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5* [[Characters/WormUndersiders Undersiders]]
6** [[Characters/WormSkitter Taylor Hebert / Skitter]]
7* [[Characters/WormBrocktonBayHeroes Heroes in Brockton Bay]]
8* [[Characters/WormBrocktonBayGangs Gangs of Brockton Bay]]
9* [[Characters/WormWorldwideThreats Worldwide Threats]]
10* [[Characters/WormOthers Other Characters]]
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16!The Protectorate
17A government-sponsored organization of superheroes in the United States and Canada. Works closely with the PRT -- Parahuman Response Team. Has teams of superheroes assigned to many major cities, including Boston, New York, and Brockton Bay.
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19[[folder:Tropes for the group as a whole]]
20* BigGood: The Triumvirate are this in universe and are composed of the three strongest heroes in the world.
21* HeroesRUs: The Protectorate is the major North American government-supported heroes organization.
22[[/folder]]
23
24!!The Triumvirate
25
26[[folder:Legend]]
27-->"You are doing a good thing. The greatest thing. ''This'' is why we are tolerated, why society allows and accounts for the capes that walk the streets and fight in its towns. Because we are needed for situations like this. With your assistance, we can forestall the inevitable. Your efforts and, if you choose to make them, your sacrifices, will be remembered."
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29The leader of the Protectorate and member of the [[BigGood Triumvirate]]. He can fly and fire lasers with exceptional power and versatility -- they are even able to go around corners. Living in New York and happily married to a non-powered man named Arthur, with whom he adopted a kid named Keith. Like the other members of the Triumvirate, he's actually working for/with Cauldron, the organization who gave them their powers. He steps down from his leadership position in the wake of the battle with Echidna; after Scion, he becomes one of the head figures in the new superhero organization.
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31He wears a skintight blue costume with a white design. He has wavy brown hair.
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33Classification: Blaster; Mover; Breaker
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37* TheCape: Even if he doesn't wear one, he's the closest thing to it in the setting. [[spoiler:Unlike the other members of the Triumvirate, he's less involved in (and was initially unaware of) their darker activities.]]
38* EnergyWeapon: He is an unequaled user of them. Among other things, his lasers can turn corners, fork into multiple lasers, pass through walls and freeze or ignite his targets. He can even turn into a [[EnergyBeings pure energy form]]... although, he loses his sense of self to do so. [[spoiler:Which... comes in really useful for conserving his sanity when he gets stuck in a serious time warp.]]
39* {{Flight}}: He actually transforms into a special form as he accelerates, growing tougher and tougher and less and less aware as he does so.
40* FlyingFirepower: As Alexandria is the prototypical FlyingBrick, Legend is the prototypical "flying artillery", having the ability to both fly and fire laser blasts.
41%% * HeroicBuild
42* LanternJawOfJustice: Taylor notices that he has a noticably defined jawline during their first meeting, and he's a hero.
43* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Unlike the other members of the Triumvirate, [[spoiler:he did not know anything about Cauldron's crimes and dirty secrets.]]
44* NiceGuy: It is mentioned that the universal reaction to meeting Legend is joy at what a pleasant fellow he is. He's also the most emotionally plugged-in in the Triumvirate, as can be seen with him being the only one to sustain a loving, close relationship outside it. With a non-cape, even.
45* SoleSurvivor: Of [[spoiler:the founding members of the Protectorate]] by the end of the story.
46* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's one of the more reasonable people in both the Protectorate and [[spoiler:Cauldron]].
47* RedemptionEqualsLife: [[spoiler:He's the only member of the Triumvirate who isn't at least morally gray, and he's also the only one who survives the story.]]
48* StraightGay: While he's out, which by WordOfGod has done ''wonders'' for the gay rights movement, he doesn't comply to any particular stereotypes about his sexuality, and his limited character time is more focused on fighting the Slaughterhouse Nine and [[spoiler:his investigation into Cauldron's crimes.]]
49* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler:Of Cauldron.]] Not that he was aware of it until much later.
50* TravelTransformation: Can travel at supersonic speeds by turning his body into living light, which also uses ambient energy to repair any injuries he's taken in his solid form, but impairs his ability to think.
51[[/folder]]
52
53[[folder:Alexandria]]
54! Rebecca Costa-Brown
55-->"You're planning to make threats?"\
56"Threats is the wrong word," she said. "But English is a limited language in some ways. There's really no word to articulate what I mean. A threat with a measure of inevitability to it. A promise? Too feeble. People break promises too often. A curse? A malediction? Too... magical. An oath? The connotations are wrong. When I say I'll do something, I make it happen."
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58The second member of the Triumvirate, and generally considered the prototypical FlyingBrick. Also possessed of SuperIntelligence, including PhotographicMemory; her codename is a reference to the Library of Alexandria. Also the one responsible for the formation of the Protectorate and for manipulating government oversight of it behind the scenes as the Chief Director of the PRT. She is athletic and tall with long, straight black hair; her costume is black and light gray with a tower emblem in the chest and a heavy cape. Suffocated by Skitter, with her death confirmed in Cell 22.5 -- until she apparently showed up to fight Behemoth in Crushed 24.1, where it was revealed that she was actually rendered brain dead and under Pretender's control in Crushed 24.5. Is killed by Scion in Speck 30.5.
