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* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Dire. Like all the time.
--> "FOOLS! THAT WAS THE DECOY CONSOLE!"
--> "FOOLS! THAT WAS THE DECOY CONSOLE!"
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* AntiVillain: Dire, through sheer force of AffablyEvil. It's quite clear the woman holds herself to her own VisionaryVillain standards.
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* AntiVillain: Dire, through sheer force of AffablyEvil. It's quite clear the woman holds herself to her own VisionaryVillain standards. Further reading shows that she would be TheCape if it wasn't for the fact she tends to be rather brutal with her views of the future.
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* WhamEpisode: 6.2. Dire meets Coil and [[spoiler:Dinah seems to think that she'll be the cause of the apocalypse.]]
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* WhamEpisode: 6.2. Dire meets Coil and [[spoiler:Dinah seems to think that she'll be the cause of the apocalypse.]]]]
* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Dire's home dimension seems to be like this. When the MadeOfHam AntiVillain is disgusted by the BlackAndGreyMorality world this is in effect.
* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Dire's home dimension seems to be like this. When the MadeOfHam AntiVillain is disgusted by the BlackAndGreyMorality world this is in effect.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Dire may call herself a villain but Gray Boy's time-looping tortures disgust her and she openly calls out [[spoiler:New Wave for their treatment of Panacea]].
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* DisneyVillainDeath: In 6.2 Dire briefly considers throwing Coil to his health. Apparently there was a discarded timeline where she did do so.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Dire may call herself a villain but Gray Boy's time-looping tortures disgusther her, as does Coil's "use" of Dinah, and she openly calls out [[spoiler:New Wave for their treatment of Panacea]].
* EveryoneHasStandards: Dire may call herself a villain but Gray Boy's time-looping tortures disgust
* MindScrew: The results of Coil's power in action from Dire's perspective are... weird.
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* VisionaryVillain: Another of Dire's similarities to DOOM.
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* VisionaryVillain: Another of Dire's similarities to DOOM.DOOM.
* WhamEpisode: 6.2. Dire meets Coil and [[spoiler:Dinah seems to think that she'll be the cause of the apocalypse.]]
* WhamEpisode: 6.2. Dire meets Coil and [[spoiler:Dinah seems to think that she'll be the cause of the apocalypse.]]
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* HadToBeSharp: The reason Dire is so {{badass}} is because her home reality is filled with opposition that regularly matches if not exceeds Earth Bet's worst. For example, just one of her original foes' powers more-or-less is, to paraphrase a reader (and later acknowledged InUniverse), an unholy combination of two already potent Wormverse powers[[labelnote:as in]]Coil's and Dinah's[[/labelnote]] taken UpToEleven.
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* HadToBeSharp: The reason Dire is so {{badass}} is because her home reality is filled with opposition that regularly matches if not exceeds Earth Bet's worst. For example, just one of her original foes' powers more-or-less is, to paraphrase a reader (and ([[SureWhyNot and later acknowledged acknowledged]] InUniverse), an unholy combination of two already potent Wormverse powers[[labelnote:as in]]Coil's and Dinah's[[/labelnote]] taken UpToEleven.
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* HadToBeSharp: The reason Dire is so {{badass}} is because her home reality is filled with opposition that regularly matches if not exceeds Earth Bet's worst. For example, just one of her original foes' powers more-or-less is, to paraphrase a reader, an unholy combination of two already potent Wormverse powers[[labelnote:as in]]Coil's and Dinah's[[/labelnote]] taken UpToEleven.
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* HadToBeSharp: The reason Dire is so {{badass}} is because her home reality is filled with opposition that regularly matches if not exceeds Earth Bet's worst. For example, just one of her original foes' powers more-or-less is, to paraphrase a reader, reader (and later acknowledged InUniverse), an unholy combination of two already potent Wormverse powers[[labelnote:as in]]Coil's and Dinah's[[/labelnote]] taken UpToEleven.
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* BadassCape: Dire has a blood-red one attached to her armour.
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* BadassCape: Dire has a blood-red one attached to her armour.armour, and she's even DangerouslyGenreSavvy enough to make it quick-release at the slightest tug.
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* NoIndoorVoice: Dire's speech in her armour is always rendered in ALLCAPS! Subverted when she's outside of it, she's actually usually rather restrained.
* NoIndoorVoice: Dire's speech in her armour is always rendered in ALLCAPS! Subverted when she's outside of it - she's actually usually rather restrained.
