History Characters / WormBrocktonBayGangs

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He and Leet are this InUniverse, with Taylor noting that their nature as pathetic underdogs makes one almost sympathize with them, until they do something horrible and you remember why they are villains.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Did this with his underlings through having them disappear.

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* BladeOnAStick: Menja's trademark weapon is a spear.

* MagGuffinSuperPerson: Coil wants her for her powers allowing him to predict future outcomes, and for most of the story her role does not revolve around anything she does but the fact Coil needs her powers and Taylor is determined to free her.

* FieryRedhead: Genesis is a redhead with attitude, albiet she's more of the snarky variety.
* GreenLanternRing: Her power is one of the most flexible in the Wormverse, and Skitter is repeatedly in awe of just how powerful she could be if she set her mind to it. [[spoiler:On a technical level, she and [[TheJuggernaut The Siberian]] share ''the same power'', meaning Jess could potentially damage [[EldritchAbomination Scion]] if she so desired.]]

* TheChick: The Travelers may not be a traditional team of five, but Sundancer definitely fits this in terms of personality and appearance.

* KillEmAll: Purity, Night, Fog, and Crusader all get taken down by [[spoiler:Grey Boy.]]

* UncannyValley: As noted by Skitter in-universe, her clones always come out with something just plain ''wrong'' about them physically

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Killed by Jack Slash after proving inadequate as a new member of the Slaughterhouse 9.]]

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Lung kills her just a few minutes after they're both thrown into the Birdcage for insulting him during their attempted escape and because he needs to kill someone to show he isn't to be messed with.]]

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Killed by Leviathan during the attack on Brockton Bay.]]

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Killed fighting Scion in Speck 30.5.]]

* CharacterDeath: Gets killed by [[spoiler:Shatterbird.]]

* NiceHat: Is always wearing a red top hat.

* WolverineWannabe: Downplayed, but the combination of his canid-motif, {{Berserker}} combat style, borderline feral personality, and (while in breaker form) ability to [[HealingFactor promptly heal]] from serious damage -- up to and including being ripped in half -- makes him pretty reminiscent of what Main/{{Wolverine}} would be if he were an evil scumbag.

* OneManArmy: It takes two Undersiders (Taylor and Rachel), Labyrinth, Newter and a group of Coil's mercenaries who also happen to be snipers to drive him off. And this is with Labyrinth blocking his line of sight teleportation and tripping up his footing by summoning walls and ledges that only he is affected by.

* UnstoppableRage: His defining viewpoint once [[spoiler:he sees Accord again is a desire to get even. This has disastrous consequences for the fight against Behemoth, as both Tattletale and Chevalier are in the room with them when Chevalier attacks and are seriously injured as collateral. Tattletale, for instance, needs to breathe out from a tracheotomy for the rest of the battle.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Disappears after [[spoiler:murdering Accord and seriously wounding Chevalier.]]

* ChronicVillainy: Tried to break away from the Empire and act as a rogue hero but found her solo efforts weren't enough. She ended up rejoining the Empire with hopes of reforming it to be more civic-minded about its neo-Nazi minority-bashing.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: You don't rise to the top of a neo-Nazi gang by being a particularly avid anti-racist. Notable however for how it doesn't dominate her personality apart from the occasional, rather despicable comment about other non-white ethnic groups.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: She uses sunlight and other light sources to power up, so she's more powerful on sunny days and when she hasn't used her power much. [[spoiler:Jack Slash exploits this by making sure that when he pays a visit to her apartment to murder Aster and Theo in front of her, it's on an overcast day when she's gone for some time without charging, so she's at her weakest.]]

* {{Intangibility}}: The primary power of his ghost replicas.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: His bravery when faced with Jack Slash convinces him to spare Theo's life for the time being just so he could see if Theo could kill him.

* MasterRace: A central tenet of Chosen ideology.

* TheRemnant: Of Empire Eighty-Eight.

Twins, blondes, built like Playboy models, both of their powers allow them to enlarge their physical forms (including their armor/weapons) to as large as three stories tall. Fenja fights with sword and shield while Menja fights using a spear. Both wear Valkyrie-style armor (covered with metal feathers) with closed helms.