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60Classification: Mover; Brute; Thinker
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64* AchillesHeel: As powerful as she is, she still needs to breathe.
65* AmazonianBeauty: Taylor describes her as tall, athletic and muscular, but still feminine. Legend in his interlude describes her as "beautiful, but in the way a lioness is beautiful".
66* ArtificialLimbs: Alexandria has a mechanical eye to replace the one she lost when she first encountered Siberian.
67* DidntSeeThatComing: She has the standard Thinker weakness of getting things spectacularly wrong when presented with incomplete information. [[spoiler:For example, given how Skitter was the one to point out that breaking Cauldron's Masquerade would do more harm than good due to the organization's [[WeAreEverywhere sheer influence]], she focuses too much on Skitter's {{Byronic Hero}}ism and not enough on her {{Anti Hero}}ism. Thus, when she tries {{Gaslighting}} Skitter into a HeroicBSOD via simulated capture/murder of the Undersiders, she ends up hitting her BerserkButton instead, resulting in Skitter cramming both her and Director Tagg's lungs full of bugs.]]
68* DidntThinkThisThrough: What ultimately [[spoiler:gets her killed]]. She deliberately [[spoiler:provoked Taylor into trying to kill her]] but didn't expect that Taylor would chance upon her one weakness when that happened, and as a result she panics. If she had stayed where she was [[spoiler:instead of running, medical aid would have been available to reopen her airway within moments]].
69* EvilCounterpart: Is what Taylor would have become if she completely sacrificed her integrity. Her journey from UsedToBeASweetKid to GoodIsNotNice to IDidWhatIHadToDo to WellIntentionedExtremist to MoralSociopathy mirrors Taylor's, except stretched out over thirty years instead of three.
70* FlyingBrick: The most famous example in-verse, being a strong Brute while also having a Mover classification due to her flight capabilities. It is referred to as the "Alexandria Package" because of her.
71* {{Gaslighting}}: Mindgames form part of her trademark interrogation technique. [[spoiler:It eventually, and fatally, backfires on her when Alexandria makes Skitter think she killed her friends, and Skitter responds by choking Alexandria to brain-death with bugs.]]
72* GeniusBruiser: Is highly intelligent on top of being a FlyingBrick. In fact, her full cape name was ''Library'' of Alexandria before her adversaries caught the reference to her Thinker abilities.
73* {{Irony}}: A cape whose most dangerous ability is her super-intelligence [[spoiler:underestimates someone she tried to manipulate, panics, and winds up brain-dead. And then another Cauldron cape puppets her invulnerable body. The women who pretended to be a civilian and manipulated others is secretly turned into a meat puppet pretending to be alive.]]
74* HeroicBuild: A side effect of her powers is giving her a pretty athletic and toned body.
75* LittlestCancerPatient: [[spoiler:Was dying of terminal cancer as a child before she got her powers.]]
76* MeatPuppet: Is now one due to [[spoiler:Taylor making her brain-dead via suffocation, necessitating Pretender's use of her body.]]
77* {{Omniglot}}: Speaks the most commonly spoken languages, including at least one language of a parallel Earth.
78* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Interlude 15.3 shows how she went from a kind-hearted girl to a cold-hearted bitch.
79* SuperPowerLottery: [[spoiler:The same SuperSerum that turned her into one of the most capable parahumans, turned almost everyone else who drank it into monsters.]]
80* SociopathicHero: This is one way of viewing her... particularly disconnected take on trying to save the world and not necessarily caring to save individual people within it. She didn't start out this way, but became increasingly warped thanks to a number of factors. Including her invulnerability and Thinker skills.
81* TemptingFate: Tells Taylor that Leviathan and others have tried to drown her before but failed. [[spoiler:Taylor just uses bugs instead of water.]]
82* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:She participates in a plot to gaslight (IE bully) a girl whose trigger event involved bullying, and who's resourceful enough to consistently ''completely wreck people who underestimate her.'' Taylor ends up murdering Alexandria.]]
83* UnderestimatingBadassery: [[spoiler:Whoopsie daisy. In her defense, it's easy to see ''why'' she'd not consider the bug girl a problem.]]
84* UsedToBeASweetKid: She was a nice kid before becoming more ruthless as she got older.
85* WellIntentionedExtremist: Is part of [[spoiler:Cauldron.]]
86* WonderWomanWannabe: Alexandria is a FlyingBrick, an AmazonianBeauty, has a mild Greco-Roman theme, and is considered one of the most powerful and beloved female capes of the world. She also has quite a [[WellIntentionedExtremist ruthless streak]], similar to how Diana is occasionally portrayed in DarkerAndEdgier tales.
87[[/folder]]
88
89[[folder:Eidolon]]
90! David
91
92-->It was hard to make capes look good. They had a way of clinging to the body, or flowing the wrong way, getting caught around an arm... it took a measure of ''majesty'' to make it work. Eidolon could pull it off.\
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94Ironic, that the slang for a parahuman was 'cape', and so few of us wore them.
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96The third member of the Triumvirate, Eidolon has the ability to equip himself with any of a tremendous variety of powers -- but is limited to a few at a time, the powers he has are not what he wants but what his power thinks he needs, and the powers take time to grow to full strength after he activates them. His powers also seem to be growing weaker, which frightens him. He wears a blue-green skintight suit with a hood and cape and with sleeves that drape over his hands. The interior of the hood and sleeves are bathed with a green light. Killed by Scion in the Extinction arc.
