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!! The Entrati

[[folder:The Entrati]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[DeathWorld On Deimos, be aware of all things]]]]
-->'''Voiced By:''' Stefan Rudnicki (Albrecht)

A family of Orokin researchers living on Deimos, where they work tirelessly to keep the Grey Strain of the Infestation in check - [[DysfunctionalFamily and trying not to strangle each other]].

* AmbiguouslyBi: [[spoiler:While Albrecht has a still living daughter, his interactions with Loid, as revealed in ''Whispers in the Wall'', are ''heavily'' tinged with romantic affection, leaving it ambiguous if he was either forced to marry whoever Euleria's mother was and Loid was his ClosetKey, he happened to be gay and Euleria was adopted or conceived through other means, or if Albrect was bisexual]].
* AmbiguousSituation:
** [[spoiler:While Grandmother denies it, her blasé reaction to the Heart apparently dying and her admittance that the family only really works together well under pressure implies she was the one controlling the Necramech that damaged the heart in the first place, in order to force the family to both work together ''and'' bring Deimos into the Sol system to recruit the aid of the Tenno. Daughter ''suspects'' she was behind it but decides it's best to leave the matter be and not ask her]]. [[spoiler:Increasing the rogue Necramech's voice pitch reveals it's indeed her voice. She did this.]]
** Invoked in Albrecht's diary: [[spoiler:he himself is unsure whether it was him who escaped from the Void or his doppelganger, and that's why he decided to refuse the Continuity]].
* BlingBlingBang: Entrati-affiliated weapons with nothing to do with the Infestation tend to have golden highlights, if not domes made up of golden hexagonal planes like a BeehiveBarrier.
* CreepilyLongArms: Like Ballas and Nihil, their right arms are considerably longer than their left. This is apparently a common trait among the Orokin.
* DefrostingIceQueen: They initially complain to the Tenno about their problems, but once named they start expressing a bit more optimism and are less hostile to each other, with the exception of Son mocking Daughter's hope for the family and still seeing Mother as self-serving. [[spoiler:Once they inundate you into the family, they also treat you rather warmly as well.]]
* DysfunctionalFamily: The Entrati are what happens when two {{Mad Scientist}}s marry, and have two equally screwed-up kids. It's a mess, though they can operate as a team once on the same page.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]] - Son has many harsh things to say about Mother, but he is extremely respectful of Grandmother, and given that his tokens give the second highest amount of standing after her own, it's likely that they are the closest members of the family.
* FantasticRacism: While the Entrati can work with the Grineer trapped on Deimos, they evidently don't think highly of them -- Daughter refers to them as "[[FantasticSlur vat rats]]". [[spoiler:A conversation between Daughter and Kahl at the Drifter's Camp reveals that Mother was livid when Kahl sent some Grineer defectors to shelter at the Necralisk]].
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: To AncientEgypt. Their home, the Necralisk, resembles a pyramid, the main body of their Necramechs resembles a sarcophagus, the inner architecture of the Necralisk resembles that of an Egyptian temple, and the Bonewidow Necramech's exalted weapon Ironbride resembles a khopesh. Additionally, the Predacytes that can be found in the Cambion Drift are all named after important castes/roles from Ancient Egypt[[note]]Medjay were paramilitary guards, the Phaeroh was GodEmperor, and the Vizier was the Phaeroh's NumberTwo[[/note]], while the Vulpaphyla appear to be designed after the Sha, the totemic animal that Set[[note]]Egyptian god of disorder and violence[[/note]] derived his appearance from.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Mother mentions dreaming about her father tapping on the Untime Wall, which Loid confirms did happen. [[spoiler:Tapping is associated with the Man in the Wall, whose presence isn't otherwise alluded to until long after you've unlocked the Cambion Drift]]. For players already in the know, it also foreshadows TheReveal found in Albrecht's writings, that [[spoiler:he encountered the Man in the Wall and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Went Mad From The Revelation]].]]
** Father mentions being able to reroute the Tenno's systems so that they can control a Necramech during the final portion of "Heart of Deimos". [[spoiler:Story-wise, this is the first hint players will receive that the Warfames are being remotely controlled]].
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Every member of the family has glowing blue eyes.
* ImAHumanitarian: Downplayed. Grandmother notes at one point that the rest of the family were days away from eating each others' heads off before the Tenno arrived. She emphasizes that this is not metaphor.
* InsufferableGenius: With the exception of Grandmother, the entire family seems to have this problem - they're experts in their individual fields, but this has inflated their egos to the point that they are condescending toward others, ''especially'' members of their own family. That being said, both of the children {{downplay|edTrope}} this - Daughter's ego is only expressed in the form of wallowing in self pity, while Son at least seems to be aware that he doesn't know as much as he thinks he does, ''unlike his mother''.
* ItsAllAboutMe: With the exception of Grandmother, all of the Entrati have the tendency to put their personal needs and goals over the rest of the family, unless something really, ''[[GodzillaThreshold really]]'' bad happens.
* KickTheDog: All of them have done something horrible to another member of their family.
** Son incinerated all of Daughter's fish ''and then gave their ashes to her as a birthday gift''. [[spoiler:Turns out he didn't go that far - he just [[PetTheDog released them all back into the wild]] and gave her some other ashes as an insult; he gifts her some of the descendants of her fish when the siblings make up.]]
** Mother viciously lacerated Father with a piece of Seriglass for suggesting giving up on finding Albrecht; the incident is implicitly why he suffers the worst physical signs of Infestation out of the family.
** Son once dressed up two of his creatures as Mother and Father. The one dressed as Mother ran into a bottomless pit, and the one dressed as Father followed the other to its doom. Grandmother surmises this hit too CloseToHome.
** Father apparently massacred all of the wildlife Son kept as pets, and it's implied this was ''before'' Son broke containment and got everyone infected. [[spoiler:At Rank 4, Son reveals he deliberately allowed Father to do so and bred strains he knew Father would revile, since a weapon maker is useless without an enemy.]]
** Son was TheUnfavorite even before the Infestation, so it only made matters worse that he was the one who broke containment. Most of the family believes he ''intentionally'' got them infected and Mother banished him from the Necralisk as a result, though he insists it was an honest slip-up.
** [[spoiler:Grandmother intentionally damaged the Heart with a Necramech, risking the permanent separation of Dust and Void, which would've left all Warframes and the Solar Rails non-functional, to force her family into setting their differences aside long enough to save it.]]
** Daughter tells [[spoiler:Kahl]] that she [[AnArmAndALeg once cut her father's arm off]]. He thinks she's bragging about it, though she is embarrassed by the act in hindsight.
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: The Infestation's HiveMind has eaten their actual names, so they're known by their role in the family. [[spoiler:Mother and Grandmother are the exceptions, as ''The New War'' reveals that Mother's birth name was Euleria Entrati and Dagath's Hollow reveals that Grandmother's name was Dagath before she gave it to the Warframe in exchange for her life]]. They do get names as your standing with them goes up, however.
* MissionControl: Mother shares this role with Loid and Otak during missions on Deimos. Daughter takes up the mantle during "Veilbreaker" and Kahl's Break Narmer missions. Father serves as your handler on Orphix railjack missions.
* MustMakeAmends: Albrecht Entrati pioneered Void-based travel and technologies, but was haunted by [[spoiler:his encounter with the Man in the Wall that gave it a literal finger into this reality. He is implied to have resettled on Duviri in order to prepare for a war with the Man in the Wall, as an act of "repentance".]]
* LackOfEmpathy: {{Subverted|Trope}} -- [[TokenGoodTeammate unlike literally every other Executor in the story]], the Entrati are capable of empathizing with each other and the Tenno. Most of their problems come from a mix of {{Pride}} and guilt over how they ruined things for their family while on Deimos.
* LineageComesFromTheFather: {{Inverted|Trope}} -- Albrecht Entrati was ''Mother'''s father, and it is through ''her'' that they are heirs to his legacy.
* MadScientist: '''''[[ExaggeratedTrope ALL OF THEM]]''''', though where their specialties lie varies - Mother focuses on Void Research, Father designs weapons and Necramechs, Daughter studies the fish of Deimos, while Son examines the wildlife. Grandmother is the sole exception, as she lacks a background in science, though she is something of a folk healer; Son believes that this makes her the most grounded of all of them, [[JerkassHasAPoint and all evidence indicates that he is correct]]. That being said, even she dabbles in the infestation to make K-Drive parts.
* MeaningfulRename:
** Since the Entrati ''hate'' each other, none have ever bothered with trying to remember the others' names, either. The parents call each other Mother and Father because they have no love for each other, even while the children call each other Brother and Sister rather than Son and Daughter. As you increase your reputation with them, the family members begin to open up to one another and rename each other one-by-one: [[spoiler:Daughter is named Kaelli or "water scourge" by her brother, Father is named Vilcor or "the whip in its moment of striking" by his daughter, Son is named Kermerros or "the runner who outstrips his own shadow" by his mother, and Mother is named Gomaitru or "the goblet refilled" by her husband]].
** Upon reaching max rank, [[spoiler:the Entrati also choose to name ''you'' as a member of their family. Vilcor selects the name "Ayatan" to unanimous acceptance; the Ayatan treasures Tenno collect are said to contain the memories of the Orokin.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Son apparently released the Infestation into the Necralisk, causing the family to be taken by it and merged with Deimos itself. While he implies it was an accident -- a mistake caused by simply not paying attention -- the rest of the family believes he did so on purpose to act out. [[spoiler:If you talk to him at max rank, he will say his greatest regret is that his sister was a victim of it, since she wasn't even supposed to be ''on'' Deimos.]]
* OddNameOut: At max rank, [[spoiler:Grandmother offhandedly decides that she won't bother with a new name. Every other member of the Entrati received a name to declare their newfound purpose; unlike the rest of the family, Grandmother ''already'' knew who she was]]. The lore from Dagath's Hollow reveals that [[spoiler:Dagath was her original name, but she offered it to the Warframe as she had nothing else to give her]].
* TheRemnant: The Entrati are among the only surviving Orokin in the system, and the ''only'' ones who aren't evil.
* TheElitesJumpShip: An example involving inaction -- [[spoiler:Mother had them lie low during the New War to prevent Narmer from finding the Heart of Deimos. At least daughter was annoyed by this, as she wanted to help as best she could while still being fused to the Necralisk]].
* TokenGoodTeammate: The Entrati are the only members of the Orokin Executor class that seem to have some kind of conscience, as they work tirelessly to oppose the Infestation ''despite said Infestation having already partially assimilated them''. [[spoiler:Son even agrees that it was about time for the Orokin to fall, and has no hard feelings about the Tenno destroying the empire.]]
* UncertainDoom: For some time, it was unclear whether Albrecht Entrati [[spoiler:simply expired from the old age, as he planned, got lost in the Void or what have you.]] The situation is finally given some clarity in ''Whispers in the Walls'' - [[spoiler:Albrecht apparently used a TimeMachine to travel to 1999 to escape the Man in the Wall, though it is still ambiguous if he succeeded]].
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[[folder:Holdfasts ('''Spoilers!''')]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/warframe_holdfastsyndicate.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Let all the System see that the Zariman is defended.]]
->''We shall not fear to take the leap, across the gulf to fare...\\
Though all betwixt is dark and deep, a home awaits us there.''
-->--'''Zariman Pledge'''
When the Zariman Ten-Zero was trapped in the Void, most of the adult crew was corrupted and possessed by the influence of the Man in the Wall, becoming the strange and hostile Void Angels - but a few possessed enough HeroicWillpower that, while they were heavily mutated, they did not answer the call of the Angels' HiveMind and instead became odd beings who retain their human memories. When the Tenno come to investigate the song of the Angels, they quickly contact their old peers and serve as much-needed guides to the ghost ship.

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[[folder:Mother]]
-->'''Voiced By:''' Keaton Talmadge
The matriarch of the Entrati family. She gives out bounties to players.

* CavalryRefusal: [[spoiler:Despite having access to Necramechs that could've been used to help taken down sentient forces (especially since they are immune to Orphix fields), Mother ordered the Entrati to lie low and focus on protecting the Heart of Deimos. Daughter is bitter about this, having wanted to help free the system from Narmer]].
* CharacterNarrator: A variation: Euleria Entrati wrote and narrates the Tales of Duviri storybook, which becomes a narration for the playable Spirals within Duviri. Overlaps with DelayedNarratorIntroduction, as new players are able to play through Duviri's Spirals ''long'' before ever reaching Deimos.
* {{Corpsing}}: In-universe, Euleria can be heard cracking up when talking about Presentism, the now-discredited theory of time that only the present is "real" and that the past and future do not exist.
* CurseCutShort: Mother, when she realizes that she is not dreaming and that the Heart may actually be dying, actually says ''Oh [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]!'' in the presence of the Tenno. Otak, however, covers up the last word with "Function", though you can still hear it if you pay attention.
* DisappearedDad: Mother dragged the family to Deimos in pursuit of her lost father, Albrecht, fueling mutual resentment: the family blames Mother for their hardships on Deimos and getting Infested, while Mother claims they all knew the risks and are traitors for blaming her. She also claims her Seriglass shard is all she needs to find him again... though after hundreds of years, this seems unlikely.
* GivenNameReveal: A segment of ''The New War'' [[spoiler:that takes place during the ''Zariman 10-0'' incident]] reveals that Mother's birth name was Euleria Entrati.
* MissionControl: During Deimos bounties, Mother will share this role with Otak and Loid, giving information on the situation and what your objectives are.
* MyBelovedSmother: It's all but outright stated that Mother's overbearing and callous treatment of her children contributed to them being as screwed up as they are.
* OnlySaneMan: Not quite. Mother ''thinks'' she's the most rational member of the family, but in reality, she's delusional, and just as petty as the rest of them.
* TragicKeepsake: Mother has a shard of Seriglass, which [[spoiler:was part of the diving bell her father Albrecht used to physically enter the Void. The bell shattered in the horrific accident that maimed him before he disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Mother believes that shard is her only clue to find her father]]. According to her family, [[spoiler:it's just a normal Seriglass shard, not a piece of Albrecht's bell]].

[[folder:Father]]
-->'''Voiced By:''' David Attar
A skilled craftsman, the Father of the Entrati offers weaponry to the Tenno.

