History Characters / LibraryOfRuinaTheWings

* HealingShiv: However odd it may be, the results that K Corp. healing bullets have cannot be argued with - they're vital to rescuing favorite employees in ''Lobotomy Corporation'' thanks to on-the-spot healing being able to be deployed in the middle of a suppression. The only thing holding them back is the limited quantity, so they must be used wisely.

** Canto IV reveals that [[spoiler:this is indeed a business deal: K Corp is allowing Nagel und Hammer to butcher their own citizens on their turf, in exchange for them providing lots of footage of human suffering to produce more tears from their captured Abnormality. In fact, Dongrang casually notes that showing the being footage of Kromer's atrocities and traumatizing of Sinclair causes it to cry an unusually large amount.]]

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:The hidden truth behind their healing serum is that it's comprised of the tears of a captured Abnormality resembling an enormous one-eyed mass of flesh, which are capable of reverting things back to an "original state" on contact. K Corp obtains these by forcing its eyelids open with machinery before showing it recorded footage of human suffering to make it cry, before harvesting the tears and refining them into its various serums.]]

** As it turns out, the true nature of the healing serum is its ability to return living things to their original state. [[spoiler:However, the base ingredient of the serum doesn't initially have an idea of what the "original state" of something is: the healing bullets are refined and modified to limit its abilities and make it consider a healthy human body the original state, but it can be modified to forcibly mutate or regress organisms instead by giving it different "suggestions" of an original state. If the serum is not given a "suggestion" beforehand, it will instead revert things back into the "purest forms" of themselves, which is unknown but will almost certainly result in instant death for any living being that touches it.]]

* HarmfulHealing: Although they're most well-known for their healing ampules, ''Limbus Company'' reveals that the solution can also be modified to produce "decay ampules" which melt down the target's body instead of healing them. It's unknown if this actually decays the target, or simply heals them to such an excessive degree that their bodies break down and liquefy.

* {{Nanomachines}}: What their Singularity is ultimately revealed to be, nanomachine solutions that work to restore damaged tissue and bodily functions.

* HarmfulHealing: Although they're most well-known for their healing ampules, ''Limbus Company'' reveals that the solution can also be modified to produce "decay ampules" which melt down the target's body instead of healing them. It's unknown if this actually decays the target, or simply heals them to such an excessive degree that they melt.

* MagicAntidote: Their Singularity is to create bullets and medicine that can cure almost any wound. Their combatants carry a generous supply of this medicine to swiftly recover from their injuries while in the middle of combat, while other users make due with firearms specialized to shoot healing bullets.

* SicklyGreenGlow: Ironically for the Wing known mostly for its healing, its Singularity manifests as a glowing, unsettling green liquid. Some of their combat-ready employees, like their Class 3 Staff, are outfitted with PowerArmor filled with tubes that continously pump said liquid. It's implied that on top of it having a healing effect, it also has an empowering, steroid-like effect as the Empowered Class 3 Staff is so overflowing with liquid that their armor starts glowing a bright green.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Businesses aligned with K Corp are afforded protections and resources to give the Wing's investment a reasonable chance of success. Failure to meet K Corp's quotas will, at best, cause them to shut down the subsidiary and liquidate its assets to recoup costs. At worst, they will take the inability to deliver as a personal insult worthy of lethal reprisal.

A Wing that specializes on powerful medicine that can heal almost any wound. They are one of the Wings responsible for unwittingly assisting Ayin's Seed of Light by supplying L Corp. with their healing bullets, so they can recover themselves from injuries caused by rampaging Abnormalities.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Being Commander of the Fourth Pack, and just as strong as any of the soldiers serving under her.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Are currently this for ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany'', being the ones most obsessed with obtaining the Golden Boughs. [[MadScientist Hermann]] and [[AxCrazy Nagel und Hammer]] all directly antagonize Limbus Company in their search for the Golden Boughs, and are all under the employ of N Corp. Their Taboo Hunters are also behind the slaughtering most of Vergillus's squad.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Businesses aligned with N Corp are afforded protections and resources to give the Wing's investment a reasonable chance of success. Failure to meet K Corp's quotas will, at best, cause them to shut down the subsidiary and liquidate its assets to recoup costs. At worst, they will take the inability to deliver as a personal insult worthy of lethal reprisal.

* BadassArmy: Most Wing-employed combatants are a massive step up above the rabble found ruling the Backstreets, though no Wings have revealed any formal military force so far except for R Corp. and the old G Corp. (Informal combatants include K Corp's immigration staff, N Corp's Taboo Hunters and Inquisitors, and W Corp's ''custodial staff''.)

