History Characters / Warhammer40000Darktide

** Surprisingly enough, the Agitator can be capable of this. Unlike the KnightTemplar Fanatic, who revels in the cleansing of heretics and the corrupted alike, Agitators seek to ''[[RedemptionEqualsDeath redeem]]'' the lost through MercyKilling. However wicked and twisted an individual has become, the Agitator fully believes that they can be made pure once again in the eyes of the God-Emperor by relieving them of their wretched existence. Considering the setting, he's probably not wrong.

* BadBoss: According to Sefoni, House Brahms was never known for its appreciation of servitude, and the Shipmistress is not entirely different. That said, her preferrential treatment of Alice Hallowette (and to an extent, Oska Krall) implies that Brahms can be a BenevolentBoss to those she likes.

* MissionControl: He assumes this role alongside Hadron in one variant of the Warren 6-19 mission, being her technical consultant on the mechanisms of the ward they're operating in and the inner workings of the Moebian Sixth's plague factory.

* TheGhost: He's the one core member of the Inquisition who has the least screen time thus far, with his scant appearance being briefly during the introductory cutscene for the Armoury introduced in Update 13, and kicking in the door for Zola and Rannick in the Trust 14 cinematic.

* GodWasMyCoPilot: From the tidbits of infomation the Seer Psyker says comes from their "Beloved", it's heavily implied they are in fact in contact with the Emperor himself, or at least, one of his fragments.
* HandicappedBadass: Equipping the Arriestus Solemni cosmetic set gives the Psyker a pegleg. This doesn't hinder their ability to slaughter heretics in the least.
* HearingVoices: The Seer voice sets seems to believe that they're hearing the GodEmperor of Mankind himself talking to them, usually referred to as "(My) Beloved".

* FreudianExcuse: It's pretty obvious that the Loner's had a hard life even on top of the discrimination toward to psykers that they've had to be careful around to help explain the rampant misanthropy that they exhibit.

** The Loner, of all people, gets a few moments. The Bully Ogryn may occasionally commiserate with them about how much the world sucks. The Bully Ogryn misinterprets the Loner's surprise at agreeing with him as anger and apologizes, only for the Loner to brush it off and tell the Bully that it isn't his fault. While the Loner has absolutely no love lost for the Imperium, they aren't any more fond of the forces of Chaos, and the only empathy they ever show is for the victims who are caught in the middle of the fighting.

* DeathOfPersonality: He offers the delightfully-named Personality Scourge as a cooperative effort with Stefoni, allowing rejects to permanently erase their old personality and replace it with an entirely new one. This is effectively an in-universe excuse to allow players to change up their backstory, personality type, name, and appearance.

* TeamKiller: Their explosions will damage both ally and enemy alike. Notably, mission modifiers that spawn a huge group of Poxbursters can actually make them ''less'' effective than usual, as they tend to be packed up closely enough where killing a single one can trigger a domino effect that destroys the rest of them - and a few of their friends into the bargain. Originally, where their explosion was totally FriendlyFireproof. One of the Penances added in the Path of Redemtion update even tasks you to do this deliberately by shoving a detonating Poxburster into the enemy's face and letting them handle the cleanup.

* TeamKiller: Their explosions will damage both ally and enemy alike. Notable, mission modifiers that spawn a huge group of Poxbursters can actually make them ''less'' effective than usual, as they tend to be packed up closely enough where killing a single one can trigger a domino effect that destroys the rest of them. This was changed from originally, where their explosion was totally FriendlyFireproof.

* MythologyGag: Their Blight grenades are a nod to the weapons of the same name used by the traitorous Death Guard chapter, being made out of the severed heads of their enemies that are then filled up with noxious cocktails of toxins and viruses to be thrown at potential victims.

* ShellShockedVeteran: While all of the Veteran voicesets naturally have been somewhat affected by the brutality they've witnessed in their service, the Cutthroat Veteran is the one who shows it the most, expressing constant distrust toward his teammates along with a resigned anger toward his enemies as his response to his homeworld's destruction and their objective having failed after many millennia.

* DeathOfPersonality: Introduced in the Path of Redemption update is the delightfully-named Personality Scourge which, as its name suggests, allows the player to wipe clean their Reject's chosen name and personality, and have a new one beamed into their head, memories and everything. In technical terms, this effectively lets the player create a fresh character of the same class while retaining their current progression, with gender being the only thing left set in stone.

