History Characters / WarframeTennoWarframesNToZ

* DistaffCounterpart: With Saryn. Both Warframes have themes involving the illness and disease and excel in crowd control with their abilities scaling in damage in larger groups. While Saryn deals with toxins and contagion to weaken the armor and health of enemies, Nidus is more akin to a virus adapting it's DNA to overwhelm everything in it's path.

FirePurifies: ''Fire Walker'' purges status ailments from allies, and ''Blazing Chakram'' causes affected enemies to heal allies.

* SpellBlade: ''Toxic Lash'' infuses her melee weapon with toxins and near guarantees a Toxic proc on enemies.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Subtly. While her upper body appears to be normally slim, the rest of it goes off when she has unusually literal curvy legs.
* CombatStilettos: Octavia has the most elongated and sharpest pair presented in Warframe so far.
* DanceBattler: Her idle animations were mocapped from dances, and her ''Metronome'' ability buffs the entire party for fighting in-sync with her music.
* DistaffCounterpart: Octavia's design arguably translates into a sharp and curvy, female geometric of Vauban while showing off her Mandacords as armor parts instead of grenades. Her abilities are also involved in activating her own devices to generate music in her stead.
* DroneDeployer: ''Resonator'' summons her own version of the infamous [[GoddamnedBats Grineer Roller]] enemy. Her Rollers are perfectly harmless... until they pick up her ''Mallet''s.
* {{Foil}}: To [[TheFairFolk Titania]], fitting since the respective syndicates that provide their quests are on opposite sides.

* GrenadeSpam: Inverted. Octavia's ''Mallet'' effectively explodes an area with music instead of actual explosives. The sounds of attacks will resonate onto the Octavia's drum music while in range, essentially becoming a spam by the grenade itself if orchestrated properly.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: ''Mallet'' taunts enemies into attacking it, then absorbs any damage dealt to it to increase its own.
* InstrumentalWeapon[=/=]InstrumentOfMurder: Her abilities are deployed from her Mandachord, and are infused with the song that she is playing.
* MakeMeWannaShout: ''Amp'' increases allies' damage based on the sound-level in the radius (including noise from her abilities). ''Mallet'' beats enemies to death with percussive soundwaves.

** IronicName: Octavia comes from ''octave'', referring to an 8-note musical scale, even though her Mandachord only has 5.
* MechanicallyUnusualClass: Zig-zagged. Her abilities are fairly standard in-mission, but the ability to write compositions on her [[InstrumentOfMurder Mandachord]] has added a new mini-game for players between missions.

* ShoutOut: Her Diva [=TennoGen=] skin bears a remarkable resemblance to [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku]].

* ArmorIsUseless: Despite of what is spoken as a Tank-based character, Rhino's default armor is roughly below average compared to the current roster of Warframes, making him ironically squishy in health... [[SubvertedTrope but first]] you have to get through his [[ExtraOreDinary Iron Skin]] and DeflectorShields. And he can rapidly build up his armor through ''Ironclad Charge''.

* ContractualBossImmunity: ''Averted'' most bosses excluding the assassins ''can'' be stunned by Rhino Stomp, albeit with a shorter duration, and diminishing returns.
* CrutchCharacter: Rhino is regarded to be this by advanced players. Despite being Mastery gated, his parts drop from one of the first bosses that players encounter - three planets in, of course, meaning he may as well not be gated at all. Due to his versatility and near-passive survivability, he's frequently employed at all levels of play, making it difficult to gauge a player's level of experience. However, ''Iron Skin'' can rapidly disintegrate under fire at high levels, catching inexperienced Tenno off guard. With mods, however, a carefully built Rhino becomes a living crutch for the team's survivability and damage potential.

* FoeTossingCharge: Performs one of these as his very first ability, and can charge into someone hard enough to instagib them.
** Any mook that survives (even the big ones) are sent flying. With Atlas summoning a giant rock wall that turns into a rock ball, they're probably bowling buddies.
** NotTheIntendedUse: Players often use ''Rhino Charge'' just to overcome Rhino's mobility issues or escape from combat, while DE probably intended it to be an initiation move.

** A possible build, though it involves juggling with mod cards that don't really play to Rhino's strengths.

** Became more straightfoward with the buff to ''Rhino Charge''. It now costs basically nothing to chain it and dash straight across the entire map, sending enemies flying and buffing Rhino's armor all the while.
* NoSell: The main effect of ''Iron Skin'', which makes Rhino immune to almost all types of CrowdControl (without a special Warframe mod which only offers a chance to resist) until it absorbs a certain amount of damage. The only exceptions are the slowing effect of ice damage as well as the projectile vomit of the Nauseous Crawler.
* OneStatToRuleThemAll: Inverted, many of Rhino's late-game builds relies on all ability statistics but one, Efficiency. As Power Duration keeps tabs on Roar and Stomp minimizing constant recasting of the abilities, Power Range maximizes his Rhino Charge and his other Area of Effect abilities, and Power Strength for the most solid use of QuadDamage with his Roar while improving his other abilities. If all of his abilities are strongly amplified this way, the gap between repeated uses of his abilities widens, making his Power Efficiency redundant.
** Power Strength once he has Iron Shrapnel and Ironclad Charge. Ironclad Charge's armor bonus per target hit is increased by power strength. Power strength also increases the armor-to-health ratio of Iron Skin, and Roar's damage boost, which affects Iron Shrapnel, which itself is based on Iron Skin's health.

* RhinoRampage: He even makes rhinoceros sounds as he charges.
* ShockwaveStomp: His ultimate skill, ''Rhino Stomp'', which distorts time from the sheer force of the stomp.
** He also has a passive ability that enables him to do this; all he has to do is fall from a certain height, and he can potentially add a GoombaStomp to the mix.

* SpamAttack: ''Rhino Charge'' gets it's cost cut in half every consecutive use, up to a ''quarter'' of it's starting cost......on top of being the cheapest skill to begin with.........and power efficiency. At low levels, rhino can plow through small armies, at high levels, he can still turn the room into a demented bouncy castle and build up obscene armor through ''Ironclad charge''.

* BoobsOfSteel: Only Rhino has a bigger chest than her. Her base health is matched with Oberon, her armor is exceeded only by the tankiest of Warframes, comes with a reliably large energy pool that can be used for Quick Thinking, and one of her abilities boosts her melee damage and defense through blocking.

