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** [[spoiler: It turns out this is a case of FakingTheDead. When she was ten her mother was afraid she'd be hunted down and killed for her power like her great-grandmother, so she sent Holly to live with an aunt in Detroit, but told her father she died.]]

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** [[spoiler: It turns out this is a case of FakingTheDead. When she was ten her mother was afraid she'd be hunted down and killed for her power like her great-grandmother, so she sent Holly to live with an aunt in Detroit, but told her father she died. This was after she'd had a bad fit of rage when her dad took Holly being with a girl she ''liked'' liked very poorly.]]
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* BadassGay: Implied when Rainmaker gave Virtue her number. Confirmed when she calls Rainmaker to put a rain check on their date.

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* BadassGay: Implied when Rainmaker gave Virtue her number. Confirmed when she calls Rainmaker to put a rain check on their date. And it seems she knew she was gay since she was ten.



** [[spoiler: It turns out this is a case of FakingTheDead. When she was six her mother was afraid she'd be hunted down and killed for her power like her great-grandmother, so she sent Holly to live with an aunt in Detroit, but told her father she died.]]

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** [[spoiler: It turns out this is a case of FakingTheDead. When she was six ten her mother was afraid she'd be hunted down and killed for her power like her great-grandmother, so she sent Holly to live with an aunt in Detroit, but told her father she died.]]
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** [[spoiler: It turns out this is a case of FakingTheDead. When she was six her mother was afraid she'd be hunted down and killed for her power like her great-grandmother, so she sent Holly to live with an aunt in Detroit, but told her father she died.]]
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** TookALevelInKindness: She is much more willing to show compassion and kindness for her teammates and others then she had when the series began, to the point that she sees the Movement as her family.

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* [[spoiler: AmbiguouslyGay: When he looks at wanted metahuman Horizon, he says to Vengeance Moth that he is suddenly getting "sexytime feelings."]]

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* [[spoiler: AmbiguouslyGay: When [[spoiler:When he looks at wanted metahuman Horizon, he says to Vengeance Moth that he is suddenly getting "sexytime feelings."]]"]]
** In issue 11, [[spoiler:he admits he likes boys to his Amish family]].
* DarkIsNotEvil: He may have demonic powers, but he has a big heart.
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* GeniusCripple: Discussed when one of the captured cops asks Vengeance Moth if she's the one who set up the headquarters to be off the power grid with an internet connection, which she denies. Also possibly a MythologyGag to Gail's earlier work on ''BirdsOfPrey'', which featured the wheelchair-bound super hacker Oracle and the fact that people made comparisons when Vengeance Moth was first introduced.

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* GeniusCripple: Discussed when one of the captured cops asks Vengeance Moth if she's the one who set up the headquarters to be off the power grid with an internet connection, which she denies. Also possibly a MythologyGag to Gail's earlier work on ''BirdsOfPrey'', ''Comicbook/BirdsOfPrey'', which featured the wheelchair-bound super hacker Oracle and the fact that people made comparisons when Vengeance Moth was first introduced.
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* [[spoiler: AmbiguouslyGay: When he looks at wanted metahuman Horizon, he says to Vengeance Moth that he is suddenly getting "sexytime feelings."]]

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* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong: Or FakingTheDead. It's been revealed that, according to records, Virtue supposedly died six years ago. Whether this means she faked her death, came back from the dead, was almost killed and the reports of her death exaggerated, or is some sort of spirit, has yet to be determined.]]

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* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong: Or FakingTheDead. It's [[spoiler:It's been revealed that, according to records, Virtue supposedly died six years ago. Whether this means she faked her death, came back from the dead, was almost killed and the reports of her death exaggerated, or is some sort of spirit, has yet to be determined.]]



* [[spoiler:TheMole]]: [[spoiler:Was working as one for Amanda Waller, though the same issue that reveals this shows her quitting]]

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* [[spoiler:TheMole]]: TheMole: [[spoiler:Was working as one for Amanda Waller, though the same issue that reveals this shows her quitting]]


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* HeCleansUpNicely: In issue #9, the normally dirty Mouse takes a shower and put on a suit to impress Tremor. He actually looks nice when he's not filthy.


