague]].

* BlondGuysAreEvil

* FragileSpeedster: If she runs into anything, she'll probably smash up her legs, and if she trips while [[SuperSpeed running]] she'll break a lot of bones.
** Exploited in ''Hunger'' when Drake sets up cheese-wire, so that if she tries to burst in, she'll be cut into pieces.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Quinn, at first. They've drifted apart now.
** With Edilio afterwards, although [[spoiler: Edilio doesn't fit the 'heterosexual' part.]]

* IronWill: Stops Gaia from accessing her healing powers by sheer force of will.

* Expy: Probably not intentional, but it's a virus like feminine entity that fell with a meteor, spreads by infection, causes mutations and body horror, and spends it's time mind raping people and gathering thralls. Welcome back, Jenova.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Sort of; his last name (Zhang) makes it sound like he might be Asian, but it's never mentioned.

* RefusalOfTheCall: At first but soon rises up to it.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Lies is the book where she shifted into the role of TheHero and Sam [[TheChick took a backseat to her escapades]].

** BadassBookworm: Not having useful powers, Astrid relies on her brain to solve problems.

* EnragedByIdiocy: One of her BerserkButtons is having to deal with stupid people.

** JerkWithAHeartofJerk: Is remorselessly self-centred, although he has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment at the end.

** TheLancer: Subverted. He was Sam's best friend before the FAYZ, but his betrayal in ''Gone'' makes it that he doesn't get this role. Then he left Sam for good in ''Plague'' because he felt he was needed as a fisherman.

* AlliterativeName

** [[spoiler: BadassGay: As of ''Fear''.]]
** BadassNormal: No superpowers to speak of. Total {{Badass}}.
** FourStarBadass: As much as you can be a four-star general in the FAYZ, anyway.

** HeartbrokenBadass: Inverted; she's not the LEAST bit upset about breaking up with Elwood.

* TheMedic: Obviously; Seemingly Deconstructed as of ''Plague''.

* [[AGodIAm A King I Am]]: Delivers one of these speech at the end of ''Plague''. He's subsequently humbled and humiliated.
* AGoodWayToDie: He went out on a high, finally managing to prove to [[spoiler:the Gaiaphage that he can't be controlled, showing up his brother, saving the world and having mended his relationship with Diana. Not to mention him redeeming himself and being remembered as the guy who saved the world rather than the sociopath who cemented dozens of children's hands. He died thinking about her, and remarks that it was a "good feeling".]] Closest thing to a happy ending a character like him could ever get.

* [[spoiler: BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: He's the one that finishes off the Gaiaphage (with Little Pete controlling him), but it [[HeroicSacrifice cost him his life.]]]]

* [[spoiler: DyingDeclarationOfLove: Shortly after his sacrifice, Diana receives a letter in which she is told that he's sorry for hurting her and that he loves her.]]

* [[spoiler: EvilTwin:]] To Sam.

* KickTheMoralityPet: Regrets doing this in ''Fear'', though it seems the damage to his relationship with Diana is done.

* MoralityPet: [[DarkChick Diana]] acts as this for him [[spoiler: until he spends a whole book [[KickTheMoralityPet kicking said morality pet]].]]

* [[NameOfCain Name of Caine]]: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Well...]]

** HandicappedBadass: For a very short time.

* [[DealWithTheDevil Deal With The]] EldritchAbomination: He becomes the Gaiaphage's SycophanticServant.

** DragonWithAnAgenda: He is constantly plotting to [[TheStarscream screw over his current ally for his own benefit]].

* VillainBall: Starts off the series as a genuinely scary threat and a force to be reckoned with, ends it by [[spoiler:being defeated by having his nose bitten off by Astrid after she puts his severed head in a water cooler.]] He's more of a joke than a scare in his own right nowadays.

** BadassGay: ...and she's a lesbian.

* [[TwoferTokenMinority Threefer Token Minority]]: She’s black, she’s a lesbian, and she’s [[BreadEggsMilkSquick a superpowered mutant.]]

