History Characters / WarframeCorpus

* AffablyEvil: He's arguably not really evil, seeing the modern Corpus as a {{Greed}}-drunk sham compared to the corporation he built on tenets of self-reliance. He and the Tenno likely wouldn't even be antagonists under better circumstances, as his primary target is Nef Anyo, who the Tenno are by no means allied with, and he even wishes for the Corpus to prepare to combat the Tau threat; however, he's holding several Solaris (who Nef sent in as guinea pigs) hostage in order to have the Tenno open portals for his Specters, and without stopping his flow of Specters, the Tenno would be trapped in the Void with him thanks to Nef's incompetence. After the quest he mails the Tenno, telling them he plans to rebuild the Corpus and offering both the Solaris and the Tenno a seat at the table, offering them whatever they Desire. That said, for all his good intentions, he's not entirely above underhanded means, as his tenets state that deception is the sword of wisdom as well as encourage others to take what it is they covet. He also shuns sentimentality, calling it a weakness ([[{{Hypocrite}} in spite of the Sisters]]). During ''Dante Unbound'', Parvos gave to Drusus a loan that was impossible to be payed back so he planned to take the entire Leverian as collateral since he couldn't pay him back, with the intentions to study the artifacts of the museum to empower his splinter faction of the Corpus.

Employees of Nef

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!!Special Corpus Proxies

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* HateSink: Nef's smarmy demeanor, {{Greed}}, BlatantLies, being the responsible of the creation of the incredibly annoying Bursas proxies as well of sending his Razorback Armada on relays periodically has made him one of the most easily hateable characters of all the game, so much so that most of the players sided with Alad V against him in Tubemen of Regor event -- the same Alad V who most players outright hated for abducting and dissecting Tennos[[note]]To be [[BlatantLies fair]], the abduction is lore-based and Alad V is simply CuttingOffTheBranches[[/note]]. And then Fortuna dropped. By the Void. More specifically, Nef has in one fell swoop become a character who commits [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil civil-rights atrocities]] on a daily basis, casually forces his workers into {{Sadistic Choice}}s and [[FateWorseThanDeath horrific punishment]], and his smarm has been kicked up a notch. Probably, his worst actions shown in the game is when not only does he tries to gain the leadership of the entirety of the Corpus by saying that he is the biological son of Parvos Granum, the founder of the Corpus, [[spoiler:when Nef does meet Parvos, he immediately tries to convince him to honor all of his crimes. When Parvos rightfully refuses to support someone as Nef, he throws a tantrum and lets the Corpus fleet the Tenno was in be destroyed by the Specters of Parvos, with all of his crewmen not being able to escape and leaving a massive amount of his own {{Mook}}s to die, all out of complete spite that Parvos won't help him, with him away of the danger.]] All in all, Nef is the worst of the Corpus, given form, voice and a personality.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Some of his taunts include mocking the Tenno's fashion sense (while wearing a giant shoebox/trashcan on his head) and challenging them to face him (often while cloaking and running away). Justified, Corpus personnel rely heavily on limit jumpsuit codes, so any slight changes is an equivalent InformedAttractiveness to Tenno who managed to grasp with CharacterCustomization.

* HateSink: Nef's smarmy demeanor, {{Greed}}, BlatantLies, being the responsible of the creation of the incredibly annoying Bursas proxies as well of sending his Razorback Armada on relays periodically has made him one of the most easily hateable characters of all the game, so much so that most of the players sided with Alad V against him in Tubemen of Regor event -- the same Alad V who most players outright hated for abducting and dissecting Tennos[[note]]To be [[BlatantLies fair]], the abduction is lore-based and Alad V is simply CuttingOffTheBranches[[/note]]. And then Fortuna dropped. [[NightmareFuel/{{Warframe}} By the Void.]] More specifically, Nef has in one fell swoop become a character who commits [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil civil-rights atrocities]] on a daily basis, casually forces his workers into {{Sadistic Choice}}s and [[FateWorseThanDeath horrific punishment]], and his smarm has been kicked up a notch. Probably, his worst actions shown in the game is when not only does he tries to gain the leadership of the entirety of the Corpus by saying that he is the biological son of Parvos Granum, the founder of the Corpus, [[spoiler:when Nef does meet Parvos, he immediately tries to convince him to honor all of his crimes. When Parvos rightfully refuses to support someone as Nef, he throws a tantrum and lets the Corpus fleet the Tenno was in be destroyed by the Specters of Parvos, with all of his crewmen not being able to escape and leaving a massive amount of his own {{Mook}}s to die, all out of complete spite that Parvos won't help him, with him away of the danger.]] All in all, Nef is the worst of the Corpus, given form, voice and a personality.