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* ThirdPersonPerson: Dire refers to herself as Dire. As in, she's literally incapable of using the first person in spoken language, she has brain damage that prevents it.
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* ThirdPersonPerson: Dire refers to herself as Dire. As in, she's [[spoiler:she's literally incapable of using the first person in spoken language, language - she has brain damage that prevents it.]]
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* AntiVillain: Dire, through sheer force of AffablyEvil. It's quite clear the woman holds herself to her own VisonaryVillain standards.
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* AntiVillain: Dire, through sheer force of AffablyEvil. It's quite clear the woman holds herself to her own VisonaryVillain VisionaryVillain standards.
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* AntiVillain: Dire, through sheer force of AffablyEvil. It's quite clear the woman holds herself to her own VisonaryVillain standards.
* DeadpanSnarker: Dire can get like this when she isn't hamming it up, hence why Armsmaster now has the name Halbeard.
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* NoIndoorVoice: Dire's speech in her armour is always rendered in ALLCAPS!ALLCAPS! Subverted when she's outside of it, she's actually usually rather restrained.
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* MythologyGag:
** In 5.4 Lisa expresses gratitude that the Undersiders don't have to deal with anyone whose power is to choose one of multiple realities to make real. [[spoiler:That's actually Coil's power, not that she knows it yet.]]
** In 5.5 Taylor scoffs at the idea of herself using butterflies. Late in canon, she's forced to do just that.
** Also in 5.5, Alec scoffs at the idea of [[spoiler:doing a HeroicSacrifice]]... which, in canon, he eventually does.
** In 5.4 Lisa expresses gratitude that the Undersiders don't have to deal with anyone whose power is to choose one of multiple realities to make real. [[spoiler:That's actually Coil's power, not that she knows it yet.]]
** In 5.5 Taylor scoffs at the idea of herself using butterflies. Late in canon, she's forced to do just that.
** Also in 5.5, Alec scoffs at the idea of [[spoiler:doing a HeroicSacrifice]]... which, in canon, he eventually does.
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** "NO? [[Franchise/StarWars SEARCH YOUR FEELINGS, YOU KNOW IT TO BE TRUE...]]"
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* IntimidationDemonstration: In 2.2 Kaiser uses his power on one of Dire's collapsible thrones.
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* IntimidationDemonstration: In 2.2 Kaiser uses his power on one of Dire's collapsible thrones. [[spoiler:AllAccordingToPlan for Dire, who hid a sensor of some kind in the throne. She knew conflict with Kaiser, an ideologically-motivated villain with a philosophy incompatible with her own, was inevitable and wanted to study his power in order to prepare.]]
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* ShoutOut: "Give her even the smallest amount of time to work, and materials to work with, [[Franchise/{{Starcraft}} it's like watching a Korean teenager play a sci-fi strategy game. You start constructing more pylons, and the next thing you know he's got siege tanks and the system's telling you there's a nuclear launch detected.]]"
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** "Give her even the smallest amount of time to work, and materials to work with, [[Franchise/{{Starcraft}} it's like watching a Korean teenager play a sci-fi strategy game. You start constructing more pylons, and the next thing you know he's got siege tanks and the system's telling you there's a nuclear launch detected.]]"]]"
** [[Series/{{Firefly}} "Well. That'll be an interesting day."]]
** "Give her even the smallest amount of time to work, and materials to work with, [[Franchise/{{Starcraft}} it's like watching a Korean teenager play a sci-fi strategy game. You start constructing more pylons, and the next thing you know he's got siege tanks and the system's telling you there's a nuclear launch detected.
** [[Series/{{Firefly}} "Well. That'll be an interesting day."]]
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* ComicBookFantasyCasting: [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/dire-worm-worm-au-oc.300816/page-40#post-14739890 By Word of God]], Gamma looks and sounds like Sarah Rafferty, while Delta resembles Adele.
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* HypercompetentSidekick: Gamma is this to Dire. In her own words:
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* HypercompetentSidekick: Downplayed; Dire is far from incompetent, but she's the big-picture strategist and leaves Gamma is this to Dire.handle the small things that need handling. In her own words:
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* ACupAngst: Delta is unhappy that Dire refuses to equip her flesh-covering (think Terminator) with an ample rack, probably not helped by the fact that Gamma has huge tracts of land.