** Their Krak grenades have very generous target magnetism bordering on HomingBoulders-level when thrown near Unyielding enemies, or those with Flak or Carapace armor. It's not uncommon for a Veteran to completely whiff a Crusher or Bulwark with their throw, and the grenade will still plant itself squarely onto the target regardless.
* AntiArmor: Krak Grenades not only home in on armored enemies in close proximity and stick to them, but also deal increased damage against them. A single Krak Grenade can take out a Crusher even on higher difficulties.

* StickyBomb: Their Krak Grenades are magnetic and will stick to armored enemies before blowing up on them for huge damage. They also deal extra damage to armored foes, meaning that tagging a Crusher or Bulwark (even their shields) will one-shot them.

* FireBreathingWeapon: One of their class-exclusive weapons is the Artemia Mk III Purgation flamer, which lets them roast scores of heretics at the frontline with ease. Since fire damage bypasses armor, it's also surprisingly effective against more protected targets like Crushers or Maulers.

* GoodCounterpart: To the (non-plague) varieties of enemy Ogryn units. Each of the three paths on the Ogryn's skilltree largely correlates to one of the three enemies, the Skullbreaker path to the Crusher, the Bulgryn path to the Bulwark, and the Gun Lugger path to the Reaper, the latter two being extra noticable when equipped with the Slab Shield and Heavy Stubbers respectively.

** The Assail Blitz can practically obliterate the group faces everything short of the occasional boss in lower difficulties by itself, with minimal aim and scarce more peril management, but falls off... somewhat on higher difficulties, where the sheer number of enemies, combined with the greater presence of carapace-armored Maulers, bulky traitor Ogryns, and [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs bulky, carapace-armored Ogryn Crushers]] help dull their effectiveness and demand the Psyker player make use of more of their kit and work with their team if they are to prevail.

* EvilSoundsDeep: Gunners, Shotgunners, and a few others have noticeably lower, more gravelly voices than the common infantry. The Bulwark, Reaper, and Crusher in particularly sound noticeably deeper than their Inquisitorial counterparts.

!!Crusher

* AttackItsWeakPoint: Although slightly obscured by the model of their headgear, Crushers are actually unarmored around their necks, allowing the player to deal full damage when targeting this particular area.

* MightyGlacier: They are among the slowest of enemy units, but they make up for this by their massive heath pool, a truck's worth of Carapace armor that can NoSell most kinds of low-to-medium power attacks that aren't bolstered by Rending effects, and an extremely damaging overhead swing that can shave off at least half a health bar's worth of hitpoints in a single blow from full Toughness, if not downing a player altogether. Said overhead swing takes about three seconds to land, making it quite possible for nervous players to accidentally waste their dodges from trying to dodge a Crusher's overhead attack long before it lands.
* MythologyGag: Thanks to the Moebian Sixth taking cues from the Vraksian Traitor Militia. Crushers are armed with a massive improvised hammer similar to one of the [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/c/c1/Ogryn_Berserker_with_Post.jpg/ Vraksian Ogryn]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/e/e5/Ogryn_Berserker_with_Hammer.jpg/ Berserker]] models from Forgeworld.

* StealthyColossus: Despite being fully-armored giants that tower over any human, they are infamous for not really making a lot of noise that can easily be drowned out by the din of battle - players should ping one that's positioned behind their allies lest they unfortunately find they cannot dodge backwards from where they were facing just before a Crusher's overhead attack lands on them.
* TacticalRockPaperScissors: They're much more vulnerable to [[AntiArmor attacks that specifically deal more damage to heavier-armored enemies]]. A single Krak Grenade from the Veteran will OneHitKill a Crusher from full health on even the highest difficulty.

* MadeOfIron: While they lack the Crusher's carapace armor or the Bulwark's invincible shield, Reapers still have flak armor on their torso and outer limbs and the highest health of any regular enemy, having more than three times the hit points of most other elites[=/=]specials and almost twice that of a Mauler. On the default middle difficulty it takes two to three dozen assault rifle rounds to the torso to bring one down.

* FriendOrFoe: Mutants will happily knock over any enemy standing between them and their target, regardless of if it's a lowly Poxwalker or a mighty Crusher, which can sometimes be used to the player's advantage.

* NoSell: Their Determined passive gives them complete Suppression immunity.
* OnlySaneMan: Compared to [[TheFundamentalist their]] [[OurOgresAreHungrier erstwhile]] [[MadOracle squadmates]], even the Cut-throat and Loose Cannon veterans come off as paragons of sanity and maturity. Much of ''Darktide'''s comedy is derived from the personality clash between the Veteran and their more-unhinged companions.

