History Characters / InfinityTrainBlossomingTrailTheApex

* WouldHitAGirl: ''Both'' of them want to hurt Chloe bad upon learning about her crusade to stop them. [[spoiler:And then Simon decides to not only want to murder Hazel but he gets away with murdering '''Chloe and Tuba''', not to mention how he attacked The Cat and wanted to kill Hazel.]]

* DropTheHammer: Simon wielded a sledgehammer when he [[spoiler:slammed it onto Trip's right eye]] in the Calligraphy Car

* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to reveal the truth about her in ''Voyage of Wisteria'' Act 3 without also revealing she's both Chairman Rose's daughter ''and'' the reason he's doing Project Taillow in the first place.

* AdaptationalSympathy: {{Downplayed|Trope}} and {{Inverted|Trope}}. As a whole, the Apex is treated with less sympathy in this story than in canon because of the scope of their crimes, and the traumas they cause are shown here where it was only implied in the show. While ''Voyage of Wisteria'' does show them in a sympathetic light because they have realized what they've done, it also shows that they have a ''long'' way to go before they can be forgiven and make up for what they done, if they ever get that chance considering how many denizens ''hate'' their gust.

* {{Deconstruction}}: The trilogy, particularly ''Blossoming Trail'' spares no expense in deconstructing the Apex and their so-called philosophy into rubble.

** Most of the Apex are a bunch of kids, so without Grace and Simon to supervise them during the story's events, that means they aren't capable of cooking food for themselves and have to settle with sandwiches and instant ramen. They're also known to be ''very'' gullible because they don't have the capacity to think for themselves, stuck following Grace's orders that they've never gained something called "common sense".

* HumansAreBastards: It really says something if the denizens in ''Silent Hill'' are much nicer than these guys are, willing to raid innocent cars, kill/traumatize denizens and injure other passengers (some of them ''their age'') and show such callousness over [[spoiler:''someone falling to their death except that she deserved it'']] that it makes you wonder what if it would be like if these were ''adult'' soldiers running around for the sake of power and greed instead of stubborn little brats following a woman who can't be reasoned with. Or, at least, that's [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist what said Silent Hill Denizens like to]] ''[[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claim.]]'' Really, Walter and Henry [[SecretlySelfish just think that an eternity torturing people would be the best honeymoon ever,]] and choosing [[AssholeVictim The Apex]] as their first targets allows them to kid themselves about that being for the greater good. A ''lot'' of trouble in the ''Blossomverse'' could have been avoided if people- [[NiceJobBreakingItHero including the White Gestalt and Red Lotus Quarto]]- weren't fooled by hearsay and doctored footage to believe that The Apex, [[PaperTiger a couple dozen children]] with ImprovisedWeapons - were the Train's ultimate evil, and worth [[GodzillaThreshold going to any lengths to crush.]]

* HumanityIsSuperior: The Apex believe themselves to be the rulers of the Infinity Train, with other Passengers being people to convert to their cause and Denizens being nothing more than foot stones to gather points. This isn't born ''entirely'' out of arrogance, however; as a good deal of this belief comes from them ''honestly knowing no better'' because their leader isn't sure herself [[spoiler:until ''Wisteria'' proves that she '''knew all along''' and witheheld it this knowledge both out of trauma and wanting to feel superior to others]], and everybody else would rather ''kill them'' than give them the harsh truth instead (or kill them ''after'' they tell them the hard truth and they refuse to accept it).
* HumansKillWantonly: PlayedWith. On the one hand, The Apex are infamous for wheeling Denizens that they don't like, which is just about anybody, and celebrating it, with them doing it to Denizens who already have Passenger partners even. On the ''other'' hands, most of their supposed kills are slander and hearsay; The Apex are ''barely'' shown killing anything over the course of the trilogy that actually has a decent chance to fight back, and even if they did, they're slightly justified given that even if they weren't the Denizen-killing cult that they were, ''the Train is perfectly willing to kill them just to have them learn a stupid lesson''.

* KarmicShunning: The end of the Fog Car and first act of ''Voyage of Wisteria'' has the Apex shunned by the denizens for their crimes, a CruelMercy given everything the Apex did to them.