* ExtremeDoormat: The interactions between the members of the family indicate that Father was highly subservient to Mother at least. Mother even references this trope practically by name, noting that the Necralisk has no welcome mat, but that the Tenno could wipe off their feet on her husband.
* HenPeckedHusband: Father is implied to have been mistreated by Mother until he finally got fed up with Mother and retreated to a different part of Deimos.
* MiniMecha: Father was among those who designed the Necramechs, specialized automatons designed to fight the infested, but have long since gone rogue due to age and damage. Father also reveals that the Necramechs were originally designed to fight ''[[TheDreaded the Sentients]]''.
* UltimateBlacksmith: Father is an amazingly-skilled weaponsmith even in regards to the Orokin - he can help craft infested Kitguns that are actually better than the baseline Orokin weapons he sells parts for, and like Zuud and Hok, this is less due to advanced technology and more his own skill. He's also the one who designed the Voidrig Necramechs.
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[[folder:Son]]
-->'''Voiced By:''' Justin Gross
Obsessed with Infested creatures, the Son sells conservation gear and can create modular companions.
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* TheBeastmaster: Son managed to figure out how to control Deimos' wildlife, and offhandedly mentions that he's sending Velocidrones to provide a distraction for you during the final part of "Heart of Deimos". He's also able to modify the infestation within the Wildlife, at least in the case of Predasites and Vulpaphyla.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]] - Son has many harsh things to say about Mother, but he is extremely respectful of Grandmother, and given that his tokens give the second highest amount of standing after her own, it's likely that they are the closest members of the family.
* FluffyTamer: Son has managed to domesticate some of the Infested wildlife on Deimos. Should you capture a Predasite or Vulpaphyla that was injured by the infested, he offers the option to nurse it back to health, giving you a new type of companion in the process. In gameplay terms, while they have their own unique mods and appearances, Predasites are a kubrow-variant while Vulpaphyla are a Kavat variant (and within in-universe, are likely infested forms of those creatures). He has also managed to tame the Velocipods, which are available as a cosmetic skin for K-Drives.
* HiddenDepths:
** While he treats the rest of his family with disdain, Son advises the Tenno to at least occasionally listen to Grandmother, believing that her not being a scientist or warrior gives her greater insight into the rest of the family than the others possess. One needs only to complete the "Heart of Deimos" quest to see just how correct he is. He also seems to be aware he knows less than he thinks he does, according to Grandmother. [[spoiler:He was also in an arranged marriage before the fall of the empire.]]
** Son is usually a melodramatic, smarmy teenager when spoken to, but when you're successfully hunting for conservation targets, he opens up considerably. On top of him having amusing anecdotes regarding some hunts, like [[ImprobableAimingSkills people trying to tranq a velocipod while riding another velocipod]], he also [[CutenessProximity completely melts when he receives a Pharaoh Predasite, with all of the little parasites it uses in self defense also sleeping]].
** He also philosophizes about the Infestation itself, and psychoanalyzes the rest of his family to a painfully accurate degree of knowing each of their weaknesses. [[spoiler:While he softens up to his father and sister and tries to make amends with them, even at max rank he has a critical view of his mother, believing she is still feeding into her self-serving narrative.]]
* HopeIsScary: Son expresses this opinion in one of his lines.
-->'''Son:''' Poor [[spoiler:Kaelli]] thinks this family may yet have a future. Monotony is bearable. Hope? That'll kill you.
* NightmareFetishist Son has a ''disturbing'' [[AdmiringTheAbomination fascination with the Infested]] and isn't actually remiss to being fully assimilated. He's also a FluffyTamer who happily helps in stopping the Infestation actually spreading.
* SlaveCollar: Son had a collar put on him [[AbusiveParents by his own mom]] after he broke containment, [[DisproportionateRetribution in addition to having him exiled and stripped of all his control words]].
* TheUnfavorite: It's strongly implied that Mother and Father neglected Son in favor of Daughter, to the point he was only ever acknowledged when he accidentally breached containment, letting the Infested into Necralisk.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Son's comments imply his bitterness and resignation toward being assimilated by the Infestation are because his mother never really showed him any affection or approval. His father, meanwhile, is implied to have stayed out of Son's life due to how overbearing Mother is.
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[[folder:Daughter]]
-->'''Voiced By:''' Kim Ramón
The Daugher of the Entrati is fascinated by Deimos' aquatic life, and sells fishing-related items. Following the events of "Veilbreaker", she also offers guidance to Kahl-175.
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* CuteMonsterGirl: Daughter, despite being covered up to her waist in the infestation, is still a rather attractive [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld teenage-looking]] girl. She's still able to look endearing when wearing her Naberus costume.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Daughter is visibly surprised that the person who sent her a distress signal during "Veilbreaker" was Kahl, a Grineer Lancer. She's even more shocked to learn that, contrary to her assumtions, he does know who Pazuul is.
* LittleStowaway: At max rank, [[spoiler:Kermerros explains that Kaelli wasn't even supposed to be on the expedition to Deimos in the first place, but she stowed away on the ship to stay with her family and join the "adventure".]]
* MissionControl: During Break Narmer missions, she's the one who tells you what to do.
* NightmareFetishist: Daughter gets a bit too excited at the prospect of cutting open Infested fish.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Daughter is generally the politest of her family outside of Grandmother... and says, in larger words, that her parents have their heads shoved so far up their asses that the only air they breath is their own farts.* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Daughter's reaction when she learns that the freedom fighter she detected aboard a Murex was Kahl, a Grineer lancer. She's noticeably thrown for a loop when she learns that, contrary to her expectations, he has the answers she was looking for.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Daughter's reaction when she learns that the freedom fighter she detected aboard a Murex was Kahl, a Grineer lancer. She's noticeably thrown for a loop when she learns that, contrary to her expectations, he has the answers she was looking for.
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[[folder:Grandmother]]
-->'''Voiced By:''' Claire Vousden
The Entrati Grandmother takes family tokens in exchange for Standing, and offers assorted wares. She's the OnlySaneWoman of the family and tries to resolve their many issues.
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* ApronMatron: Grandmother does care for her family and makes it obvious, but she's not above forcing them to shut up and work together - it is '''''very''''' heavily implied that [[spoiler:she's responsible for everything that happened in the "Heart of Deimos" quest]].
* ChekhovsGun: Grandmother is the one who runs the K-Drive races on Deimos. [[spoiler:''The Waverider'' reveals that she was friends with Yareli, whom K-Drives are made in tribute to]].
* CoolOldLady: Grandmother is the nicest of the Entrati, and also runs the Cambion Drift K-Drive races. Even if you screw them up, the worst she does is admonish you in a respectful tone. Taken even further in the Waverider quest, where, [[spoiler:in exchange for the first issue of the Yareli comic, she buys the controlling shares for Fortuna's vents, meaning the Ventkids will never have to fear eviction again. It's also heavily implied that she knew the original Yareli, referring to her as a long-lost friend, and asking you to have Yareli ride again.]]
* OddNameOut: At max rank, [[spoiler:Grandmother offhandedly decides that she won't bother with a new name. Every other member of the Entrati received a name to declare their newfound purpose; unlike the rest of the family, Grandmother ''already'' knew who she was]]. The lore from Dagath's Hollow reveals that [[spoiler:Dagath was her original name, but she offered it to the Warframe as she had nothing else to give her.]].
* OnlySaneMan: Grandmother is the only member of the family to still be rational. It's through her efforts that the rest of them come to their senses.
* TokenGoodTeammate Within the Entrati, Grandmother is the only member who genuinely wants them to work together and is by far the kindest one.
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!!! Necraloid
[[folder:In general]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Greetings. I am prepared to assist you, should you be worthy[[labelnote:...]][[NotSoAboveItAll Forgive me, I've always wanted to say that.]][[/labelnote]]]]
-->'''Voiced By:''' Jed Williams (Otak)\\
'''Voiced By:''' Kieran Flitton (Loid)

The robotic servants of the Entrati family, the Necraloids have served their masters for generation, with their representative, Loid, maintaining this servitude in modern times.
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* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: The Necramechs, being almost entirely mechanical, have a less restricted range of motion than an organic combatant. For instance, they are capable of rotating their legs over their heads (which is handy for self-righting, considering that their GroundPound move involves landing on said head).
* {{BFG}}: While it wasn't available with the initial release of Deimos, the Necraloids now sell modular Arch-Gun components to go with Necramechs.
* MiniMecha: While Father may have been the one to create the Necramechs, it's the Necraloids who maintain them. Ranking up with them is how the player gains the ability to produce their own Necramechs.
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[[folder:Otak]]
A Cephalon who shares a body with Loid. Having been damaged, his personality has become childish and erratic. However, he has a deep knowledge of minerals, and offers mining gear and blueprints to the Tenno.
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* CloudCuckooLander: Otak's damage has given him an ''interesting'' way of looking at the world, such as his tendency to refer to Infested monsters as "Mr. Bitey Scratchikins."
* DoesNotKnowHowToSayThanks: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, as while Otak can readily admit gratitude, TheFogOfAges means that he literally forgets how to say the phrase "thank you" at times, forcing Loid to take over and admit as much.
* WasOnceAMan: Otak, as a cephalon, was presumably once human before being subjected to BrainUploading.
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[[folder:Loid]]
A Cephalon who shares a body with Otak, acting as the voice of reason for him. More serious and mission-focused, he also runs a secret store that sells Necramech-related items to the Tenno.
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* BrainUploading: Subverted. The "Whispers in the Walls" gameplay trailer reveals that [[spoiler:while Loid is based on an organic person, the original Loid is still very much alive, [[DivergentCharacterEvolution and is a bit pricklier]], making this more of a ClonesArePeopleToo situation.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Loid shares this role with Grandmother, being the most grounded. He gets extra points for being far more proactive than Grandmother ([[spoiler:assuming that she wasn't the one controlling the rogue Necramech]]), as when things start going to hell, he contacts the Tenno for aid before the situation becomes unsalvageable.
* SayingTooMuch: Loid has to cut Otak off when discussing what the materials the player is mining for them will be used for. All evidence indicates that they are for building new Necramechs and maintaining the existing ones, which you need to have unlocked [[spoiler:Operators]] to find out about.
* SharingABody: Loid shares his body with Otak, a Cephalon that was damaged by Deimos' energies which necessitated his transfer to Loid's body. They turn their body around as necessary to dictate who is currently speaking with the Tenno, though Otak often interrupts Loid while he's trying to speak to the Tenno.
* SkullForAHead: Loid has a skull for a faceplate - the same type as the one that is in the Necramechs.
* WasOnceAMan: {{Subverted}}--while "Whispers in the Wall" shows that he was indeed created from a human, [[spoiler:said human is still alive]].
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[[folder:Holdfasts ('''Spoilers!''')]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/warframe_holdfastsyndicate.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Let all the System see that the Zariman is defended.]]
->''We shall not fear to take the leap, across the gulf to fare...\\
Though all betwixt is dark and deep, a home awaits us there.''
-->--'''Zariman Pledge'''
When the Zariman Ten-Zero was trapped in the Void, most of the adult crew was corrupted and possessed by the influence of the Man in the Wall, becoming the strange and hostile Void Angels - but a few possessed enough HeroicWillpower that, while they were heavily mutated, they did not answer the call of the Angels' HiveMind and instead became odd beings who retain their human memories. When the Tenno come to investigate the song of the Angels, they quickly contact their old peers and serve as much-needed guides to the ghost ship.

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* AbsentMindedProfessor: Archimedean Yonta. She's [[DissonantSerenity quite chipper]] about things like [[HellIsThatNoise the Angels singing like something big is coming]], describes her head as "noisy" at times, opens conversations with TechnoBabble, [[NoSocialSkills struggles to remember]] greetings and farewells, and reacts like she forgot she was talking to someone mid-conversation.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: As an Archimedean, Yonta is naturally curious about the supernatural phenomena on the ship. Gaining reputation with the Holdfasts consists of handing over Voidplumes, fragments left behind by the Void Angels and other horrors roaming the ship, for her to study.
--> ''Look at all the precious little nightmares!''
* AerithAndBob: Their names run the gamut from completely fictious (Yonta) to recognizable but odd (Hombrask and Cavalero, though the former seems to come from the spanish word "hombre" - which means "man") to ''normal'' (Quinn and, before she turned into a void angel, Kira).
* TheAtoner: Most of them have [[DarkSecret regrets]] for their lives, but Quinn takes the cake [[spoiler:for willfully glassing dissenters aboard the ship, some of whom are stuck as Cephalons forever]]. Rank 5 has them each commit to using the rest of eternity to atone.
* BodyHorror: Each of the Holdfasts has swirling silver markings covering half of their faces, indicating the level of Void corruption they've undertaken; full corruption results in submitting to the Void's "song" and imbibing energies from the Reliquary Drive, causing the rest of their bodies to be twisted into Void Angels like Kira and the rest of the crew. [[spoiler:This corruption is progressively undone as they "drink of your light" when you rank up with them, indicated by the marks diminishing. After Rank 5, they appear to be fully human with unclouded minds, though they're still ghosts bound to the Zariman.]]
* BreakingOldTrends:
** The six other colony syndicates exist as pairs -- one accessible to all players once they unlock the social hub and associated landscape, the other only available after the player completes ''The War Within'' due to requiring access to Operator powers. As accessing the Zariman requires completing ''The New War'', which is chronogically ''seven quests after the events of The War Within'', there is no paired syndicate to go with the Holdfasts.
** Additionally, most syndicate's Operator-only vendor provides customizable outfits for the Operator. The outfit for the Holdfasts is rewarded at the end of the ''Angels of the Zariman'' quest, with the purchasable parts actually being materials (the Voidshell Cosmetics have customizable materials).
** Every one of the major colony syndicates has a cosmetic armor set that's associated with them, but the Holdfasts don't; instead, they have the Raptwing and Seraphayre Ephemeras that add the appearance of Void Angel-like armor to your Warframe.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The Holdfasts are not being metaphorical when they describe themselves as ghosts; each one of them died in the chaos after the Void Jump incident, but the Void kept them conscious in death and their HeroicWillpower allowed each to retain their sanity until now. [[spoiler:At Rank 4 they even tell you how they all died: Hombask was torn to pieces by the Void-addled crew, Cavalero pulled an explosive TakingYouWithMe to save the children, Quinn was blasted to ash by Zariman children due to PoorCommunicationKills, and Yonta [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled gave herself the Jade Light]].]]
* DarkSecret: Each of the remaining Holdfasts have one related to their roles aboard the Zariman, as discussed each time you rank up. Each weighs heavily on their minds:
** [[spoiler:Yonta was the Archimedian who calculated the Void Jump and overrode concerns from amongst the crew about the dangers of the unprecedented range, denouncing the dissenters all as traitors to the Empire. Even now she insists she could get the jump right if she could do it all over again, despite not knowing what went wrong the first time.]]
** [[spoiler:Hombask was one of the resulting insurrectionists, who personally sabotaged the agricultural biomes to space all of the plants on the ship in an attempt to have the mission called off. [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil She failed to realize]] that [[AristocratsAreEvil the Orokin]] would just be [[LackOfEmpathy willing]] to let the whole crew -- [[WouldHurtAChild even the children]] -- [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard starve for the journey]] if the mission was otherwise successful.]]
** [[spoiler:Cavalero was a security officer who rounded up insurrectionists to "make examples" of them. Quinn was his superior and held the "Crystal Index", a tablet used to select people to [[FateWorseThanDeath glass]] and provide the ship with Cephalons. According to Cavalero himself, Quinn used to be very similar to the Orokin in their way of thinking.]]
* EnemyWithout: Downplayed: Yonta's childhood anxieties have taken the form of Skittergirl, a Void manifestation shaped like teenage Yonta, who regards her as a mild embarrassment. She is usually helpful, but in Void Floods [[BanditMook she enjoys stealing the Vitoplast and Energy from the Tenno for her own amusement.]]
* EvolvingWeapon: The Holdfasts and the Tenno aren't the only things the Void twisted -- they also affected the weapons on the ship, turning them into Incarnon weapons. While the original weapons were ceremonial (the Laetum, the Incarnon pistol is outright stated to be a ''confetti gun''), their new forms are significantly more deadly. Completing certain tasks allows you to further enhance their forms.
* GodzillaThreshold: The ''Zariman'' was not supposed to have weapons aboard it. The potential risks if the Reliquary Drive were breached, however, were dangerous enough that the Orokin included automated weapon systems to protect said drive.
* MissionControl: Each Holdfast acts as this for a mission type in the Zariman. Quinn manages Void Cascades, Archmedian Yonta manages Void floods, Cavalero manages Extermination and Void Armageddon and Hombask manages Mobile defence missions. Cavalero will also temporarily take over mission control should a Void Angel be triggered during any Zariman mission.
* NoSell: The Holdfasts were the few adults that weren't driven mad by the failed Void Jump. Unfortunately for them, the maddened adults vastly outnumbered them.
* LivingRelic: Of the Orokin middle classes -- their numbers include one Archimedian, what's implied to be a security guard, a woman in charge of homesteading, and [[BuffySpeak whatever caste that Quinn belongs to]].
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: By the time the Tenno reach the Zariman in real space, the majority of the Holdfasts have succumbed to the song of the Void and become Void Angels -- {{Angelic Abomination}}s with tentacle-like wings, [[BladeBelowTheShoulder scythes for hands]], [[TheFaceless no faces]], and special powers provided by the Void.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Holdfasts are TechnicallyLivingZombie versions of ghosts, being unable to leave the Zariman and able to teleport around it at will, contacting people telepathically.
* PsychicPowers: Weaker than the Tenno, but still present. The mostly use these for communication.
** TeleportersAndTransporters: They're also capable of teleporting around the ship and opening portals to allow the Tenno to fast-travel around or back to the Chrysalith.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Yonta figured out how to take the Zariman to Tau system in one jump - disable the safeties in the sequence. This in turn allowed the Void uncursion on the ship, and we know the rest of the story.]]
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[[folder:Kahl's Garrison / Veilbreakers ('''Spoilers!''')]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:If Narmer make Veils, Kahl and Blue Girl break them.]]
->"Who help Grineer today? Not Queens. Not Vay Hek. Tenno and Blue Girl help brothers. Other brothers still have Veil. So Kahl break. This camp little. But soon, it get big. You see. Kahl not afraid. And now Kahl not alone."
-->--'''Kahl-175''', ''Veilbreaker''

Thought lost at the start of the New War, Kahl-175 was not killed by the Sentients... instead, he suffered with the despicable brainwashing device known as the Narmer Veil. With the death of Ballas, he was finally freed, but upon realizing neither the Queens nor Vay Hek came to rescue him, he grew disillusioned towards the Grineer military hierarchy, and cast off his ties with them. Instead, Kahl now fights for his "brothers", leading a resistance force not unlike Steel Meridian, freeing captured prisoners who still labor under the Narmer Veil. He does so with the help of the Tenno, the adventurous Daughter Entrati, and a profane Australian Solaris known only as Chipper.