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* HypercompetentSidekick: Gamma is this to Dire. In her own words:
--> "It's what I do. The Doctor has grandiose dreams, and I tend to all the little details. I build and plot and plan and handle all the administrative stuff. I stock the metaphorical sharktanks, I make sure minion payroll goes out on time, I run the businesses, I cook the books, and dammit, I do my part. She's got the hard job, after all, does the Doctor, so the least I can do is handle the busywork. And it's kind of nice to be needed, I'll admit."
--> "It's what I do. The Doctor has grandiose dreams, and I tend to all the little details. I build and plot and plan and handle all the administrative stuff. I stock the metaphorical sharktanks, I make sure minion payroll goes out on time, I run the businesses, I cook the books, and dammit, I do my part. She's got the hard job, after all, does the Doctor, so the least I can do is handle the busywork. And it's kind of nice to be needed, I'll admit."
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* SamusIsAGirl: Outright said InUniverse when various characters realise this of Dire.
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* {{Expy}}: If you read the synopsis and ended up mentally replacing every mention of "Dire" with [[ComicBook/FantasticFour DOOM]], you're on track. She doesn't have his magical talent though.
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* {{Expy}}: {{Expy}}:
** If you read the synopsis and ended up mentally replacing every mention of "Dire" with [[ComicBook/FantasticFour DOOM]], you're on track. She doesn't have his magical talentthough.though.
** Beta is more or less [[Film/{{Aliens}} Bishop]], right down to the look.
** If you read the synopsis and ended up mentally replacing every mention of "Dire" with [[ComicBook/FantasticFour DOOM]], you're on track. She doesn't have his magical talent
** Beta is more or less [[Film/{{Aliens}} Bishop]], right down to the look.
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* TheStoic: Beta has very muted behaviour to the point that it's noticeably not-quite-human.
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* AlternateHistory: In 3.3. we learn that the divergence point between Dire's home reality and Earth Bet was the existence of a reckless young heir, nonexistent in Earth Bet, who gave UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla funding for his broadcast power experiments. Things cascaded from there.
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* ForWantOfANail: In 3.3. we learn that the divergence point between Dire's home reality and Earth Bet was the existence of a reckless young heir, nonexistent in Earth Bet, who gave UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla funding for his broadcast power experiments. Things cascaded from there.
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* UncannyValley: Rachel has this reaction InUniverse in 5.2 to Dire's Doom... uhh, Direbots.
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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: How Coil recruited Circus - work for him, or have him either kill her there and then or turn her in to the authorities looking for her.
* BookEnds: Act 4 Intermission starts with [[spoiler:Circus triggering due to doing her best and still failing due to outside circumstances]] and ends with [[spoiler:Uber and Leet doing their best but being unable to go unscathed in their mission due to outside circumstances.]]
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* PopCulturedBadass: Dire reads widely, including Creator/GlenCook, Creator/TerryPratchett and Creator/RogerZelazny.
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* PerceptionFilter: Leet's [[Franchise/MetalGear cardboard box]] works this way.
* PopCulturedBadass: Dire reads and watches widely, including Creator/GlenCook, Creator/MontyPython, Creator/TerryPratchett and Creator/RogerZelazny.
* PopCulturedBadass: Dire reads and watches widely, including Creator/GlenCook, Creator/MontyPython, Creator/TerryPratchett and Creator/RogerZelazny.
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* StealthPun:
** Leet has boxes marked with "Orange" on them. [[Creator/ValveSoftware Therefore...]]
** Circus used to have an associate named Tony who was gay. [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony In other words...]]
** Leet has boxes marked with "Orange" on them. [[Creator/ValveSoftware Therefore...]]
** Circus used to have an associate named Tony who was gay. [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony In other words...]]
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* ThouShaltNotKill: Dire wants to practice this. She'll make an exception for those beyond the line, like the Slaughterhouse Nine.
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* {{Expy}}: If you read the synopsis and ended up mentally replacing every mention of "Dire" with [[ComicBook/FantasticFour DOOM]], you're on track. She doesn't have his magical talent though.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Dire may call herself a villain but Gray Boy's time-looping tortures disgust her.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: EveryoneHasStandards: Dire may call herself a villain but Gray Boy's time-looping tortures disgust her.her and she openly calls out [[spoiler:New Wave for their treatment of Panacea]].
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* NeverHurtAnInnocent: Just before a fight breaks out between Dire and the Brockton Bay Protectorate, she takes care to check that no civilians are in the way.