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* ThePigPen: He loves dirt and filth because it makes him feel more like a rat.
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* NamesTheSame: Anguish shares her name with a one-time ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' villain.
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* CanonImmigrant: Possibly. The Faction has a pyromaniac named Arson who can breath fire. In ''WelcomeToTranquility'', Gail Simone included a pyromaniac who was also named Arson in the Liberty Snots. Whether or not this is a new version of the old character has yet to be clarified.
** WordOfGod is that it's not the same character.

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->'''Real Name:''' Holly

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* DaddysGirl: [[spoiler: It's hinted she's stalking the police captain because he was the one who shot her father.]]


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** [[spoiler: It was believed she had died from one of the seizures she's had all her life because of her powers, but it wasn't until her father committed SuicideByCop that it turned out she survived.]]


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* EveryoneHasStandards: She quit working for Knightfall because she thought she went too far. Katharsis admits that she herself is mean, but what Knightfall is doing is evil.


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** WordOfGod is that it's not the same character.
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* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong: Or FakingTheDead. It's been revealed that, according to records, Virtue supposedly died six years ago. Whether this means she faked her death, came back from the dead, was almost killed and the reports of her death exaggerated, or is some sort of spirit, has yet to be determined.]]

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* BadassGay: Implied when Rainmaker gave Virtue her number. Confirmed when she calls Rainmaker to put a rain check on their date.



* TheEmpath: Can read people's emotions and ride their emotions to their point of origin.

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* DominoMask: She wears one, but lampshades how flimsy of a disguise this is when she meets the police captain out of costume.
-->'''Virtue:''' [[SarcasmMode Oh no, you can see the area around my eyes]].
* TheEmpath: Can read people's emotions and ride their emotions to their point of origin. She can also absorb emotions and transfer them to others.



* ManBitesMan: He likes to use his in a fight.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: While he doesn't have any official title, he IS the "Prince of Rats."

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* ManBitesMan: He likes to use his teeth in a fight.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: While he doesn't have any official title, he IS ''is'' the "Prince of Rats.""
* ShipTease: He has a crush on Tremor and he was weird ways of showing it.



* MagicPants: Averted when he goes full demon. Although we don't see the transformation, his demon form has tattered pieces of his clothes hanging off him.

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* MagicPants: Averted when When he goes full demon. Although we don't see the transformation, his demon form has tattered pieces of demon, his clothes hanging off him.tear apart. Once he changes back, he's left in his boxers.



* NoSell: Arson learns the hard way that trying burn a demon with fire is a bad idea.
* {{Shapeshifter}}: Burden's demonic transformations never look exactly the same.



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* BewareTheNiceOnesBewareTheNiceOnes: She's nice but not helpless.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Earlier Katharsis was mostly just a {{Jerkass}} but has started showing a more vulnerable side without losing her edge.



* CloudCuckoolander



* WalkingShirtlessScene: Combined with his [[DoesNotLikeShoes lack of shoes]], it makes him look like a street rat

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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: While he doesn't have any official title, he IS the "Prince of Rats."
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Combined with his [[DoesNotLikeShoes lack of shoes]], it makes him look like a street ratrat.



* BewareTheNiceOnes



* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: She's a recovering substance abuser.]]



* HandicappedBadass: She's revealed to be a metahuman in issue 5. She can grow energy wings to fly and fire a FletchetteStorm. However, her muscular dystrophy keeps her from going out on the front lines.

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* GlassCannon: Because of her muscular dystrophy she can't use her powers for very long.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold
* HandicappedBadass: She's revealed to be a metahuman in issue 5. She can grow energy wings to fly and fire a FletchetteStorm.Fletchette Storm. However, her muscular dystrophy keeps her from going out on the front lines.



* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]: One of the kindest members of the team, but she should ''not'' be underestimated.



* [[DaddyIssues Mommy Issues]]: [[spoiler: It's implied he either killed his mother or did something very unsavory to her.]]



* {{Butterface}}: Implied to be the case with Monster Baby. She's well endowed and runs around in a bikini (although she does have a number of scars), but she wears a hangman's noose and mask over her head.
* CanonImmigrant: Possibly. The Faction has a pyromaniac named Arson who can breath fire. In ''WelcomeToTranquility'', Gail Simone included a pyromaniac who was also named Arson in the Liberty Snots. Whether or not this is a new version of the old character has yet to be clarified.