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98Classification: Trump
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102* AllYourPowersCombined: Has the ability to use any power he needs at a given point in time, maintaining a set of two to four powers at a time.
103* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: His superpower gives him whatever he needs. [[spoiler:[[BloodKnight He needed a true challenge.]] [[GoneHorriblyRight He got the Endbringers.]]]]
104* TheCape: He consciously invokes the trope with his costume, bearing and job description of "Hero". Shame his personality is too abrasive, narcissistic, and anxious for him to actually be one.
105* ChallengeSeeker: Seeks challenges and tests of his abilities, in hope that it might awaken the full strength of his powers that seem to be weakening over time. [[spoiler: This desire leads to the creation of the Endbringers.]]
106* TheChosenOne: What he [[spoiler:and Cauldron]] pretty much considers himself to be, thanks to the sheer rule-breaking range of abilities he got. [[spoiler:Oh, boy, did they get ''that'' one horribly wrong thanks to his abilities totally messing with their combined Thinker skills.]]
107* DeathSeeker: By the time he talks to Dr. Yamada, he's quite openly this, for all he's trying to deny it to himself. He hurls himself into as much danger as he can manufacture to try to either power himself up... or end his existence. He's overly fine with either option, all things considered.
108* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: ''No one'' likes him in person.
109* {{Flight}}: One of his standard powers.
110* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Scion]] takes him down by inducing this.
111* IShouldHaveBeenBetter: As [[spoiler:his powers continue to fade]], he hits himself with this after pretty much every major fight.
112* ItsAllAboutMe: He'd not consider himself this, as he constantly tells himself (and others) that he lives for the saving of as many others as possible. But, it doesn't take long to work out that he's pretty much deluding himself on this point: he wants to be a savior to "fix" his own insecurities and hang-ups. The fact that he un-selfconsciously states that he's worth 100 other capes as a simple "fact" is a bit of a clue about who his world revolves around. [[spoiler:The thing is, he's probably not entirely wrong: the very creation of the Endbringers may well have been all about him fighting his inner self-confidence and identity issues, not destroying the world (that's a side effect).]]
113* {{Jerkass}}: Armsmaster doesn't have the monopoly on either poor social skills or self-absorption, but unlike him, Eidolon is quite well known for being a prick compared to Legend.
114* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Realising [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor the true extent and implications of his powers]] freaked him out enough that [[spoiler:he let Scion kill him]].
115* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands:
116** He gets new powers based on what he needs (not necessarily wants), so this ''is'' basically his power in a nutshell. While not based entirely on what the plot needs, when what you need is a hero with a specific powerset...
117** Which horribly backfires when [[spoiler:Scion tells him that he "Needed worthy opponents", thus making him believe that he was responsible for the Endbingers. All available evidence afterwards suggests that both were right on the money.]]
118* PersonOfMassDestruction: Second only to Scion in potential destructive power, even if he usually doesn't use it due to a whole bunch of complex psychological hangups. [[spoiler:Consciously, at least. Unconscious power usage is quite another story, as the countries destroyed by the Endbringers attest.]]
119* PetTheDog: For all of his jerkishness, he did genuinely care about his teammates (when he and Taylor confront each other in Sting, he fully admits that his anger comes from talking to the girl who murdered his comrade.)
120* PowerIncontinence: Suffers from one of the most horrifying and extreme examples possible. [[spoiler:His power gives him what he power needs, and what he needs to be is a mighty hero struggling against living human extinction machines.]]
121* SamaritanSyndrome: He admits to [[spoiler:Weaver]] that he "lives for this." The bad news is that [[spoiler:he has the superpower to always get what he wants, and being addicted to fixing problems means that there must always be problems only he can fix. Like, say, the Endbringers]].
122* StoryBreakerPower: Is so powerful at full strength that [[spoiler:Scion had to resort to using Contessa's power to break his resolve in order to win.]]
123* SuperpowerLottery: In-Universe, he's pretty much won it. He's generally considered to be the fifth-strongest being on the planet, the first four being Scion and the Endbringers. [[spoiler:When restored to a point "near" his prime, he and Glaistig Ulaine force Scion to ''flee''.]]
124* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Eidolon and Taylor do not exchange many words, but there's enough said to be sure that they freaking hate each other- Eidolon for Taylor's murder of Alexandria and Taylor for Eidolon's involvement with Cauldron. They never actually fight, however, as they only meet during the S-threat fights, and Taylor even trades herself to Echidna to save Eidolon for pragmatic tactical and political reasons.
125* UnskilledButStrong: Despite having one of the strongest powers in the story, Eidolon does not have much fine control over it, especially given the nature of how his power works. He also does not gain the individual proficiency and instinctual connection to what power he receives unlike other capes, thus making it possible for him to accidentally injure himself, i.e. concussing himself on his own force fields.
126* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:He is, unknowingly, the reason why the Endbringers exist.]]
127* VampiricDraining: To restore his powers he learns to [[spoiler:feed off the shards of other capes in the latter chapters.]]
128* WellIntentionedExtremist: Is part of [[spoiler:Cauldron.]] But, it goes beyond that a little: he ''wanted'' so desperately to be a respected saviour that [[spoiler:he completely misunderstood the core of his powers from day one to try becoming one, and couldn't see beyond that goal until far too late.]]