* {{Omniglot}}: Dire speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and knows sign language.
* PopCulturedBadass: Dire reads widely, including Creator/GlenCook, Creator/TerryPratchett and Creator/RogerZelazny.
* {{Omniglot}}: Dire speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and knows sign language.
* PopCulturedBadass: Dire reads widely, including Creator/GlenCook, Creator/TerryPratchett and Creator/RogerZelazny.
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* HadToBeSharp: The reason Dire is so {{badass}} is because her home reality is filled with opposition that regularly matches if not exceeds Earth Bet's worst. For example, just one of her original foes' powers is, to paraphrase a reader, an unholy combination of two already potent Wormverse powers taken UpToEleven.
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* HadToBeSharp: The reason Dire is so {{badass}} is because her home reality is filled with opposition that regularly matches if not exceeds Earth Bet's worst. For example, just one of her original foes' powers more-or-less is, to paraphrase a reader, an unholy combination of two already potent Wormverse powers powers[[labelnote:as in]]Coil's and Dinah's[[/labelnote]] taken UpToEleven.
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* MeleeATrois: In 4.2 and 4.3 Dire finds herself caught in a fight between the Boston Protectorate and some other villains.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Dire took the advice to use the proper dress and mannerisms to approach Accord with in order to appease his SuperOCD. Unfortunately, she did so a little too well, with the end result that [[spoiler:he seems to be attracted to her.]]
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Dire took the advice to use the proper dress and mannerisms to approach Accord with in order to appease his SuperOCD. Unfortunately, she did so a little too well, with the end result that [[spoiler:he seems to be attracted to her.]]her in the most creepy way.]]
* HadToBeSharp: The reason Dire is so {{badass}} is because her home reality is filled with opposition that regularly matches if not exceeds Earth Bet's worst. For example, just one of her original foes' powers is, to paraphrase a reader, an unholy combination of two already potent Wormverse powers taken UpToEleven.
* HadToBeSharp: The reason Dire is so {{badass}} is because her home reality is filled with opposition that regularly matches if not exceeds Earth Bet's worst. For example, just one of her original foes' powers is, to paraphrase a reader, an unholy combination of two already potent Wormverse powers taken UpToEleven.
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* AlternateHistory: In 3.3. we learn that the divergence point between Dire's home reality and Earth Bet was the existence of a reckless young heir, nonexistent in Earth Bet, who gave UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla funding for his broadcast power experiments. Things cascaded from there.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Subverted by Dire. When she first learns that she's been transported to AnotherDimension, her initial instinct is to call it impossible, but she quickly recants it by reminding herself that the existence of "Heaven, hell, the fairy courts, [and] the darkness realm of Nyshudderath" have been proven by her reality.
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* CoolChair: Dire has a collapsible throne festooned with skulls and SpikesOfVillainy. Multiple of them, to be exact.
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* CoolChair: Dire has a collapsible throne festooned with skulls and SpikesOfVillainy. Multiple of them, to be exact. The compulsion to do a SlouchOfVillainy is so strong that in 4.4 she even fuses sand on a beach into a glass throne so she can pull it.
* CrapsackWorld: It's telling that Dire considers Earth Bet to be an irredeemable hellhole even though she's seen more potent opposition back home.
* CrapsackWorld: It's telling that Dire considers Earth Bet to be an irredeemable hellhole even though she's seen more potent opposition back home.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Dire took the advice to use the proper dress and mannerisms to approach Accord with in order to appease his SuperOCD. Unfortunately, she did so a little too well, with the end result that [[spoiler:he seems to be attracted to her.]]
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Boston PRT's Director Armstrong is surprisingly amicable to Dire even before [[spoiler:she undoes the timeloop Crowbar's trapped in]].
* ThirdPersonPerson: Dire refers to herself as Dire.Always.Always.
* VisionaryVillain: Another of Dire's similarities to DOOM.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Dire refers to herself as Dire.
* VisionaryVillain: Another of Dire's similarities to DOOM.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Dire may call herself a villain but Gray Boy's time-looping tortures disgust her.
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The Undersiders have always wanted a [[GadgeteerGenius Tinker]] for their own so as to benefit from the gifts of superscience. In many realities, they never get it. In this one, however, they are about to get something even better: A MadScientist TinTyrant [[LargeHam possessed of more ham than a pig farm]] and [[NobleDemon a peculiar sense of honour.]] Doctor Dire is no one's minion, however, and her presence will shake up Earth Bet. To what end, no one knows yet, but it's certain to be one Hell of a ride.