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[[folder:In General]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[DeathWorld On Deimos, be aware of all things]]]]
-->'''Voiced By:''' Keaton Talmadge (Mother)\\
'''Voiced By:''' David Attar (Father)\\
'''Voiced By:''' Kim Ramón (Daughter)\\
'''Voiced By:''' Justin Gross (Son)\\
'''Voiced By:''' Claire Vousden (Grandmother)\\
'''Voiced By:''' Stefan Rudnicki (Albrecht)

* AbusiveParents: Father offhandedly tells Daughter he wishes she'd never been born and previously killed several of Son's pets, while Mother is domineering and paranoid. [[TheUnfavorite Son]] implies Mother and Father were neglectful in favor of Daughter, and the pair exiled him for an accident he caused.[[note]]The accident in question being a breach of containment that is implied to be why the family is half-Infested when you meet them. Father bitterly believes the breach was intentional, a case of Son acting out.[[/note]] That's without getting into the massive [[AnArmAndALeg scarring]] Father has, delivered by ''Mother herself'' with a shard of Seriglass.
* AmbiguousSituation: In Albrecht's diary: [[spoiler:he himself is unsure whether it was him who escaped from the Void or his doppelganger, and that's why he decided to refuse the Continuity]].

* {{Corpsing}}: In-universe, Euleria can be heard cracking up when talking about Presentism, the now-discredited theory of time that only the present is "real" and that the past and future do not exist.
* CurseCutShort: Mother, when she realizes that she is not dreaming and that the Heart may actually be dying, actually says ''Oh [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]!'' in the presence of the Tenno. Otak, however, covers up the last word with "Function", though you can still hear it if you pay attention.

* TheElitesJumpShip: An example involving inaction -- [[spoiler:Mother had them lie low during the New War to prevent Narmer from finding the Heart of Deimos. At least daughter was annoyed by this, as she wanted to help as best she could while still being fused to the Necralisk]].

** Mother mentions dreaming about her father tapping on the Untime Wall, which Loid confirms did happen. [[spoiler:Tapping is associated with the Man in the Wall, whose presence isn't otherwise alluded to until long after you've unlocked the Cambion Drift]].
*** For players already in the know, [[spoiler:it also foreshadows TheReveal found in Albrecht's writings, that he encountered the Man in the Wall and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Went Mad From The Revelation]].]]

* KickTheDog: All of them have done something like this to another member of their family.

** Daughter tells Kahl that she [[AnArmAndALeg once cut her father's arm off]]. He thinks she's bragging about it, though she is embarrassed by the act in hindsight.
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: The Infestation's HiveMind has eaten their actual names, so they're known by their role in the family. [[spoiler:Mother is the only exception to this, as ''The New War'' reveals that her birth name was Euleria]]. They do get names as your standing with them goes up, however.

* MiniMecha: Father was among those who designed the Necramechs, specialized automatons designed to fight the infested, but have long since gone rogue due to age and damage. Father also reveals that the Necramechs were originally designed to fight ''[[TheDreaded the Sentients]]''.

* NeverMyFault: Mother will point out all of the flaws her children and husband possess, but never owes up to the fact that her poor treatment of her family is the primary ''cause'' of said flaws.

* TokenGoodTeammate: The Entrati are the only members of the Orokin Executor class that seem to have some kind of conscience, as they work tirelessly to oppose the Infestation ''despite said Infestation having already partially assimilated them''. [[spoiler:Son even agrees that it was about time for the Orokin to fall, and has no hard feelings about the Tenno destroying the empire.]]
* UncertainDoom: It's unclear whether Albrecht Entrati [[spoiler:simply expired from the old age, as he planned, got lost in the Void or what have you.]] The only thing known is that he built the Necralisk, the Heart and the Clock and then at some point disappeared and Mother's been seeking him ever since.
** Archimedean Yonta of Holdfasts often dreams of him telling that he's gone "everywhere" and then ripping himself in half. Given her relationship with the Void, the visions are open to interpretation.
** [[spoiler:The "Scholar's Landing" fragment implies he came to Duviri and established a laboratory there, but the entire island it was on vanished overnight.]]

** He also philosophizes about the Infestation itself, and psychoanalyzes the rest of his family to a painfully accurate degree of knowing each of their weaknesses. [[spoiler:While he softens up to his father and sister and tries to make amends with them, even at max rank he has a critical view of his mother, believing she is still feeding into her self-serving narrative.]]* HopeIsScary: Son expresses this opinion in one of his lines.

* SlaveCollar: Son had a collar put on him [[AbusiveParents by his own mom]] after he broke containment, [[DisproportionateRetribution in addition to having him exiled and stripped of all his control words]].* TheUnfavorite: It's strongly implied that Mother and Father neglected Son in favor of Daughter, to the point he was only ever acknowledged when he accidentally breached containment, letting the Infested into Necralisk.* WellDoneSonGuy: Son's comments imply his bitterness and resignation toward being assimilated by the Infestation are because his mother never really showed him any affection or approval. His father, meanwhile, is implied to have stayed out of Son's life due to how overbearing Mother is.

[[folder:Otak]]
A Cephalon who shares a body with Loid. Having been damaged, his personality has become childish and erratic. However, he has a deep knowledge of minerals, and offers mining gear and blueprints to the Tenno.

* CloudCuckooLander: Otak's damage has given him an ''interesting'' way of looking at the world, such as his tendency to refer to Infested monsters as "Mr. Bitey Scratchikins."
* DoesNotKnowHowToSayThanks: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, as while Otak can readily admit gratitude, TheFogOfAges means that he literally forgets how to say the phrase "thank you" at times, forcing Loid to take over and admit as much.
* WasOnceAMan: Otak, as a cephalon, was presumably once human before being subjected to BrainUploading.

[[folder:Loid]]
A Cephalon who shares a body with Otak, acting as the voice of reason for him. More serious and mission-focused, he also runs a secret store that sells Necramech-related items to the Tenno.

* WasOnceAMan: {{Subverted}}--while the gameplay reveal of "Whispers in the Wall" shows that he was indeed created from a human, [[spoiler:said human is still alive]].

[[folder:Necraloids]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Greetings. I am prepared to assist you, should you be worthy[[labelnote:...]][[NotSoAboveItAll Forgive me, I've always wanted to say that.]][[/labelnote]]]]
-->'''Voiced By:''' Jed Williams (Otak)\\
'''Voiced By:''' Kieran Flitton (Loid)

The robotic servants of the Entrati family, the Necraloids have served their masters for generation, with their representative, Loid, maintaining this servitude in modern times.
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* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: The Necramechs, being almost entirely mechanical, have a less restricted range of motion than an organic combatant. For instance, they are capable of rotating their legs over their heads (which is handy for self-righting, considering that their GroundPound move involves landing on said head).
* {{BFG}}: While it wasn't available with the initial release of Deimos, the Necraloids now sell modular Arch-Gun components to go with Necramechs.
* MiniMecha: While Father may have been the one to create the Necramechs, it's the Necraloids who maintain them. Ranking up with them is how the player gains the ability to produce their own Necramechs.
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[[folder:Holdfasts ('''Spoilers!''')]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Let all the System see that the Zariman is defended.]]
->''We shall not fear to take the leap, across the gulf to fare...\\
Though all betwixt is dark and deep, a home awaits us there.''
-->--'''Zariman Pledge'''
When the Zariman Ten-Zero was trapped in the Void, most of the adult crew was corrupted and possessed by the influence of the Man in the Wall, becoming the strange and hostile Void Angels - but a few possessed enough HeroicWillpower that, while they were heavily mutated, they did not answer the call of the Angels' HiveMind and instead became odd beings who retain their human memories. When the Tenno come to investigate the song of the Angels, they quickly contact their old peers and serve as much-needed guides to the ghost ship.

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* CavalryRefusal: [[spoiler:Despite having access to Necramechs that could've been used to help taken down sentient forces (especially since they are immune to Orphix fields), Mother ordered the Entrati to lie low and focus on protecting the Heart of Deimos. Daughter is bitter about this, having wanted to help free the system from Narmer]].
* CharacterNarrator: A variation: Euleria Entrati wrote and narrates the Tales of Duviri storybook, which becomes a narration for the playable Spirals within Duviri. Overlaps with DelayedNarratorIntroduction, as new players are able to play through Duviri's Spirals ''long'' before ever reaching Deimos.

* ChekhovsGun: Grandmother is the one who runs the K-Drive races on Deimos. [[spoiler:''The Waverider'' reveals that she was friends with Yareli, whom K-Drives are made in tribute to]].

* HiddenDepths: While he treats the rest of his family with disdain, Son advises the Tenno to at least occasionally listen to Grandmother, believing that her not being a scientist or warrior gives her greater insight into the rest of the family than the others possess. One needs only to complete the "Heart of Deimos" quest to see just how correct he is. He also seems to be aware he knows less than he thinks he does, according to Grandmother. [[spoiler:He was also in an arranged marriage before the fall of the empire.]]
** As for why he knows this, if one examines how much standing each Entrati token gives when exchanged with Grandmother, the most valuable ones to exchange after Grandmother's own tokens are Son's, implying that they are the closest members of the family.
** Son is usually a melodramatic, smarmy teenager when spoken to, but when you're successfully hunting for conservation targets, he opens up considerably. On top of him having amusing anecdotes regarding some hunts, like [[ImprobableAimingSkills people trying to tranq a velocipod while riding another velocipod]], he also [[CutenessProximity completely melting when he receives a Pharaoh Predasite, with all of the little parasites it uses in self defense also sleeping]].
** He also philosophizes about the Infestation itself, and psychoanalyzes the rest of his family to a painfully accurate degree of knowing each of their weaknesses. [[spoiler:While he softens up to his father and sister and tries to make amends with them, even at max rank he has a critical view of his mother, believing she is still feeding into her self-serving narrative.]]

* HopeIsScary: Son expresses this opinion in one of his lines.

* DidntSeeThatComing: Daughter is visibly surprised that the person who sent her a distress signal during "Veilbreaker" was Kahl, a Grineer Lancer. She's even more shocked to learn that, contrary to her assumtions, he does know who Pazuul is.* LittleStowaway: At max rank, [[spoiler:Kermerros explains that Kaelli wasn't even supposed to be on the expedition to Deimos in the first place, but she stowed away on the ship to stay with her family and join the "adventure".]]

* WasOnceAMan: {{Subverted}}--while the gameplay reveal of "Whispers in the Wall" shows that he was indeed created from a human, [[spoiler:said human is still alive]].
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* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Subverted. Tennocon 2023 reveals that while Loid is based on an organic person, the original Loid is still very much alive, [[DivergentCharacterEvolution and is a bit pricklier]], making this more of a ClonesArePeopleToo situation. Presumably Otak is a true Cephalon, however.]]
* CloudCuckooLander: Otak's damage has given him an ''interesting'' way of looking at the world, such as his tendency to refer to Infested monsters as "Mr. Bitey Scratchikins."
* DoesNotKnowHowToSayThanks: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, as while Otak can readily admit gratitude, TheFogOfAges means that he literally forgets how to say the phrase "thank you" at times, forcing Loid to take over and admit as much.
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: While most Syndicates would have an armor set that is themed after them at Rank 5 for 125,000 standing, the Necraloid Syndicate does not sell the Necramech-themed Mulciber armor; it is instead sold seperately by Baro Ki'Teer.

* OnlySaneMan: Loid shares this role with Grandmother, being the most grounded. He gets extra points for being far more proactive than Grandmother ([[spoiler:assuming that she wasn't the one controlling the rogue Necramech]]), as when things start going to hell, he contacts the Tenno for aid before the situation becomes unsalvageable.
* SayingTooMuch: Loid has to cut Otak off when discussing what the materials the player is mining for them will be used for. All evidence indicates that they are for building new Necramechs and maintaining the existing ones, which you need to have unlocked [[spoiler:Operators]] to find out about.
* SharingABody: Loid shares his body with Otak, a Cephalon that was damaged by Deimos' energies which necessitated his transfer to Loid's body. They turn their body around as necessary to dictate who is currently speaking with the Tenno, though Otak often interrupts Loid while he's trying to speak to the Tenno.
* SkullForAHead: Loid has a skull for a faceplate - the same type as the one that is in the Necramechs. Otak's "face" on the other hand, is a crude smiley face scratched into the back of their shared chassis.

[[folder:The Entrati]]

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:While Grandmother denies it, her blasé reaction to the Heart apparently dying and her admittance that the family only really works together well under pressure implies she was the one controlling the Necramech that damaged the heart in the first place, in order to force the family to both work together ''and'' bring Deimos into the Sol system to recruit the aid of the Tenno. Daughter ''suspects'' she was behind it but decides it's best to leave the matter be and not ask her]]. [[spoiler:Increasing the rogue Necramech's voice pitch reveals it's indeed her voice. She did this.]]
** Invoked in Albrecht's diary: [[spoiler:he himself is unsure whether it was him who escaped from the Void or his doppelganger, and that's why he decided to refuse the Continuity]].
* ApronMatron: Grandmother does care for her family and makes it obvious, but she's not above forcing them to shut up and work together - it is '''''very''''' heavily implied that [[spoiler:she's responsible for everything that happened in the "Heart of Deimos" quest]].
* TheBeastmaster: Son managed to figure out how to control Deimos' wildlife, and offhandedly mentions that he's sending Velocidrones to provide a distraction for you during the final part of "Heart of Deimos". He's also able to modify the infestation within the Wildlife, at least in the case of Predasites and Vulpaphyla.

* CreepilyLongArms: Like [[spoiler:Ballas]] and [[spoiler:Nihil,]] their right arms are considerably longer than their left. [[spoiler:This is apparently a common trait among the Orokin.]]
* CoolOldLady: Grandmother is the nicest of the Entrati, and also runs the Cambion Drift K-Drive races. Even if you screw them up, the worst she does is admonish you in a respectful tone. [[spoiler:Taken even further in the Waverider quest, where, in exchange for the first issue of the Yareli comic, she buys the controlling shares for Fortuna's vents, meaning the Ventkids will never have to fear eviction again. It's also heavily implied that she knew the original Yareli, referring to her as a long-lost friend, and asking you to have Yareli ride again.]]