* {{Combos}}: By the current updates, Saryn begins to invoke this with her abilities.

* DifficultButAwesome: Look at the combo section above. No other frame requires this kind of setup. However, these combos are ''very'' powerful, giving her a huge edge in defensive missions.
* DefeatEqualsExplosion: Her ''Spores'' and ''Molt'' play this trope straight. The former coats the target with [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin spores]] then explodes upon death of its host and spreads to everyone else around it, while ''Molt'' simply explodes upon death or at the end of its duration.

* HollywoodAcid: Her uber skill, ''Miasma''.

* NinjaLog: Her ''Molt'' leaves copies of her skin that resembles her last move before the skill is applied, giving a distinct illusion of being still there. Too bad for [[SchmuckBait stubborn enemies who are trying to kill]] [[MadeOfExplodium it]].

* NotTheIntendedUse: Saryn has always been intended by the devs as a frame that causes damage over time by spreading devastating plague-themed debuffs to entire crowds. However, the only build the playerbase considered viable for any level of play was exploiting a quirk of her ''Miasma'''s damage algorithm, dropping her "Power Duration" to less than a second, and dealing 10,000 damage every time you pressed the 4 key. The devs not-so-secretly hated this "nuke Saryn", culminating in a radical rework in Update 17 that made "nuke Saryn" completely ineffective but "GradualGrinder Saryn" both more deadly and less gradual.

* StatuesqueStunner: Saryn is considered to be one of the most attractive Warframes by the playerbase and is one of the tallest as well. Her new idle animation makes her tower over her peers as she stands confidently upright instead of crouching for battle.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Her body frame is particularly unusual, it's even more distinguishable compared to the other Warframes tied with Death and Egyptian themes. It was implied [[spoiler:that she was a decaying symptom of Warframe design as Silvana, Titania's creator, was contradicted with the fact that she had to build the technology to destroy rather than being under her own philosophy.]]

* HollywoodThin: While Titania's body frame isn't nearly as thin as [[{{Mummy}} Inaros]], it's still slimmer than most female Warframes in general.

* OneHandedZweihander[=/=]SmallGirlBigGun: Normally, the massive size of Archwing weapons compared to their users is justified by them being weightless in space, allowing the Tenno to swing them effortlessly. However, ''Razorwing'' can summon weapons of equivalent size ([[SizeShifter comparatively]]), and Titania has no problem swinging them with gravity turned ''on''.

* ShowgirlSkirt: UpToEleven, though naturally the skirt is meant to actually [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman be her wings]].

** Prior to her release, the developers stated at one time that she could copy up to ''35'' different powers with this effect. By release, it [[{{Pun}} shrank]] down to four.
* WhyAmITicking: ''Lantern'' turns its target into a bomb.

* BoringButPractical: She may not be very interesting to play, but the team support she offers is immensely powerful. Whatever mission you're running and whatever your squad looks like, Trinity is almost always welcome.

** NotTheIntendedUse: Alternately, one could ''avert'' this trope by casting Link and Blessing, then firing explosive weapons at your own feet - thereby transferring all potential explosive damage to nearby foes instead.
** Inverted goes to Well of Life. While dealing damage to the tagged target will get your health back, it [[StoneWall buffs the health of your enemy at a massive bunch]] but renders the target immobile.

* ManaDrain: ''Energy Vampire'' allows Trinity to continuously stun and drain an enemy's life force to receive energy. It's something of a game-breaking ability, as it returns more energy than it costs to the Trinity (and can be modded for an even bigger gap), and has very little risk to use as the target can discharge its remaining energy upon death.
** NotTheIntendedUse: ''Energy Vampire'''s periodic damage scales with the target's maximum health at the time of casting, which can [[OneHitKill instantly kill an enemy]] if timed to cast as ''Well of Life'' is wearing off.

* NotTheIntendedUse: While designed as a support healer frame, Trinity can easily out-tank Rhino, and through Link has potential infinite scaling DPS, so she lacks the fall-off most damage-oriented frames and abilities have. The best team composition as of Update 13 is four Trinities, maybe swapping one out for a Nekros.
** ''Link'' can also be used as an improvised early warning system, alerting the player to nearby enemies.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: ''Well of Life'' is vastly overshadowed by her ultimate ability, as ''Blessing'' has an infinite range unaffected by line of sight, restores shields, grants damage reduction, and its healing scales with their maximum health.
** UselessUsefulSkill: As a result, ''Well of Life'''s greatest facet is the ability to lock down one target, but it doesn't work as often for this as ''Energy Vampire'' and [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard multiplies their health while active]].
*** Its Augment, ''Pool of Life'', falls even harder into this trope. If the afflicted enemy is killed during the power's duration, it drops health orbs with a chance of an energy orb.

* ArmorIsUseless: Subverted then played straight.
** Visual-wise, personally beats the general bulky male tank Warframes with more than twice the armor while [[WaifFu remaining in slender form]].
** The straight example goes with Hysteria; while it [[DelayedReaction it deals all of the damage she would have taken during the ability's activation if any enemies are still nearby at its end]], while active she is [[NoSell completely oblivious to any form of damage]].
* TheBerserker: Of course.
** CastFromHitpoints: A variation: Her ''Paralysis'' skill sacrifices her shields, making her more vulnerable to attacks. Justified by being ''[[CaptainObvious a berserker]]''.
*** Enforced with her ''Hysteria'' skill, which makes her invulnerable to damage... until it ends, at which point part of the damage she would have taken hits her anyway unless she has cleared the room of enemies by then. While active, however, she can heal based on the damage she deals.
** NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Her Hysteria is likely to make this move on an enemy when you need to FinishHim, completely reducing even the toughest opponent to... [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill what's pretty much left of him]].
** PrimalStance: While sprinting under the effects of [[UnstoppableRage Hysteria]], she spreads her arms out in a [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant rather disturbing backdrop]]. This is also her default stance with her Agile animation set.
** RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Any mission against the Corpus can be seen as this, given her backstory.
** ScreamingWarrior: ''Paralysis'' lets off a quick howl.
** UnstoppableRage: Played relatively straight with ''Hysteria'', so long as it remains active.
* BodyHorror: It's no coincidence that "the tortured" Warframe looks like her skin was flayed and peeled. The default red streaks on her armor even look like exposed muscle. To top it off, the Corpus restraints on her arms have bolts that go ''through her bones''.
** [[CorruptTheCutie Corrupt the Beautiful]]: The developers have stated that a Primed iteration of her would look dramatically different, to emphasize how far down Alad V took her. {{Fanon}} has gone through several iterations to emphasize a pre-torture Valkyr almost TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth.
*** The Gersemi Skin for Valkyr is actually her Pre-Corpus Skin. It's telling that this skin highly resembles Zanuka's.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Hysteria turns Valkyr into a ball of vicious rage; [[HilariousInHindsight Jumping]] prompts her to roll into [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments a ball of vicious rage]].

* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: While using Hysteria is made to turn tides of a fight to Valkyr's favor, there are an increasing amount of DemonicSpiders whose auras can '''[[{{Dispel}} nullify]]''' pretty much every ability buff/debuff made by any Warframe.
** AchillesHeel: While Valkyr's ultimate ability renders her ''almost'' completely invulnerable to damage, stand right inside a nullifier globe and she's down. Especially the Corpus, who are coincidentally savvy at ArmorPiercing. However, she can also take down nullifier globes by staying just out of range and attacking them. A particularly gutsy Valkyr can even charge straight into a globe, kill the Nullifier, and then reactivate Hysteria.

* MusclesAreMeaningless: Can deal some of the highest damage in the game with her ultimate, while besting larger and bulkier Warframes as far as taking nasty hits.
* NoSell: ''[[UnstoppableRage Hysteria]]'' renders Valkyr completely invulnerable to damage at the cost of using only melee attacks rather than whatever weapon she carries. It may sound [[UselessUsefulSkill useless]] at first, but the invulnerability she receives actually leads to...
* NotTheIntendedUse: Despite of the intended name, her ultimate ability allows her to traverse through sections of a fight without taking damage from enemies -- even those with an InstantDeathRadius -- giving Valkyr time to revive allies, hack consoles and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking walk around]] with abandon.
* ScreamingWarrior: She and Rhino are the only frames to make any vocalizations, and they're pretty loud ones.
* {{Valkyries}}: The inspiration for her name, though she has little to do with them directly save perhaps that berserkers occur alongside them in Myth/NorseMythology.
** Her Kara alternate helmet takes its name from a Valkyrie; the Nordic translation is "the wild, stormy one."
* WaifFu: Looking at Valkyr's slender silhouette, you'd probably assume that she's about as fragile as squishy female casters such as Mag, Nova, Banshee, or Mirage. While her shields are the lowest in the game[[labelnote:*]]barring Inaros and Nidus, who don't have any[[/labelnote]], her armor value is the highest, giving her immense damage reduction. Her kit is designed around a melee-focused berserker playstyle that encourages ripping enemies to shreds with a lightning-fast blitz.
* WolverineClaws: Summoned as part of her Ultimate, ''Hysteria''.

* ArmorIsUseless: His sheer padded bulk does absolutely nothing but house a large assortment of grenades that he uses in battle; standing short with as little armor and shields as possible.

* BadassNormal: All the other Warframes seem to have innate abilities, powers that could only be explained by "Void Energy", partial infestation, etc. Vauban, however, runs entirely on advanced tech grenades and a good suit.

** Alternately, one could coat the cryopod in ''Bounce'' grenades to repel melee-oriented foes.

** The fact that there can be periods of weeks without seeing the same part repeat has led many players to the question, "[[MemeticMutation How is Booben formed?]]"

* TrickBomb: ''All of them.''
* UselessUsefulSpell: ''Bounce''. While it used to be a useful tool to get around into places you aren't really supposed to go, it has been rendered almost entirely redundant with Parkour 2.0's 'Bullet Jump' double-jump. Costly to cast, negligible damage in an unfavorable damage type, long reset time before bounces, and typically ''weaker'' than a Bullet Jump. At best, ''Bounce'' is good for some laughs by throwing it on a enemy/fellow player and watching them get flung across the level. It was eventually changed to be ''Minelayer'', which can be cycled between Bounce, Trip Laser, Shred and Concussion mines.

* CripplingOverspecialization: Electricity in general is quite effective against anything mechanical, making it great against the Corpus (who rely heavily on their robotic proxies in combat). Unfortunately, the Grineer have only a handful of mechanical units (and their armored units can resist it), and the Infested [[spoiler:coat their mechanical units in flesh]]. It does still have a brief stun effect, but you're usually better off just killing the enemy instead of wasting time with a status effect.

** GoodBadBugs: Ironically (as Volt is most effective against Corpus robots), this shield dramatically increases the damage of the Corpus-inspired Dera plasma rifle and turns it into a HitScan weapon.

* VeryFalseAdvertising: Has been accused of this; the in-game description of Volt claims that he is a "potent alternative to gunplay" and most of his moveset suggests he is a mobile caster archetype, but it has been repeatedly pointed out that ''Electric Shield'' just makes his firearms far more potent while pinning him down in one spot. His rework in Update 18.13 didn't help matters, allowing ''Speed'' to increase his reload speed...
** Perhaps a case of NotTheIntendedUse as with Loki's ''Invisibility'', since ''Electric Shield'' is advertised as his best ''defense'' rather than his most potent ''offense''.

* {{Combo}}s: To start in his background, all of his melee attacks encourage long, powerful combos, by having a longer combo timer.
** ''Primal Fury'' fully incorporates the trope with every successful hit, dealing more damage while covering a large area.
* DreadlockWarrior: Two long ones made of... whatever Asa Syandanas are made of.

* FakeLongevity: Unlike the multiple parts padding from Chroma and Equinox, Wukong's longevity is time sensitive, taking drops from [[{{Unobtainium}} Nitain]], an Alert-only resource, that comes on four times a day, which is used to specifically build him. Keep in mind that each of the four parts of his research require Nitain as well - so your entire clan has to consistently run the Alerts each time they show up to get him in the fastest possible manner, which becomes less likely with larger clan sizes.

* NoSell[=/=]FeelNoPain: ''Defy'', a dedicated version of Quick Thinking, allows Wukong to take direct damage to energy; as every time his health depletes, it resets to a portion of his maximum health. Combined with a Rage mod to convert health damage into energy, the effect can be maintained indefinitely. What keeps this from being CompleteImmortality is that the effect diminishes each time it activates until it returns nothing, but this can be reset simply by toggling ''Defy'' off and on again.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Unfortunately, Wukong gets this from a few angles. Primal Fury is probably the weakest and least interesting of the Exalted weapons. Cloud Walker is extremely cumbersome and energy-hungry compared to other stealth abilities. Defy is technically superior to just about all of the other tanking abilities, but the others are still more than adequate, and the other tanks generally have team support in their kits to boot. What you have left is a Warframe that can take a beating but can't do much else.