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The Undersiders have always wanted a [[GadgeteerGenius Tinker]] for their own so as to benefit from the gifts of superscience. In many realities, they never get it. In this one, however, they are about to get something even better: A dimensionally-displaced MadScientist TinTyrant [[LargeHam possessed of more ham than a pig farm]] and [[NobleDemon a peculiar sense of honour.]] Doctor Dire is no one's minion, however, and her presence will shake up Earth Bet. To what end, no one knows yet, but it's certain to be one Hell of a ride.
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* InSeriesNickname: Dire calls Armsmaster "Hal-beard".
* IntimidationDemonstration: In 2.2 Kaiser uses his power on one of Dire's collapsible thrones.
* IntimidationDemonstration: In 2.2 Kaiser uses his power on one of Dire's collapsible thrones.
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'''Beware spoilers for Worm canon''
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'''Beware spoilers for Worm canon''
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''[[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/dire-worm-worm-au-oc.300816/ Dire Worm!]]'' is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic.
The Undersiders have always wanted a [[GadgeteerGenius Tinker]] for their own so as to benefit from the gifts of superscience. In many realities, they never get it. In this one, however, they are about to get something even better: A MadScientist TinTyrant [[LargeHam possessed of more ham than a pig farm]] and [[NobleDemon a peculiar sense of honour.]] Doctor Dire is no one's minion, however, and her presence will shake up Earth Bet. To what end, no one knows yet, but it's certain to be one Hell of a ride.
'''Beware spoilers for Worm canon''
!This fanfic contains examples of the following:
* AntiMagic: Dire's armour has a device that can counter temporal effects, including Bakuda's, Clockblocker's and even Gray Boy's.
* BadassBoast: The following proclamation from Dire to Bakuda:
--> "TUITION PAYMENT IS HEREBY WAIVED, YOUR APPLICATION IS ACCEPTED, AND YOU ARE NOW OFFICIALLY ENROLLED IN PAIN UNIVERSITY, ON TRACK TO GRADUATE MAGNA CUM LAUDE WITH A MAJOR IN GETTING YOUR ASS KICKED! AND NOW YOU SHALL BE WELCOMED TO YOUR DORMITORY OF SHAME WITH MANDATORY BEATINGS!"
* BadassCape: Dire has a blood-red one attached to her armour.
* {{Expy}}: If you read the synopsis and ended up mentally replacing every mention of "Dire" with [[ComicBook/FantasticFour DOOM]], you're on track.
* NoIndoorVoice: Dire's speech in her armour is always rendered in ALLCAPS!
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The '''very start of the story''' spoils the origins of Worm superpowers.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Dire refers to herself as Dire. Always.
The Undersiders have always wanted a [[GadgeteerGenius Tinker]] for their own so as to benefit from the gifts of superscience. In many realities, they never get it. In this one, however, they are about to get something even better: A MadScientist TinTyrant [[LargeHam possessed of more ham than a pig farm]] and [[NobleDemon a peculiar sense of honour.]] Doctor Dire is no one's minion, however, and her presence will shake up Earth Bet. To what end, no one knows yet, but it's certain to be one Hell of a ride.
'''Beware spoilers for Worm canon''
!This fanfic contains examples of the following:
* AntiMagic: Dire's armour has a device that can counter temporal effects, including Bakuda's, Clockblocker's and even Gray Boy's.
* BadassBoast: The following proclamation from Dire to Bakuda:
--> "TUITION PAYMENT IS HEREBY WAIVED, YOUR APPLICATION IS ACCEPTED, AND YOU ARE NOW OFFICIALLY ENROLLED IN PAIN UNIVERSITY, ON TRACK TO GRADUATE MAGNA CUM LAUDE WITH A MAJOR IN GETTING YOUR ASS KICKED! AND NOW YOU SHALL BE WELCOMED TO YOUR DORMITORY OF SHAME WITH MANDATORY BEATINGS!"
* BadassCape: Dire has a blood-red one attached to her armour.
* {{Expy}}: If you read the synopsis and ended up mentally replacing every mention of "Dire" with [[ComicBook/FantasticFour DOOM]], you're on track.
* NoIndoorVoice: Dire's speech in her armour is always rendered in ALLCAPS!
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The '''very start of the story''' spoils the origins of Worm superpowers.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Dire refers to herself as Dire. Always.
