History Characters / WormBrocktonBayGangs

* BigBadWannabe: After Lung's defeat, Kaiser seemed posed to become the primary threat of Brockton Bay's gangs. Not only is his influence severely curtailed by Coil exposing his identity, he's then [[spoiler:promptly slain by Leviathan and his empire fragments.]]

* AttentionWhore: Is constantly searching for attention from others, which is related to his power due to the fact that the moment he realizes that there's no one around to watch him [[spoiler:beat down Leviathan]] he starts turning back to normal.

* ArcVillain: He was the ''Primus Inter Pares'' of the BigBadEnsemble in Brockton Bay at the start of the story. He also becomes effectively the BigBad after the ABB is defeated. [[spoiler:This is short-lived however as he is promptly slain by Leviathan and his empire fragments.]]

An independent villain whose power grants her enhanced reflexes, ImprobableAimingSkills with her throwing weapons, minor [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinesis]], and a {{Hammerspace}} that she uses to store a variety of things -- including [[DropTheHammer a hammer]]. Actually in the employ of Coil.

* DropTheHammer: She fights quite well with a sledgehammer.

* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: In-universe, powers have ratings. 10 means "get the hell out of Dodge". Labyrinth is rated a ''12''.

* TooDumbToLive: Even if [[spoiler:Lung had not killed her]], she would not have lasted long [[spoiler:in the Birdcage.]] Even before this, her attempts to build a rep went too far, moving her from "just another criminal" to "target of every cape in the city" within a day of her premiere.

* SexSlavery: Amongst the ABB's many crimes are sex trafficking.

* DarkSecret: Shatterbird implies that he may have been the one who murdered Allfather. Notably, Hookwolf doesn't actually deny it and in fact gets rather angry at the accusation.

* HeartDrive: His 'real' body recedes into one of these whenever he changes forms.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Originally, Lung was just a member of a small-time street gang in Japan before triggering while [[spoiler:suffering a drug overdose while fighting Contessa.]]

* HalfBreedDiscrimination: He was subject to this during his original prison stay in China -- he's half Chinese and half Japanese, and neither the Chinese nor the Japanese gangs wanted a mixed-race man in their ranks.

* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:He's the only ABB cape to survive ''Worm''.]]

* MachineMonotone: Her gas mask records her voice and replaces it with this.

The leader of the ABB, born of a Chinese mother and Japanese father. Tall and muscular, with his torso covered with tattoos of dragons from Eastern mythology. He triggered after suffering a drug overdose during a battle with Contessa. His power grants him [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinesis]], a strong HealingFactor, and, as any given fight goes on, [[HulkingOut transforms him into a larger and larger form armored with more and denser scales]] and -- eventually -- wings. He wears an ornate metal mask.

Lung's latest recruit: a tinker specializing in bombs of all kinds. Apparently triggered while at Cornell and held the university ransom. She has straight black hair, Asian features, and pale blue eyes; while in costume, she wears large opaque goggles and a metal mask with a gas-mask filter over her mouth, and a braided cord of black, yellow, and green wires over her shoulders. She's noted to have a noticeable Boston accent when her mask's voice modulator is off.

* BlowYouAway: A very subtle version. Because of the Manton limit he can't directly effect people but he can imbue the air itself with kinetic force to create an effect of greater air resistance.
* MeaningfulName: German for "War," deliberately invocative of the blitzkrieg against London during WWII.

* AndIMustScream: During [[spoiler:the Leviathan fight]], he gets thrown into a blast from a Bakuda bomb and gets trapped in a bubble of glacially slow time. Normally that would mean he'd simply see the world outside moving at superspeed while he moved normally, but [[spoiler:the nature of his power ensures he's freed of the effect every few seconds only to be retrapped, essentially letting him perceive the world outside in real time even as his body remains immobile.]].