* TheDreaded:Her weathers powers make her a powerhouse and the Movement only stops her by threatening to harm her one of followers.

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* TookALevelInBadass: Her original Wildstorm incarnation was nowhere near as fearsome as she is in this universe.
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* MagicPants: Averted when he goes full demon. Although we don't see the transformation, his demon form has tattered pieces of his clothes hanging off him.

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* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: He's really a nice guy, but his inner demon isn't.



** SuperMode: If he really loses it, he will go full demon and look like something from the bowels of Hell.



* BerserkButton: Do not push her or you will [[SuperMode awaken her wrath]].

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* BerserkButton: Do not push her or you threaten her friends in her presence. You will [[SuperMode awaken her wrath]].



* BigBad: He wants to create a city with no poor people by exterminating them.

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* BigBad: He wants to [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans create a city with no poor people by exterminating them.removing them]].


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* EvenEvilHasStandards. Even though he wants to get rid of the homeless, he is disgusted at how the Cornea Killer, [[spoiler:his son]], just slaughters homeless people.


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* TheBrute: Pallas is the big muscleman of the group who wields a BFG and can shield the others from damage with his body.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Pallas was hesitant to fight the wheelchair-bound Vengeance Moth until she [[SuperMode reveals her powers]].
* HandicappedBadass: Monster Baby is blind, but given the way she fights, you wouldn't know unless she told you.
* HiredGuns: Jack Cannon enlisted them to wipe out the Movement after the police failed to do so.
* [[KnightOfCerebus Knights of Cerebus]]: They're shown to be incredibly dangerous and competent, with the intention of making a deadly example out of the Movement and their followers. [[spoiler:They start with Mouse; beating him within an inch of his life and leaving him out for the others to find]].
* PlayingWithFire: Arson, as his name implies, can [[BreathWeapon breathe fire]].
* {{Sadist}}: Their leader, Anguish, likes to make people suffer.
* SemiDivine: Pallas claims he's descended from a god. He's strong enough to punch Burden into a wall and leave an impact crater in it.
* SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains: The Movement ([[WalkingShirtlessScene except Mouse]]) wears modest outfits, but three out of the four members of the Graveyard Faction wear sexy, revealing outfits.

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* HandicappedBadass: She's revealed to be a metahuman in issue 5. She can grow energy wings and float.

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* HandicappedBadass: She's revealed to be a metahuman in issue 5. She can grow energy wings to fly and float.fire a FletchetteStorm. However, her muscular dystrophy keeps her from going out on the front lines.



* TheStarscream: In issue 6, he marks Jack Cannon, [[spoiler: his father]], for death.


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* WellDoneSonGuy: He murdering the homeless because wants to please his father, [[spoiler:Jack Cannon]].


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* {{Tuckerization}}: Named after the real life [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulap_Vilaysack Kulap Vilaysack]], comedienne, actress and host of ''Who Charted''?
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* TheStarscream: In issue 5, he marks Jack Cannon, [[spoiler: his father]], for death.

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* TheStarscream: In issue 5, 6, he marks Jack Cannon, [[spoiler: his father]], for death.
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* BeserkButton: Do not push her or you will [[SuperMode awaken her wrath]].

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* HandicappedBadass: She's revealed to be a metahuman in issue 5. She can grow energy wings and float.

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* {{Asexual}}: Tremor, which is also a carryover from her time in ''Secret Six''.

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* [[spoiler:TheMole]]: [[spoiler:Was working as one for Amanda Waller, though the same issue that reveals this shows her quitting]]
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* TeamMom: Apparently this to the team. The first thing she asks the two captured cops after introducing herself is if they want a fruit snack.

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* AstralProjection: Can read people's emotions and ride their emotions to their point of origin.