* CuteMonsterGirl: Daughter, despite being covered up to her waist in the infestation, is still a rather attractive [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld teenage-looking]] girl. She's still able to look endearing when wearing her Naberus costume, [[NightmareFuel somehow]].

* DidntSeeThatComing: Daughter is visibly surprised that the person who sent her a distress signal during "Veilbreaker" was Kahl, a Grineer Lancer. She's even more shocked to learn that, contrary to her assumtions, he does know who Pazuul is.
* DisappearedDad: Mother dragged the family to Deimos in pursuit of her lost father, fueling mutual resentment: the family blames Mother for their hardships on Deimos and getting Infested, while Mother claims they all knew the risks and are traitors for blaming her. She also claims her Seriglass shard is all she needs to find him again... though after hundreds of years, this seems unlikely.

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]] - Son has many harsh things to say about Mother, but he is extremely respectful of Grandmother, and given that his tokens give the second highest amount of standing after her own, it's likely that they are the closest members of the family.
* ExtremeDoormat: The interactions between the members of the family indicate that Father was this to mother at least. Mother even references this trope practically by name, noting that the Necralisk has no welcome mat, but that the Tenno could wipe off their feet on her husband.

* FluffyTamer: Son has managed to domesticate some of the Infested Wildlife on Deimos. Should you capture a Predasite or Vulpaphyla that was injured by the infested, he offers the option to nurse it back to health, giving you a new type of companion in the process. In gameplay terms, while they have their own unique mods and appearances, Predasites are a kubrow-variant while Vulpaphyla are a Kavat variant (and within in-universe, are likely infested forms of those creatures). He has also managed to tame the Velocipods, which are available as a cosmetic skin for k-drives.

* GivenNameReveal: A segment of ''The New War'' [[spoiler:that takes place during the ''Zariman 10-0'' incident]] reveals that Mother's birth name was Euleria Entrati.

* HenPeckedHusband: Father is implied to have been this until he finally got fed up with Mother and retreated to a different part of Deimos.

* HopeIsScary: Son expresses this opinion in one of his lines.
-->'''Son:''' Poor [[spoiler:Kaelli]] thinks this family may yet have a future. Monotony is bearable. Hope? That'll kill you.

** Daughter tells [[spoiler:Kahl]] that she [[AnArmAndALeg once cut her father's arm off]]. He thinks she's bragging about it, though she is embarrassed by the act in hindsight.

* MissionControl: Mother shares this role with Loid and Otak during missions on Deimos. Daughter takes up the mantle during "Veilbreaker" and Kahl's Break Narmer missions.

* LittleStowaway: [[spoiler:At max rank, Kermerros explains that Kaelli wasn't even supposed to be on the expedition to Deimos in the first place, but she stowed away on the ship to stay with her family and join the "adventure".]]

* MyBelovedSmother: It's all but outright stated that Mother's overbearing and callous treatment of her children contributed to them being as screwed up as they are.

* NightmareFetishist: Daughter gets a bit too excited at the prospect of cutting open Infested fish, whereas Son has a ''disturbing'' [[AdmiringTheAbomination fascination with the Infested]] and isn't actually remiss to being fully assimilated. He's also a FluffyTamer who happily helps in stopping the Infestation actually spreading.
* OddNameOut: At max rank, [[spoiler:Grandmother offhandedly decides that she won't bother with a new name. Every other member of the Entrati received a name to declare their newfound purpose; unlike the rest of the family, Grandmother ''already'' knew who she was]]. The lore from Dagath's Hollow reveals that [[spoiler:Dagath was her original name, but she offered it to the Warframe as she had nothing else to give her.]].
* OnlySaneMan: Mother ''thinks'' she's this, but in reality it's Grandmother who is the most balanced of them.

* SlaveCollar: Son has one. It was put on him [[AbusiveParents by his own mom]] after he broke containment, [[DisproportionateRetribution in addition to having him exiled and stripped of all his control words]].
* SophisticatedAsHell: Daughter is generally the politest of her family outside of Grandmother... and says, in larger words, that her parents have their heads shoved so far up their asses that the only air they breath is their own farts. It's ''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]]''.
* TheElitesJumpShip: An example involving inaction -- [[spoiler:Mother had them lie low during the New War to prevent Narmer from finding the Heart of Deimos. At least daughter was annoyed by this, as she wanted to help as best she could while still being fused to the Necralisk]].
* TokenGoodTeammate:
** The Entrati are the only members of the Orokin Executor class that seem to have some kind of conscience, as they work tirelessly to oppose the Infestation ''despite said Infestation having already partially assimilated them''. [[spoiler:Son even agrees that it was about time for the Orokin to fall, and has no hard feelings about the Tenno destroying the empire.]]
** Within the Entrati, Grandmother is the only member who genuinely wants them to work together and is by far the kindest sounding one. Daughter comes in at a close second, being the most interested in halting the spread of the Infestation, though she has her moments of bitterness.
* TragicKeepsake: Mother has a shard of Seriglass, which [[spoiler:was part of the diving bell her father Albrecht used to physically enter the Void. The bell shattered in the horrific accident that maimed him before he disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Mother believes that shard is her only clue to find her father]]. According to her family, [[spoiler:it's just a normal Seriglass shard, not a piece of Albrecht's bell]].
* UltimateBlacksmith: Father is this even in regards to the Orokin - he can help craft infested kitguns that are actually better than the baseline Orokin weapons he sells parts for, and like Zuud and Hok, this is less due to advanced technology and more his own skill. He's also the one who designed the Voidrig necramechs.

* TheUnfavorite: It's strongly implied that Mother and Father neglected Son in favor of Daughter, to the point he was only ever acknowledged when he accidentally breached containment, letting the Infested into Necralisk.
* {{Wangst}}: The others have this opinion of Daughter, as while her ribbing is downplayed next to the rest of the family she instead expresses a lot of self-pity.
* WasOnceAMan: Otak, as a cephalon, was presumably once human before being subjected to BrainUploading. Loid is a subversion - while ''Whispers in the Wall'' reveals that he was indeed created from a human, [[spoiler:said human is still alive]].
* WellDoneSonGuy: Son's comments imply his bitterness and resignation toward being assimilated by the Infestation are because his mother never really showed him any affection or approval. His father, meanwhile, is implied to have stayed out of Son's life due to how overbearing Mother is.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Daughter's reaction when she learns that the freedom fighter she detected aboard a Murex was Kahl, a Grineer lancer. She's noticeably thrown for a loop when she learns that, contrary to her expectations, he has the answers she was looking for.

[[folder:Necraloids]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Greetings. I am prepared to assist you, should you be worthy[[labelnote:...]][[NotSoAboveItAll Forgive me, I've always wanted to say that.]][[/labelnote]]]]
-->'''Voiced By:''' Jed Williams (Otak)\\
'''Voiced By:''' Kieran Flitton (Loid)

The robotic servants of the Entrati family, the Necraloids have served their masters for generation, with their representative, Loid, maintaining this servitude in modern times.
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* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: The Necramechs, being almost entirely mechanical, have a less restricted range of motion than an organic combatant. For instance, they are capable of rotating their legs over their heads (which is handy for self-righting, considering that their GroundPound move involves landing on said head).
* {{BFG}}: While it wasn't available with the initial release of Deimos, the Necraloids now sell modular Arch-Gun components to go with Necramechs.
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Subverted. Tennocon 2023 reveals that while Loid is based on an organic person, the original Loid is still very much alive, [[DivergentCharacterEvolution and is a bit pricklier]], making this more of a ClonesArePeopleToo situation. Presumably Otak is a true Cephalon, however.]]
* CloudCuckooLander: Otak's damage has given him an ''interesting'' way of looking at the world, such as his tendency to refer to Infested monsters as "Mr. Bitey Scratchikins."
* DoesNotKnowHowToSayThanks: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, as while Otak can readily admit gratitude, TheFogOfAges means that he literally forgets how to say the phrase "thank you" at times, forcing Loid to take over and admit as much.
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: While most Syndicates would have an armor set that is themed after them at Rank 5 for 125,000 standing, the Necraloid Syndicate does not sell the Necramech-themed Mulciber armor; it is instead sold seperately by Baro Ki'Teer.
* MiniMecha: While Father may have been the one to create the Necramechs, it's the Necraloids who maintain them. Ranking up with them is how the player gains the ability to produce their own Necramechs.
* OnlySaneMan: Loid shares this role with Grandmother, being the most grounded. He gets extra points for being far more proactive than Grandmother ([[spoiler:assuming that she wasn't the one controlling the rogue Necramech]]), as when things start going to hell, he contacts the Tenno for aid before the situation becomes unsalvageable.
* SayingTooMuch: Loid has to cut Otak off when discussing what the materials the player is mining for them will be used for. All evidence indicates that they are for building new Necramechs and maintaining the existing ones, which you need to have unlocked [[spoiler:Operators]] to find out about.
* SharingABody: Loid shares his body with Otak, a Cephalon that was damaged by Deimos' energies which necessitated his transfer to Loid's body. They turn their body around as necessary to dictate who is currently speaking with the Tenno, though Otak often interrupts Loid while he's trying to speak to the Tenno.
* SkullForAHead: Loid has a skull for a faceplate - the same type as the one that is in the Necramechs. Otak's "face" on the other hand, is a crude smiley face scratched into the back of their shared chassis.

[[folder:Holdfasts ('''Spoilers!''')]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Let all the System see that the Zariman is defended.]]
->''We shall not fear to take the leap, across the gulf to fare...\\
Though all betwixt is dark and deep, a home awaits us there.''
-->--'''Zariman Pledge'''
When the Zariman Ten-Zero was trapped in the Void, most of the adult crew was corrupted and possessed by the influence of the Man in the Wall, becoming the strange and hostile Void Angels - but a few possessed enough HeroicWillpower that, while they were heavily mutated, they did not answer the call of the Angels' HiveMind and instead became odd beings who retain their human memories. When the Tenno come to investigate the song of the Angels, they quickly contact their old peers and serve as much-needed guides to the ghost ship.

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* AbsentMindedProfessor: Archimedean Yonta. She's [[DissonantSerenity quite chipper]] about things like [[HellIsThatNoise the Angels singing like something big is coming]], describes her head as "noisy" at times, opens conversations with TechnoBabble, [[NoSocialSkills struggles to remember]] greetings and farewells, and reacts like she forgot she was talking to someone mid-conversation.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: As an Archimedean, Yonta is naturally curious about the supernatural phenomena on the ship. Gaining reputation with the Holdfasts consists of handing over Voidplumes, fragments left behind by the Void Angels and other horrors roaming the ship, for her to study.
--> ''Look at all the precious little nightmares!''
* AerithAndBob: Their names run the gamut from completely fictious (Yonta) to recognizable but odd (Hombrask and Cavalero, though the former seems to come from the spanish word "hombre" - which means "man") to ''normal'' (Quinn and, before she turned into a void angel, Kira).
* TheAtoner: Most of them have [[DarkSecret regrets]] for their lives, but Quinn takes the cake [[spoiler:for willfully glassing dissenters aboard the ship, some of whom are stuck as Cephalons forever]]. Rank 5 has them each commit to using the rest of eternity to atone.
* BodyHorror: Each of the Holdfasts has swirling silver markings covering half of their faces, indicating the level of Void corruption they've undertaken; full corruption results in submitting to the Void's "song" and imbibing energies from the Reliquary Drive, causing the rest of their bodies to be twisted into Void Angels like Kira and the rest of the crew. [[spoiler:This corruption is progressively undone as they "drink of your light" when you rank up with them, indicated by the marks diminishing. After Rank 5, they appear to be fully human with unclouded minds, though they're still ghosts bound to the Zariman.]]
* BreakingOldTrends:
** The six other colony syndicates exist as pairs -- one accessible to all players once they unlock the social hub and associated landscape, the other only available after the player completes ''The War Within'' due to requiring access to Operator powers. As accessing the Zariman requires completing ''The New War'', which is chronogically ''seven quests after the events of The War Within'', there is no paired syndicate to go with the Holdfasts.
** Additionally, most syndicate's Operator-only vendor provides customizable outfits for the Operator. The outfit for the Holdfasts is rewarded at the end of the ''Angels of the Zariman'' quest, with the purchasable parts actually being materials (the Voidshell Cosmetics have customizable materials).
** Every one of the major colony syndicates has a cosmetic armor set that's associated with them, but the Holdfasts don't; instead, they have the Raptwing and Seraphayre Ephemeras that add the appearance of Void Angel-like armor to your Warframe.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The Holdfasts are not being metaphorical when they describe themselves as ghosts; each one of them died in the chaos after the Void Jump incident, but the Void kept them conscious in death and their HeroicWillpower allowed each to retain their sanity until now. [[spoiler:At Rank 4 they even tell you how they all died: Hombask was torn to pieces by the Void-addled crew, Cavalero pulled an explosive TakingYouWithMe to save the children, Quinn was blasted to ash by Zariman children due to PoorCommunicationKills, and Yonta [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled gave herself the Jade Light]].]]
* DarkSecret: Each of the remaining Holdfasts have one related to their roles aboard the Zariman, as discussed each time you rank up. Each weighs heavily on their minds:
** [[spoiler:Yonta was the Archimedian who calculated the Void Jump and overrode concerns from amongst the crew about the dangers of the unprecedented range, denouncing the dissenters all as traitors to the Empire. Even now she insists she could get the jump right if she could do it all over again, despite not knowing what went wrong the first time.]]
** [[spoiler:Hombask was one of the resulting insurrectionists, who personally sabotaged the agricultural biomes to space all of the plants on the ship in an attempt to have the mission called off. [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil She failed to realize]] that [[AristocratsAreEvil the Orokin]] would just be [[LackOfEmpathy willing]] to let the whole crew -- [[WouldHurtAChild even the children]] -- [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard starve for the journey]] if the mission was otherwise successful.]]
** [[spoiler:Cavalero was a security officer who rounded up insurrectionists to "make examples" of them. Quinn was his superior and held the "Crystal Index", a tablet used to select people to [[FateWorseThanDeath glass]] and provide the ship with Cephalons. According to Cavalero himself, Quinn used to be very similar to the Orokin in their way of thinking.]]
* EnemyWithout: Downplayed: Yonta's childhood anxieties have taken the form of Skittergirl, a Void manifestation shaped like teenage Yonta, who regards her as a mild embarrassment. She is usually helpful, but in Void Floods [[BanditMook she enjoys stealing the Vitoplast and Energy from the Tenno for her own amusement.]]
* EvolvingWeapon: The Holdfasts and the Tenno aren't the only things the Void twisted -- they also affected the weapons on the ship, turning them into Incarnon weapons. While the original weapons were ceremonial (the Laetum, the Incarnon pistol is outright stated to be a ''confetti gun''), their new forms are significantly more deadly. Completing certain tasks allows you to further enhance their forms.
* GodzillaThreshold: The ''Zariman'' was not supposed to have weapons aboard it. The potential risks if the Reliquary Drive were breached, however, were dangerous enough that the Orokin included automated weapon systems to protect said drive.
* MissionControl: Each Holdfast acts as this for a mission type in the Zariman. Quinn manages Void Cascades, Archmedian Yonta manages Void floods, Cavalero manages Extermination and Void Armageddon and Hombask manages Mobile defence missions. Cavalero will also temporarily take over mission control should a Void Angel be triggered during any Zariman mission.
* NoSell: The Holdfasts were the few adults that weren't driven mad by the failed Void Jump. Unfortunately for them, the maddened adults vastly outnumbered them.
* LivingRelic: Of the Orokin middle classes -- their numbers include one Archimedian, what's implied to be a security guard, a woman in charge of homesteading, and [[BuffySpeak whatever caste that Quinn belongs to]].
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: By the time the Tenno reach the Zariman in real space, the majority of the Holdfasts have succumbed to the song of the Void and become Void Angels -- {{Angelic Abomination}}s with tentacle-like wings, [[BladeBelowTheShoulder scythes for hands]], [[TheFaceless no faces]], and special powers provided by the Void.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Holdfasts are TechnicallyLivingZombie versions of ghosts, being unable to leave the Zariman and able to teleport around it at will, contacting people telepathically.
* PsychicPowers: Weaker than the Tenno, but still present. The mostly use these for communication.
** TeleportersAndTransporters: They're also capable of teleporting around the ship and opening portals to allow the Tenno to fast-travel around or back to the Chrysalith.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Yonta figured out how to take the Zariman to Tau system in one jump - disable the safeties in the sequence. This in turn allowed the Void uncursion on the ship, and we know the rest of the story.]]