* HateSink: Nef's smarmy demeanor, {{Greed}}, BlatantLies, being the responsible of the creation of the incredibly annoying Bursas proxies as well of sending his [[RobotArmy Razorback Armada]] on relays periodically has made him one of the most easily hateable characters of all the game, so much so that most of the players sided with Alad V against him in Tubemen of Regor event -- the same Alad V who most players outright hated for abducting and dissecting Tennos[[note]]To be [[BlatantLies fair]], the abduction is lore-based and Alad V is simply CuttingOffTheBranches[[/note]]. And then Fortuna dropped. [[NightmareFuel/{{Warframe}} By the Void.]] More specifically, Nef has in one fell swoop become a character who commits [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil civil-rights atrocities]] on a daily basis, casually forces his workers into {{Sadistic Choice}}s and [[FateWorseThanDeath horrific punishment]], and his smarm has been kicked up a notch. Probably, his worst actions shown in the game is when not only does he tries to gain the leadership of the entirety of the Corpus by saying that he is the biological son of Parvos Granum, the founder of the Corpus, [[spoiler:when Nef does meet Parvos, he immediately tries to convince him to honor all of his crimes. When Parvos rightfully refuses to support someone as Nef, he throws a tantrum and lets the Corpus fleet the Tenno was in be destroyed by the Specters of Parvos, with all of his crewmen not being able to escape and leaving a massive amount of his own {{Mook}}s to die, all out of complete spite that Parvos won't help him, with him away of the danger.]] All in all, Nef is the worst of the Corpus, given form, voice and a personality.

* HateSink: Nef's smarmy demeanor, {{Greed}}, BlatantLies, and being the responsible of the creation of the incredibly annoying Bursas proxies has made him one of the most detestable characters of all the game, so much so that most of them sided with Alad V against him in Tubemen of Regor event -- the same Alad V who most players outright hated for abducting and dissecting Tenno[[note]]To be [[BlatantLies fair]], the abduction is lore-based and Alad V is simply CuttingOffTheBranches[[/note]]. And then Fortuna dropped. [[NightmareFuel/{{Warframe}} By the Void.]] More specifically, Nef has in one fell swoop become a character who commits [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil civil-rights atrocities]] on a daily basis, casually forces his workers into {{Sadistic Choice}}s and [[FateWorseThanDeath horrific punishment]], and his smarm has been kicked up a notch. Probably, his worst actions shown in the game is when not only does he tries to gain the leadership of the entirety of the Corpus by saying that he is the biological son of Parvos Granum, the founder of the Corpus, [[spoiler:when Nef does meet Parvos, he immediately tries to convince him to honor all of his crimes. When Parvos rightfully refuses to support someone as Nef, he throws a tantrum and lets the Corpus fleet the Tenno was in be destroyed by the Specters of Parvos, with all of his crewmen not being able to escape and leaving a massive amount of his own {{Mook}}s to die, all out of complete spite that Parvos won't help him, with him away of the danger.]] All in all, Nef is the worst of the Corpus, given form, voice and a personality.

