History Characters / WormWorldwideThreats

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Grue]] kills her by [[spoiler:bashing her head against a counter.]]

* TacticalWithdrawal: When sufficiently damaged they retreat from a fight, though "sufficiently damaged' rarely means they're damaged enough to be at risk of destruction. [[spoiler: A more important factor is whether enough time has passed and enough damage has been done to give Eidolon a sufficiently satisfying fight.]]

* TacticalWithdrawal: When sufficiently damaged they retreat from a fight, though "sufficiently damaged' rarely means they're damaged enough to be at risk of destruction.

* FullFrontalAssault: Siberian fights stark naked.
* GravityMaster: Can choose whether gravity can affect her or not.

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* KnifeNut: He specializes in knives, and his powers make them very handy since they get rid of the range issue.

* TeleportersAndTransporters: She can jump freely from point to point within any fire and between fires.

* TeleportersAndTransporters: Her location-possession power allows her to reform herself if destroyed using spots she's "infected" with her power, though it works best with materials above the ground.

* TeleportersAndTransporters: One of her powers lets her teleport to people she's touched, a power that works equally well with those she's wounded.

* TeleportersAndTransporters: Oni Lee's teleportation power carries over to Hack Job. It's not a perfect mesh though, as Bonesaw comments that it causes some wear and tear and his teleport doubles come apart in blood and ash where Oni Lee were just dust.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: His time dilation fields let in living material but don't let it out. Those trapped inside are left to die over what they perceive as days or weeks through starvation, dehydration, or possibly even age, while everyone else sees this happen over the course of seconds. Those who only get partially trapped by the field get a quicker but still agonizing death as the shearing time tears them apart.

* ScarsAreForever: Her cigarette-burn scars down her cheeks from which she takes her name.

* RazorWings: She's still and enbringer with Endbringer level density so every wing is essentuialy a blade, the isse though is that she doesn't need to use this thanks to the telekinesis.

* WingedHumanoid: Unlike Behemoth and Leviathan, she's the least "bestial" of the trio. PlayedForHorror as she's still a city ruining calamity in her own right and {{Exagerated}} in that she is '''absolutely covered''' in wings, that sprout from basically everywhere.

* WingShield: Uses her wings as these frequently, remember that this wings are so horrifically dense nothing sort of a DisintegratorRay have a chance of piercing them in one shot.

* WingedHumanoid: Unlike Behemoth and Leviathan, she's the least "bestial" of the trio. PlayedForHorror as she's still a city ruining calamity in her own right and {{Exagerated}} in that she is '''absolutly covered''' in wings, that sprut from basically eveywhere.

* WingedHumanoid: Unlike Behemoth and Leviathan, she's the least "bestial" of the trio.

* EnthrallingSiren: As it turns out, she hams this role up to the max with her theatrical swooping down, singing and general showing off. She could just as easily stealth it, if she wished. [[spoiler:She doesn't actually need to sing to do her thing; and leaving a duplicate-self to draw eyes and act as a decoy while she sneaks under the radar is in her repertoire.]]

* {{Cyborg}}: Became one after his StartOfDarkness.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: [[spoiler:Of The Joker. His preternatural competence and charisma is actually the result of a secondary power that subtly feeds him inside information about his opponents and allies so that he can better manipulate and plan around them; as a result, he's almost literally incapable of fatally losing a fight with a parahuman. Jack puts his unending success down to his own insight and intelligence, but it eventually becomes clear that he'd have been killed decades ago without his in-universe JokerImmunity. ]]

* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:She is actually a failsafe for the event that a cycle should a cycle fail to complete by way of an Entity dying, keeping the experiment going indefinitely and continuing to gather data and enhance Shards until such time that a new Entity arrives to complete the cycle or one arises from the Shards.]]

* IAmNotLeftHanded: [[spoiler:Her attacks on Zion in the endgame reveal that no one was ever actually safe from her - even being completely immune to her precognition and telekinesis was insufficient to prevent her from joining the fight or assisting in driving Zion to suicide. On top of that, her whole song-thing (however thematically appropriate for a "siren") seems also to have been a red-herring. Which means the safe time-limit it was thought to signal was probably also not actually valid. She's made of misdirection.]]:

* FemalesAreMoreInnocent: Played with as all the members of the Nine, at least as of their time in Brockton Bay, are unambiguously evil bastards. However, the women on the team tend to consider torture & mass-murder as a means to an end and/or initially received a kill order due to factors largely beyond their control. Cherish only joined the team because their notoriety would protect her from Heartbreaker; [[spoiler:Bonesaw was forcibly captured, [[MotiveDecay initially]] feared being killed if she didn't entertain Jack, and (even with the Nine) cared more about having the freedom to bio-tinker;]] Burnscar was taken in by the Nine after escaping the parahuman asylum and, by the time her [[SuperpoweredEvilSide power-based psychosis]] wore off, already had a case of KillOnSight; even Shatterbird was force-fed a [[SuperSerum Cauldron formula]], has been a fugitive since she nearly destroyed Dubai by accident, and remains with the Nine to [[FullyEmbracedFiend fully embrace her dangerousness]]. In contrast, most of the males in the group (Jack, Mannequin, [[spoiler:Siberian, and (later) Hookwolf]]) are motivated purely by AxCrazy sadism.