** GenderBlenderName: Zephyrus, like all of the Greek Anemoi, was male.
** {{Tengu}}: Her second alternate helmet is not only named after such, but also invokes the long nose-like beak associated with them.

* AnimateDead: ''Shadows of the Dead'' qualifies.
** OurGhostsAreDifferent: Made up of nanobots rather than ectoplasm.

** DreadlockRasta: The other most common interpretation of his syandana.

** Originally it bordered on UselessUsefulSkill as, in addition to being limited to corpses (which despawn within fifteen seconds, giving a limited window of use[[note]]corpses that disintegrate still count as existing for those fifteen seconds[[/note]]), the cast time was lengthy (often taking players out of combat completely to use several times in a row), and its success is left in the hands of the RandomNumberGod; you were likely to find yourself simply unable to ''Desecrate'' a given corpse before it despawned ''several times per mission''. After years, ''Desecrate'' was changed to a toggled skill that would automatically consume corpses that entered range of the caster, allowing Nekros to harvest enemies while still actively participating in the fight.

* FakeLongevity: Farming for Warframe blueprints is always a tedious task that leaves you at the mercy of the RandomNumberGod, but Nekros was the first frame to involve more in the process than farming one node. To get his blueprints, you first need to farm up "nav coordinates" from crates within levels to build a key to access the Orokin Derelicts, then you need to farm up more "nav coordinates" from those Derelicts for the Assassinate mission against Lephantis. Each key can only be used to complete the mission ''once'', and nav coordinates are not guaranteed to drop from crates. These days, most players don't care as much about the additional hoops, since nav coordinates are commonplace, Lephantis keys can be shared, and newer Warframes have raised the bar so much higher.
** Oddly, Nekros and Lephantis also averted the trope; Lephantis was the first boss to guarantee dropping a Warframe piece on death, and the other bosses were changed shortly after to match.
** As a bonus, Nekros Prime was the first Prime Warframe released after the "Specters of the Rail" update altered the process of obtaining Prime items -- including releasing entirely new sets of Relics from which his parts drop, [[BagOfSpilling diminishing the value of players' existing surplus of keys[=/=]Relics and forcing them to grind for new ones all over again]]. Players' frustrations with this will apply to all other Primes going forward, but will diminish as more releases add more Relics to the table.
* TheGrimReaper: An obvious inspiration for his design. His "favored" weapon is even a scythe.
** Nekros Prime takes this even further by giving him a shroud shaped like crow wings.

* {{Necromancer}}: Well duh.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Thanks to the playerbase's single-minded focus on [[BoringButPractical Desecrate]], many people feel that Inaros does a better job as the death-themed Warframe than Nekros ever did.

* UselessUsefulSkill: ''Terrify'', which provides a damage boost against enemies and prevents them from attacking, but also makes those enemies untargetable (as they flee the room in an attempt to hide).
** To top it off, the damage boost is relatively low[[labelnote:*]] At maximum Power Strength, it's about a 50% boost on targets with 600 armor or higher; compare Roar, which reaches 142% universally with the same mods, and is the next weakest damage boost available.[[/labelnote]], does not stack with itself[[labelnote:*]] While it can be stacked with other sources of armor reduction, said other sources can remove 100% of armor on their own while Terrify can't even remove half[[/labelnote]], and only applies to armored enemies (limiting usage to Grineer). It's best used as a panic button to get a crowd of enemies away from a point.

* DecompositeCharacter: Gameplay-wise, his abilities to spread fire to a large area and incorporate durability with said fire were once belonged to Ember. The former two namely were the old [[ConvectionSchmonvection World On Fire]][[note]]Retooled to a much smaller, subtler Firewalk[[/note]] and [[MagmaMan Overheat]][[note]]As Warding Halo[[/note]].
* DudeLooksLikeALady: It's hard for many players to believe that he's male at all. [[UpToEleven Even the]] [[DevelopmentGag developers]].
** Partially justified as in his home mythology, he's always portrayed as a pre-adolescent to adolescent boy.
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: All of Nezha's abilities involve at least a spinning maneuver including an expanding wheel that rips through enemies when thrown as a SpinAttack.

* FrictionBurn: Combined ironically with SlipperySkid is a common tactic for Nezha, with ''Firewalker'', to spread a crowd-controlling [[BurningRubber trail of fire]] which stuns enemies on contact.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: ''Divine Spears'', literally takes Radial Javelin to [[CrossesTheLineTwice its conclusion]] by pinning the enemies to the ground at [[SetSwordsToStun stunning capacity]] for a longer time only to take another great damage after that duration.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The releases of new Warframes usually alternate the frames' gender. As a Warframe originally released in Warframe China, Nezha did not adhere to this soft rule, and instead immediately followed Wukong.
* LeetLingo: His maxed ''Warding Halo'' reaches health capacity to this number.
* MeaningfulName: Named after the deity Nezha in Chinese lore, who was entitled as the ''Third Lotus Prince''.
* OdangoHair: Sports a pair on both of his helmets, and [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny these things can glow]].
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Some players have taken to calling him a weaker Rhino, due to his lower armor, weaker and more expensive defensive ability, lack of a ''Roar'' equivalent, and much more finnicky crowd control that lacks Rhino's infamous ability to stun bosses. Given that his main strength (speedrunning) is relatively useless in end-game scenarios, as well as general non-solo gameplay, one can see why.
** The release of his "Safeguard" augment gives him a niche as a group protector, able to cast a weaker ''Iron Skin'' over his entire team. It also protects allies from status effects while active, and can last indefinitely in short missions (which are more suited to Nezha's speedrunning abilities anyway). The downside is that, being an augment, this utility is locked behind a grindwall.
* PlayingWithFire: He can [[ConvectionSchmonvection run fast enough to leave a trail of flames]].
** FirePurifies: ''Fire Walker'' purges status ailments from allies, and ''Blazing Chakram'' causes affected enemies to heal allies.

* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Nezha's entire kit, with his CC resilience, teleport, movespeed buff, and reduced friction, make him ''very'' good at speedrunning, which is useful for showing off, but usually not very practical, excluding the various time trials in the Orokin Void, where being able to run to the end easily actually ''does'' turn out to be quite handy.