* AmazonianBeauty: Are repeatedly referred to as drop-dead gorgeous in their normal forms, meaning this trope is likely in play as they grow.

* BodyguardBabes: Often appear this was with Kaiser.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Menja inherited it from her sister.

* SuperStrength: The second effect of growing larger is hitting harder.

* RazorWind: His primary weapon.

A woman with the ability to [[SuperEmpowering grant any one of several temporary superpowers]] to the people she touches. Among the powers, she is known to be able to grant are pyrokinesis, invincibility, regeneration, and super-speed. She is married to Victor.

* BattleCouple: With Victor.

* HealingFactor: Can heal people.

* BattleCouple: With Othala.

* BadassNormal: Coil's mercenaries mostly fall in this category.

[[folder:Coil]]

A supervillain with seemingly destiny-controlling powers: he has the ability to mentally create two simulations of the future, which differ from each other based only on the actions Coil takes, and then choose which of the two to carry out. The simulations are so convincing that he thinks he has the ability to split the world into two timelines and then collapse whichever one he likes less afterward. Skeletally thin. His costume is a skintight black bodysuit with a white snake curling around it, its head on his forehead and its tail at one ankle. Works largely behind the scenes, hiring mercenaries to do his fighting. He is also secretly the backer of the Undersiders and the Travelers. From the beginning of the story, he is [[TakeOverTheCity plotting to take over Brockton Bay]]. It later is revealed that he bought his powers from Cauldron and that he was a key figure in one of their plots. Killed by Skitter in the course of her plot to free Dinah.

* BoomHeadshot: How he died, a bullet to the brain courtesy of Skitter.

* TookALevelInBadass: After her captivity.

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.

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Lung kills her just a few minutes after they're both thrown into the Birdcage.]]

* PretendPrejudice: WordOfGod confirmed that he didn't really believe a single word of the neo-nazi creed but pretends he does so that he will have followers.

The leader of the organization. An ex-partner (both romantically and professionally) of Kaiser. Her powers create what [[AllThereInTheManual the cast page]] describes as "[[HardLight kinetically charged light]]" that she can use to fly and as beams to attack. When her power is not active, she is a mousy woman with brown hair and eyes, but when they're active [[PowerGlows her hair, eyes, and costume all radiate light]].

* {{Flight}}: Can fly.

* HardLight: Her main power.

* MoralMyopia: According to Tattletale, Purity somehow thinks of herself as an "upstanding" person despite leading a group of white-supremacist supervillains, and having ordered her followers to kill a cameraman just to make a point.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: You don't rise to the top of a neo-Nazi gang by being a particularly avid anti-racist. Notable however for how it doesn't dominate her personality apart from the occasional, rather despicable comment about other ethnic groups.

* LargeAndInCharge: Lung is well over six feet tall even before he transforms.

A former member of the Travelers with the ability to rewind people to their state as of a few seconds earlier. Given to Accord. By Drone, has been sold to the Yàngbǎn, who used his powers en masse during the fight against Behemoth in New Delhi.

* {{Brainwashed}}: His fate at the hands of [[spoiler:the Yàngbǎn.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: ''Twice'', [[spoiler:once by the Yàngbǎn and once by [[OhCrap the Simurgh.]]]]
* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler:Tried killing Noelle once so that Trickster couldn't have her.]]

* TimeMaster: Can cause anyone he sees to be reversed to their state and location as of a few seconds earlier. He abuses this in order to beat up Krouse without issue when he first gets his power, with Krouse not knowing until Cody tells him to.
* UnstoppableRage: His defining viewpoint once [[spoiler:he sees Accord again. With disastrous consequences for the fight against Behemoth, as both Tattletale and Chevalier were in the room with them. Tattletale, for instance, needed to breathe out of a tracheotomy for the rest of the battle.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:The [[TheChessmaster Simurgh]] increased his aggression towards Krouse, culminating in his attempted [[IfICantHaveYou murder of Noelle]]. His failed attempt caused problems between the Travelers and Accord, resulting in him being handed over to the latter as recompense. Accord then sold him off to the Yàngbǎn, which put him in place to encounter Accord again years later. His anger over the aforementioned event led him to seek revenge, killing Accord, severely wounding Chevalier, and rendering Tattletale mute. Unfortunately, the context means he just took out the MissionControl and a key part of the offensive in a battle against [[HeroKiller Behemoth]]. Just as planned.]]