* HeroKiller: They've killed a lot of heroes over the years and into the present, with examples including [[spoiler:Mouse Protector and Battery]].

* KickTheDog: Into orbit, and pretty much constantly.

* KnifeNut: His powers make them very handy since they get rid of the range issue.

* {{Cyborg}}: Although her enhancements are all on the inside.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The Slaughterhouse Nine, a group of psychopathic killers, are viewed by Bonesaw as family. It's as disturbing as it sounds, and while most of the group are simply amused by Bonesaw's monsters, "Siberian's fondness for Bonesaw bordered on the maternal, like a mother bear for her cub."

* {{Flight}}: Whether she does so with her costume or via some other means is unclear.

* {{Pride}}: She needs to be seen as powerful by others. It's part of why Jack lets her announce their arrival in every city with an explosion of glass and computer chips despite considering it boring, as that one moment of showing off and the fear it gets her will keep her content and in line for weeks.

* CombatSadomasochist: As previously mentioned, he throws himself into suicidal situations so that his AdaptiveAbility can heal him. Nothing pleases him more than being given a chance to get hurt, to the point that he secretly wishes that Siberan would try to seriously hurt him.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: The fact that before triggering he was just a 5'5" man seems to suggest this.

* WasOnceAMan: Crawler no longer even looks human due to all the adaptations he's had. Part of this is that he not only evolves to be more able to resist what hurt him, but to avoid being hurt in the first place. Extra limbs keep him from being knocked down, extra eyes and a sense of smell help him know when a threat's incoming, weapons help him take out foes before they can hurt him, and so on.

* LightningBruiser: To everyone without heavy-hitting power, he combines deadly precise attacks with incredible speed and a highly durable body.

* SlashedThroat: His favorite means of killing.

* TrappedInVillainy: Feels that she'll either get killed by the heroes due to the kill order, or killed by the Nine if she tries to leave.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Gray Boy's power prevents him from aging.

* {{Kaiju}}: Serve the purpose of the massive monstrous superbeings to fight in ''Worm''. Notably, aside from [[spoiler:Tohu]], they're all quite a bit smaller than most depictions of Kaiju.

* [[Characters/WormSkitter Taylor Hebert / Skitter]]

* GlassShatteringSound: Her power, with some added [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]].

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:The last time we have any indication of her existence is during Echidna's attack when Regent looses contact with her and she sets off a silicon explosion, with nothing abut her survival or death afterward. This didn't used to be the case, as there was a chapter that covered her death, but that chapter has since been made non-canon with nothing to completely replace it.]]

* GodzillaThreshold: When an Endbringer shows up, all heroes and villains in the area will suspend their disputes and join forces to drive it off. Breaking the Endbreaker Truce is ''very'' serious business, as it could mean some capes won't respond to the next attack for fear of it happening again, which could lead to massive loss of life.

* NotSoDifferent: Doctor Mother could basically be described as how Taylor would act on a world-wide scale, except that Taylor never completely sheds her sense of morals.

* NotSoDifferent: At the end of the series, she notes that she and Taylor weren't so different in how they chose to solve problems.

* EnfanteTerrible: [[WordOfGod Wildbow]] describes them as "unpredictable" children who naïvely view their rampages as some kind of game, and thus do not exhibit their true potential [[spoiler: until they turn against Scion]].

* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler: She is actually a failsafe for the event that a cycle should a cycle fail to complete by way of an Entity dying, keeping the experiment going indefinitely and continuing to gather data and enhance Shards until such time that a new Entity arrives to complete the cycle or one arises from the Shards.]]

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: [[spoiler: Of The Joker. His peternatural competence and charisma is actually the result of a secondary power that subtly feeds him inside information about his opponents and allies so that he can better manipulate and plan around them; as a result, he's almost literally incapable of fatally losing a fight with a parahuman. Jack puts his unending sucess down to his own insight and intelligence, but it eventually becomes clear that he'd have been killed decades ago without his in-universe JokerImmunity. ]]

* HumanoidAbomination: Brian indirectly describes her (by talking about [[spoiler: the duplicate of himself he created by copying Manton's powers]]) as a "hole in reality" [[spoiler: shaped by the thoughts of the person currently using Manton's power]].

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* NiceGuy: Subverted, he's anything but.

* ShootTheHostage: Being willing to do this is one way of getting around his power.