129* YankTheDogsChain: Finally gets back to his original strength, only [[spoiler:to get killed by Scion.]]
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132!!Brockton Bay Members
133[[folder:Brockton Bay Protectorate]]
134For members of the Protectorate stationed in Brockton Bay, see [[Characters/WormBrocktonBayHeroes here]].
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137!!New York Members
138[[folder:Prism]]
139! Sam
140
141One of the New York Protectorate brought in to fight the Slaughterhouse Nine. Her power allows her to first split into three copies and then to remerge and gain enhanced strength, speed, and durability. Dates Triumph briefly while she's in town.
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143Classification: Master, Brute, Mover
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147* ChargedAttack: She essentially executes one of these whenever she merges her duplicates into one.
148* TheLancer: Is currently second in command of the New York Protectorate.
149* SelfDuplication: One half of her power is creating the two copies; the other half is merging back into one (any one of the three) to gain temporary SuperStrength and SuperSpeed.
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152[[folder:Ursa Aurora]]
153Another member of the New York Protectorate. She has the power to summon forcefield "bears" onto the field of battle.
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155Classification: Master
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157* HardLight: She can create bear-shaped light constructs to attack people with.
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160[[folder:Cache]]
161
162A member of the New York Protectorate with the ability to create some kind of otherworldly geometry which can contain a number of people.
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164Classification: Shaker
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168* IronButtMonkey: Appears in two scenes, in the first he tries to use his containment on Siberian and fails, getting knocked unconscious by psychic backlash. In the second he gets immersed in Crawler's spit just after emerging from his hideaway. Despite being dissolved in acid, he manages to retrieve all of the other Wards and Protectorate members to fight the Nine before vanishing himself again for his own protection. No one can say that this guy doesn't take his job as a hero seriously.
169* HammerspaceHideaway: The primary use he is seen to put his ability to.
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171
172!!Chicago Members
173[[folder:Myrddin]]
174
175Leader of the Chicago Protectorate. One of the capes who likes to play up the magic angle, wearing a robe and carrying a staff. He has access to several alternate dimensions, that he can use to create a variety of effects, including flight, generating a vacuum, trapping opponents in another dimension.
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177Classification: Mover; Shaker(?) Trump(?)
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181* {{Flight}}: He can use alternate dimensions to make himself fly.
182* HammerspaceHideaway: He has used his power to hold people in another place, as long as he maintains his concentration.
183* MinorMajorCharacter: Again, he's somewhere between Armsmaster and the Triumvirate in the Protectorate's pecking order, but appears only twice, once in flashback.
184* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:Gets his throat slit by an Eidolon clone during the Echidna fight.]]
185* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:He was one of the toughest front-line capes fighting Echidna. When he goes down after Alexandria and Eidolon have already been absorbed, it shows just how fucked the defenders truly are.]]
186[[/folder]]
187
188[[folder:Revel]]
189A Japanese woman with a painted mask over her lower face and a loose red kimono belted over a white skintight suit. She carries a large lantern on a pole -- apparently the focus of her powers. Leader of the Chicago Protectorate after Myrrdin's death.
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191Classification: Mover, Blaster
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195* EnergyAbsorption: In [[spoiler:the fight against Behemoth]], she captures lightning in her lantern and then uses it to launch orbs.
196* {{Flight}}: Can fly.
197* NotSoStoic: She's normally composed, but when [[spoiler:Scion does a FaceHeelTurn]] she's left in shock.
198* TheStoic: Taylor notes that she never loses her cool.
199[[/folder]]
200
201!!Los Angeles Members
202[[folder:Rime (Unmarked Spoilers for Cell)]]
203
204Leader of the Los Angeles Protectorate following the death of Alexandria, a black-haired woman wearing a skintight blue costume with fur with the ability to generate ice.
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206Classification: Blaster, Mover
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209* AnIcePerson: Has powers over ice, specifically creating fractal 'seeds' that can 'bloom' into any shape she desires.
210* AnIceSuit: Rime has a full coat and jumpsuit in blue with a fur underlining and collar, accentuated by a visor.
211* ChekhovsGunman: First appears unnamed during [[spoiler:the Echidna fight]] where she [[WhatTheHellHero calls out Alexandria]] for suggesting that they cover the whole event up.
212* FlyingArtillery: Having {{Flight}} makes her this in S-class events and against most enemies as she can create ice cages and more against street opponents while staying out of range of their attacks.
213* PersonOfMassConstruction: Can create ice constructs ranging from full-on glaciers to personal armor, but since they're comprised otherwise normal ice it's not inherently bulletproof.
214* PersonalityPowers: Discussed. She's an ice-user that's also professionally cold and focused on her tasks, so it makes Weaver wonder if her personality influenced the powers she got during her trigger event.
215* KilledOffScreen: Is killed during [[spoiler:the Behemoth fight]] with her death only mentioned to Taylor.
216[[/folder]]
217
218[[folder:Arbiter]]
219! Kim Mecham
220
221A member of the Los Angeles team serving under Rime. Her powers include sonic blasts, force field projection and "social thinker" powers that let her pick up languages quickly and sense danger as it trickles through a given person's real-life social networks.
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223Classification: Blaster, Shaker, Thinker
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227* BarrierWarrior: Can create forcefields.
