History Characters / WardHeroes

* SoleSurvivor: Of the Triumvirate following the end of ''Worm''. [[spoiler: By the end of ''Ward'', this can be expanded to include the whole of Cauldron.]]

* SoleSurvivor: Of the Triumvirate following the end of ''Worm''.

* ParentalFavoritism: Her own daughter tellingly describes her as only having the capacity to feel real love, empathy, and compassion for a limited number of people, including at most only one daughter. Leading to...
* ParentalNeglect: ... Her toxic dynamic with each of her children in turn. In Amy's case, it was at best simple neglect and at worst treating her like a criminal in her own home. In Victoria's case, it's an utter LackOfEmpathy and unwillingness to respect her daughter's wishes.

* MakeMeWannaShout: Her power allows her to generate sonic orbs with concussive detonations.

A brash and confident three-person team consisting of Magic Knight Crash, Mystic Magic Impaler, and Dynamite Warrior Dash Fantastic.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: They have over-the-top mannerisms, a silly team name, and cape names, and act like they're in an anime, but they're also one of the most dangerous superhero teams out there and quite willing to use lethal force.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her stepfather didn't like kids, so when she didn't have school and her parents were around, her mother would drug her and her brother to keep them out of the way. After they were rescued by the government, her brother cut her out of his life despite her wanting to see him, resentful that she got powers out of the ordeal while he got serious medical problems. In addition, once while she was drugged one of her stepfather's friends came into the room and made some... uncomfortable comments while touching on her and later after coming off of a more severe trip talked about pain in her midsection, leaving open some uncomfortable possibilities.

* SuperMode: Hers is indestructibility with enhanced awareness when still, and she doesn't need to eat while in that mode.

* UncertainDoom: During the battle in Brockton Bay [[spoiler: he was seen suspended over a fatal drop by Tempera's power. March noted that the effect of her power would soon fade, leaving his fate looking grim. He ultimately does survive, although he is injured, and is seen leading the team in the epilogues.]]

* SlaveToPR: A bit more focused on popularity over social media and merchandise than the Protectorate. Justified, since they weren’t funded by the government.

* DiedInYourArmsTonight: According to Moonsong Furcate died during Gold Morning in her arms, presumably at the hands of Scion.

* BoobsOfSteel: Described as having a "generous" chest, and also the most physical of the Reach heroes.

The biological mother of Victoria Dallon and the adoptive mother of Amy Dallon. Triggered at a young age during a traumatic incident when her sister and herself were kidnapped. Carol formed a one-sided bond of trust with one of her kidnappers, and the betrayal she felt when the man later tried to kill her resulted in her triggering. The trauma she sustained as a result of the incident scarred her for life, greatly skewing her perception of people and ability to form relationships and bonds of trust with others. After the events of Gold Morning Carol is no longer officially a member of the Wardens but is still well-respected and continues to work as a member of the legal department. She has completely forgiven Amy for the role she played in Victoria's hospitalization, and due to her warped worldview cannot comprehend why Victoria refuses to do the same, resulting in their relationship being severely strained and antagonistic. For her tropes in ''Worm'', see [[Characters/WormSponsoredHeroes here]].

* AbusiveParents: Her treatment of both Amy and Victoria frankly isn't all that great, ranging from neglect in the case of Amy to refusing to respect Victoria's wishes, on top of passing down her black and white view of the world to them, which gave them no end of trouble in ''Worm''.

* BlatantLies: Tries to pull a surprise meeting between Amy and Victoria. When the rest of the family, well aware of Victoria's lingering trauma and resentment towards her sister express concern, she audaciously claims Victoria not already knows already, but ''is totally fine with it''.

** Later when Victoria is forced to approach her for legal advice in setting up her new team, Carol bluntly asks her to sit down with Amy ''again''. When this route predictably fails to get the desired result she sends a law-student who's in her pocket to advise her daughter in legal decisions while reporting back as to what she's doing and not-so-subtly coaxing her to reach out.

* ParentalNeglect: ... Her toxic dynamic with each of her children in turn. In Amy's case it was at best simple neglect and at worst treating her like a criminal in her own home. In Victoria's case it's an utter LackOfEmpathy and unwillingness to respect her daughter's wishes.

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Brandish is not bothered by intense lights, which is fortunate given her power manifests as [[LaserBlade hard light weapons]]. This also allows devastating combos where she carries Flashbang's grenades while in her breaker form which detonate shortly after regaining human form, letting her take advantage of the chaos created by the bright explosions.

* PersonOfMassDestruction: He single handedly forces [[spoiler:Sleeper]] to go dormant again in Sundown 17.9, by the simple expedient of ''leveling about 30 square kilometers of city''.