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* TeleportersAndTransporters: Her location-possession power, though it works best with materials above the ground.

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* BodyHorror: Again, a Frankenstein creation made from two capes that were both left with enough brain activity for their passengers' to consider them alive. She has two and a half brains crammed into her head, a face surgically altered to look like a rat's, a second row of teeth crammed into her gums, fingers, and toes replaced by blades, and so thoroughly twisted with viruses and transplants that even Panacea couldn't tell where MP ended and Ravager began.

* EliteMooks: Apparently the 9 put her through their initiation tests and she actually passed, which results in her being the only one of Bonesaw's creations that she liked enough to [[spoiler:make clones of alongside the other members]].

->"''My'' interest is in the design of people. What makes them tick? What holds them together? All too often, it's one little thing. In architecture they call it a keystone. The one stone that keeps the entire arch from collapsing. The weak point. And I'm very, ''very'' good at finding those weak points."

A telekinetic of silicon, controlling the glass through high-frequency sounds and one of the most successful members of the team at identifying new candidates for membership. She was born in the Arab Emirates and dosed with a Cauldron formula, prompting the manifestation of her powers and the deaths of thousands. Eventually made her way to London, then America, joining the Slaughterhouse Nine. Captured by Regent, and abandoned by the surviving members of the Slaughterhouse Nine when they left the city.

* LaserGuidedKarma: The whole reason she kills people is because she wants to be perceived as powerful. [[spoiler:She ends up a powerless puppet under Regent's control, and he humiliates her in petty ways to keep her emotionally drained so she can't break free if she gets too far away]].

->"Crawler was one of the two group members who had yet to rejoin the group. He was engaged with a young man with a glow that suffused his hair and emanated from his eyes and mouth. White flashes appeared with little accuracy and devastating effect, carving spherical chunks out of the brute. This only encouraged the monster, and Crawler eagerly paced closer, his wounds closing together with a startling rapidity. So few things could hurt Crawler these days that Jack rarely got to see the regeneration in full effect. Crawler's healing powers appeared to play out in fast-forward when compared to even the regenerators who could heal wounds in seconds. Hundreds of pounds of flesh were replaced in one or two heartbeats."

* BoomHeadshot: Simply shooting him in the head won't work, but his brain is still vulnerable. Not ''much'' considering you'd have to get past his armor and skull first, not to mention it won't actually kill him, but in the few seconds it takes him to regenerate his brain he's out of action. Of course, since we see this it's very likely he's evolved past this weakness by the time he recovers.

* NighInvulnerable: By the time the story starts, he's so nearly invincible that even [[spoiler:[[PortalCut Scrub's blasts]]]] barely slow him. Apparently by the time of the story, he can tank a nuke and walk away unharmed. In fact, he's killed not through brute force but [[spoiler:transmuting him into a nonliving substance, namely glass]]. Though later on, [[spoiler:the Crawler clones are too new and haven't adapted enough to be as dangerous as the original, making them easier to kill if enough firepower is used on them]].

* ArchEnemy: To Skitter, first because she is trying to help people in her territory, but afterwards because she kicked his ass.

* LightningBruiser: To everyone without a heavy hitting power, he combines deadly precise attacks with incredible speed and a highly durable body.

A former member of the Slaughterhouse Nine, a tall, pear-shaped, fat clown with super speed powers with a twist. He has super speed in the head and legs, and super strength in the chest and arms. Unfortunately, his powers had the nasty side effect of causing him to perceive the world in perpetual slow motion, leaving him unable to communicate. He has only managed to teach himself to make a sound that is similar to laughter, hence the name. This eventually caused him to lose his mind. His post-modification self also has arms that zigzag, consisting of more elbow than arm, that trail behind him like ribbons.

* MonsterClown: His makeup is actually made up of tattooed on scars.

* SuperSpeed: His main power, focused in his head and feet.

A relatively harmless villainess who makes her home in a small town, occasionally trying to extend her influence into the larger, neighbouring cities only to fail and return to lick her wounds. Damsel has space-warping powers, capable of destroying any matter or construction, albeit with a minimum of control. She was recruited by the Slaughterhouse Nine to increase their numbers after the events of Brockton Bay, only to be killed by Defiant as he pursued them.

* BodyHorror: Again, a Frankenstein creation made from two capes that were both left with enough brain activity for their passengers' to consider them alive. She has two and half brains crammed into her head, a face surgically altered to look like a rat's, a second row of teeth crammed into her gums, fingers and toes replaced by blades, and so thoroughly twisted with viruses and transplants that even Panacea couldn't tell where MP ended and Ravager began.

* ExplosiveLeash: Bonesaw rigged a control frame into her skeleton and nervous system, with a mechanism of needles around her heart rigged to kill her if the system was ever disabled.

* AtomicHate: Behemoth has power over nuclear energy, which is shown during [[spoiler:its assault on New Delhi]].