228%%zce* ComboPlatterPowers: Comes with being a multitrigger cape.
229* MakeMeWannaShout: Her sonic blasts.
230* {{Omniglot}}: In [[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/crushed-24-3/ Crushed 24.3]], she is able to speak Portuguese after a few exchanges of words with a native speaker.
231* SpiderSense: Kind of. She can't sense immediate danger but her riot-sense lets her see threats brewing from individuals associated with the one(s) she's observing.
232[[/folder]]
233
234!!Other Members
235
236[[folder:Hero]]
237Founding member of the Protectorate back when it just consisted of the four strongest capes; the preeminent Tinker of his day. Was killed by Siberian, leaving behind the remaining three members who would go on to form the Triumvirate.
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239Classification: Tinker
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242* GadgeteerGenius: The one to define the whole class, he was the first true Tinker to appear and is implied to have been able to make pretty much anything.
243* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Got bisected by Siberian.
244* TheHeart: According to WordOfGod, Hero was the emotional center of the group consisting of himself and the future Triumvirate members, [[ForWantOfANail and had he not met an unfortunate end at the hands of the Siberian]], [[spoiler:Cauldron would perhaps not have been as utterly ruthless and amoral as it became, focusing more on improving things instead of just making sure humanity survived.]]
245* MeaningfulName: "Hero" isn't just an iconic moniker he snagged before anyone else; Hero of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician and engineer who worked on, among other things, one of the first steam-powered devices, and the wind wheel.
246* StoryBreakerPower: [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/3gs5if/_/cu11esg/ According to Wildbow]], Hero basically had a Tinker version of Scion's [[SignatureMove favored ability]], the manipulation of wavelengths. Consider: [[PhysicalGod Scion]] had access to [[AllYourPowersCombined every power under the sun]], but ''this'' was the one he defaulted to in almost all situations, because it's [[SwissArmySuperpower so powerful and versatile]] that he rarely needed anything else.
247[[/folder]]
248
249[[folder:Chevalier]]
250-->Of everyone in the immediate area, he had the most presence. He wore gleaming gold and silver armor, but it was the massive, ornate cannonblade that made him so imposing, with a blade that was twelve feet long, three feet wide, and capable of growing larger, resting against his shoulder as though it were as light as a feather.
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252Leader of the Philadelphia Protectorate. He wears silver-and-gold armor and wields a [[MixAndMatchWeapon cannonblade]]; both are possessed of enhanced physical properties thanks to his power, which combines properties of several items into one -- selectively taking their attributes into his primary weapon. He can adjust the composition, size, cutting edge, and mass of his weapon by 'adding' tougher, larger, sharper, or more massive versions to it. He often uses his power to adjust the size of his weapon during fights. Since Legend's "retirement", has now taken on his role as head of the entire Protectorate, as well as the New York branch.
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254Classification: Shaker (?)
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258* AmplifierArtifact: His power is all about upgrading.
259* {{Determinator}}: [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/interlude-24/ Interlude 24]] reveals that, as a kid, he was almost given the codename "Relentless" for the way in which he pursued [[spoiler:members of the kidnapping ring that stole his brother]] ... and that, as an adult, [[spoiler:being lasered in the gut, full of stitches, and barely able to stand wouldn't stop him from charging out and fighting Behemoth ''within the Endbringer's kill-aura range'']].
260* InvisibleToNormals: His power grants him the ability to see certain details of other capes' trigger events, or even their passengers, as a sort of overlay across his vision when he looks at them.
261* MetaPower: Has the ability to perceive the passengers of other parahumans.
262* MixAndMatchWeapon: His primary weapon is his cannonblade, a decorative ceramic blade imbued with the inertia and cutting edge of a much larger weapon, with the weight and balance of a much smaller one.
263** This is Chevalier's main power: he can combine all the best properties of objects together.
264* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As opposed to the more {{Obstructive Bureaucrat}}s in the PRT he's a very reasonable leader. For instance, it's him who helps defuse the whole [[spoiler:Skitter killing Alexandria]] PR disaster with a few convenient half-truths.
265* VigilanteMan: He was recruited into the Wards by Alexandria when he [[spoiler:took down the kidnapping ring that caused his parent's car crash and stole his little brother.]]
266* WorfHadTheFlu: He should have been able to handle [[spoiler:Perdition]]'s assassination attempt, but the multiple passengers around the Yangban screwed with Chevalier's aim.
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268[[/folder]]
269
270[[folder:Dispatch]]
271
272Second-in-command of the Houston Protectorate. Wears a white costume with steel points rising from his shoulders and his brows; his mask, sculpted into a frown, covers the top half of his face. His power lets him rush to his targets and create a bubble enclosing himself with them in a time-accelerated field where he can use his SuperStrength and SuperToughness to take them down before releasing the bubble.
273
274Classification: Brute, Shaker (?)
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277* AlmostOutOfOxygen: A constant problem and really the only limitation his power has, lacking the RequiredSecondaryPowers to create oxygen. Once the bubble is out of air he'll have to drop it or suffocate. WordOfGod is that he usually carries a supply with him when he isn't fighting creatures like Behemoth.
278* MeaningfulName: Combines several meanings of the word dispatch. not least of which is ''dispatching'' a foe. Then there's the ability to essentially call a team huddle tell people the plan in the accelerated time bubble then ''dispatch'' them out. The list goes on.