Originally one of the most feared parahumans in the world and a willing inmate in the Birdcage. She was released for Gold Morning, varying between one of the strongest members of the defense and Scion's only ally before eventually siding firmly against the mad Entity. Afterwards she was persuaded to become a hero by Jessica Yamada and joined the Wardens. For her tropes in ''Worm'' see [[Characters/WormOthers here]]

* BackFromTheDead: She's been working to do this with her ghosts and has had several successes already. It's not a perfect process, as they only come back with as much personality as she (and their shard) remembers from them and often have distorted features relating to how they'd looked and how she remembers them, but it's better than nothing.
* CreepyGood: As someone whose power revolves around controlling the fully sentient phantoms of cape who've died around her, people view her as this. Apparently she's had the "your power is innately wrong" conversation at least once a day since joining the Wardens.

* SheIsAllGrownUp: Downplayed but Victoria notes she dresses a bit more provocative than when she was running.

* {{Jerkass}}: She dips into this when she chews out Vista in the middle of a small room full of people and implies that Vista will be denied the leadership position that she had been working for for a long time, when there were far more important things to do, all because Vista spent what would normally have been her downtime after getting off of a long shift cuddling with her boyfriend.

* AshesToAshes: A major part of her powerset is coating things in ash including herself, she can reform her body from the ash if needed. The ash can slowly seep into nearby materials and make them stronger; she can also reabsorb her ashes to heal, teleport into areas where this ash is present and even set those ashes on fire exceeding temperatures of 1100 C.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: A DownplayedTrope. Cinereal is one of the most important members of the Wardens, with her statue being given prominence in their headquarters equal to the likes of Legend and Chevalier. Despite this she is perhaps the least developed of the Warden leaders to readers. However, this is mostly due to not appearing in ''Worm.'' In ''Ward,'' she receives roughly about the same amount of screen-time as the other leaders of the Wardens do. [[spoiler:When reality finally breaks during the conflict with the anti-parahuman activists at the end of Arc 17, she is one of the capes that is overtaken by her shard and transformed into a Titan.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: An unusual case- she used to be reserved, quiet, arrogant and tended to look down on people. During a fight, she was thrown into a wall and wound up with a traumatic brain injury. Months later, after she'd learned to speak and read again, her personality had completely changed- she is now more crass, more empathetic, more outgoing and has fewer filters.

One of the 3 most notable superhero guards besides the Wardens. Their philosophy seeks to move forward and remember the mistakes of the past and they are know for expressing this with a direct, agressive approach to battle crime. This sometimes creates issues with the other teams when their impulsiveness disrupts the hero's side own plans. They wear uniforms with a futuristic style.

* ItsAllAboutMe: He thinks everything Victoria did at the community center was all to make him look bad. For context, what she did was fight a team or parahuman mercenaries pretty much on her own because she refused to let them kidnap someone who wanted to be a hero.

* SitcomArchnemesis: To a degree. He's definitely the most minor annoyance Victoria has to deal with regularly, but his unwillingness to accept help or work with her has caused problems that affect plenty of other people to not-so minor degrees.

A former teammate of Capricorn and daughter of a Congressman with powers over gravity and a grudge against Tristan. Infrared 19.d reveals that she's half-Japanese on her father's side and half-Italian on her mother's.

* CorporateSponsoredSuperhero: Was once part of the corporate sponsored hero team Reach prior to Gold Morning.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Back when she was in Reach Moonsong was casually homophobic to Tristan and transphobic to Furcate, misgendering the latter while asking Byron why the former had to openly gay all the time, initially unaware of the fact that the twins are aware of everything that happens while the other takes control of their body.

* BodyHorror: He has two modes of sight: normal and his crystal vision. In order to change modes, he has to either grow crystals inside his head, piercing his eyes (though they don't harm him) to use his crystal vision, or, to see normally, he has to pull the crystals in his eyes out of his head. One of them is a ''foot long''.

An ''eccentric'' cape and former villain with a rat theme, a lisp and, an odd taste in clothing. Carries several trained rats with her as companions. She's often treated with disdain due to her appearance and quirks, but she shown to be both extremely brave and very competent, despite her alcoholism. One of her rats is named Ratsputin.

* TraumaButton: Anything to do with alcohol, drugs or needles. She flat out told Withdrawal and Finale when they first met in person that if any of them ever used drugs or alcohol, she'd be gone.

* GiantMedicalSyringe: Withdrawal wields this, unlike most examples he isn't shown stabbing anyone with it. Instead he uses it as a applicator for the non-newtonian physics defying nano-fluids his powers let him make.

%%* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Mentally, not physically.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. For all the good that it does, Reach actually made an effort to take care of its members' mental wellbeing.

* GadgeteerGenius: While all Tinkers are this, Dragon in particular is among the strongest out there, and has the gear to show for it. Her weapons include a fleet of ships, a 12-ton artillery gun that every other Tinker in the setting practically swoons over and a replica of String Theory's G-driver.

* AccidentalMurder: Her poison clouds normally have no long term effects, but she once accidentally used it on a pregnant woman, and caused her to miscarry. A lot of people were understandably pretty pissed about it, and this was the event that led to her turning herself in and turning her life around.