* CombatStilettos: Rare male version.

* EvolutionaryLevels: Nidus relies on every hit dealt by his first ability, ''Virulence'', in order to grow stronger. His Evolution levels are even called Mutation stacks. True to this, half of his abilities are unavailable until his Mutation stacks are high enough to cast them.
* FakeLongevity: All three of his parts are obtained on Rotation C of the Infested Salvage mission, at 10% chance each. Repeating that mission over and over can get very dull, especially when you end up with duplicate parts when you only need one (or worse, no parts at all). The quest to get his blueprint, The Glast Gambit, also suffers from this, as it forces players through several rounds of the Index for no real reason. Thankfully, Nidus is well worth the tedium.

* FleshGolem: Downplayed. His body only grows on itself and from the nutrients he absorbed through his abilities. No foreign body parts seem to be necessary for his evolution, not even a glimpse of what the Warframe used to be un-infested.

* LovecraftianSuperpower: His entire skillset is built around this ordeal.
* MacGuffin: DoubleSubverted. Despite being the Old War relic that gave Nef Anyo a pair of wide eyes, [[spoiler:his only involvement in the plot is to be an attractive bet to lure the Triuna out of Anyo's hands.]] Even his use in-game, Nidus himself is never mentioned further by Ergo Glast even it was already given to the Tenno by his reliable clients.
* MagikarpPower: A proactive showcase of it on EvolutionaryLevels. He starts out with a minuscule regeneration and is unable to cast his third and fourth abilities, since both those abilities consume Mutaton stacks instead of energy. At full Mutation, he is, health-wise, tougher than Valkyr, has the ability to regenerate health as fast he can take damage, has impressive crowd control abilities and, if taken fatal damage, can recover a portion of his health on the spot especially from damage done by powerful enemies.
* MechanicallyUnusualClass: While he has no shields like Inaros and is nowhere near his health sink, Nidus regenerates his health constantly and is dependent on his EvolutionaryLevels to keep himself bulked up. He's also the first Warframe to experiment with level-up bonuses other than increases to health, shields, and energy. His "Mutation" passive also gives him uniquely scalable damage.

* NoSell[=/=]FeelNoPain: Once he's built up enough Mutation stacks, he can shrug off lethal damage, instantly regaining half his health and becoming invulnerable for a few seconds.
* OrganicTechnology: Uses the most literal organic methods of eliminating its enemies outright. It's also strongest example of what [[spoiler:the Warframes are entirely made of]].

* TheVirus: A positive example. [[spoiler:The infection that Nidus was injected with by the orbiter, Helminth, provides a cyst that spreads to all unexpected Warframes. Growing this alien zit in an ''Incubator'' will turn it into an infested companion.]]
* UglyCute: The Maggots summoned with ''Ravenous'' are precieved as this by the players.
* WalkingSpoiler: A minor case, but remains as a literal example. [[spoiler:TheVirus on the host Warframe grows benignly and spreads to other Tenno without warning. Which means, a Nidus or an infected Warframe can accidentally invoke this for pre-''The War Within'' players.]]

* {{Antimatter}}: Supposedly what her abilities use to deal damage.
* BadassAdorable: [[CompanionCube A suit widely accepted of being cute as a button]], while strong enough to wipe entire rooms with a powerful, well-planned loadout.

* FriendlySniper: [[NotTheIntendedUse Indirectly]], ''Null Star'' can turn her into one by giving Nova direct health damage resistance as long as the particles don't home down on enemies at short range. A decent build, with the help of ''Molecular Prime'', will allow Nova to make use of the damage resistance as she forces opposing snipers to struggle shooting her down and pick them off with her own.
* GirlishPigtails: Her Design Council-approved helmet (Slipstream) has these, [[AscendedFanon which was heavily suggested]] [[VocalMinority by rather respectable minority]].
** Even more evident with her longer Primed variant.

* HartmanHips: Nova's hips are particularly noticeable [[MaleGaze by a surprisingly large crowd]], compared to the hip-frames that the Ember Warframe casually scoffs off.

** MadeOfExplodium[=/=]WhyAmITicking: Her ultimate ability, ''Molecular Prime'', can cause nearby enemies to create [[UpToEleven chains of explosions]] when they die. It also conveniently slows them down severely and makes them take double damage for the long duration of the ability which makes boss fights where mooks swarm around the boss easier than most missions.
* HomingProjectile: Nova's ''Antimatter Drop'' can be guided in the air by the player who fired it.
** DestructibleProjectiles: Inverted. Shooting bullets into the bomb will make its eventual explosion ''more'' powerful.
* LittleMissBadass: One of the least bosomy females (comparable to Trinity), and the second-shortest (although being taller than Mag may be due to her platform shoes), but also one of the most powerful Warframes in the whole game for pure damage output.

* ShoutOut: Her Slipstream helmet was heavily suggested to be inspired by Scarlet Rain from LightNovel/AccelWorld.

** OurWormholesAreDifferent

* AnimalEyes: Her [[MeaningfulName Vespa]] helmet gives her compound insect eyes.
** EyesDoNotBelongThere: Her Prime helmet includes an eye-shaped gold plate in the middle of her face; her main horn protrudes from it.
* AttackReflector: Her ultimate ability ''Absorb'' plays a variation when activated; damage isn't dealt to enemies until the effect ends.
* CharmPerson: ''Mind Control'', of course.
* DistaffCounterpart: Her suit is actually designed as a female version of the Excalibur; the only difference (aside from physique) is her helmet. The developers have taken to calling her Excalibur's sister.
** WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, the developers were planning on making male and female versions of each Warframe; Nyx started out as Excalibur's female incarnation. Older cinematics even show her having her own version of Excalibur's helmet; this can be seen in the [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130729230907/warframe/images/d/da/MenticideIsSpy.jpg reward screen for her Menticide helmet]].
** CallBack: Like how Excalibur gets the armor from Dark Sector, Nyx gets the Nemesis skin which comes from the same game outside of it also being gender swapped.