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: A good chunk of lower leveled employees in the series only really care about their job security and benefits, but it’s thoroughly averted with the upper management of a Wing. The main objective of a Wing itself is often vague and far removed from common sense and simple profit. Even the Head seems to prefer to enforce their comparatively merciful tax laws just to keep the bare necessities running, but they ''really'' pour their effort into enforcing their ideals (Eg. Anyone can commit murder by the hundreds and get away with it vs. instant execution for daring to consider creating sapient AI). A Wing is often driven by an urge for invention, ideals, power or pure sadism, but rarely money.

** L Corp. / '''L'''obotomy, its meaning made more obvious and insidious given how the Corp. produces its power and keeps its personnel. Also known as '''L'''ight Corporation due to both it and its predecessor being power companies, but also in reference to the messianic Seed of '''L'''ight.
** N Corp. / '''N'''ail, the main product the Wing is known for that induce a variety of odd effects upon impalement, beneficial and detrimental. '''N'''agel und Hammer members also favor ordinary '''N'''ails as their tool of choice for cleansing heretics.

** Dante's Notes in ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany'' clarifies this somewhat: Nagel und Hammer ''is'' the full name of N Corp...But confusingly enough, the Inquisitors led by Kromer go by the same name and act as a somewhat separate entity despite being a relatively new addition to the Wing's lineup.

* EvilLuddite: Among their many atrocities and bizarre taboos, they, or at the very least Nagel und Hammer, are technophobic to an extent. The Inquisitors massacring the people of a prosthetics plant end up cornering the Sinners of Limbus Company and are willing to let them leave alive on the condition that they leave their heretical bus behind (and that they behead [[NonHumanHead Dante]]), and paying attention to the burning town, they also went out of their way to smash most of the appliances outside. It goes some ways to explaining their preference for archaic and crusader-themed uniforms, with the majority wearing suits of armor with a modern flair. This makes them look out of this time period when put beside the more modernized Wings, and especially while inside the borders of the futuristic K-Corp.

* DayInTheLimeLight: Chapter 2 of ''Limbus'' has the team travel to a J Corp. casino where the ruins of an old Lobotomy Corp. branch is waiting, with the casino security forming a third of the enemy units encountered within, and the chapter goes over their secondary Singularity - wishpower, which is confidence and luck condensed into disposable dust and stickers that increase their users luck and fortune.

* WindsOfDestinyChange: Wishpower, their other creation beside their lock Singularity, is essentially this. Confidence and luck can be extracted from people as it's generated to produce dust and stick-on tattoos that can up the odds of their users achieving great fortune, whether in daily life or scoring a money jackpot.

* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: From A, B, and C Corp. all the way to Z Corp. (Note that Z Corp.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Some of these tend to go out of their way to be as cruel and nonsensical as possible for no known reason. For example, the Head will tolerate mass murder and cruel experiments to create monsters but they will instantly kill tax evaders on sight, and N Corp. is ''infamous'' for killing people and blowing up entire towns for bizzare reasons.

* HatedByAll: Because of how mean, morally bankrupt and grosteque this Wing is, nobody likes it, and that's saying a ''lot'' considering how Wings are established as bizzare, monstrous organizations and even most of them are either repulsed by it or pissed off by its business practices. It tells when the only known Wing that backed it is the equally monstrous old G Corp.

* LightIsNotGood: Seemingly their recurring motif. Their District is littered with white buildings and prestigious universities and colleges, and their Nagel Und Hammer section has a heavy KnightTemplar and crusader motif on them. However, their agents will kill people for bizzare reasons due to a lethal cocktail of insane fanaticism and BlueAndOrangeMorality, and they are not far from hiring the worst types of people to do the dirty work.

Literally meaning "nail and hammer", Nagel und Hammer is a subset of N Corp. employees who formed a cult based on the 'purity' of humanity - altough their definition of purity is anything but consistent. They're headed by a cult leader titled The One Who Grips, and work as a paramilitary "inquisition" squad under N Corp.

* FantasticRacism: They consider anyone who replaced any body part with metallic prosthetics as having renounced their humanity and gleefully kill them whenever they get the chance. They don't even take into consideration if it's a full body prosthetic or a simple arm replacements - to them, it's all the same.

* BrainwashingAndCrazy: They are created through what is presumably a Singularity that implements them with canned experience, brainwashing them into fanatical zealots.

* UncertainDoom: After the end of Chapter 3 of ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany'' [[spoiler:their leader is dead and dozens of them were slaughtered by the Sinners during the raid on Calw. Although we don't learn what happens to the organization after that, it's unlikely for them to be a threat any more, assuming if it's not a portion of the Wing;s executive branch and the Wing's management doesn't hire new personnel.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: Its' left ambiguous if Nagel und Hammer is simply a subsidiary paramilitary force for N Corp. or if Nagel und Hammer is the full name of the corporation itself and the group Kromer leads is the 'Inquisition' branch.

* UncertainDoom: After the end of Chapter 3 of ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany'' [[spoiler: their leader is dead and dozens of them were slaughtered by the Sinners during the raid on Calw - altough we don't learn what happens to the organization after that, it's unlikely to be a threat any more.]]