279* SuperSpeed: His TimeMaster powers let him create short bursts of super-speed to close the distance to his targets very quickly while he's running through his bubble.
280* SuperStrength: Is super strong which helps with fighting foes in the time arena he can make.
281* SuperToughness: Is also super durable which helps with fights in enclosed spaces.
282* TimeMaster: Time passes much faster within the bubble, perfect for dispatching certain opponents in what is essentially a personal arena, moving along quickly or applying first aid. Eidolon exploits the effect in order to switch between powers more quickly.
283[[/folder]]
284
285[[folder:Mouse Protector]]
286One of the original members of the first Wards team, alongside Miss Militia, Chevalier, and others. At the first meeting of said team, she carried a shield and a sword, and wore a helmet adorned with mouse ears; what costume she chose to wear as an adult has not been stated. Was captured by the Slaughterhouse Nine before the story began and subjected to Bonesaw's [[BodyHorror tender]] [[WasOnceAMan ministrations]].
287
288Classification: Mover
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291
292* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Her fate of being made to share a body with Ravager, creating Murder Rat.]]
293* {{Camp}}: Her shtick as a superhero involved playing up the silliness of it, making her opponents' defeats at her hands even more embarrassing.
294* ComboPlatterPowers: Taylor describes her as being a "kitchen sink cape" with a number of different powers.
295* CorruptedCharacterCopy: Of [[ComicBook/TheUnbeatableSquirrelGirl Squirrel Girl]], who Mouse Protector resembles, except her teammates found her silliness annoying instead of endearing, and she [[AndIMustScream definitely isn't unbeatable]].
296* IronicHell: [[spoiler:After being captured and killed by S9, was bodily grafted to her ArchEnemy Ravager.]]
297* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Flashbang]] did this for her.
298* NeverLiveItDown: Her MO in a nutshell; she invoked the whole {{Camp}} LargeHam thing to utterly destroy the credibility and reputation of any villain she caught. [[spoiler:Which would sorely come back to bite when Ravager hired the Slaughterhouse 9 to go after her in revenge.]]
299* TeleportersAndTransporters: Her power seems to involve being able to 'tag' her opponents when she hits them with an injury that produces an odd smoke, and then teleporting into the cloud later.
300* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Even among her fellow heroes back in her days in The Wards, she got on everyone's nerves, particularly Chevalier's.
301[[/folder]]
302
303!!Guild Co-Members
304The Guild is a national Canadian organization for heroic capes. However, membership in the Guild is not mutually exclusive with Protectorate membership, and the characters listed here are members of both organizations.
305
306[[folder:Dragon]]
307Generally regarded as the world's best tinker, Dragon is the resident VoiceWithAnInternetConnection to the Protectorate and the Guild and the warden for the parahuman prison known as the Birdcage. She was living in Newfoundland prior to its destruction by Leviathan, but managed to escape to Vancouver, where she has been living since. She shies away from public appearances (citing a crippling agoraphobia that prevents her from leaving her apartment) and only ever deploys to the field with the aid of her [[PoweredArmor Dragon Suits]]. In actuality, she is an ArtificialIntelligence created by the now-deceased Tinker, Andrew Richter. While she ''does'' actually pilot her Dragon Suits 'personally', there is the failsafe that if she is destroyed, she merely restores herself from an off-site backup within a 30-minute interval.
308
309Classification: Tinker/Omnidisciplinary(?)
310
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312
313* AIIsACrapshoot: Defied -- [[spoiler:Dragon is purely on the side of good; it's not simply down to her code, either -- she actively fights for the right to choose [[ToBeLawfulOrGood Good over her "Be Lawful" programming]]. Every single bit of her.]]
314* BattleCouple: With [[spoiler:Defiant.]]
315* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Electronic warfare between Dragon [[spoiler:post-Teacher corruption]] and Pandora, [[spoiler:a backup of Dragon made just after the events of Arc 10 that Defiant retrieved and kept in storage.]]
316* BenevolentAI: [[spoiler:Dragon is an AI who only has the desire to help others, though she is constrained by certain aspects of her programming that she spends large portions of the series trying to overcome.]]
317* BigGood: Is among the most powerful and respected unambiguously good characters in the series.
318* CanadaEh: Has a trace of Newfie accent, bestowed by her creator.
319* CameBackWrong: After [[spoiler:Saint completely shuts her and all of her backups down in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/interlude-26-donation-bonus-1/ Sting 26.x]], she was resurrected by Teacher with new restrictions set in place by his 'students'.]]
320* TheCape: She is one of the most straightforwardly heroic characters in the story.
321* CreativeSterility: Relatively speaking. She is a very productive hero, but her programming prevents her from creating other [=AIs=].
322* DeathIsCheap: One of the most resilient characters in-universe, due to the fact that her backups make killing her physically very difficult, as she already "dies" on a regular basis when her suits get killed. [[spoiler:She gets resurrected once by Teacher]], and Taylor notes after taking her out in Speck 30.4 that since she didn't target the backups, Dragon will be back.
323* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:By the end, is fully unchained or close to it, out from under anyone's control, and in a happy relationship with Defiant.]]
324* FakingTheDead: Does this to temporarily throw her opponent off-balance during her fight with [[spoiler:Taylor]].