** HomingProjectile
** UselessUsefulSkill: Many players have bemoaned the fact that ''Psychic Bolts'' is a blatant damage skill, in the arsenal of a utility- and control-based character. While it can deal the equivalent of an ultimate's damage to a single target, it deals less damage against multiple enemies than most Warframes' first abilities for double the cost. To top it off, the projectiles are tangible and will often redirect into walls or obstacles on their way to enemies, making it difficult to use in closed spaces (which comprise approximately half of all maps in the game).
*** Doubly true as of Update 13.3, where even ''Absorb'' costs less to initiate, with higher base damage.
* MeditationPowerup: Can sit down in the Lotus position to absorb damage attacks, then reflect them back to enemies. In fact, friendly fire can boost the eventual output.
** UnflinchingWalk: The augment for ''Absorb'' grants her the ability to move while using it, making her look like [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} a Terminator]] with certain weapons equipped.

** SetAMookToKillAMook: Mostly effective with ''Chaos'' due to adjustments to the threat tables while active, although enemies will still attempt to attack the Tenno if they make themselves too noticeable.
* PsychicPowers

* AllMonksKnowKungFu: Strangely, his Agile idle stances emphasize Tai Chi; notable poses can be seen when he is unarmed or wielding dual pistols.
* AnimalMotifs: Bovids (primarily goats); his body has twisted satyr-esque legs, cloven feet, semi-spiraling horns, thin limbs, wide torso, and elongated faceplate.
** His alternate helmets are titled ''Oryx'' and ''Markhor''.
** His Feyarch skin is covered in monarch butterfly patterns.

* HealingHands: Special mention goes to ''Renewal'', which is the first non-ultimate direct-healing Warframe ability.
** LastChanceHitPoint: The augment for ''Renewal'' allows him to instantly revive himself or teammates from fatal damage, with a cooldown for each target.

* JackOfAllTrades: As of his latest rework, he can maintain a periodic healing aura, deal damage that scales to enemy health, shatter enemy armor, bolster his and allies' armor and status resistance, mass-stun enemies or [[SetAMookToKillAMook turn enemies against each other]]...
** MasterOfNone: ... but he'll never quite match a more specialized Warframe in terms of potency. That being said, he still has a few tricks up his sleeve that no other Warframes can duplicate (without Augments, at least), such as [[StatusBuffDispel dispelling status conditions]] and slowing his allies' bleedout timer. The Radiation effect from his powers is also handy to effectively disable some Eximus and Ancient auras.

* LightEmUp
** HolyHandGrenade: ''Smite'' and ''Reckoning'' play it straight. ''Smite'' may be more like a Holy Frag Grenade.
** ILoveNuclearPower: In reality, his abilities deal heavy Radiation damage (along with some physical damage), since light is a form of radiation.

** On the other hand, his [[TheFairFolk Feyarch]] deluxe skin pairs nicely.
* [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Ninja Druid Fairy Paladin]] [[RecycledInSpace In Space]]
** One of the most egregious examples of this amongst Warframes. While Oberon's kit was originally developed for a [[ThePaladin Paladin]]-based Warframe, his concept art led many of the developers to declare him to be a {{Druid}} as well. While his abilities are mostly Paladin-focused, his [[TheBeastmaster animal-based]] passive enforces his Druidic abilities beyond a mere visual motif.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: A natural consequence of being a well-rounded Warframe alongside more specialized sorts. Historically, he's suffered badly as a healer in comparison to Trinity, but as of the Oberon rework, his Renewal ability is substantially easier and quicker to use.
* ThePaladin: His original and primary theme.
* SimpleYetAwesome: As of the Oberon rework, ''Smite'''s secondary projectiles are one of very few Warframe attacks in the game whose damage scales with enemy health. This means that spamming Smite can continue killing enemies even at extremely high levels. For an added bonus, enemies hit by Smite are knocked down and given radiation proc, effectively taking them out of the fight for a brief time.

* WhiteMage: Healing spells and smiting.

Another Warframe originally released in China, like Wukong, who made it to the global build in Update 18.1. A fire-based Warframe to draw from the original Chinese myth, but unlike Ember, Nezha focuses on the defensive and utilitarian properties of fire.

Oberon is a paladin Warframe introduced in Update 11.5. Unlike Trinity, he is built with a balance of healing and damaging skills.

A Bard-inspired Warframe released in Update 20. While she and Banshee each use sound as a primary weapon, Octavia focuses on using music to enhance her allies and enchant her enemies. Her main blueprint is obtained from the "Octavia's Anthem" quest offered by Cephalon Suda.

-->''[[spoiler:Margulis]], from your wilted ashes has sprung a field of flowers. Conceived by me. Germinated for deadly purpose. You used to dream of old Earth didn't you? Bathed in gold and solemn blue. I intend to reclaim it now, from the Spores and the Ruin. It came to me, like a proverb: Fight poison with poison. Cure this sick horde with the greatest of plagues. I will call her... Saryn.''

Trinity is an archetypal healer with a vampiric twist. Her skillset is completely defensive and allows allies to drain both health and energy from targets or avoid damage by redirecting it back onto an enemy.

* FakeLongevity: Regular Vauban can be pretty tough to acquire but his Primed variant takes it UpToEleven:
** First of all, all of his blueprints are rare drops, making "radshares" (a squad of 4 players, each of them having the same relic upgraded to Radiant) the only viable option to farm them.
** Once you finally have all the blueprints, you still have to deal with some insane crafting requirements: 20 Nitain Extracts (only acquired from time-limited alert missions 4 times a day) and 7000 Oxium (dropped by a specific type of enemy in amounts of 7-12 units) being probably the most time-consuming ones.

* FakeLongevity: Unlike the multiple parts padding from Chroma and Equinox, Wukong's longevity is time sensitive, taking drops from [[{{Unobtainium}} Nitain]], an Alert-only resource, that comes on four times a day, which is used to specifically build him. He's also a dojo research exclusive frame, much like Zephyr, adding 3 days of wait time to a total of roughly a week. Keep in mind that each of the four parts of his research require Nitain as well - so your entire clan has to consistently run the Alerts each time they show up to get him in the fastest possible manner, which becomes less likely with larger clan sizes.

* FakeLongevity: For players attempting to obtain her for free, Zephyr was released such that her parts could only be obtained from a Tenno Research Lab added in Update 12. After a clan obtains the materials for a lab, it spends 24 hours under construction. From there, players can begin researching Zephyr's main blueprint - which requires 3 days to research on its own - followed by an additional 3 days to research each of the three individual parts that her blueprint is a prerequisite for (assuming all three are researched simultaneously). This is on top of the three days that she already takes to build in your Foundry.
** These days, it's less of a problem, since almost all clans have already researched her for you, and Oxium drops (a major component for both her research and construction) have been greatly improved since her release.