* LackOfEmpathy: Grace's lies and the brutal "figure it out yourself" worlds of the Infinity Train have made them grow to believe they should prioritize themselves above everybody else, human or denizen alike. [[spoiler:None of them seem to understand ''why'' Grace killing Utahoshi is a bad thing (especially when his last action was to help coax a scared Tokio -- who had hot sauce sprayed into his eyes by Kenny -- to trust him). When Lampetia gets killed by shrapnel after saving Tiffany, their first thoughts are "What the hell is that guy's [Specter] problem?" and "Why does he want that battle trophy [Lampetia's heart] so badly?". When Chloe dies after dropping from Simon's claws, Tiffany says she ''deserved it'' when Chloe was trying to dismantle the ritual ''that was going to slaughter them''. When Tuba is also killed, Toby tells Hazel she can get better friends than a "stupid Null". When Hazel turns into a denizen form because of Toby's insensitive mouth, the Apex immediately go "LET'S F*CKING KILL THE NULL!" and throw a brick at her face (which Grace takes).]]

* ObliviouslyEvil: None of them have any idea how the Train is supposed to work; from how their numbers are meant to go down, how the "Nulls" are supposed to help them, and even that their trips are meant to be temporary. Of course, part of the reason is just as much that they refuse to listen to those who ''would'' tell them about it as it is [[FigureItOutYourself the Train and Denizens themselves not giving them a straight answer]] and [[spoiler:Grace ''deliberately'' keeping mum about it so she can be loved and worshipped like a queen]].

* PaperTiger: Throughout the whole of ''Blossoming Trail'', the Apex are hyped up as the biggest threat that the Train has ever faced. But whenever the Apex is actually shown to fight on-screen, they don't exactly live up to the hype. They certainly ''are'' dangerous since the group is composed of murderers, but the main body of the Apex is composed of children. They aren't all that much of a threat individually (sans Grace and Simon, but even they aren't much more dangerous than an average adult) and only really pose a threat [[ZergRush through sheer force of numbers]] because they're savage enough that no one expects the peaceful denizens to fight back. [[TheDreaded The Apex's reputation]] prevented most people from ''trying'' to oppose them and ending them years ago.
** Case in point, when Grace and Simon go into battle with White Gestalt in ''Knight of the Orange Lily'', ''they lose''. [[MindOverMatter London]] can use his levitation to let them float into the air then drops them over numerous sharp objects. In the FinalBattle the Apex barely gets a hit on them -- the one who gets injured the worst is Specter being tackled by Simon -- and the only one that ''does'' get killed by them (Lampetia) is due to shrapnel and not a direct hit from the Apex themselves.

** The Apex: Happily followed along Grace and Simon and killed denizens for strength and to ensure no one could get in the way of their fun. But this costs their innocence, the fact that they might have killed former passengers and that they forgot about their parents and loved ones for a number that's supposed to guide them to ''go home''. And their reputation has been shot down in flames as everyone will remind them that they were mindless sheep to a KnowNothingKnowItAll and still inflicted trauma on everyone they came across regardless of any excuse they can make and there is no way in Hell that their loved ones are going to believe a single word they say about what happened, so they will live with their sins for the rest of their lives...if they ever make it back home anyhow.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Their biggest FatalFlaw.
** The group thinks little of Chloe of the Vermillion, just seeing her as a princess playing pretend with her friends. Meanwhile, Chloe is training, pushing forward and getting ''the entire Train'' by her side to take them down [[spoiler:and ultimately ends in defeating Walter, the mastermind of the plan that would've ''killed'' the Apex, heralded as a hero who saved them from the Apex's wrath while no one will ever forgive ''them'' for their atrocities as shown in ''Voyage of Wisteria'']].
** According to some comments from the kids, they also underestimated Gladion (or "the boy with the weird hand poses").

*** ''Knight of the Orange Lily'' had her [[spoiler:stab Utahoshi in the head just as he was reaching out to comfort Tokio and non-chalantly wiping the blood off her blade before telling Tokio that he was better off without the rabbits. And when she's reminded of it, all she can do is say "So what?"]] What a ''bitch''! The author says that this was added to remind the readers that for everything Grace became in Book 3, she ''still'' did a lot of horrible things without remorse and got off way too easy in the show.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Drags Simon (as Destruction) into Toluca Lake to drown him. Considering this is just after Simon ''killed Chloe and Tuba out of nothing but spite'', no one except Grace feels bad about it.
** His death, however, is a deconstruction. While as a whole, the Apex ''are'' a bunch of assholes who don't care what they're doing and ''did'' say that a girl dying in front of them deserved it, if you strip away the harpoon pack, the lipstick and Grace's lies strung in their head, all you have left in Sean is a scared little boy who honestly doesn't know better and his final words aren't revenge or hate...just crying out for the mother he will never see again.