History Characters / XCOM2

* OutOfFocus: They are not as fleshed out as the other two Resistance Factions, being left out of the scripted introductory mission. What little is known comes from idle dialogue and the in-game archive files.

* MoreDakka: They can shoot twice a turn. This can get ''very'' painful, given their accuracy, height advantage and infinite ammunition.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: ADVENT officers have more health, do more damage, and are more accurate than line soldiers, and have a variety of support abilities as well.

* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: Whereas their subordinates wear exclusively black, white or orange[[note]] the latter only with ''War of the Chosen'' installed[[/note]], Officers are easily recognizable by their bright red armor. They also have an exceedingly rare Commander version that only appears during "Neutralize Field Commander" missions; those guys are [[GoldColoredSuperiority clad in green and gold]] instead. They are referred to by Central as ADVENT Generals, and they have all the abilities of the other Officer variants, as well as a guaranteed spawn of at least Advanced Troopers.

* HollywoodAcid: The internal coolant of the Battlesuit is corrosive to organics. Andromedons can opt to shoot this coolant as a projectile, complete with literal SplashDamage.

** This Applies In-universe as well, in the original game, only few people could become Psi operatives but they were powerful enough that all the fancy abilities you learned they could do on their own, however with being a resistence unit, means the tech that allowed natural psi operatives is no longer available, they had to find a quick way to mass produce them, and that meant they needed a special device to use psi abilities, meaning mass produced psi operatives are much less canonically powerful than the previous cames psi-ops.

** The Informant is usually quite talkative in his mission debriefings, and the better you did, the more praise he heaps on you. However, if you fail a mission, he greets you with nothing but disappointed silence that can hurt more than the defeat itself.

* NoExperiencePointsForTheMedic: Averted in a way. The Specialist requires the ''least'' amount of kills to get a promotion, and can still get experience from teammates and support contributions.

Stun Lancers are specialised troopers, originally deployed during the early stages of ADVENT's occupation to quell civil unrest with their non-lethal stun batons. Tygan and Central note that Stun Lancers are an odd case in the ADVENT program's history, where the early units were actually better than the ones fielded later, as if the aliens had lowered the level of genetic invasiveness for some reason. [[spoiler: Probably because the aliens were saving the best genetic materials for their own use.]]

* SnakesAreSexy: They might be serpentine PettingZooPeople, but many fans became appreciative of their looks.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse A snake person (or "snerson" controlling the government at the highest levels]].]]

* ColdSniper: Reapers have a distinctly colder personality compared to the more generic Sharpshooter units.

* MoreDakka: Unexpectedly for a stealth class with a not-exactly-rapid-fire weapon, they can pull this off. When a Reaper uses Banish, they fire everything they have into a target until either it's dead or their rifle goes click, invariably revealing them. With a superior expanded magazine, they can fire a full seven shots into a target, which at high weapon tiers is enough to kill anything short of a boss. With the Annihilate Colonel-rank skill, they'll even continue firing at nearby targets after the first is dead, and that goes until the Reaper's out of ammo or there are no living hostile within their sight range. With a Repeater of any quality, the Reaper can rack up an absurd amount of kills.
* ReducedToRatburgers: With the Elders presumably slaughtering all domestic Earth animals, they probably found chrysalids a lot more plentiful a food source than cows.
* RockBeatsLaser: They're explicitly mentioned as rejecting all the advances that came from ADVENT, using old-school sniper rifles. Considering those advances came at the cost of a planetary occupation, morally it makes sense. That said, your Reapers will happily use magnetic or beam versions of their rifles if you give it to them.

* StealthExpert: Reapers rely almost entirely on their Shadow concealment to be effective in combat. They gain a large boost to movement range while hidden, can only be detected by enemies directly adjacent to them if they haven't taken a shot with a chance of detection, and they have a chance to stay undetected even after taking two standard shots[[note]]the first shot has a 50% reveal chance, the second is 80%, and on the third the Reaper will be revealed no matter what[[/note]]. Rank-related skills amplify that: at Lieutenant, Silent Killer makes a killshot not increase the detection chance (if it's the first shot, it's a guaranteed non-reveal); at the same rank, Distraction makes it so that an exploding Claymore puts the revealed Reaper back into Shadow; At Captain, they can take a single standard shot with no reveal chance with Sting. Their Guerrilla Tactics School bonus ability makes them invisible to sensor towers as well.

** They carry a Claymore (a bomb without a fuse) that they can throw and shoot in the same turn without revealing themselves. At later ranks, the Claymore [[WhyAmITicking can attach to an enemy]] and will explode when it takes damage.
** Remote Start, a Squaddie skill, allows them to blow up explosive objects like fuel barrels, munitions or [[EveryCarIsAPinto cars]], with twice their normal power and radius from far away without revealing themselves, giving them some nice (albeit situational) crowd control capabilities.

* TooAwesomeToUse: Reapers are among the best marksmen in the game, but every shot of their fairly weak sniper rifles runs the risk of breaking the Reaper out of Shadow concealment, the state in which they're most useful. Less pronounced once the Reaper learns skills to attack without leaving Shadow, but until you get there, every enemy encounter is a SadisticChoice between dealing some damage or staying in Shadow for eventual scouting duties later on in the mission.

* BadassBoast: She has some of the best lines in the whole game, usually after she kills an enemy.
--> '''Outrider''': Tell your gods I'm coming for them.

* GunNut: According to her comments when she's told to reload, she hand-loads her cartridges herself, which requires both intimate knowledge of her rifle and considerable dedication to it.

* StillWearingTheOldColors: Their outfits, which come with the DLC as a customization option for kevlar armor, are tattered versions of the default kevlar armor in ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown''.

* UnblockableAttack: The tongue grab deals no damage, so it can bypass a Templar's [[DefenseCommand Parry]].

* TheGunslinger: Exactly the name of one of their skill trees. It's the only skill tree that can attack a single target ''five'' times in one turn (Lightning Hands, QuickDraw, and Fan Fire), and it also fits into all four categories: the Trick Shot for [[CaptainObvious obvious reasons]], The Vaporizer due to [[MoreDakka Fan Fire]], The Woo due to the incredible marksmanship with pistols, and the QuickDraw after the eponymous skill.

* ThereWasADoor: They tend to crash through obstacles they can't simply step over. As with Andromedons and Gatekeepers, they're not averse to [[NiceJobFixingItVillain wrecking buildings they're meant to protect by walking through them and sending their own units plummeting down by breaking the floor under them]]. They can even cause missions to fail for XCOM because they destroyed something they had to protect. By accident.

* ThereWasADoor: They tend to crash through obstacles they can't simply step over. As with Andromedons and Gatekeepers, they're not averse to [[NiceJobFixingItVillain wrecking buildings they're meant to protect by walking through them and sending their own units plummeting down by breaking the floor under them]].

* BeLikeWater: Her "Bending Reed" ability kicks in whenever she performs a melee attack, letting her run away and hide again.

* ColdSniper: Reapers have a distinctly colder personality compared to the more generic Sharpshhoter units.

* FogOfWar: Defied