* NoSell: The main effect of ''Iron Skin'', which makes Rhino immune to almost all types of CrowdControl (without a special Warframe mod which only offers a chance to resist) until it absorbs a certain amount of damage.
** WeaksauceWeakness: The only exceptions are the slowing effect of ice damage as well as the projectile vomit of the Nauseous Crawler.

* CrutchCharacter: Rhino is regarded to be this by advanced players. Despite being Mastery gated, his parts drop from one of the first bosses that players encounter - three planets in, of course, meaning he may as well not be gated at all. Due to his versatility and near-passive survivability, he's frequently employed at all levels of play, making it difficult to gauge a player's level of experience. However, ''Iron Skin'' can rapidly disintegrate under fire at high levels, catching inexperienced Tenno off guard.
** Subverted with mods, as a carefully built Rhino becomes a living crutch for the team's survivability and damage potential.

* NotTheIntendedUse: Despite of the intended name, her ultimate ability allows her to traverse through sections of a fight without taking damage from enemies -- even those with an InstantDeathRadius -- giving Valkyr time to revive allies, hack consoles and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking walk around]] with abandon. Combined with its weapon penalty, many players have taken to using ''Hysteria'' as a shield when playing a supportive role, and then disabling it during actual combat engagements.

* UselessUsefulSkill: ''Hysteria'' zig-zags this. Although it does scale itself with her melee weapon damage and critical modifiers, it ignores physical and elemental damage bonuses, status chance, the weapon's attack speed, Reach, and anything to increase Channeling damage, which sharply reduces the pool of weapons that Valkyr can benefit the most from and often means a drop in damage output. It also has a reduced Finisher multiplier[[labelnote:*]]Only 4x, versus most weapons' 12-''24x'' unmodded multiplier[[/labelnote]], on top of restricting the use of ranged weapons. On the other hand, it also grants the player complete invulnerability to damage and most status effects while active, provided they can take down enemies that come too close, which makes Valkyr useful for reviving allies or running off to locate objectives on her own, or simply triggering Hysteria for survivability and tanking damage.
** Update 17.5 overhauls Hysteria's mechanics to take into account melee weapon mods instead of weapon damage, which not only increases her potential attack damage significantly, it also allows her to wield any melee weapon without fear of reducing damage output, thus completely averting the trope.

** The straight example goes with Hysteria; while it [[DelayedReaction renders her to accept the damage she took after its duration if there are still enemies around her when it deactivates]], during the ability just makes her [[NoSell completely oblivious to any form of damage]] while towering enemies tend to fall faster in less than seconds.

** AchillesHeel: While Valkyr's ultimate ability renders her ''almost'' completely invulnerable to damage, stand right inside a nullifier globe and she's down. Especially the Corpus, who are coincidentally savvy at ArmorPiercing. However, she can also take down nullifier globes by staying just out of range and attacking them.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: As a monkey king-based Warfare.

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** Originally it bordered on UselessUsefulSkill as, in addition to being limited to corpses (which despawn within fifteen seconds, giving a limited window of use[[note]]corpses that disintegrate still count as existing for those fifteen seconds[[/note]]), the cast time was lengthy (often taking players out of combat completely to use several times in a row), and its success is left in the hands of the RandomNumberGod; you were likely to find yourself simply unable to ''Desecrate'' a given corpse before it despawned ''several times per mission''. After years, ''Desecrate'' was changed to a toggled skill that would automatically consume corpses that entered range of the caster.

** To top it off, the damage boost is relatively low[[labelnote:*]] At maximum Power Strength, it's about a 50% boost on targets with 600 armor or higher; compare Roar, which reaches 142% universally with the same mods, and is the next weakest damage boost available.[[/labelnote]], does not stack with itself[[labelnote:*]] While it can be stacked with other sources of armor reduction, said other sources can remove 100% of armor on their own while Terrify can't even remove half[[/labelnote]], and only applies to armored enemies (limiting usage to Grineer).

* FakeLongentivity: All three of his parts are obtained on Rotation C of the Sabotage mission, at 10% chance each. Repeating that mission over and over can get very dull, especially when you end up with duplicate parts when you only need one or worse, no parts at all.

* TheJuggernaut: Not in the sense of moving forward, but in terms of gaining strength: Nidus becomes nigh-unstoppable and nigh-unkillable as it builds up mutations. In fact, Nidus actually requires a repeated npc DogPileOfDoom in order to reach its full strength.
** Its first ability costs energy, but regains energy on successful hits and builds mutation stacks. That means it can spam its first ability, Virulence on high level enemies without killing them to still gain mutation stacks. More mutation stacks will make virulence more powerful, until the maximum 100 stacks will make it instantly kill almost anything short of a boss.
** The third ability of Nidus allows it to link with a npc and shunt all sustained damage to that npc for the duration of the link, further increasing Nidus's unkillable status.
** Its final ability, Ravenous might cost mutation stacks, but will also generate them with kills and also provides an AreaOfEffect health regeneration boost.

** The only real upper limit to Nidus's abilities is to the damage it can do at 100 mutation stacks, not counting weapons. Most mission designs in the game that revolve around infinite waves of enemies require players to [[EscortMission protect a target]] or gather resources to prevent a countdown clock from reaching zero. Without these artificial restrictions, Nidus could potentially fight off waves of increasingly powerful mooks forever.

* NotTheIntendedUse: ''Molecular Prime'''s [[StandardStatusEffects Slow effect]] holds an interesting property that subjects Power Strength in-between the default percentage of a hundred percent. Due to the way the Power Strength stat scales, players found that reducing it would allow ''Molecular Prime'' to increase the speed of enemies, making missions on large maps run much faster. The developers liked it so much they kept it in.

* ShoutOut: Her Diva [=TennoGen=] skin bears a remarkable resemblance to [[Music/{{Vocaloids}} Hatsune Miku]].

* HealingHands: Her uber skill, ''Blessing'', averts the trend set by her other abilities - it doesn't require you to drain life from a target, but instead fully heals (and reshields) the party, and grants [[ImmuneToBullets temporary damage reduction]] to all affected.

* WaifFu: While the only two other Warframes who received a seemingly light armor treatment are [[HavingABlast Nova]] and [[MagnetismManipulation Mag]], Valkyr can sponge a lot of damage and does an insane focus of melee compared to most frames of the same gender at [[LightningBruiser blistering speeds]].