* HateSink: Neffy's smarmy demeanor, BlatantLies, and association with the [[ScrappyMechanic incredibly annoying Bursa event]] have earned him a reputation with the players as a target of hate, so much so that most of them sided with Alad V against him in a recent event -- the same Alad V who most players outright hated for abducting and dissecting Tenno[[note]]To be [[BlatantLies fair]], the abduction is lore-based and Alad V is simply CuttingOffTheBranches[[/note]]. And then Fortuna dropped. [[NightmareFuel/{{Warframe}} Good cripes.]] More specifically, the man has in one fell swoop become a character who commits [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil civil-rights atrocities]] on a daily basis, casually forces his workers into {{Sadistic Choice}}s and [[FateWorseThanDeath horrific punishment]], and his smarm has been kicked up a notch. Probably, his worst actions shown in the game is when not only does he tries to gain the leadership of the entirety of the Corpus by saying that he is the biological son of Parvos Granum, the founder of the Corpus, [[spoiler:when Nef does meet Parvos, he immediately tries to convince him to honor all of his evil deeds. When Parvos refuses to support someone as Nef, he throws a tantrum and lets the Corpus ship the Tenno was in be destroyed by the Specters of Parvos out of complete spite, with him away of the danger.]] All in all, Nef is the worst of the Corpus, given form, voice and a personality.

* LargeHamAnnouncer: As the host of the Index, he is quite expressive commentating on the Tenno and Corpus killing and scoring points.

!!'''Voiced by:'''Scott Montiel

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-->'''Profit-Taker Orb''': "Squishy pretties come out to play. My two friends, it's you they'll slay"

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:You can tell that Profit-Taker is absolutely livid with you when, during your final fight with it, it fumbles for words in one of its messages and loses the rhythm of its rhyming.]]

* TranquilFury: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. One would be forgiven for thinking that Profit-Taker is just a well-programmed and emotionless Corpus proxy similar to other mechanical bosses because of her deceptively [[MachineMonotone flat unchanging tone of voice]] -- but through the context of her messages it's clear it is not. [[spoiler:During its Stage 3, Profit-Taker is ''pissed'' when you weaken her shield and force it off her perch, gloats at your (then) futile flail at her shield, and at Stage 4 gets positively furious as you inflict more and more damage on her. It's not exactly tranquil, it's just that the full extent of her fury does not come across with her communication capabilities]].

* VillainousBreakdown: Profit-Taker is absolutely livid that you took down her shields and threats to find you and catch you, but due to her [[MachineMonotone flat and unchanging tone]] makes it more like a TranquilFury. On the other hand, Exploiter gradually goes loses her sanity throughout her boss fight; as you disrupt her coolant system and destroy her cognition blocks her thought processes become increasingly erratic and deranged as her mental capacity erodes, creating this effect. By the end of the first phase she marches on Fortuna with the intent of burning the entire colony to the ground, prompting Eudico to state that her mind's completely snapped.

* EvilTeacher: The Exploiter has the personality of a strict old schoolmarm, declaring that Solaris United will not be "spared the rod" and demanding that the Tenno look at her while she's talking to (read: trying to kill) them.

-->'''Profit-Taker Orb''':[[spoiler:Dollies should not move. Dollies should not bound. Bounce. Dollies should... shouldn't. Dollies should... Dollies should '''DIE, AND BE SMASHED BAGS OF SALT AND FLUID! YOU CANNOT BRING MY RUIN!''']]

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: ... Not quite. The feeling seems to be "mutual antipathy", given that he went through "protracted negotiation" with her to ''find out who his father was''. And it's entirely possible she told him what he wanted to hear to get some of his money and to get him to go away.

-->'''Exploiter Orb''':[[spoiler:And... so I turn from the tumult of the world... towards home... that sweetest spot... 'neath the circuit... of the sun...]]

The founder of the Corpus Empire before the fall of the Orokin. Once a lowly farmer and tired of working day after day for a measly pay, he went to the city of the Orokin and managed to steal a gem from them, later, he gained a lot of credits by exchanging said gem as a collateral and from there, Parvos started a loaning service that would be so successful that managed to found the Corpus and start more businesses and ventures. Rumor has it he was assassinated by his own board of directors after they got tired of him and his rules of self-reliance, but thanks to Protea, his Warframe bodyguard that the Orokin gave to him as part of a deal, he managed to survive the assassination attempt but was stuck in the Void for who knows how long. Until the Tenno sets him free after Nef tries to get the position of chairman of the Corpus when he tries to convince everyone that he is the son of Parvos. "The Deadlock Protocol" update retrofits all ships in the Corpus fleet to include monuments to his name, such as the shrines of his golden hand that after being activated with a Granum Crown, will send you to the Granum Void where you have to kill as many Specters as possible. Th Granum Void is where you obtain the parts of Protea.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Absolutely loathes the Corpus for their obsession with wealth and elitism, and makes it clear that if he cannot change their ways, he'll start over with a new board and allow Eudico and Biz seats on it.