* HateSink: Their employees are at the most {{Punch Clock Villain}}s, but judging from the sheer horror and torture they're gleefully pulling off on innocents on a daily basis to the point of bordering parody, this Wing isn't portrayed as sympathetic.

* MainliningTheMonster: The casino owners in ''Limbus Company'' attempted this with the Abnormalities dwelling in the derelict Lobotomy energy plant beneath them. The Peccatulum are locked in cages near the excavation entrances meant to serve as guard dogs and attack animals, but after one brief fight with the Sinners they promptly turn and maul their handlers instead. It’s also implied that the staff may have tried to harness Have You Become Strong, a toy factory Abnormality that converts live humans into plastic cyborgs. The slave workforce was augmented alright, but they’re out of control, are brutishly stupid, and have a bizarre idea of 'work'. One group of victims are apparently content to stop working in the mines and set up a roulette table to play with instead.

* NoSell: The majority of Zena's pages ignore Power gain or loss on both themselves and the pages clashing with them.

The '''Wings of the World''' are the 26 most powerful megacorporations in the City thanks to their Singularities, patented technologies that can blatantly violate the laws of physics. Each of the 26 (now 25) Wings controls a district in the City which consists of a Nest and a portion of the Backstreets (though the Five Fingers have more direct control over the Backstreets). The Wings are not-so-friendly rivals who will undercut, combat, compete and collude with one another as necessary to maintain their business (and ideological) interests. They have a vested interest in maintaining their rules and will do whatever it takes to eliminate anything they deem as a threat, often hiring [[Characters/LibraryOfRuinaFixers Fixers]], [[Characters/LibraryOfRuinaAssociations Associations]], and [[Characters/LibraryOfRuinaSyndicates Syndicates]] as a result. Their threats range from rival corporations and active dissenters to hapless citizens and and [[Characters/LibraryOfRuinaAbnormalities Abnormalities]].

The '''Wings of the World''' are the 26 most powerful megacorporations in the City thanks to their Singularities, patented technologies that can blatantly violate the laws of physics. Each of the 26 (now 25) Wings controls a district in the City which consists of a Nest and a portion of the Backstreets (though the Five Fingers have more direct control over the Backstreets). All Wings have their own specialized departments that promise a smooth operation, even some Wings are more specialized in specific tasks than others. A Wing can request mutual agreements with other Wings or their associates to either deal with specific problems they cannot handle, or exchange armaments, supplies, or personnel. Wings can also hire [[Characters/LibraryOfRuinaFixers Fixers]] into working for them. Most Wings have some form of a paramilitary force and Fixers to use in armed conflicts, typically against rival Wings, lesser corporations, [[Characters/LibraryOfRuinaSyndicates Syndicates]], and/or monsters like [[Characters/LibraryOfRuinaAbnormalities Abnormalities]].

* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: From A, B, and C Corp. all the way to Z Corp.

* BadassArmy: Most Wing-employed combatants are a massive step up above the rabble found ruling the Backstreets, with the concerning part being that the proper fighting force any Wing that isn’t R-Corp. has yet to be encountered (K-Corps. immigration staff, N-Corps. Taboo Hunters and Inquisitors, W-Corps. ''custodial staff'', etc.), meaning that their full might haven’t been seen despite already providing fierce fights in the series.

* CollapsingLair: Nests under the governance of a Wing are mostly stable metropolitan areas, but if the governing Wing falls, the entire Nest turns into a slum and is treated no different from the Backstreets where its residents are free game for Sweepers and Syndicates. Any employees formerly working in the fallen Wing will also be plunged into working for scraps unless they are deemed useful for another Wing. This is why A Corp's nest is well-coveted by the rich according to Chesed, because they are very unlikely to become a fallen Wing and the City is effectively destroyed if they did.

** While the exact details behind the former L Corp's singularity [[TheUnreveal are still unknown]]. It's known to produce heavy smoke while generating energy and both [[spoiler:Salvador and Roland]]'s off-screen reaction to the source of the smoke implied that it was horrific enough to warrant their [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memories of it immediately being erased after eliminating it.]]

* ThemeNaming: Their abbreviated names all make up the letters of the alphabet. These letters are often related to the service, product, units or specialty of the Wing they represent, and occasionally hold a double meaning.

** To hammer the point, in Angela's bad ending she [[spoiler: releases ''all of the Abnormalities in the Library'' into the City, which includes terrifying abominations such as [=WhiteNight=] and the Mountain of Smiling Bodies, and while she causess chaos and mayhem on the southern part of the City for over a decade, the Head is seemingly unbothered and seems to find it an annoyance at best, not even considering her an Impuritas Civitas like before - the one who eventually kills Angela in this ending is not an Arbiter or a Claw, but a Fixer.]]