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* TheEmpath: Can read people's emotions and ride their emotions to their point of origin.
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->''Real Name:'' Roshanna Chatterji

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->''Real Name:'' Kulap Vilaysack

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->''Real Name:'' Jayden Revell

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->''Real Name:'' Sarah Rainmaker

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->''Real Name:'' Holly

* AstralProjection: Can read people's emotions and ride their emotions to their point of origin.
* [[BlackBossLady Black Boss Girl]]
* RebelLeader


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->''Real Name:'' Roshanna Chatterji

* {{Asexual}}: Tremor, which is also a carryover from her time in ''Secret Six''.
* TheAtoner: Tremor's backstory reveals she has SurvivorsGuilt from being the only survivor in a drunk driving car crash. She wants to make up for it by joining the Movement [[spoiler:and quits being a mole for Amanda Waller]].
* DishingOutDirt: Can create tremors in whatever she touches; mainly the ground.


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->''Real Name:'' Kulap Vilaysack

* BoobsOfSteel: Katharsis is the most skilled in combat; able to take on several opponents at once and shrug off tasers. She also has the biggest bust of all the female members of the Movement.
* HeelFaceTurn: She previously appeared as a villain in a [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl2011}} Batgirl]] story arc. Though she herself hasn't really changed; it's just that her new team won't let her get away with the things she did while working for Knightfall.
* KnightTemplar
* {{Retcon}}: The details of Katharsis' backstory are changed from "castrated an accused child molester later found innocent" to "scarred, but didn't castrate, a rapist and murderer who got away with it." WordOfGod suggests that UnreliableNarrator may be at work and later in the series we'll get another perspective on the incident.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Katharsis is the most violent of the Movement. She is willing to kill or at least do a lot of bodily harm to her enemies. The others have to keep her from going over the edge.
* WingedHumanoid: She flies using mechanical wings.
* WrenchWench: She's gifted in mechanics and built her own set of mechanical wings.


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->''Real Name:'' Jayden Revell

* TheBeastmaster: He controls mice and rats. He loves every one of them and considers all of them to be his favorite.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette
* ManBitesMan: He likes to use his in a fight.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Combined with his [[DoesNotLikeShoes lack of shoes]], it makes him look like a street rat


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->''Real Name:'' Christopher

* DemonicPossession: [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane It's ambiguous]] whether or not he's genuinely possessed or simply has metahuman powers. Burden thinks the former, but the rest of the team thinks the latter.
* InTheHood: Burden wears a hood as part of his outfit when he joins the Movement. He tends to take it off when he goes demonic.
* NightmareFace: When he lets out his inner beast, he becomes very [[RedEyesTakeWarning demonic]]-[[FangsAreEvil looking]].


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* GeniusCripple: Discussed when one of the captured cops asks Vengeance Moth if she's the one who set up the headquarters to be off the power grid with an internet connection, which she denies. Also possibly a MythologyGag to Gail's earlier work on ''BirdsOfPrey'', which featured the wheelchair-bound super hacker Oracle and the fact that people made comparisons when Vengeance Moth was first introduced.
-->'''Vengeance Moth''': I get this a lot. Because everyone in a wheelchair is automatically Stephen Hawking, right?
* MissionControl: Vengeance Moth stays at the hideout to keep an ear on the streets.
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* BigBad: He wants to create a city with no poor people by exterminating them.
* ColdBloodedTorture: When Katharsis gets captured, Jack Cannon personally beats her to get info. [[TooKinkyToTorture She doesn't break easily]].
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: James Cannon essentially owns the Coral City police outright.


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* EyeScream: The killer murders homeless people and cuts out their eyes as an M.O.
* KnifeNut: Kills his victims with a knife.
* WeatherManipulation: He leaves a puddle of rainwater around his victims to frame Rainmaker.


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->''Real Name:'' Sarah Rainmaker

* TheDreaded:Her weathers powers make her a powerhouse and the Movement only stops her by threatening to harm her one of followers.
* BadassGay: She is a lesbian and one of the most powerful characters around.
* WeatherManipulation
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These are the members of ''ComicBook/TheMovement'' and other recurring characters.
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!!Protagonists

[[folder:Virtue]]
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[[folder:Tremor]]
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[[folder:Katharsis]]
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[[folder:Mouse]]
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[[folder:Burden]]
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!!Antagonists
[[folder:Jack Cannon]]
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[[folder:The Cornea Killer]]
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!!Other
[[folder:Rainmaker]]
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