*** [[BadBoss The Twin Queens are horrible to their underlings]], while Parvos is a BenevolentBoss and more than willing to have Biz and Eudico on the Corpus Board.

* GoodCapitalismEvilCapitalism: Parvos is the good capitalist (at least, not as cruel and exploitative) in contrast to the Board's evil capitalists. He created the entire Corpus Empire through hard and honest work and his tenets of self-reliance with the desire to free his fellow farmers from the slavery of the Orokin and he is absolutely disgusted that the Board has turned his great dream into everything he hated about the Orokins and their elitism. Especially with Nef, seeing him as the worst aspects the Corpus has developed and plans to reorganize the Corpus to make it more reliant in honest work and self-reliance rather than the overexploitation of other people and in case he can't do it, destroy the Corpus and start all over again.

* LoanShark: Part of his backstory involves making quite a bit of money from loans, although it's not confirmed if he gave honest interest rates or ruinious ones. He certainly gives the latter in ''Dante Unbound'' when he sets up Drusus Leverian with an [[LeonineContract exploitative loan]] and tries to take Drusus's entire museum as collateral, which could give a much darker meaning to his tenet "Charity is power".

* {{Macguffin}}: During ''Dante Unbound'', Parvos gives a [[LeonineContract exploitative loan]] to Drusus Leverian, the owner of the Leverian museum in order to make Drusus bankrupt and take his museum as collateral. He says that he wants the artifacts of the museum, one of them being an artifact that "speaks to him". Whatever Parvos is searching in the Leverian, it seems its something that could help him to take over the Corpus or at least boost his splinter faction of the Corpus in strength.

* PragmaticVillainy: Parvos may be a wise and honest man who plans to remake the Corpus in order to make it more attuned to his tenets of self-reliance, but he is ruthless on how he does it, with his tenets saying that deception is a wise strategy and taking what you covet, as well as saying that sentimentality is a weakness that should be shunned. That said, he doesn't plan to use blatantly underhanded and unfair strategies to make this happen. During ''Dante Unbound'', Parvos is reasonable enough to give Drusus a chance to repay the exploitative loan if the Tenno helps him to pay it back, since Parvos gave that loan to take Orokin and Entrati artifacts to study them.

* RichGenius: Like all Corpus, he was as much a scientist as a businessman. He discovered the Specter Particles and technology that even Tenno regularly use to mimic their loadouts or enemies, and unleashes his own Specters to devastating effect on Nef Anyo's fleet. The Business even notes that his level of invention puts him in an unexpected level of genius. And despite being locked outside of time for who-knows-how-long, he - unlike Nef Anyo - ''very quickly'' figures out who's leading Solaris United, namedropping Eudico and The Business, as though they don't have enough to worry about.
* SelfMadeMan: Started off a poor farmer who lost his hand for stealing from the Orokin, but in the process managed to steal an ''incredibly'' valuable gem that was worth over ten generations of his normal pay grade. From there, he was able to transform his farm into the first Corpus city, and himself into a RichGenius.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Parvos is freed from his prison in the Void, he sends a message to the Tenno that he is preparing to reform the Corpus from head to toe in order to make it more of his ideals and because of the impending threat of the Sentients. When the New War happens, Parvos is nowhere to be seen, not even making a single appearance for the whole quest despite saying he would prepare the Corpus from the Sentients. Off-screen, he apparently recruits the Corpus crews that the Tenno Railjacks fight. He does however, re-appear during the ''Angels of the Zariman'', planning to take over the Zariman 10-0 for his own goals and fighting the Grineer Worm Queen for the control of the colonization ship.
* WildCard: Parvos' goals are very clear, but his relationship to the modern-day Corpus is unclear. He scares the ''shit'' out of Solaris United, because at least Anyo, greedy corporate bastard that he is, is at least predictable, but Parvus is a completely OutsideContextProblem that SU isn't even sure how to handle.[[labelnote:*]]Or even if they ''should'', since Granum has shown himself not opposed to actually offering SU ''seats'' on his council.[[/labelnote]] That, and he figured out the true identity of Vox Solaris and The Business within ''seconds''. Towards the Tenno, he has shown an equal willingness to diplomacy, whilst still working against them directly; probably because of his being hounded by Warframes in the past. Vala Glarios, in her {{Leitmotif}}, describes him as such:

* NotUsingTheZWord: While there are instances where they call the MOAs, the Ospreys, the Bursas as robots, the Corpus and other characters like the Lotus usually call these robots proxies, most likely because the proxies are the main work and military force that the Corpus employs.

->'' "The Corpus embody the cold vacuum of space - heartless and bent on taking anything left unprotected. Driven by profits, the Corpus Board's small numbers are supplemented by their legion of robot proxies, optimized for quick and efficient destruction."''

They use shielded robots to support their somewhat frail workers in combat, as well as specialized drones that can boost the shields of allies or lay mines. Their areas of operation are usually somewhat higher-security with Tenno-scanners and laser barriers, as well as heavy robots that are deployed whenever the alarms go off.

A [[MegaCorp massive mercantile conglomerate]], the Corpus make heavy use of [[MechaMooks mechanical proxies]] and brainwashed [[{{Mooks}} crewmen]] to do their bidding.

->''"May our ledgers become ocean, our margins see Centauri. In the name of Profit..."''

->'' "The Corpus embody the cold vacuum of space - heartless and bent on taking anything left unprotected. Driven by profits, the Corpus Board's small numbers are supplemented by their legion of robot proxies, optimized for quick and efficient destruction. The Corpus are a merchant cult, built on the foundation of salvaged technology and robotics. They scavenge the outer systems, greedy for the Old War salvage. Their most sought after of all - the Tenno and their Warframe armor. Those captured are treated as salvage; meticulously dissected, integrated. The remains are sold to the highest bidder.."''

The Corpus is [[MegaCorp a conglomeration of plutocratic commercial and industrial interests]] unified by a single trade language and a common goal - the pursuit of wealth and Profit through the development and sale of advanced technologies and through the rediscovery of lost artifacts from the Orokin Era, including Warframes themselves and Sentients.

* BerserkButton: Idleness. Being lazy, contentious, sentimental and/or incompetent is an easy way to get Parvos' disapproval and wrath as seen with [[spoiler:Nef after he tries to make Parvos honor his dirty deeds, to which Parvos [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tears down all of his actions and scolds Nef for his idleness]].]]

* GoodCapitalismEvilCapitalism: Parvos is the good capitalist (at least, not as cruel and exploitative) in contrast to the Board's evil capitalists. He created the entire Corpus Empire through hard and honest work and his tenets of self-reliance with the desire to free his fellow farmers from the slavery of the Orokin and he is absolutely disgusted to what the Board has turned his great dream into. Especially with Nef, seeing him as the worst aspects the Corpus has developed and plans to reorganize the Corpus to make it more reliant in honest work and self-reliance rather than the overexploitation of other people and in case he can't do it, destroy the Corpus and start all over again.

* {{Macguffin}}: During ''Dante Unbound'', Parvos gives a [[LeonineContract exploitative loan]] to Drusus Leverian, the owner of the Leverian museum in order to make Drusus bankrupt and take his museum as collateral. He says that he wants the artifacts of the museum, one of them being an artifact that "speaks to him". Whatever Parvos is searching in the Leverian, it seems its something that could help him to take over the Corpus or at least boost him in strength.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Unlike the rest of the Corpus, Parvos isn't motivated at all by {{Greed}} in the purely monetary sense, and in fact based the original Corpus on ideals of self-reliance. When he sees the modern state of the Corpus, he acknowledges that it may be time for a new board... and offers Eudico, Biz, and the Tenno seats on it.