* TattooAsCharacterType: Invoked, she brings up a tattoo of hers as proof that she's not the "thinking things through" type. Specifically, a tattoo she has on a... ''sensitive'' part of anatomy.

Victoria's biological mother and Amy's adopted one. A veteran heroine from the once-promising Brockton Bay superhero team New Wave, she's noted to be more natural at heroics than at being a mother, which somewhat explains her ''complicated'' relationship to both of her daughters. Is currently back together with Mark Dallon. She's an influential lawyer in her civilian identity.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: They have over the top mannerisms, a silly team name and cape names, and act like they're in an anime, but they're also one of the most dangerous superhero teams out there and quite willing to use lethal force.

A street level hero by his own choice who developed a substance abuse problem.

* BareYourMidriff: Wears a short shirt, showing off a muscular abdomen.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Despite being aged around sixteen, she's mentally around ten or eleven. Interlude 17.x reveals she had a learning disability even before she triggered, with Interlude 17.y clarifying it as being developmentally delayed.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Mentally, not physically.

* InterspeciesRomance: He's a human who has modified himself into a cyborg. She's an AI construct. TheyFightCrime.

* WeaponOfChoice: He uses knives in combat and named himself after a shortsword, showing he has something of an affinity for blades.

* PowerParasite: His ability allows him to steal knowledge and skills (but not powers), and make them his own either temporarily or permanently. [[spoiler:TakenUpToEleven after becoming a Titan, where his ability starts to drain people of even their bodily functions.]]

* RobeAndWizardHat: Has switched from the sorceress robes that were seen in ''Worm'' to a traditional witch outfit, including a staff and NiceHat.

A former teammate of Moonsong and Capricorn with the power to invest mental and physical abilities to his allies at the expense of his own faculties.

A member of Foresight with great ability for using knives. He volunteers in the rehabilitation center and eventually becomes close to Victoria.

* BroughtDownToBadass: Manages to defeat Contender while depowered inside of his arena.

* WeaponOfChoice: "Nut" may be stretching it, but he uses knives in combat and has named himself after a shortsword, showing he has something of an affinity for blades.

An ''eccentric'' cape with a rat theme, a lisp and an odd taste in clothing. Carries several trained rats with her as companionsShe's often treated with disdain due to her appearance and quirks, but she shows being both extremely brave and very competent. Does seem to have a taste for minor crime and alcohol, though. One of her rats is named Ratsputin.

* AnimalMotifs: Rats.
* TheBeastmaster: Appears to have some sort of power over rats.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: nobody can deny that she's a bit on the odd side, but her actions on the job speak for themselves: [[spoiler: she's crucial in stopping Goddess from taking over the whole city and during the Chiet military attack on a refugee camp she's described darting ''towards'' the machine gun fire, essetially attacking an army head long despite not having any particular physical powers that we know of.]]

* TheAlcoholic: She insists that she's not, but her argument is less than convincing:
-->'''Ratcatcher''': Then yeth. I wait until five to drink. They thay you’re thuppothed to wait until later in the day to drink. That way you’re not an alcoholic.

* {{Flight}}: She is an Alexandria package, possessing flight in addition to super-strength and near-invulnerability.
* HeroicSacrifice: She willingly turns off her invulnerability while being hit by an attack to prevent herself from irradiating the area and killing her allies. She ends up being brutally killed as a result.
* MeaningfulName: Her cape name is shared with a radioactive isotope of hydrogen.
* PoisonousPerson: Using her powers causes her to emit radiation. As she was initially unaware of this, she inadvertently killed her family, coworkers and many bystanders through her acts of heroism.
* SignatureMove: Her "nuke punches."
* SuperStrength: As part of her Alexandria package.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: their uniforms have a vague "ninja" ish vibe AND a "hidden eyes" motif, which is further personalized to all of the members. Their initial leader even have an additional pirate theme going on!

* KnifeNut: "Nut" may be stretching it, but he uses knives in combat and has named himself after a shortsword, showing he has something of an affinity for blades.

Victoria's biological mother and Amy's adopted one. A veteran heroine from the once-promising Brockton Bay superhero team New Wave, she's noted to be more natural at heroics than at being a mother, which somewhat explains her ''complicated'' relationship to both of her daughters. Is currently back together with Mark Dallon. She's an influential lawyer when on her civilian identity.

She has both the power to creat light-matter weapons and to transform into a sphere-like object that is essentially unbreakable.

* BloodKnight: greatly enjoys fighting and is more than competent at it.
* MarriedToTheJob: far more comfortable and happy as a superhoine than as a mother.
* ParentsAsPeople: very, very flawed people. Let's just say her support of Amy is ''very''questionable.
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: an excellent lawyer AND superheroine, her track record in her personal life is...lacking.

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:March kills her during the attack on Brockton Bay]].