[[folder:Kahl's Garrison / Veilbreakers ('''Spoilers!''')]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:If Narmer make Veils, Kahl and Blue Girl break them.]]
->"Who help Grineer today? Not Queens. Not Vay Hek. Tenno and Blue Girl help brothers. Other brothers still have Veil. So Kahl break. This camp little. But soon, it get big. You see. Kahl not afraid. And now Kahl not alone."
-->--'''Kahl-175''', ''Veilbreaker''

Thought lost at the start of the New War, Kahl-175 was not killed by the Sentients... instead, he suffered with the despicable brainwashing device known as the Narmer Veil. With the death of Ballas, he was finally freed, but upon realizing neither the Queens nor Vay Hek came to rescue him, he grew disillusioned towards the Grineer military hierarchy, and cast off his ties with them. Instead, Kahl now fights for his "brothers", leading a resistance force not unlike Steel Meridian, freeing captured prisoners who still labor under the Narmer Veil. He does so with the help of the Tenno, the adventurous Daughter Entrati, and a profane Australian Solaris known only as Chipper.

-> ''The final summer, the final secret...''

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''Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End and the Secret Key'' is the twenty-fourth installment in the long running {{JRPG}} ''VideoGame/AtelierSeries'', and the third one to star Reisalin Stout, following ''VideoGame/AtelierRyzaEverDarknessAndTheSecretHideout'' and ''VideoGame/AtelierRyza2LostLegendsAndTheSecretFairy''. It was released on March 23, 2023 on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation5 5]].

One year after her last adventure, Ryza has been spending her days trying to make things better in her native Kurken Island. However, this peace is interrupted when the strange Kark Isles suddenly emerge from the ocean nearby, bringing monsters with them. Shortly after, a mysterious voice in Ryza's head tells her to reach the "Code of the Universe", and she suddenly feels inspired to create a magical key with alchemy. Alongside her friends and some new companions, Ryza heads out to understand the secret of the Kark Isles, the key she made, and the Code of the Universe.

While gameplay is mostly unchanged from Ryza's past adventures, with a semi-real-time CombatantCooldownSystem for battles and node-based alchemy. However, exploration is now much closer to a WideOpenSandbox, with huge, free-roaming maps. A major new feature is the ability to collect and use magical keys, which grant bonuses in gathering, combat, and alchemy. To accommodate the larger number of party members, there's now a reserve row, where two characters can wait to be swapped in and out as needed.

!!This game provides examples of:

* CoolKey: A key feature (pun not intended) is the ability to extract magical keys from enemies and landmarks. They come in a variety of designs and have different abilities, such as granting buffs or improving quality when gathering items.
* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: Dolphins can be found near the Kark Isles, and they'll let you ride on their back for a speed boost underwater.
* SwitchOutMove: Combatants can tag out and switch places with a back-row party member, who'll leap into action with an attack.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: Ryza can pet cats and dogs wandering around Kurken Island, and they'll thank her by giving her items.

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''Furcifer's Fungeon'' is a top-down autoscrolling action game by [=PlayWithFurcifer=]. It is set for a 2023 release, with a free demo available.

You've been invited to Furcifer's Fungeon, where you get the chance to hoard all the treasure, gold, and power you can get! However, the deeper you go, the stronger your enemies will get... To help out with that, you can obtain a frankly ludicrous number of different [[SkillScoresAndPerks talents]], which come in large branching skill trees. You can also collect powerful magical artifacts, or steal trinkets from Furcifer himself (if you don't mind incurring his wrath).

!!''Furcifer's Fungeon'' provides examples of:

* DemBones: The "Summon Skeleton" talent, as well as certain Dark-element items, let you summon skeletal allies who can act as meatshields and deal contact damage to enemies. There are a wide variety of perks to upgrade this talent as well.
* FighterMageThief: The first three characters in the demo, Sir Honkalot, Britta Bootystabber, and Wilhelm of Fluff, fit these archetypes:
** Sir Honkalot is the fighter, starting off with the highest strength (and therefore the biggest health pool), and having unique perks that make him tankier and encourage mid-range combat. However, [[MightyGlacier his movement speed is rather slow]] if you don't upgrade it.
** Britta is the thief: her high starting Agility gives her superior mobility, augmented by the short cooldown on her dash (which agility further shortens). Her unique perks can further boost her agility and encourage you to make heavy use of her dash. However, [[FragileSpeedster she also has the lowest starting strength]], making her frail if she can't keep dodging enemy attacks.
** Wilhelm is the mage, thanks to his high intelligence boosting the damage of his wand. He teleports instead of dashing, dealing high damage in a wide area around him when he emerges, making his movement a great option for nuking wide swathes of enemies at once. However, his starting strength and agility are quite low, making him [[SquishyWizard slow and squishy]].
* GuestFighter: Fire from ''VideoGame/HerNameWasFire'' can be unlocked as a playable character by defeating Dark Fire. Furcifer himself, along with his meteor attack, were added to that game at the same time.
* KleptomaniacHero: Furcifer leaves trinkets in chests around the Fungeon, with a sign begging you not to steal from him. If you do steal from the chest, Furcifer will get mad at you, making enemies more powerful while he throws {{Flaming Meteor}}s at you until he calms down.

''Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End and the Secret Key'' is the twenty-fourth installment in the long running {{JRPG}} series ''VideoGame/{{Atelier}}'', and the third one to star Reisalin Stout, following ''VideoGame/AtelierRyzaEverDarknessAndTheSecretHideout'' and ''VideoGame/AtelierRyza2LostLegendsAndTheSecretFairy''. It was released on March 23, 2023 on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation5 5]].

''Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End and the Secret Key'' is the twenty-fourth installment in the long running {{JRPG}} series ''VideoGame/{{Atelier}}'', and the third one to star Reisalin Stout, following ''VideoGame/AtelierRyzaEverDarknessAndTheSecretHideout'' and ''VideoGame/AtelierRyza2LostLegendsAndTheSecretFairy''.

While gameplay is mostly unchanged from Ryza's past adventures, with a semi-real-time CombatantCooldownSystem for battles and node-based alchemy. However, exploration is now much closer to a WideOpenSandbox, with huge, free-roaming maps.

You've been invited to Furcifer's Fungeon, where you get the chance to hoard all the treasure, gold, and power you can get! However, the deeper you go, the stronger your enemies will get... To help out with that, you can obtain a frankly ludicrous number of different [[SkillScoresAndPerks perks]], which come in large branching skill trees. You can also collect powerful magical artifacts, or steal trinkets from Furcifer himself (if you don't mind incurring his wrath).

[[folder:Zora MB EP]]

!!What is the work?
''WebAnimation/EpithetErased'' is an animated web series by Creator/BrendanBlaber. It is a loose adaptation of Roleplay/AnimeCampaign, an RPG campaign he ran. In this setting, a small portion of the population (around 20%) are known as Inscribed, meaning that they have an epithet: a word that is etched into their soul, giving them special abilities related to its definition. The rest are known as [[{{Muggles}} Mundies]]. The first season of the show revolves around the Arsene Amulet, which has the power to steal epithets. A Mundie-run terrorist group known as Bliss Ocean seeks to obtain this amulet, which might help them in their quest to rid the world of Inscribed...

!!Who is Zora?
Zora Salazar is a {{Cowgirl}} BountyHunter and the third-ranking officer of Bliss Ocean. Despite the organization's goals, Zora herself is Inscribed, with her epithet being Sundial: she can speed up, slow down, and reverse processes, which includes things like motion and aging, effectively making her a powerful TimeMaster. The reason why she joined the group is because she considers herself to be BlessedWithSuck: her abilities are [[StoryBreakerPower so powerful]] that [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction she finds no satisfaction in her job anymore]]. As such, she will often [[IAmNotLeftHanded handicap herself]] in order to make things more fair for her opponent, such as letting her quarry choose which weapons she will use and limiting her use of her epithet. However, she still has a bit of a CombatPragmatist streak, and is willing to drop these rules if she needs to, though she'd really rather not (and rarely needs to).

In her search for the Arsene Amulet, Zora crosses paths with Ramsey Murdoch, the one who currently has it in his possession. Ramsey, who is a crook, must [[EnemyMine team up with policewoman Percival King]] in order to stand a chance. During the fight, Zora agrees to restrict herself by not using her epithet so long as they do the same, with Ramsey and Percy being [[ChainedHeat chained together]] with Eraser Cuffs that make them forget their epithet abilities. When one of her prized guns gets destroyed, Zora does fly into a rage and start using her epithet again, but she later recognizes how dishonorable that act was and decides to declare the fight a draw, running off with the amulet but letting Ramsey go free (though not before threatening to go after him again in the future).

!!Is she magnificent?
Zora is a very charismatic character, one who loves to taunt and play with her targets before finishing them off. Her AwesomeEgo makes her one of the more popular ''Epithet Erased'' characters. I think that a playful personality combined with a reputation as TheDreaded is a great combo for a Magnificent Bastard to have. In the end, Ramsey and Percy don't truly defeat her, they land one good hit that briefly knocks her out, and she decides to spare them after recovering from it.

One possible knock against her magnificence is that she does lose her cool when one of her guns gets broken, flying into a rage and breaking her self-imposed handicap while trying to hack up Ramsey and Percy with a sword. However, I believe that she recovers from this very nicely shortly afterwards, as she realizes that she acted dishonorably and makes up for it by calling the fight off and sparing Ramsey's life. In doing so, most of the "magnificent points" she lost are restored, at least in my eyes.

!!Is she a bastard?
Well, Zora ''does'' spend most of her introductory arc trying to murder Ramsey, plus she's part of a terrorist organization. Her reputation, as well as the lyrics of a VillainSong she has, indicate that she's taken countless lives in the past. I'm pretty sure that gleefully killing so many people automatically makes you a bastard.
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Zora is a very charismatic character, one who loves to taunt and play with her targets before finishing them off. Her AwesomeEgo makes her one of the more popular ''Epithet Erased'' characters. I think that a playful personality combined with a reputation as TheDreaded is a great combo for a Magnificent Bastard to have.

One possible knock against her magnificence is that she does lose her cool when one of her guns gets broken, flying into a rage and breaking her self-imposed handicap while trying to hack up Ramsey and Percy with a sword. However, I believe that she recovers from this very nicely shortly afterwards, as she realizes that she acted dishonorably and makes up for it by calling the fight off and sparing Ramsey's life. In doing so, most of the "magnificent points" she lots are restored in my eyes.

Zora Salazar is a {{Cowgirl}} BountyHunter and the third-ranking officer of Bliss Ocean. Despite the organization's goals, Zora herself is Inscribed, with her epithet being Sundial: she can speed up, slow down, and reverse processes, which includes things like motion and aging, effectively making her a powerful TimeMaster. The reason why she joined the group is because she considers herself to be BlessedWithSuck: her abilities are [[StoryBreakerPower so powerful]] that [[VictoryIsBoring she finds no satisfaction in her job anymore]]. As such, she will often [[IAmNotLeftHanded handicap herself]] in order to make things more fair for her opponent, such as letting her quarry choose which weapons she will use and limiting her use of her epithet. However, she still has a bit of a CombatPragmatist streak, and is willing to drop these rules if she needs to, though she'd really rather not (and rarely needs to).

[[folder:Nick Johnsmith]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/ElijahWood
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Nick, de-brained.'']]

The mailroom expert of the Motherlobe. He's Razputin's mentor... or, at least he's supposed to be, but he was seemingly de-brained before Raz arrived.

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* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: Hollis says that everyone loves Nick, and, while it may sound sarcastic, her reaction after seeing him debrained, along with Oleander's, suggests it's true. That being said, it's more like 99%, with Truman Zanotto not being the biggest fan of his.
* BrainTheft: Before Raz can actually do any work under him, he is found de-brained. [[spoiler:He actually did this to himself in order to transfer his brain into Truman's body.]]
* PrematurelyBald: Despite being in his thirties at the latest he's lost most of the hair on the top of his head.
* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: Prior to his de-braining, Nick had no major personality traits that would make him stand out, aside from being really good at sorting the mail.
* UnSorcerer: He's one of the few non-psychics in a facility densely populated by well-trained psychic spies, but has earned the respect of (nearly) all of his coworkers.
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[[folder:The Delugionist Mastermind '''(Unmarked Spoilers)''']]
!!Gristol "Nick Johnsmith" Malik, Gzesarevich of Grulovia
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/ElijahWood, Creator/DarinDePaul (in Truman Zanotto's body)
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->''"I'm going to restore a whole country to greatness. A country that your heroes the Psychonauts tore apart."''