* HealingFactor: Of a sort. Every 4.3 seconds his body resets itself to a pristine condition, effectively undoing any harm he'd suffered. This also served to free him from emotion or mind altering effects, though only if they originated from powers.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: You don't rise to the top of a neo-Nazi gang by being a particularly avid anti-racist, and even when she's trying to be a hero, she only targets non-white gangs such as the ABB out of the belief that they're more inherently criminal. Notable however for how it doesn't dominate her personality apart from the occasional, rather despicable comment about other non-white ethnic groups and willingness to overlook her even more messed up comrades action.

A supervillain who can transform herself into a powerful, fast-moving, heavily armored monstrous form as long as no-one can see her. Married to Fog.

* CantMoveWhileBeingWatched: Night is a downplayed example. She's a normal human when watched, but heals instantly and turns into a super-strong monster when unseen. And she has lots of tricks for breaking line of sight, like gas bombs, throwing cloaks and the presence of her husband, Fog.

* JockDadNerdSon: Jack mentions that Kaiser used to be an athlete. Theo agrees and remembers how disappointed his father was when he couldn't follow into his footsteps.

* DarkSecret: Shatterbird implies that he may have been the one who murdered Allfather. Notably Hookwolf doesn't actually deny it and in fact gets rather angry at the accusation.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Wears a black-painted breastplate with a v-neck, a blood red shirt, and black slacks.

* TookALevelInBadass: After her captivity she comes back even more skilled, but more ruthless.

* HatedByAll: None of Coil's mercenary captains will have the guy on their squad and he's unemployable in the public sector due to his predications. What exactly those ''are'' is never outright stated, but there's not exactly a lot of things it could be to garner a reaction like that. The only person who knows and doesn't hate him is Coil, who likes him because he's A) useful, and B) desperate for something Coil can provide, which makes him a useful tool.

A potential hire for the Undersiders who was scared off by Bitch and signed up with Faultline, instead. Has the ability to spew geysers of liquid from her mouth that ignite on contact with air. Wears a red and black costume with a gasmask. Has dense freckles and curly brown hair underneath the costume.

--> Spitfire had often complained that having a power-based around creating flame meant you faced two kinds of opponents. There were the people who burned, who were the majority. Civilians fell into this category. Unless the person with the power was amoral, which Spitfire wasn’t, this actually wound up being a detriment, because of the easy possibility of life-altering injuries, death, and scars.

* CantHaveSexEver: Newter's bodily fluids are contacted hallucinogens, to the point that even trace sweat on his skin can render someone incoherent. As one reader points out, this poses certain difficulties in the bedroom. His giving hot girls a diluted taste of his saliva for hallucinogenic trips may be him compensating for this.

* NiceGuy: Somewhat dour, but extremely loyal, considerate and gentle to his teammates.

* FieryRedhead: Downplayed, she's a active parahuman in a profession that favors strong personalities, but she's far more amiable then the typical example.

* LuckySeven: Her number while in Cauldron custody was 777, and she has probability altering powers.

* WindsOfDestinyChange: Her telekinesis combined with her precognition allows her to minorly alter events around her, such as being able to land on ice without slipping or manages to shoot exactly the spot she needs to hit.

A shifter who can form an expanded body out of the loose debris.

* {{Gonk}}: Taylor describes him as looking more like a cartoon goblin than a human, with scrawny limbs, a pot-belly and shadowed eyes.

A man with massive mechanical arms and legs. He's a Case 53 whose mutation turned his body into a fleshy mass, but allowed him to use it as a powersource for the artificial body his power let him build. Actually working for Coil.

* {{Cyborg}}: How his power is mainly used, with his real body serving as a powersource for the mechanical parts he incorporated into himself.

* PortalCut: Tattletale's understanding of his power is that it works choosing spherical volumes and replacing their contects with stuff from an alternate Earth. [[spoiler:When applied to one of Labyrinth's constructions, it can be used to cut ''actual portals'' leading to alternate Earths -- Labyrinth can then adjust the destination.]]

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Automatically normalizes temperature close to her, preventing her from being harmed from any flame, including her suns. It doesn't actually extinguish the flame but prevents it from burning anything.

* SwissArmySuperpower: He is incredibly flexible and versatile with his bones, creating armor, shields, spikes and even wings.