* MentalTimeTravel: Subverted and Inverted, his power is basically SaveScumming, where he makes mental models of two possible futures then chooses one which his body will essentially autopilot through based on the choices already made to that point.

* RetroactivePreparation: Inverted in that he makes alternate presents to see if his preparations were good enough. if not he can just discard the timeline and try again later. He'll remember all the information he got in those scinarios.

* SmartPeopleKnowLatin: Averted. Cherish is able to sneak a message past him by speaking Latin, and then promptly mocks him for spoiling his WickedCultured image by not understanding it.
* SplitTimelinesPlot: [[spoiler:His power splits his consciousness between two parallel timelines in which he can take different actions, then choose which one to remain in once it deactivates.]]
* TakeOverTheCity: Coil's ultimate goal. He admits it's a cliche, but goes for it anyway. [[spoiler:WordOfGod admits that he had a much longer-term plan than that meant to expand out to other cities in time but he got nipped in the bud before that could happen.]]

* ColdSniper: As to be expected from a sniper who's one of Coil's soldiers.

* HiredGuns: One of their main jobs.
* InformationBroker: Their other main job.
* SupervillainLair: They have a nightspot, the Palanquin, in Brockton Bay which acts like this.

* TrueCompanions: Much like the Undersiders.

* LizardFolk: Has the look of one, in any case.
* PrehensileTail: The secondary combat application of his biology.

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Jack Slash]] slices him to bits.

* PortalCut: Tattletale's understanding of his power. [[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.]]

* SoleSurvivor: Of the Merchants following the Slaughterhouse Nine massacring the rest.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Trickster looks like he could be a darker-skinned Caucasian, biracial, Middle Eastern, or Eastern Indian unmasked according to Taylor, but his ethnicity goes unmentioned.

* OnlySaneMan: States to Trickster outright that he's convinced that he only cares about Noelle and would throw everyone else under the bus if necessary. [[spoiler:He turns out to be quite right, as Trickster does end up throwing everyone under the bus to help Echidna.]]

* DeathOfPersonality: By the end of her rampage all traces of Noelle are gone. There's just Echidna.

* TakeOverTheCity: Coil's ultimate goal. He admits it's a cliche, but goes for it anyway.

* KnifeNut: He carries quite a few knives in his arsenal. He can throw them well enough to punch through Skitter's mask lens from several feet away.

* KnifeNut: He carries quite a few knives in his arsenal.

A supervillain with seemingly destiny-controlling powers: he has the ability to mentally create two perfectly accurate simulations of the future, which differ from each other based only on the actions Coil takes, and then choose which of the two to carry out. The simulations are so convincing that he thinks he has the ability to split the world into two timelines and then collapse whichever one he likes less afterward. Skeletally thin. His costume is a skintight black bodysuit with a white snake curling around it, its head on his forehead and its tail at one ankle. Works largely behind the scenes, hiring mercenaries to do his fighting. He is also secretly the backer of the Undersiders and the Travelers. From the beginning of the story, he is [[TakeOverTheCity plotting to take over Brockton Bay]]. It later is revealed that he bought his powers from Cauldron and that he was a key figure in one of their plots. Killed by Skitter in the course of her plot to free Dinah.

* BornLucky: Her main power looks like this but it isn't really that abstract, see below.

* RelationshipUpgrade: See [[spoiler:Gregor.]]

* BornLucky: Her main power.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Averted, Shamrock escaped Cauldron without a memory wipe.

* TheChick: The Travelers may not be a traditional FiveManBand, but Sundancer definitely fits this in terms of personality and appearance.