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[[TheMole The Deluginist Mole]], Kidnapper of Truman, and infiltrator of the Psychonauts' home base, known by his current identity as [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy Nick Johnsmith]], mailroom expert of the Motherlobe. He's actually the Gzesarevich Gristol Malik, son of Gzar Theodore of Grulovia, with designs on regaining his former glory and rising to prosperity with Maligula's power.
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* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: Only applies to his "Nick Johnsmith" identity. Hollis says that everyone loves him, and, while it may sound sarcastic, her reaction after seeing him debrained, along with Oleander's, suggests it's true. That being said, it's more like 99%, with Truman Zanotto not being the biggest fan of his. Even once his identity has been revealed in the post-game, some of the Motherlobe workers (like Lori) respect him even if he ''was'' evil. Ironically, wanting and expecting everyone to love him was part of what motivated his plan — if he was ever conscious he had that from the Psychonauts, he was too self-centered to notice.
* AbsoluteXenophobe: Exaggerated; not only is he racist against anyone not from his native Grulovia, but he doesn't think much of his own countrymen either, dismissing the commoners protesting outside his family castle as stupid, whiny rabble and disdaining his fellow royals as too "weak" to keep the kingdom afloat.
* AlmightyJanitor: The mailman who is actually a prince and one of the most fearsome villains of the series.
* AmusementParkOfDoom: His mental world "Fatherland Follies" is basically [[VideoGame/BioShock2 "Journey to the Surface"]] with Grulovian propaganda, showing Maligula as a champion of the people and Ford as a homicidal maniac.
* AristocratsAreEvil: His true personality is that of an entitled RoyalBrat all grown up and turned bitter by the denial of what he feels is his rightful throne. He doesn't even bother to remember what the protestors Maligula killed were upset about. There's a good reason why Raz told him the Grulovians hated his family.
* AvengingTheVillain: A part of his motive is to avenge his father's defeat and humiliation. [[SubvertedTrope Though he does later decry his father for being weak, and admits to have hated him.]]
* BadassOnPaper: He's a {{Manchild}} and a PaperTiger, but you wouldn't have guessed that with all that he had accomplished before his EvilPlan was thwarted. Not only was he able to infiltrate an espionage organization completely undetected, but he was able to work at the Motherlobe for years completely undetected and cultivate a positive reputation (especially impressive for [[UnSorcerer being one of the few non-psychics in a facility densely populated by well-trained, mind-reading spies]]), successfully brainwash the unstable Dr. Loboto (and, through him, carry out two separate world-domination conspiracies) and manipulate Raz into finding Maligula for him while impersonating Truman Zanotto.
* BaldOfEvil: He's the most unambiguously evil character in the series and he has a receding hairline.
* BeneathSuspicion: As one of the few Psychonaut employees with no actual psychic power, who was beloved by everyone else, as well as seemingly being a victim of villainous debraining, nobody suspected his cover identity of misdeeds. The only person who he rubbed the wrong way was Truman Zanotto, and even Truman thought of him as an insincere YesMan rather than anything truly malign. He was so good that Lori, his replacement in the mailroom, still considers replacing him as an honor even while acknowledging that he was evil.
* BigBad: He's ultimately the one behind the return of Maligula, after all. He believes that by reviving her, he can reclaim Grulovia and what he considers his rightful throne as the next Gzar. However...
* BigBadWannabe: ...he's ultimately playing with forces beyond his control. After Maligula is successfully resurrected, the first thing that she does is go on an indiscriminate rampage, showing zero interest in Gristol or his mission to restore himself to the throne of Grulovia. Not to mention that the overthrown regime led by Gristol's family was a much-hated tyranny that no one, [[SelfServingMemory aside from Gristol himself]], remembers fondly. One way or another, Gristol's scheme was doomed to failure.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Everyone in the motherlobe thinks his "Nick Johnsmith" identity is a NiceGuy. Not a single soul in the Motherlobe speaks badly about him, and the reaction to his debraining is either sympathy or horror depending on the person. He is ''not'' a nice person in reality.
* BoringButPractical:
** Him being able to put up a MaskOfSanity isn't much of a perk in most cases, but it did allow him to infiltrate the Psychonauts through legal channels, and lay low for his long con to occur.
** Also applies to his method of infiltration. He's just the mail guy, and gives a mask of being a NiceGuy. Not only do they keep him out of danger, they keep him invisible to any potential sabotage of his plan.
* BrilliantButLazy: He's a genuinely clever and calculating manipulator, but it's clear he did not want to put more thought into his plan than necessary for reviving Maligula, as he has every pretension of becoming [[IdleRich a wealthy do-nothing]] after it's over. He just ''assumes'' Maligula will be on his side. His scheme is basically undone by him not bothering to put his body in a ''sturdy box'', instead just mailing it to Truman in a flimsy cardboard one.
* BrokenPedestal: During the Postgame, one of the "lessons" he learned from the whole adventure is that you should never meet your heroes. He was disappointed that Maligula didn't do what he wanted, suffice it to say.
* ChekhovsGunman: His existence is briefly mentioned inside of Cruller's Correspondence, long before hie current involvement in the story is revealled.
* TheChessmaster: {{Zigzagg|ingTrope}}ed, being thoroughly {{Subverted|Trope}} and {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. This trope often comes with the caveat that the mastermind in question has enough sense to use their manipulation skills efficiently, but Gristol isn't the wisest person around. Thus, Gristol shows what happens when a clever mind is paired with someone who has little to no common sense, with the result being a rather devious plan in the hands of a sheltered brat who has no idea what he's getting into. This is arguably more dangerous than if Gristol was smart enough to maximize the effectiveness of his plan, since he seems totally unaware that Maligula would love to kill him just the same as everyone else. To drive the point home, young Gristol can be seen delivering what looks like a lecture on economics or science to a crowd of intrigued nobleman onlookers while bored out of his mind in one of his memory vaults, showing he has a pretty high level of intelligence with none of the sense to comprehend what he's actually doing.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Oleander, the BigBad of the first game. Oleander was driven to [[SanitySlippage madness]] due to [[FreudianExcuse unresolved personal issues,]] but once his problems were dealt with, ultimately proved that he was a decent, if very gruff man. Even during his stint as the BigBad, Oleander was also competent enough to fight his own battles and proved to be a challenging opponent directly, as well as being smart enough to use something easier to control for his EvilPlan via the brains of psychic ''children'', as insane as it was. Gristol Malik's false identity as Nick Johnsmith is noted as being a NiceGuy and was loved by most of the Psychonauts, [[MaskOfSanity but the reveal shows that he is in truth a dangerously egotistical and narcissistic sociopath]] willing to do whatever it takes to revive Maligula for extremely selfish and petty reasons. [[PaperTiger While a skilled manipulator and planner, he's not a fighter and more or less intended on the revived Maligula to do the gruntwork for him,]] and '''severely''' lacks the wisdom to consider that he is trying to control ''[[EvilIsNotAToy what is essentially the psychic equivalent of a force of nature.]].'' Also, while Oleander fully reforms by the end of 1 and is given a relative slap on the wrist, Gristol remains unrepentant and is instead locked up where he'll probably spend his days as a test subject for Sasha.
* ConspicuousConsumption: He still has more than enough money to leave half-eaten cans of caviar around his suite like old pizzas, and used to eat it out of a bucket.
* CoolCrown: Say what you want about him, but his Gzar Crown is ''amazing''. It looks like he's wearing an entire jeweled chandelier on his head.
* DarkIsEvil: The form he takes while in Loboto's mind is a mass of darkness shaped like him in Gzar garbs with glowing golden eyes, due to Loboto being so terrified of retribution that he obscures his appearance in his own memories.
* DeadlyEuphemism: Tends to refer to a removed brain as an "egg", related to his obsession with the caviar and Fabergé Eggs of his wealthy upbringing.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: His biggest flaw; he's an incredibly good planner with the big picture and achieving his goals, and he knows how to hide his tracks well, but he is ''awful'' at contingencies. He believes that his end goal of bringing Maligula back would cause her to help him restore Grulovia's former glory, not realizing that she's ''far'' more likely to [[EvilIsNotAToy indiscriminately attack everyone including him]].
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The BigBad happens to be the mailroom guy. Justified because he more than likely took such a small-scale position to help him lay low.
* DracoInLeatherPants: In-universe, he sees Maligula as Grulovia's hero and Ford and the Psychonauts [[RonTheDeathEater as the villains]] who destroyed it, while in reality her rampage destroyed the country and the Psychic Six were called in to stop her causing even more damage.
* TheDreaded: Loboto is terrified of Gristol due to his abuse of him.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted twice.
** Fatherland Follies shows that he actually got along quite well with his dad. [[SubvertedTrope Though he does later claim to have hated him and blamed him for both losing control of Grulovia and, allegedly, abandoning Maligula in her time of need.]]
** A more downplayed example would be his relationship with Maligula who he seems to put on a pedestal due to her saving him from either foreign invaders or angry townsfolk when he was younger. With that being said, it's made clear that he ultimately sees Maligula as nothing more than a tool that he believes will help him reclaim what he believes to be rightfully his. When she turns against him and is subsequently brought under control by Raz instead, he later outright [[BrokenPedestal calls her a disappointment]].
* EvilCounterpart: Like Raz, he's a descendant of Grulovia with family issues, is a runaway, has ties to Maligula, and joined the Psychonauts to fulfil his goals. That said, while Raz is common stock, had father issues that were resolved, ran away to fulfil his dreams, is related to Maligula by blood (and genuinely loves the relative that she's contained within), and joined the Psychonauts because he wanted to, Gristol is royalty, ran from Grulovia for safety due to his family being hunted, despises his father for perceived weakness, only wants to use Maligula to reclaim his throne to become an IdleRich again, and only joined the Psychonauts in a long con to eventually destroy them, and reclaim his throne.
* FatBastard: His character design emphasis his notable potbelly, and it's shown that his underlying motivation for his schemes is simply to recreate an environment where he can do things like eat [[TrademarkFavouriteFood Caviar]] [[Fiction500 daily whenever he wants to]].
* {{Foil}}: To Raz. Both are refugees/descended from refugees of Grulovia, both have relationship issues with their family, and both share a deep connection with Lucrecia/Maligula. Both of them work hard for their goals, even if they don't always think through the consequences of their plans. However, Raz is earnest, empathetic, and willing to accept the complicated histories of his family's past. By comparison, Gristol has wrapped himself in so much arrogance and entitlement that he's incapable of understanding the true weight of the crimes of his family. His narcissism prevents him from truly relating to others and even after the events of the game, he's refused to learn that the history he's told himself was a lie.
* GrandTheftMe: He's the one who stole Truman's brain and replaced it with his own.
* HateSink: This character was deliberately created to be hated. If the vain, shallow, It's A Small World ride doesn't say anything, the fact that his Memory Vaults showing his lack of care for his people (everyone's protest signs said things like "problems" and "blah blah blah") and that his thirst for power stems from him losing his valets and his caviar says A LOT.
* HeelFaceTurn: Defied. Unlike the other major antagonists such as Oleander, Loboto, and Maligula who all redeem themselves to a degree, Gristol [[RedemptionRejection refuses]] to show any regret or remorse for his actions, and is rightfully seen as an [[BeyondRedemption irredeemable scumbag]] by everyone.
* IdleRich: {{Double Subverted}}. He ''wants'' to be this, waited on hand and foot by servants daily who attend to his every need, but after the royal family were exiled, their vast fortunes can no longer support ''quite'' as lavish as lifestyle as they once hand-- though they were able to enjoy life in a 5-star luxury hotel, they can no longer [[Fiction500 spend ridiculous amounts of money on whatever they want]], which is galling enough to [[SpoiledBrat Gristol]] that he embarks on his scheme solely so that he can have the rich and prosperous lifestyle he once had as a child. This even shows in how his EvilPlan boils down to finding Maligula and having her do the job of using her immense Psychic powers to rebuild Grulovia to prosperity for him, rather than put in the effort to reclaim his fortune and his country himself.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Visiting his mind in the postgame, you can find Gristol musing over the revelations of the plot. He wonders why his father gave Maligula so much power, if she really was a monster, and why the people didn't rise up against him... and install ''Gristol'' as Gzar as he rightly deserved. Raz is understandably exasperated.
* IRejectYourReality: While not mentally ill like many of the other minds Raz has explored, his entire worldview is built upon delusions of grandeur and a childish sense of entitlement that colors everything he does. He equates his own childhood luxury to Grulovia's prosperity, when really it was a [[TheDictatorship dictatorship]] that was plagued with unrest from the peasantry, the ruling class responded by using Lucy as a one-woman attack-squad to silence them. He thinks of Maligula as his country's secret weapon and that the Psychonauts were a meddling foreign power jealous of their greatness, when really she was a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds who snapped under the stress his family put her through and that the Psychic Six were recruited by the rebel peasantry to prevent her from destroying the world. He believes his family lived homeless and in squalor, when really his family managed to escape their own country [[KarmaHoudini with their lives and fortune virtually unscathed]], subsisting on caviar in a five-star luxury hotel. His entire end-goal is to find Maligula and revive her, thinking that she will remain loyal to his family, [[DidNotThinkThisThrough completely overlooking]] the fact that his own father tried to kill her when she grew out of control, that she might not be happy to see him and that [[EvilIsNotAToy her destructive power is about as discriminating as a nuclear bomb]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: When Raz challenges him about Grulovia not being a great nation, his response is that of course it was, because he had [[SpoiledBrat ''a cotton candy machine in his bedroom'']].
* LaboriousLaziness: While he presumably has enough money to live a very comfortable (if not utterly lavish) lifestyle after his family's exile and (according to one Memory Vault) was highly educated to the point that he could have easily landed a cushy job, he refused to settle for anything less then his throne. He embarked on a scheme to infiltrate the Psychonauts via posing as a menial worker and revive Maligula, all in a bid to restore himself to a position where he can sit around eating caviar while Grulovia continues suffering.
* LackOfEmpathy: His life of luxury made him oblivious to the reason ''why'' the people of Grulovia were unhappy with his family's tyranny. He notably saw the protesters as idiots who babbled "blah blah problems." He believes Lucrecia turning into Maligua was a way of changing her into a warrior and would enforce it again to have her restore his country.
* LargeHam: Double-subverted; for most of the game, he acts as a RidiculouslyAverageGuy who is completely BeneathSuspicion; then when the MaskOfSanity comes off and he's revealed as a RoyalBrat with aspirations of global domination, his demeanor becomes far more unhinged to match.
* LaughablyEvil: He may be the most horribly evil character in the series, but his arrogance, pettiness, immaturity, and refusal to accept reality combined with Elijah Wood's LargeHam performance make him pretty damn funny to watch.
* {{Manchild}}: His core motive? To return to his idealized childhood where he was a lazy, responsibility-less RoyalBrat where he didn't have to worry about things like money issues. Keep in mind that, even in exile, he lives in a five-star hotel penthouse. His favorite food of caviar is also still in high supply and then there's his mental world "Fatherland Follies", a dark ride doubling as a PropagandaMachine.
* ManipulativeBastard: He views himself as a puppet-master, toying with a puppet version of Raz in his mental world for easily deceiving him into bringing Ford for a chance to being back Maligula. While he does successfully manipulate Raz into helping him "revive" Maligula, he was also dealing with an earnest 10 year old looking to prove himself, so not the biggest bar to clear.
* MaskOfSanity: While he's the most rational ''Psychonauts'' villain so far, his mental world quickly shows there's a massive gap between being rational and being sane - Fatherland Follies is a massive theme park ride dedicated to ''himself'', there's essentially no depth to the mindscape at all, and his ego is shown regularly riding it to bask in his family's glories. He was able to hide this utter narcissism behind a NiceGuy facade for ''years''.
* TheMole: He's the double-agent that everyone's trying to identify for most of the story.
* MrSmith: He went undercover under the name Nick Johnsmith, which, in retrospect, is being a bit over the top in the whole "generic male name for a pseudonym" idea.
* MugglesDoItBetter: He's utterly lacking in psychic powers, but this didn't stop him from inflicting MindRape on Loboto through ordinary hypnotism well enough that Loboto physically ''can't'' tell the Psychonauts about his true identity, his very appearance being obscured under a cloud of darkness within Loboto's mind, and Sasha having to spend most of the game fighting an uphill battle to break through his mental conditioning, only succeeding just towards the end. It's especially poignant because the following two mental worlds after Loboto's are an exercise in how badly a mind can be affected by a Psychic messing around with it, yet Gristol was able to condition Loboto well enough that actual psychics can barely find out any information about him even after in-depth study of his Psyche. Additionally, despite having no psychic abilities, he's got good enough control over his mental world to easily subdue Raz and suspend him from the ceiling, totally helpless before him, his lack of mental issues apparently giving him better control over his mentality than most of the people Raz Mind-jumps into, and the only weakness being when he's not paying attention.
* {{Narcissist}}: He's completely focused on himself with no thought of anyone around him except as they relate to his plans. This is emphasized by his mental world, which is ''an empty black void'' outside of a theme park ride whose only purpose is to exposit at length on his self-serving version of history.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Keeping his Luctopus Luxury Suite keys on himself was a major mistake, as they discovered that Nick was actually wealthy, and at very least a Delugionnaire and in league with TheMole. Also, had he shipped himself in a sturdier box, Raz would have just delivered him to Truman, not knowing Nick had intended to re-swap his brain with Truman and complete his plot as intended. Instead, Raz has to find a brain to put in Nick's body (hello, Helmut!) and found the lost member of the Psychic Six.
* NonActionBigBad: He's a schemer, not a fighter. In fact, he's such a wimp that Lili's able to beat him up easily without her powers in his own mind.
* OverlordJr: He's the Gzesarevich of Grulovia, and wants very badly to take what he considers his birthright.
* PaperTiger: TheChessmaster he may be, but he is personally unable to match the Psychonauts, hence why he keeps to the shadows. Best illustrated by Lilli in ''his own mind.'' The girl sneaks into the controls through violence and beats him silly with a gift shop doll of Truman holding the metal case, all with no real resistance.
* PeoplePuppet: After Raz frees Helmut's brain, it's placed into Nick's brainless body in order to deal with Mailman Ford.
* PetTheDog: The version of him encountered in the mental version of the Luctopus Casino hotel room seems to be slightly nicer than the real thing. Using clairvoyance on him shows that instead of viewing Raz as a dirty peasant, he sees him dressed up in fancy regalia. He's happy to find out that Raz is of Grulovian descent and offers him some caviar as a toast to the Fatherland. Gristol in general also seems to have a soft spot in his heart for Maligula, though it's hard to say how much of that was simply because she helped his family run Grulovia with an iron fist.
* PhraseCatcher: Any mention of him after his de-braining are almost always accompanied by variations of "Not ''Nick!''"
* PrematurelyBald: Despite being in his thirties at the latest he's lost most of the hair on the top of his head.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's racist against non-Grulovians, as shown when only Raz is allowed on the park ride that makes up his mental world. He also displays some classist elitism, implicitly dismissing the concerns of his countrymen as non-issues unworthy of his attention.
* PropagandaMachine: His mental world is a propaganda piece exalting him as future Gzar, praising Maligula, and demonizing Ford... taking the form of an "It's A Small World" knockoff.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Subverted; he's purple, pure evil, and descended from royalty, but he's a non-psychic whose only real skill is manipulation and he ''cannot'' handle himself in a fight.
* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: What he was ''pretending'' to be in his role as Nick Johnsmith, which made it easier for him to be overlooked as a suspect during the investigation, helped by the fact his de-brained body was discovered by accident, making him appear to be a victim of the mole. In reality, he's a bit of a LargeHam.
* RightForTheWrongReasons:
** One of the books in his RoomFullOfCrazy is titled "Maligula Misunderstood". It's true that the person who would ''become'' Maligula is NotEvilJustMisunderstood, but that doesn't mean her [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Maligula personality]] is something to be admired.
** He correctly realized Ford was haunted by his own actions in the past, and that he's a shell of his former self when Gristol found him at Whispering Oaks. However, he believed it was due to him devastating Grulovia and forcing the Maliks into exile, not due to what he had to do to save Lucy (though devastating Grulovia probably didn't make Ford too happy either).
** He correctly blames his father for the destruction of the nation, but attributes it to him being too soft and thus repeats his mistakes.
* RightfulKingReturns: This is how he sees himself, and in all fairness he ''is'' the rightful heir to the throne. Subverted, in that he's an OverlordJr who would be ''very bad'' for Grulovia and the world in general if he got actual political power. He also refuses to consider that the Grulovians hated the Maliks.
* RoyalBrat: When he was a child, being little more than an entitled cuss who snacked on caviar all day. He hasn't matured much.
* SanityHasAdvantages: Because he's in control of his mind and fully rational, he has a lot more fine control of his mental world than most people Raz enters in the game, able to set up ambushes and traps. He is also not haunted by a personal demon at all, and easily restrains Raz before Lili ambushes him. That said, it doesn't compensate for his utterly delusional and self-serving worldview, which ends up blowing up in his face spectacularly.
* SelfServingMemory: Every memory he has paints him as either the good guy, the hero who saved the day, or the victim. Even his mental world, Fatherland Follies, is representative of his overinflated ego and his childish nature.
* SinisterSilhouettes: He first appears as a shadowy figure at the end of Loboto's level.
* SmugSnake: As successful as he is at fulfilling his plans, he gloats a lot more than he can back up, especially with his narcissistic delusions and how vulnerable he is when directly confronted. That's not even going into how much his plan would backfire, assuming more control over Maligula than he could ever hope to have.
* TheSociopath: [[BitchInSheepsClothing Pretends to be a friendly mailroom worker]] in order to infiltrate the Psychonauts. Check. [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates everyone like a puppet]]. Check. [[LackOfEmpathy Shows no remorse for his actions]], feels nothing for those that suffered from his fathers tyrannical rule. Check. [[ItsAllAboutMe Only cares about reviving his families empire]] and reawakening [[PersonOfMassDestruction Maligula]] in order to do it, that and [[TrademarkFavoriteFood caviar]]. Check.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Implied by his mental world, in which he is pictured standing on a model of the earth.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: You wouldn't be able to tell Nick from the mailroom is actually exiled royalty, unless you saw him in his full RequisiteRoyalRegalia.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Caviar. There's expired containers of it in his room at the Lady Luctopus Casino, and one of his memory vaults shows he carried a bucket of the stuff with him, constantly, to snack on when he was a child. In fact, the entire reason for his EvilPlan to resurrect Maligula (as shown in a Memory Vault) was that, after the royal family were exiled, their (slightly) diminished fortunes that are still vast in comparison to most people's, were no longer enough to supply him with daily snacks of expensive caviar like he enjoyed when he was the crown prince... eventually running out of their supply, galvanizing Gristol to action when he was forced to face the reality that he could no longer get what he wanted on demand. In essence, rather than some genuine want to restore his country's prosperity for others, Gristol just wants to re-create an environment where he can have whatever he wants, whenever he wants, especially caviar.
* TrashOfTheTitans: His penthouse suite clearly suffered while he was away, with the piles upon piles of open cans of caviar going bad and smelling as ripe as you'd expect bad fish to smell. His memory of the suite as a kid is no better with a serving tray in the ''bathroom''.
* UnSorcerer: He's one of the few non-psychics in a facility densely populated by well-trained psychic spies, but has earned the respect of (nearly) all of his coworkers as the mole.
* VillainSong: He starts singing about Grulovia in the last parts of his stage. He can also be heard singing it ceaselessly in the postgame while locked up in the Psychoisolation Chamber.
* VoiceOnlyCameo: In-universe. It's implied that he was the one speaking to Sasha and Milla during ''The Rhombus of Ruin'' before ignoring their call asking for clues about Truman's kidnapping.
* WalkingSpoiler: As seen above, it's hard to talk about his role in the story because of this.
* TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone: He is the rightful prince of Grulovia who just wants to return to power. He is also a selfish, delusional man who would be a tyrant if he succeeded.