* GoodIsDumb: While not dumb per say, Brianna makes a lot of stupid decisions. [[spoiler:Repeatedly charging Gaia despite lacking a left eye/depth perception is one of them.]]

* [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil Having Your Legs Smashed Makes You Insane]]: Has gone completely off the deep end by ''Fear'', and ''loves'' it.

* [[MurderTheHypotenuse Torture the Hypotenuse]]: Her illusions really shake up Diana in ''Fear''.

* [[AmbiguouslyGay Ambiguously Bi]]: He leers after Nerezza and has a girlfriend, but he spends half his time obsessing over [[HoYay his magnificent, cool, handsome friend Lance]].

** JerkWithAHeartofJerk
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: AndThereWasMuchRejoicing.]]

* [[spoiler: YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Human Crew leave him to perish once he gets a fatal wound from Sam.]]

* [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead A Dream Is A Terrible Thing To Read]]: She remains traumatized after seeing Drake's ones.

* [[DirtyMindReading Dirty Dream Reading:]] Remarks that people would often dream about having sex, much to her dismay.

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]: One of the few recurring POV characters this happens to. [[spoiler: Before ''Light'', anyway.]]

* BigBad: Mainly in ''Gone''; after that, [[BiggerBad the Gaiaphage]] takes over the role.

** BiggerBad: While Caine fills the Big Bad role in individual plotlines, particularly in ''Gone'', the Gaiaphage is this in the series as a whole.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: The Gaiaphage was originally an artificial virus created by a faraway race of beings that worshipped life. They infected a moon with the virus and exploded it, intending for the infected fragments to seed life onto barren worlds. Unfortuately for Perdido Beach, a fragment crashed into the nuclear power plant, the radiation began to mutate both it and warp the very fabric of reality, giving rise to the kids' powers, killing a power plant worker, and eventually causing the FAYZ itself.

-> '''Pack Leader''': ''"Go to Darkness, Human"''
-> '''Lana''': ''"Go to hell, Coyote."''

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: While he doesn't actually do anything, he threatens to rape Brianna after [[spoiler:she cuts him to pieces]]. She simply smashes his... equipment right in front of him. He later threatens to rape Astrid [[spoiler:as a severed head]], but she laughs in his face and [[spoiler:shuts him in a water cooler. He also fantasizes about [[spoiler:assaulting Gaia, and is pays for it when she reads his mind and is not amused]].

* FaithHeelTurn: Not exactly, but it's only after she starts seriously questioning her faith that she can pull off a tragic and disturbing ShootTheDog.

-> '''Drake''': ''It's not about whose got powers, moron. It's about whose not afraid. And whose going to do what has to be done.''

* SlasherSmile: Is described to have one in ''Gone''.

* RandomTeleportation: Random to everyone but him.

* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler: Based on him, resulting in a [[TheScrappy near-universal hatred for him in the fandom.]]

* AdolfHitler: Based on him, resulting in a [[TheScrappy near-universal hatred for him in the fandom.]]

* EnfantTerrible: In its new form as Diana's daughter Gaia in ''Fear'', and during [[spoiler: most of ''Light''. Close to the end, having grown into a teenager, she no longer qualifies).]]

* HumanoidAbomination: As Nerezza in ''Lies'' and when it possesses Diana's daughter, [[MeaningfulName Gaia]]]] in ''Fear''.

!! The Gaiaphage'''/'''The Darkness'''/'''Nerezza'''/'''Gaia'''

* OnlyAFleshWound: To a ridiculous degree as Gaia. [[spoilerAmong other things, she takes a shotgun blast to the chest at near point-blank range and a machete to the carotid artery, inflicted within less than a minute of each other, is set on fire by Sam's lasers, and in the final battle takes a hit from a ''missile'' (although Orc was in the way of the blast).]]

%* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome
%* GentleGiant

* PowerPerversionPotental: Implies that she prostituted herself using her illusion powers to comply with other peoples' fantasies.