* ReportingNames: The Veteran has a bunch of them for various threats; most are used by the Professional, but may rarely be heard from the Cutthroat too. Loose Cannons will usually bungle them and use the wrong number, or devolve into BuffySpeak.

* SituationalSword: Smoke Grenades are liable to completely put a stop to many ranged enemies' attempt to kill any rejects inside them and quite a good number of the Specialists as well - however, they do almost nothing against melee enemies, who also probably push the strike team out of the smoke when in great numbers as well.

* AchillesHeel: Snipers and Bombers are especially dangerous to the Ogryn due to the general lack of means to immediately deal with long-ranged threats. While they ''do'' have weapons that can hit distant enemies like Grenadier Gauntlets or Rumblers, they are often slow to fire and[=/=]or inaccurate. Not helping matters is that the Ogryn's cumbersome maneuverability and large hitbox mean that they are both slow to respond to such attacks, and more easily hit in turn compared to their teammates, which can be deadly when they're being swarmed by a horde at the same time.

!!Scab Trapper
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Maniacally-giggling evil minions armed with electric net guns, Trappers are Specialists that can quickly disable isolated teammates and leave them vulnerable.

* ItemCaddy: Patch 13 turned them into this with at least four different talent nodes that allow them to get maximum mileage out of every grenade pickup by being able to carry and throw more than would normally be possible, and even regenerate them passively over time. As the cherry on top, if the group has at least one Veteran with the Field Improvisation talent, every ammo crate placed down will refill grenades if applicable, and first aid kits will heal faster, on top of replenishing Toughness and ''cleansing Corruption'', regardless of who deployed them.

* GoodCounterpart: To the Traitor Captain. Like the Captains, Veterans still serve as leaders despite having been dishonorably discharged from the Astra Militarum. Both have a sizable pool of replenishing armor that must be burned through in order to damage their comparatively-squishy health, both direct their allies after nearby targets, and both have an ability that involves shouting loudly, knocking down nearby enemies, and replenishing their armor. To top it off, the Veteran and the Traitor Captain are the only characters - so far - able to wield top-level Astra Militarum gear like Power Swords and Bolter Pistols.

* {{Irony}}: Although Veterans of all stripes remark constantly about how much they hated Snipers upon killing one, their class as a whole was designed to be exactly that, even being named ''Sharpshooter'' for that matter.

** The Loner and the Bully Ogryn may occasionally commiserate about how much the world sucks. The Bully Ogryn misinterprets the Loner's surprise at agreeing with him as anger and apologizes, only for the Loner to brush it off and tell the Bully that it isn't his fault.

* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Crossing over into SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder, the Rejects might be {{Boxed Crook}}s but being a part of an Inquisitor's warband pretty much puts them a few levels above most Penal Legionnaires, conscripts, and even most Imperial Guardsmen. The available arsenal reflects this, such as lasguns and autoguns originating from many different forgeworlds to weapons reserved for seniors or high-ranking soldiers like power swords, thunder hammers, plasma guns and much more.

* MadeOfIron: The players can take attacks enough to kill most humans and still keep trucking. It's justified via their [[RegeneratingShieldStaticHealth Toughness]], which is the [[{{Determinator}} determination to press on through the pain]] that protects them.

* MauveShirt: A rare case where the Mauve Shirts are the '''protagonists'''. The most important figures in the fight for Atoma Prime are the crew of the ''Mourningstar''. Until they reach Trust Level 30 and are officially inducted into Grendyl's warband, the player-character is never treated as anything more than cannon fodder. Unusually resilient cannon fodder that actually has a fighting chance at survival, but cannon fodder nonetheless.

* ShovelStrike: Every class starts off with a shovel as their default melee weapon in the Prologue/Tutoriallevel after dropping into the sewage system of the ship. The Ogryn stands out by not only carrying a giant shovel but it turns out to be a ''latrine'' shovel at that. Beyond this point, shovels are exclusive to the Veteran and Ogryn, while the other two no longer have access to them.

* MerchantPrince: Being a Rogue Trader means Brahms is essentially royalty who commands a vast dynasty of untold wealth, and typically possesses enough autonomy to operate independently of the Imperium or its subsidiaries like the Inquisition. Such high esteem is one of several reasons why Sire Melk is so desperate to curry favors with her.