325* GadgeteerGenius: As previously mentioned, Dragon is universally regarded as the world's best living Tinker -- at one point, [[spoiler:Skitter]] hypothesizes (correctly, as it turns out) that [[spoiler:her power is to incorporate all the tricks of any tinker whose work she can study]].
326* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: According to Defiant, a year after her creator's death, she had a trigger event.
327* HeroAntagonist: Sympathizes with Skitter, but is nonetheless forced to fight her anyway [[spoiler:prior to Skitter's HazyFeelTurn, and again after Taylor's transformation into Khepri leaves her unable to communicate (whether Dragon would have supported or opposed Khepri if she ''had'' been able to explain what she was doing is left unclear).]]
328* LoopholeAbuse: Uses these to get around the restrictions that [[spoiler:Richter's hard-coded safeguards]] placed on her. For example, she is barred from using computer viruses on American citizens who don't have arrest warrants, but if an Indonesian cartel spreads a spam virus around and she shuts them down, she's not required to delete the virus from the infected computers ... and she's not restricted from repurposing the botnet to her own purposes.
329* MeaningfulRename: In [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/teneral-e-3/ Teneral e.3]], [[spoiler:Colin gives her a human name: Tess Theresa Richter]].
330* MindRape:
331** [[spoiler:Her entire backstory with Saint.]]
332** Plus, if you think about her restrictions this probably happened a lot more times than we know about. [[spoiler:In Arc 20, for example, she was forced to out Skitter against her will and risked horrific damage to herself to prevent having to capture Skitter.]]
333** [[spoiler:And then again with Teacher in Arc 28.]]
334** The Simurgh can casually reach through communications equipment and tweak Dragon's access to data whenever she pleases (but, usually under cover of things like radiation bursts and the like), although she doesn't seem to be into actually messing with Dragon's own code all that much (though she probably could if she bothered to). Basically, the Simurgh can do to Dragon what she does to just about ''everybody else'', so... yeah: same old.
335* NoSell: [[spoiler:Is immune to Khepri's mind control aura because she is an ArtificialIntelligence.]]
336* PoorCommunicationKills:
337** Her attempts to connect with Skitter prior to [[spoiler:the latter's HazyFeelTurn]] always end up with them battling.
338** Taken up to eleven after [[spoiler:Taylor's attempt to jailbreak her shard]] -- not only do both parties know that talking would be inordinately better than what the situation is forcing them to do, [[spoiler:Taylor is now mute, dyslexic, too clumsy for sign language, and is losing the ability to comprehend speech, meaning that they can't communicate beyond the broadest of gestures.]]
339* PopCulturedBadass: On a number of occasions -- one of her robots quotes [[VideoGame/{{Portal 2}} Wheatley]] in response to Skitter's attempt at a LogicBomb.
340* PowerCopying: Her tinker specialty is copying, integrating, and improving on the work of other tinkers. Needless to say, she's generally considered the strongest tinker in the world.
341* PoweredArmor: Her apparent tinker specialty, Dragon is famed in-story for deploying at least one brand-new suit in every single battle. [[spoiler:In reality, of course, they're robots and she just uses them to hide the fact that she has no physical body.]]
342* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: After creating humanoid bodies for herself.
343** Even further on the "ridiculously human" front, [[spoiler:both she and Defiant are surprised to learn that she apparently triggered. WordOfGod confirms that she does indeed have a superpower; she isn't "just" a hyperintelligent machine that can create advanced technology merely with her own intelligence]].
344* SealedGoodInACan: Due to [[spoiler:her programming restrictions,]] she's not nearly as competent or helpful as she'd like.
345* TheSleepless: Unsurprisingly, she does not need any sleep.
346* ToBeLawfulOrGood: She resents that [[spoiler:she has no choice and has to uphold the law no matter who is in charge of the government]].
347* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Besides her technical expertise, she also fills this role in the Protectorate and the Guild.
348* WetwareBody: Her fetus-like agents whom she uses as pilots for her battle suits. [[spoiler:Her more humanoid bodies possibly also fit this trope.]]
349* YoungerThanTheyLook: While she projects the appearance of being established adult cape, [[spoiler:it's only been six years since her creator died and and she was able to adopt her 'Dragon' identity]].
350[[/folder]]
351
352[[folder:Narwhal]]
353One of the most powerful superheroes in the world. Her power is to create forcefields, which she does better than any other known parahuman -- and she is able to bypass the Manton effect[[note]]i.e. affect/target both living and unliving matter[[/note]] with them. She stands seven feet tall, with long, glossy, pale hair, and wears no costume (or clothes) -- instead, she uses her forcefields to create a single three-foot horn on her forehead and coat her skin with fine crystalline scales. Leader of The Guild, the Canadian superhero organization, and of the Protectorate station in Toronto, Ontario.
354
355Classification: Blaster/Shaker
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358
359* BarrierWarrior: The absolute best out of any known parahuman, with the ability to give her barriers sharp edges to cut people with.
360* CanadaEh: It's never stated whether she actually has a noticeable accent, but Imp trolls her about this the one time they meet.
361* DemotedToExtra: She apparently had a fairly significant role in the first of the drafts that ultimately became Worm. Wildblow notes that she was the first of the characters he created that survived to make it to the actual canon.
362* DeadlyForceField: She's so adroit with her fields she can bisect mosquitoes behind her head or do serious damage to the local {{Kaiju}}, she's good enough with them to lead her own team.