* ChekhovsGunman: His existence is briefly mentioned inside of Cruller's Correspondence, long before hie current involvement in the story is revealed.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': [[ControlFreak Ballas]] is an [[Characters/WarframeOrokin Orokin]] Executor who is responsible for the creation of the Warframes during the war against the [[Characters/WarframeSentients Sentients]]. He [[GreenEyedMonster grew jealous]] when his lover Margulis adopted the [[Characters/WarframeTenno Tenno children]], as [[ItsAllAboutMe he couldn't bear the thought of her caring for anyone else]]; as a result, he voted to have her executed out of spite before [[{{Turncoat}} defecting to the Sentients' side]]. When a Dax soldier learned of his betrayal, Ballas [[HeKnowsTooMuch silenced him]] by turning him into Excalibur Umbra and forcing him to kill his own son, [[ToThePain sadistically taunting him by describing his impending fate]] during the process, then [[AndIMustScream made him relive this memory constantly for centuries]]. Choosing the Lotus as a ReplacementGoldfish for Margulis, Ballas drains her power, then uses [[MindControlDevice Narmer Veils]] to enslave nearly all of the Origin System's population, but is unsatisfied as he still didn't have the Lotus' obedience once she was revived. This drives him to attempt to escape to the Tau System, a process which involves [[StarKilling consuming the Sun]] and would doom all life in the Origin System. After obtaining an Archon Shard which lets him [[PeoplePuppets control the Lotus]], he attempts to force her to kill the Tenno who she views as her children.

!!What is the work?
''Warframe'' is a free-to-play third-person action MMO where players control Tenno, badass space ninja with PoweredArmor... or at least, that's what it looks like at first. In truth, the Tenno are Void-touched children with PsychicPowers, remotely manipulating the Warframes via a process called Transference. Warframes were developed by the Orokin Empire to be used as a weapon against the Sentients in the Old War, making them {{Child Soldier}}s. My candidate today is Executor Ballas, a high-ranking Orokin who is responsible for the creation of the Warframes and who ends up becoming a much bigger threat than the Sentients ever were.

!!Who is the candidate and what has he done?

Executor Ballas is an Orokin who worked on the project to create Warframes. Despite appearing nice at times, he is actually defined by his ControlFreak tendencies. Ballas was in a romantic relationship with another Orokin, the Archimedean Margulis, but this love was cut short when Ballas [[GreenEyedMonster grew jealous of her showing love to the Tenno]], as that meant that [[ItsAllAboutMe he wasn't the most important thing in her life anymore]]. As a result, when Margulis was put on trial, Ballas offered to ease her sentence if she recanted her love for the Tenno; when she refused to do so, he instead voted to have her put to death. After Margulis' death, he then [[{{Turncoat}} betrays his people]] and joins the Sentients' side, helping them wipe out the Orokin Empire.

One of Ballas' vilest acts can be seen during the quest "The Sacrifice", which reveals some details about the creation of the Warframes. An Orokin Dax soldier learned of Ballas' betrayal and attempted to stop him. In retaliation, Ballas [[HeKnowsTooMuch had to silence him]], but he did so in the most cruel way possible: he infected the Dax with a strain of the Infestation that [[WipeThatSmileOffYourFace left him unable to speak]], then had him confined to a hospital bed. Ballas, sporting a FauxAffablyEvil demeanor, has a seemingly-friendly conversation with the Dax and his son, while using telepathy to taunt him by [[ToThePain informing him of his impending fate]]: the Infestation is going to turn the Dax into a monster that will be forced to kill his own son. Due to lacking a mouth, the Dax is unable to warn his son of this. Afterwards, this Dax was turned into the Warframe Excalibur Umbra, [[AndIMustScream forced to relive this memory constantly for centuries]] while being fitted with a RestrainingBolt that made him unable to get revenge (at least, not until the Tenno helped him overcome it).

During "The New War", Ballas shows off the full extent of his thirst for power and admiration. He tortures the Lotus (whom he has taken as a ReplacementGoldfish for Margulis, since she adopted her appearance and mannerisms based on the memories of the Tenno) and drains her power before throwing her [[WouldHurtAChild and the Operator]] into the Void. Afterwards, he creates the Narmer Veils, a MindControlDevice which he has mass-produced in order to [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslave nearly the entire population of the Origin System]] and force them to worship him as a GodEmperor, in an attempt to satisfy his desire to control others. However, he wasn't fully satisfied, as the Lotus was not fully under his control; as such, he decides to use the Praghasa Mothership to [[StarKilling consume the Sun]] in order to fuel his escape to the Tau System. The Drifter, an alternate version of the Operator, attempts to dismantle the Narmer cult and collect the Archon Shards which can revive the Lotus. Once the Operator and the Drifter are reunited, the Lotus goes to confront Ballas, but he manages to obtain an Archon Shard, which lets him control her like a puppet. He announces that he plans to make the Lotus kill the Tenno. However, he is defeated after [[HoistByHisOwnPetard having a Narmer Veil clapped onto his head]], leaving him open to the Lotus stealing the power of the Archon Shard with a KissOfDeath and fully restoring her.

!!Does he have a mitigating factor?

The closest thing to a mitigating factor would be his love for Margulis and the Lotus. However, said love is less about making her happy, and more about him being in control. See this exchange during the final battle of "The New War":

-> '''Ballas:''' "I loved you once... you were so like her [Margulis]."\\
'''Lotus:''' "You dreamed of a Margulis you could control. But she chose death over you."

As mentioned above, when given the option to spare Margulis from being put to death, he decided that he'd only save her life if she agreed to devote herself entirely to him. When she refused, he ordered her execution.

!!Does he meet the heinous standard?
Easily. Ballas proves himself to be among the worst that ''Warframe'' has to offer by any standard, from his manipulation and abuse of Margulis, to his horrific torture of the Dax that became Excalibur Umbra, to his eventual subjugation of the Origin System and his attempts at destroying the Sun, which would doom all life in the Solar System.