** Originally, it bordered on UselessUsefulSkill as, in addition to being limited to corpses (which despawn within fifteen seconds, giving a limited window of use[[note]]corpses that disintegrate still count as existing for those fifteen seconds[[/note]]), the cast time was lengthy (often taking players out of combat completely to use several times in a row), and its success is left in the hands of the RandomNumberGod; you were likely to find yourself simply unable to ''Desecrate'' a given corpse before it despawned ''several times per mission''.

* BoringButPractical: ''Desecrate'' doesn't cause enemies to combust, but it can make their corpses [[PinataEnemy give much-needed health orbs and ammo]]. Of course, it borders on UselessUsefulSkill as it's limited to corpses (which despawn within fifteen seconds, giving a limited window of use[[note]]corpses that disintegrate still count as existing for those fifteen seconds[[/note]]), the cast time is lengthy (often taking players out of combat completely to use several times in a row), and its success is left in the hands of the RandomNumberGod; you are likely to find yourself simply unable to ''Desecrate'' a given corpse before it despawns ''several times per mission''. However, it's all but required for high-level Survival missions to get enough life support off of enemies, and the ability to double-dip in loot tables make farming for mods and resources ''much'' faster.
* CastFromHitpoints: The Despoil mod makes Desecrate consume health instead of energy when cast. Desecrate has a very high chance of spawning health orbs in the first place, so it's not a bad trade-off, since it lets Nekros drop some efficiency in favor of mods to help his other powers out.

** Nekros Prime takes this even further by giving him a shroud shaped like wings.

* FakeLongevity: Formerly, Obtaining Nezha without spending Platinum was a practice that turned normal Warframe collection on its head. Nezha's component blueprints used to drop as rewards from Sorties, quests comprised of a chain of three high-level missions in a row, which can only be completed ''once per day'' and feature a heavily-diluted, rotating reward pool consisting mainly of weapon parts, Focus lenses, and other equipment. [[SubvertedTrope However]], Nezha had a saving grace in that his parts are also tradeable, which was a first for non-Prime Warframes. When Update 19 locked Sorties away behind ''The War Within'' quest, Nezha's parts were moved to Clan Research, avoiding this trope.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Some players have taken to calling him a weaker Rhino, due to his lower armor, weaker and more expensive defensive ability, lack of a Roar equivalent, and much more finnicky crowd control that lacks Rhino's infamous ability to stun bosses. Given that his main strength (speedrunning) is relatively useless in end-game scenarios, as well as general non-solo gameplay, one can see why.

* BarrierWarrior: His ''Electric Shield'' blocks incoming fire and supercharges allied projectiles and bullets fired through it. This not only adds bonus Electrical and critical damage to attacks, but increases their range, velocity, and penetrating power as well; even throwing-knives will HitScan.

* ElementalBarrier: His ''Electric Shield'' can block enemy fire, and has the added bonus of electrifying his bullets when he fires through it.

* AirAidedAcrobatics: She's naturally lighter than other Warframes, allowing her to jump higher and giving her more airtime. In addition, ''Tail Wind'' allows her to propel herself into and through the air- the most potent travel skill of its cost.

* DeathFromAbove: As the "Hawk" frame, Zephyr's kit is designed to allow her to stay out of reach as long as possible while she provides air support for her allies.

* PowerFloats: As of Update 22.12, ''Tail Wind'' can be charged to put Zephyr into a hover mode.

* WindFromBeneathMyWings: ''Air Burst'' .

An avian-themed Warframe with wind powers set released in Update 12. She is noted for her high mobility, as well as her air-support potential.

* BlowYouAway

* DeathFromAbove: ''Dive Bomb'' can only be used while airborne, although its benefits aren't so much "death" as "radial knockdown". See GroundPound.
* DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud: ''Tornado'' allows her to trap enemies inside whirlwinds, which can be loaded up with elemental damage.
* EasterEgg: when modifying are warframe's appearance, there is a row of buttons in the top left labeled ''A'', ''B'', and ''C'', that let you save your outfits and swap between them, but Zephyr also has a fourth ''Z'' button that [[spoiler:let's you play as her in a game of FlappyBird]]. because why not?

* GroundPound: ''Dive Bomb'' does ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, releasing a shockwave that deals damage based on the drop distance.

* WindFromBeneathMyWings
** NotQuiteFlight: She has natural resistance to gravity while ''Tail Wind'' allows her to jump off the ground and propel herself in the air, but she cannot fly freely.

* ShoutOut: Her Diva [=TennoGen=] skin bears a remarkable resemblance to [[Music/Vocaloids Hatsune Miku]].

* MagicMissileStorm: Her ''Psychic Bolts'' ability looses a swarm of energy blades that attempt to home in on targets.

* [[AllMonksKnowKungFu All Clergy-Inspired Classes Know Tai Chi]]: Strangely, his Agile idle stances emphasize this; notable poses can be seen when he is unarmed or wielding dual pistols.

** ILoveNuclearPower: In reality, his abilities deal heavy Radiation damage (along with some physical damage), as there is no "light" or "holy" element.
*** GeniusBonus: Light, however, ''is'' a form of radiation; hence the word "radiate".

* WithCatlikeTread: Her Metronome ability gives multiple buffs depending on actions you perform in time with her music, one of these being invisibility, logically, the enemies should be able to hear your music, even when you're invisible, however it is no less effective.

* GuardianEntity: [[spoiler: For the Silver Grove, and Silvana. The Warframe Specters serve as such in her stead.]]

* MegaTwintails: Her Prime variant has a massive pair protruding out of her helmet.

* NotTheIntendedUse: Despite of the intended name, her ultimate ability allows her to traverse through sections of a fight without taking damage from enemies -- even those with an InstantDeathRadius -- giving Valkyr time to revive allies, hack consoles and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking jaywalk]] with abandon. Combined with its weapon penalty, many players have taken to using ''Hysteria'' as a shield when playing a supportive role, and then disabling it during actual combat engagements.

A Warframe inspired by Sun Wukong of ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' fame. Fights with trickster powers much like his namesake. Got an early release in the Chinese version before making his way over to the main build in 17.12.

* TheMusicMeister: ''Resonator'' is a [[ThePiedPiperOfHamelin Pied Piper]]-inspired ability that forces enemies to follow the source of the music as it rolls past.