History Characters / XComChimeraSquad

* BadassBeard: A prime example. Just look at his picture.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Jenny Yokobori

* AndCallHimGeorge: Played for drama. [[spoiler: The text records for Xel reveal that she actually killed at least two cats issued to try to help mutons to properly learn and express empathy, but that this wasn't malicious and it frustrated her that she couldn't "fix it" afterwards, convincing her that she and her people were fundamentally different from humans and could never fit into human society, while resenting the pressure to conform to human social and societal norms.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: She's ''not'' happy about it, but Xel will perform one to shut down the Starport Extractor and stop a UFO launch if Grey Phoenix are saved for last. She doesn't reveal it's a one-way walk until just before she does it.]]

-->'''Xel:''' [[spoiler: It won't matter once I enter the furnace. For me, this is a one-way trip.]]

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Yarvo is beaten at the end of their story arc, Xel [[spoiler: orders the other troops to stand down, realizing there can be no victory. She's very bitter about it though, averting GracefulLoser.]]
** [[spoiler: This is [[AvertedTrope averted]] if the player saves Grey Phoenix for last, as the remaining members of Grey Phoenix refuse Xel's order to stand down, forcing Chimera Squad into one more fight before the mission ends.]]

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: If Axiom is in your squad, he'll reveal that their names are "ship dialect" - aliases in Muton tongue. We never learn their true names.

* CrutchCharacter: If you recruit her early on and take Sacred Coil as your first investiation, then her ability to instantaneously drop their mechanized hordes of Androids, [=MECs=], and Turrets will probably carry you through huge chunks of their campaign... but once you take down Bellus Mar Patchwork's raw combat power will drop noticeably, turning her into more of a support unit. Even so, many players consider her support ability to be extremely powerful, so she remains viable till the end.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: She's ''not'' happy about it, but Xel will perform one to shut down the Starport Extractor and stop a UFO launch if Grey Phoenix are saved for last. She doesn't reveal it's a one way walk until just before she does it.]]

-->'''Xel:''' [[spoiler: It won't matter once I enter the furnace. For me, this is a one way trip.]]

* FantasticRacism: Acting as a {{foil}} to the Progeny, Sacred Coil is an anti-human organization of former ADVENT hybrids.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Other than maybe Whisper, Patchwork is the only member of Chimera Squad who was on the Avenger during XCOM 2, explicitly as one of the soldiers the Commander... commanded.

* MythologyGag: During his "Meet the Team" short, at one point he helps pull a human Resistance fight onto his feet, striking the same pose as some of the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_xcom_2_art_1_2.png ADVENT monuments]] seen in ''XCOM 2'', except unambiguously positive.

* {{Foil}}: To Zephyr, the other former ADVENT soldier. While Zephyr is a battle-hardened former Skirmisher, after rebelling against ADVENT, Cherub had yet to be deployed in the field when XCOM found him and has yet to be indoctrinated by ADVENT. Cherub is also a cloned hybrid, while Zephyr is a human who was turned into one. They are also both melee-oriented units: Cherub relies on shielding himself and his allies to empower his melee attacks, while Zephyr is pure offense.

* HappilyAdopted: Cherub is adopted by the two XCOM operatives who found him in his tube. They kept an eye on him as he was processed, and adopted him (Godmother signed the adoption papers as a witness). In fact, the two Operatives are in a relationship because they both found Cherub.

* IMeantToDoThat: one of his quotes on a missed shot is "That was a warining shot!"

--> '''Claymore:''' "Then let us return the favour."

* HappilyAdopted: Lost her family during the war and was taken in by a doctor until she was killed by ADVENT.

* TheAntiNihilist: She's convinced she's going to get killed in the line of duty in five years, tops, so she may as well do as much good as she can while she can.

* TheMole: He started feeding information to resistance groups when he could.

* MeaningfulName: Xel translates roughly into "Safe Journey", and Yarvo translates into something like "Newly Forged" - both [[spoiler: hint at them wanting to provide a safe journey home, and how they intend to do so by reforging and repairing old UFOs]].

* CantCatchUp: Androids are specifically intended to serves as emergency backup in case something goes wrong. They have a disproportionally large number of upgrades and components you can research to keep them somewhat useful, but even with the best upgrades installed they just can't rival decently leveled organic Chimera agents.

* TheGenericGuy: In comparison to the supremacist Progeny and the Sacred Coil [[TheRemnant Remnant]], Grey Phoenix [[HiddenDepths appears to be]] nothing more than a powerful street gang. In fact, the motive to investigate them is not to discover ''how'' they could have assassinated the mayor, but ''why'', because Gray Phoenix has no apparent political agenda.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Matthew Yang King

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Unlike virtually all other Chimera Squad members, she doesn't really have any gimmicks or special weapons. She has a shotgun and almost all her skills revolve around it, usually using it to blow away enemies or flushing them out of cover.

* FriendlyFireproof: As with the Vipers in ''XCOM 2'', Torque's allies can blow away any enemy she wraps herself around without any risk of hitting her as well. Well, [[TooDumbToLive as long they don't use explosives]], of course.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His ''Guard'' ability allows him to count as half cover for allies. This however also works for enemies, who will gladly run adjacent to him, shoot him point blank, and then use him as cover from the rest of the team.

* ShieldBash: His Charged Bash ability lets him strike enemies with his energy shield.

* MoreDakka: Sometimes, you just need to shoot many times to solve a hairy situation, Blueblood is happy to obliege.

* OneHitKill: His Smash has a chance of inflicting various status ailments upon enemies. One of them is "unconscious," which, for your purposes, is as good as "dead" except you've captured them. This can proc on almost anything organic.

* MarriedToTheJob: Subverted. When Cherub asks what she does to unwind, she says she has no idea what he's talking about - insistant pushing from him eventually gets her to reveal she likes to unwind by bluffing at cards, and she's constantly practicing against everyone.

* BringingInTheExpert: Her bio explains that she basically ran COIN ops against the resistance, something not that far from Chimera Squad's efforts to root out terrorists in City 31.

** Some base conversations suggest that Torque's bad attitude is either an act or lack of self-control rather than actual malice. One dialogue has Torque admit to Jane Kelly that she's "having a rough time" socializing with the others in Chimera Squad.

** Although as alluded to in the JerkWithAHeartOfGold entry, conversations hint that this attitude is an act that Torque is attempting to discard, if her genuine distress at having problems socializing is any clue.

* AnimalsHateHim: For some reason, any cat he comes across absolutely ''despises'' him. What makes this stand out is that he's the ''only'' Alien who causes such an extreme reaction from them.