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Summing up ''Phantom Blood'''s plot is already amazing: a cool vampire vs a kind-hearted man harnessing the freaking ''sun'' as his power!
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* Jonathan's first truly badass moment. As a kid, he was pretty much a total milquetoast, which Dio exploited to walk all over him. Even post-TimeSkip, he never really shows much ambition to get back at Dio for his cruelty. But when Dio steals Erina's SacredFirstKiss from him, even his gentlemanly soul can't take it anymore, and he snaps, flying into a rage and delivering an ''incredibly'' satisfying beatdown on the boy who made his childhood so miserable. That's where we see the beginning of the young man who would become the first of the [=JoJo=] line, rushing with all his strength to slam open the doors (''jumping over a fountain'' in the process) and letting out a mighty yell of:
-->'''Jonathan:''' '''''[[SayMyName DIOOOOOOOOO!!]]'''''
* Erina washing out her mouth with muddy water after Dio steals her SacredFirstKiss. It's a surprisingly direct show of disrespect from a woman raised in Victorian times. Cemented when she glares defiantly at him as he loses his temper and slaps her.
* Jonathan in his teen years establishes himself as a human tank in a rugby game, pushing forward even as the opposing team continued to dog pile him to the point where he had to pass the ball to Dio.
* Jonathan shows his smarts in finding out that Dio was poisoning his father. He does this by having him swear on Dario Brando’s honor as a gentleman that he didn’t poison Jonathan's father. This is meant to test if Dio had any murderous intention or hatred towards Dario of any kind... Sure enough, Dio’s lie catches in his throat and he snaps, punching him in the face. [[NoSell All it did was royally piss off Jonathan and confirmed his suspicions]]. Then Dio tries to gouge his eye like in their boxing match from when they were kids. [[PunchCatch Jonathan obviously wasn't gonna have any of that shit]], and hurls Dio down the stairs. Until Dio became a vampire, Jonathan's tormentor was no threat to him anymore.
* When Jonathan is accosted by thugs in an alley, he stops their knives with his bare hands, impressing one of them so much that he swears lifelong allegiance to [=JoJo=] rather than fight him. The gang leader, Speedwagon, isn't an ordinary thug and even manages to use a hat with spinning blades to inflict the [[CurbStompCushion only]] injury to Jonathan. Jonathan still wins with no powers and [[HeelFaceTurn redeems Speedwagon with his kindness.]]
* Speedwagon helps Jonathan find proof that Dio poisoned his father, and sets the latter up for an EngineeredPublicConfession that ends with the police arresting him. Were it not for the vampire mask, the villain would have been undone by this self-professed thug!
* Shortly afterwards, when Dio transforms himself into a vampire and moves to kill Jonathan, the latter's paralyzed by shock and grief and has trouble raising his pistol in time to shoot Dio. So Speedwagon steps in alongside his friend and shoots the vampire himself. Sure, it doesn't ''do'' much of anything, but props for quick thinking.
* George Joestar [[TakingTheBullet taking the brunt of Dio's knife to save his son]].
* The fight between Jonathan and the just-turned-vampire Dio. Jonathan managed to fight the Dio to a standstill, impaling him on the statue of Venus, while heavily injured and ''on fire''. All this [[BadassNormal before he even learned about Hamon]].
* Jonathan's battle with Jack the Ripper was his coming of age as a Hamon user, vaporizing Britain's most infamous serial killer by sending his Hamon through a stone wall. All that without spilling a single drop of Zeppeli's wine (which actually helped him, as conducting his Hamon through the wine glass turned it into a motion sensor that tracked Jack the Ripper's location).
* Bruford is the first true demonstration of Jonathan's mastery over Hamon:
** After knocking Jonathan into a lake, Bruford believes that he has an advantage, as Jonathan needs to breathe in order to use Hamon. He's expecting Jonathan to swim upwards, and prepares to drag him back down... but instead, Jonathan dives deeper into the water, figuring that since Wind Knights Lot is a mining town, there must be pockets of air hidden under the rocks. This lets him send out a Hamon attack that forces Bruford to retreat back to dry land.
** Afterwards, Bruford uses his PrehensileHair to bind Jonathan against a tree and drain his blood. Realizing that struggling will do him no good, he instead calms down and takes a deep breath, producing the Hamon he needs to break free, then [[HoistByHisOwnPetard uses Bruford's sword against him by sending Hamon into it with a well-timed kick]]. This is then followed by the famous [[RapidFireFisticuffs Sunlight Yellow Overdrive]]:
---> '''Jonathan''': How my heart resonates... I'm pulsing with heat and life! My very blood is a symphony within me! SUNLIGHT YELLOW OVERDRIVE!!
** Finally, Bruford attempts a last-ditch attack against [=JoJo=], despite missing an arm and being horribly burned by Hamon. Jonathan doesn't even try to defend himself, as he realizes that the pain of the Hamon was able to bring back what remained of Bruford's humanity. The zombie [[FaceDeathWithDignity faces death with dignity]], redeeming himself by sparing Jonathan and passing his sword onto him.
* After Bruford, the battle with Tarkus proves to be even more awesome:
** Poco, who's just a young boy, faces his fears and goes into the castle in order to open the door to allow Zeppeli to save Jonathan, [[CowardlyLion despite being terrified of Tarkus at the time]].
** Zeppeli's HeroicSacrifice to save Jonathan from Tarkus. Remembering the prophecy, he knew it would result in his own death, but he did it anyway. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3kdyR2deJM The anime adaptation]] takes the awesomeness of the moments before Zeppeli's demise UpToEleven: Speedwagon calls out the baron to kick Tarkus' ass, having been the group's greatest fighter. However Zeppeli doesn't move, instead looking around the room, taking it all in as he remembers his mentor's words, all with the subtle guitar of "Roundabout"'s intro playing in the background. Zeppeli then accepts that this is his demise and proceeds to walk between Tarkus and Jonathan, his words and movement oozing [[FaceDeathWithDignity dignity]]. The "ToBeContinued" arrow pops up just in time for the good part of "Roundabout" to kick in along with the credits.
** As he dies, Zeppeli passes his willpower and Hamon onto Jonathan. This gives him a huge boost in power: before, Jonathan was struggling against Tarkus because he was restricted by the metal chain around his neck. With this newfound power, [[TookALevelInBadass Jonathan easily breaks the chain with his bare hands]] before [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomping]] Tarkus! It's even better in the anime because of the music, as seen when Tarkus finally disintegrates into nothing, leaving only his armor behind. The grand soundtrack goes silent as we witness this defeat... Then the camera cuts to Jonathan's stern expression, with blood on one side of his face and a SingleTear streaked down his other eye, all while an ominous horn blares and the screen tints magnenta for the {{eyecatch}}. This single shot of symbolism really states that if you push the kind Jonathan too far, he may bend his gentleman tactics to ensure '''your''' destruction. And afterwards, he inflicts a CurbStompBattle upon ever zombie he comes across because he's strong enough to handle anything less than Dio.
* Poco's sister, a minor character [[{{Muggle}} who has no special powers whatsoever]], refutes Dio's offer to join him as a vampire, slapping him in the face... and she gets away with it!
* By the time Jonathan approaches Dio in his hideout, all he can do is say this: ''[[PreAsskickingOneLiner "Guess who survived his time in hell, Dio."]]''
* Straizo kills 4 zombies with a chandelier, deeming them unworthy to waste his breath on.
* The entire castle fight in general. Jonathan and Dio engage in a battle of wits between equals.
** Dire, despite being [[LiterallyShatteredLives frozen and shattered]], [[DefiantToTheEnd manages to spit a Hamon-infused rose]] in [[EyeScream Dio's eye]]. This helps Jonathan figure out a way to beat him and creates a temporary weak point.
** Jonathan exploits this weakness and severs Dio's arm before slashing him nearly in half. But Dio heals and starts drinking blood while freezing Jonathan, though there is a flaw in their combination Jojo exploits by setting his blade on fire.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzMfMH-ArnA epic combined]] ReasonYouSuckSpeech and BadassBoast Dio gives to Jonathan (and by extension humanity at large, on account of the [[DrunkWithPower power high]] he's riding on [[TransHumanTreachery since becoming a vampire]]), who has just rejected his vampire essence through sheer willpower, in all its [[LargeHam ham-tastic glory]]:
-->'''Speedwagon''': The Vampire Essence, he squeezed it out. ''He's not done!'' [[{{Determinator}} Jonathan won't give up!]]
-->'''Jonathan''': (''[[BringIt wordlessly takes up a fighting stance]]'')
-->'''Dio''': ''[[SarcasmMode Really.]]'' The "let's do battle" stance? [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe You're not serious.]] No matter how you prepare, human ability is extremely limited and finite! Your Hamon training avails you ''nothing''. It's USELESS, USELESS, '''USELESS, USELESS, USELESS, ''UUUUUUSELEEEEEEESS!''''' A mere ''monkey can never defeat a lion!'' In comparison to ''my'' power... (''leaps at Jonathan'') ...'''YOU ARE BUT A MERE ''MONKEY,'' JOJO!'''
** Even when Dio breaks the sword and fully heals himself, Jonathan '''sets his hand on fire''' and actually manages to punch ''through'' the mighty icy defense of Dio, reducing him to a head. Dio inflicts one last wound with his [[EyeBeams Space Ripper Stingy Eyes]], but still got his first permanent damage. If not for Wang Chan, Dio would be dead. Even with Wang Chan, he can no longer freeze people and [[VillainRespect respects Jonathan]] after this fight.
* Jonathan using his last moments to stop Dio's takeover after suffering a fatal wound to the neck, after using the last of his Hamon to have Dio's assistant cause the boat to go down. Counts as a major TearJerker as well since it allowed Dio to get a body after decapitating himself after being beaten by Jonathan, but for 100 years, Jonathan took the threat of Dio Brando to his watery grave. In fact, Dio is far more desperate in the cruiser fight than Jonathan and he also doesn't get out unharmed. When Jonathan defeats Wang Chan and causes the explosion, he saves Erina from shrapnel and even manages to stab Dio with one and grab his head. Dio was even offering immortality to him.
* In the castle fight, Speedwagon directly contributes, by fending off zombies with a sledgehammer. Tonpetty helps him just as they become too much for him.
* Dio, while not nearly as cool as he's in Part 3, has his moments:
** Dominating Jonathan in a boxing match.
** Killing his bastard of a father for [[AbusiveParents abusing him]] and for [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mistreating his mother and insulting her name]]. This is the closest to a [[KickTheSonOfABitch heroic moment]] [[SelfMadeOrphan Dio]] ever had.
** Surviving a vampire attack when he tested the Aztec mask on a beggar, even when he had no powers.
** Becoming a vampire and later using his influence to make Jack the Ripper as well as two medieval knights into loyal zombies.
** [[AnIcePerson Using his ice powers]] in order to reduce heat so the Hamon can't touch him. In fact, he makes Dire and his [[MemeticMutation Thunder Cross Split Attack]] look worthless with his Ionic Freeze.
** His audaciousness in using ExactWords when his victims tries to make deals with him, such as promising that in exchange for turning a woman into a zombie, Dio and his men wouldn't harm her child. Well, that ''didn't'' include the recently zombified mother...
** His [[https://youtu.be/c5jb9rw2eW8 deliciously-evil comeback]] to Zeppeli and Jonathan demanding to know how many victims he's killed and eaten as a vampire to heal himself.
-->'''Zeppeli''': Tell me... to undo your injuries, how many innocent lives did you consume?
-->'''Dio''': [[ButForMeItWasTuesday I don't know.]] (''smirks'') How many ''loaves of bread have you eaten in your lifetime?''
-->'''Zeppeli''': [[StunnedSilence ...!]]
-->'''Jonathan''': (''furiously'') '''''DIIIIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOO!'''''
** [[HeroKiller Killing Jonathan as a head and later taking his body.]] He even survives a hundred years underwater, his main coffin stolen and after a stab to the neck. A PyrrhicVictory, but still his greatest one!
** Actually, him not being as badass as he would be in Part 3 is up for debate. In Part 3, the main character doesn't have Hamon, which is a weakness so great to Dio that even with a certain borderline StoryBreakerPower in his possession, he's still wary and fights the main hero (for the most part) alone. Here in Part 1, Dio is outnumbered and facing the greatest Hamon users, and beats them just through sheer cleverness.
** Though that's also an awesome moment for Jonathan. By destroying Dio's original body, he made him far weaker. Even when Dio stole Jonathan's body, he could never get back his full power without a Stand.
* Meta example: In a rare interview, Creator/TakehitoKoyasu [[https://youtu.be/39lpY_XHVkA describes]] how he experienced [[{{Pun}} the greatest high]] of his long voice acting career as Dio in episode 3.
* The very nature of Hamon is itself a CMOA. Through special breathing techniques, the characters change the flow of energy through their body to match the wavelength of sunlight. Then they use this power to ''punch vampires to death'' with fists that '''literally''' burn with the glory of the Sun herself.
-->'''Jonathan''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Dfsz_Dh0s How my heart resonates. I'm pulsing with heat and life! My very blood is a symphony within me!]]
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_vux8N4dy4 first opening]] of the 2012 anime. It's basically telling you "Yeah, all this badassery? This is where it all began."
** The opening starts out with a quick series of panels complete with speech bubbles from throughout the manga, all showcasing the various [=JoJos=] in some of their most iconic poses. It works backwards through Jolyne, Giorno, Josuke, Jotaro, and Joseph, before finally getting to Jonathan and the series' title. All this, about two decades worth of manga, in about four seconds. Throughout the rest of the opening, a heavy focus is kept on maintaining the visual style of a manga, with panels and sound effects featuring prominently throughout. The whole thing ends with a clash between Jonathan and Dio, zooming out to reveal the Stone Mask, the MacGuffin that started it all.
** Even further, they show all the [=JoJos=], showing them at their most iconic before Jonathan moves, punching the screen with special emphasis on him. The opening then goes on to show an epic clash between him and Dio with the both of them surrounded in BattleAura, something that is not done for another [=JoJo=]. The opening gives Jonathan special emphasis and treatment befitting the first Joestar.
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A great way to add some {{spectacle}} to your video game is to have powerful {{Limit Break}}s with {{Overly Long Fighting Animation}}s. One issue with such moves, however, is that these big, flashy attacks may only realistically be usable in specific environments. For example, DeathFromAbove would probably be less effective deep underground. [[RuleOfCool This doesn't stop developers from implementing such attacks]], and letting you use them in any scenario. By far the most common method of avoiding conflicts between the environment and attack animation is to simply turn the background into an AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield, and have it fade back to normal once the attack is over. Do it this way, and chances are, the player will be too busy being wowed by the flashy colors to notice or care that the environment is gone.

But in some other cases, performing the attack simply teleports you and your opponent to a completely different environment. Maybe some characters have {{Teleportation}} powers that {{justif|iedtrope}}y this, but often, [[GameplayAndStorySegregation there's absolutely no explanation for why you're suddenly somewhere else]]. This is the Inexplicable Super Move Background.

This is a common FightingGame trope, especially in flashy anime-style games.
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* ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' and ''VideoGame/Injustice2'':
** In the first game, many characters' super moves (including Superman's, Flash's, and Sinestro's) are a {{downplayed}} example in that they feature a cut-away of the planet Earth. This is despite the fact that the Justice League Watchtower, which is a space station, is one of the stages that you can fight in. As a result, Doomsday can punch you through the floor of the Watchtower, and dig all the way to the Earth's core.
** Green Lantern's supermove in both games inexplicably teleports you to a colosseum on Oa.
** Atrocitus impales you with his BladeBelowTheShoulder,
** Aquaman's ''Injustice 2'' super move starts with him flooding the stage. He then pushes you up to the surface, where the background has somehow turned into the middle of the ocean.
** Firestorm's super move takes place in a lava-filled cave.
* ''VideoGame/MyHeroOnesJustice'': During most of the cinematic Plus Ultra moves, the background will temporarily change to the middle of a sunny desert, or to SpeedLines.
* Several of the Final Smashes in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' take place in a different location. Once these moves end, you're sent back to the stage you were on before suffering the knockback of the attack.
** Yoshi hits you, and you land in a desert canyon where a horde of Yoshis trample you.
** Captain Falcon's Final Smash has him [[CarFu hit you with his machine, the Blue Falcon]]. This sends you to an F-Zero race track, where he hits you again.
** King Dedede's new Finals Smash in ''Ultimate'' sends you to a steel wrestling cage. The attack ends with him hitting you hard enough to break through the fencing.
** Incineroar sends you to a wrestling ring, where he sends you into the ropes, hits you again as you bounce back, launching you into the air, then blows up the ring with a body slam while the crowd cheers.
** Duck Hunt has a swarm of ducks hit you, and you end up in the middle of a shootout between the Wild Gunmen and some thugs from ''Hogan's Alley''.
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[[folder:Last-Season Gay Couple]]
Throughout [[TurnOfTheMillennium the late 2000's]] and especially TheNewTens, acceptance of [[UsefulNotes/LGBTCommunity LGBT+ people]] has gradually become more and more widespread. As a result, writers and directors have increasingly tried to include queer characters in their stories. However, while the number of people who tolerate or support the LGBT+ community is growing, [[HeteronormativeCrusader those who oppose them]] are still a loud and sizeable group, especially in more religious areas. This discourages most writers from putting too much focus on characters who aren't cisgender or straight, since such a move could alienate viewers, advertisers, and executives.

The Last-Season Gay Couple is one possible compromise. Related to ButNotTooGay, this is when queer characters show few or no signs of being attracted to someone of the same gender until shortly before the show is set to end. There may be some HomoeroticSubtext here and there in the earlier seasons, but nothing that a less-progressive viewer couldn't brush off as platonic. It's only in the final season, if not the final episode, that the characters will [[QueerEstablishingMoment do something undeniably gay]], such as a BigDamnKiss or LoveConfession.

The reason why writers can get bolder with their queer representation in the work's final stretch is because there's much less risk of getting ScrewedByTheNetwork at this point: homophobic backlash can't get your show cancelled if it's already over, after all. This also results in lots of free advertising for your show's finale as news outlets ([[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity liberal and conversative alike]]) report on the new gay couple, especially if the work is aimed at a young audience. However, some viewers may not be so happy about this type of representation as it may come across as cowardly, as if the writers only want to be allies when there are no negative consequences. Despite this, others can appreciate that while it may not be the perfect way to do representation, it's often the only option that ExecutiveMeddling won't shoot down, and it's at least better than nothing.

It's more common for the Last-Season Gay Couple to involve lesbians rather than gay men. This may be because MostWritersAreMale, and GirlOnGirlIsHot: there may be worries that two guys kissing would be off-putting to straight men who make up the most important demographic of most shows, while ladies smooching are much more appealing.

Compare ButNotTooGay and SweepsWeekLesbianKiss.

!!Since this trope deals with a show's ending, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff all spoilers will be unmarked]]!
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* Throughout ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', it's strongly implied that something not-quite-platonic is going on between Princess Bubblegum and Marceline. The series finale, "Come Along With Me", shows the two of them sharing a BigDamnKiss after GOLB has been defeated.
* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''' last episode, "Weirdmageddon Part 3: Take Back the Falls", [[ThoseTwoGuys Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland]] say that they've gone "mad with power... and love", confirming that they're in a romantic relationship after getting HomoeroticSubtext throughout the show's run.
* "The Last Stand", ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'''s final episode, ends with Korra and Asami holding hands while looking longingly into each other's eyes. [[https://bryankonietzko.tumblr.com/post/105916338157/korrasami-is-canon-you-can-celebrate-it-embrace It would later be confirmed]] that this is indeed a romantic gesture.
* Happens twice in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'''s final season:
** In "The Big Mac Question", a MeaningfulBackgroundEvent shows Lyra proposing to Bon Bon, to which Bon Bon responds by also proposing to her. The two could be seen spending time together in the background of many episodes throughout the whole show's run.
** {{Downplayed}} in "The Last Problem", the show's GrandFinale, which gives some very strong and intentional ShipTease between Applejack and Rainbow Dash, showing them bickering LikeAnOldMarriedCouple.
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