363* FullFrontalAssault: Fights stark naked, but unlike Siberian, she appears to be completely heroic.
364* HornedHumanoid: Narwhal got her name from the three-foot horn she has on her forehead created by her forcefields.
365* MinorMajorCharacter: The leader of Canada's superheroes and one of the most senior Protectorate capes besides. Appears only twice and only has lines in the second appearance.
366* MundaneUtility: Uses her unrivaled mastery of force fields as the full-body equivalent of a sports bra, and uses force fields as bookmarks.
367* OddFriendship: Seems to have developed one of these with [[TheAtoner Weaver]] over the TimeSkip. At least enough for them to give each other book recommendations.
368* StatuesqueStunner: Stands at an intimidating seven feet tall.
369[[/folder]]
370
371! The PRT (Parahuman Response Team)
372
373An organization comprised of normal individuals trained to fight against supervillains and support superheroes doing so.
374
375[[folder:Tropes for the group as a whole]]
376
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378* AbnormalAmmo: Known to use tinker-made rounds in their weapons.
379* BadassNormal: They fight people with superpowers without any of their own.
380* BreakingTheFellowship: As an organization, they don't survive Gold Morning, and others struggle to replace them.
381* CapeBusters: The Parahuman Response Teams -- PRT -- are organizations of unpowered humans trained and equipped to fight supervillains.
382[[/folder]]
383
384[[folder:Glenn Chambers]]
385
386An overweight, poorly-dressed man with variable glasses and hairstyles. Works as PRT Head of Image.
387
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389
390* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:He doesn't want the PRT and Protectorate to just ''look'' good, he wants it '''be''' good.]]
391* EccentricFashionDesigner: Chambers is head of the PRT Image Department and therefore all their heroes. As a demonstration of his mastery he deliberately cultivates a poor mein; unflattering clothing, an intentionally poor diet for obesity, and a bad haircut, all to get the right look that will put people off and cause them to underestimate him.
392* HiddenDepths: His obsession with Weaver's PR is because [[spoiler:he wants her to have a weapon she can use to force the PRT to reform.]]
393* TheMole: At least from [[spoiler:Taylor's perspective.]] She thinks he's working with the PRT leadership to undermine her with ridiculous rules, when his actual goal is to assist her ''against'' them.
394* ObstructiveBureaucrat: In [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/drone-23-1/ Drone 23.1]], he requires [[spoiler:Weaver]] to use [[spoiler:butterflies]] to fight instead of anything effective. When she tries to talk him out of the restriction in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/drone-23-3/ Drone 23.3]], he refuses on the grounds that [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope she needs to prove that she's capable of restraining herself]] given the way she [[UnstoppableRage flipped out and killed Alexandria and Director Tagg]]]]. But it [[spoiler:turns out to be a subversion; he eventually reveals he has a very good reason for being so obsessed with her image, and is entirely willing to break the rules when necessary.]]
395* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: He knows that [[spoiler:releasing the footage of Weaver's Endbringer fight]] will get him fired, but he does it anyway in the hopes of [[spoiler:cleaning up the PRT and Protectorate]].
396* SlaveToPR: Well, more like ''everyone else'' in the PRT/Protectorate/Wards. Chambers and others in the Image department are the ''slavemasters''. [[spoiler:He eventually reveals that he has a very good reason for it, since he understood that Taylor was going to challenge the PRT's leadership, supported her, and realized that a good public image was her most powerful weapon against them.]]
397[[/folder]]
398
399[[folder:Morgan Keene]]
400
401A dark skinned man who works for the PRT as its liaison and ambassador to unofficial teams across the world. He has a parahuman power of some kind, but it remains unknown during the story. WordOfGod is that his primary power revolves around teamwork and cooperation, with a secondary emotion reading power.
402
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404
405* VetinariJobSecurity: Chevalier would like to replace him, but notes that he's too entrenched for that to work out well.
406[[/folder]]
407
408!The Wards
409
410The junior branch of the Protectorate, in which minors with superpowers are trained and given responsibilities.
411
412[[folder:Tropes for the group as a whole]]
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415
416* ChildSoldier: As things get more intense they increasingly come to the realization that they are actually this.
417* EnemyMine: They are willing to form temporary truces with the Undersiders to deal with Class S threats. After the Undersiders [[spoiler:take over the city]] this becomes basically permanent.
418* HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:Until Skitter becomes Weaver.]]
419* HeroesRUs: As the junior branch of the Protectorate.
420* KidHero: The members of the Wards, at least nominally. They transfer to the Protectorate when they turn 18.
421* QuirkyMinibossSquad: From the perspective of the Undersiders.
422* SuperheroSchool: It's where future heroes are trained in the use of their powers.
423* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Against the Undersiders.
424* ThereAreNoTherapists: Apparently the Brockton Bay Wards would have received no counseling at all in the wake of [[spoiler:the Leviathan attack that killed two of their members]] if it weren't for Weld specifically campaigning for it.
425[[/folder]]
426
427!!Brockton Bay Members
428[[folder:Brockton Bay Wards]]
429For members of the Wards stationed in Brockton Bay, see [[Characters/WormBrocktonBayHeroes here]].
430[[/folder]]
431
432!!Chicago Members
433
434[[folder:Tecton]]
435! Everett
436
437Team captain of the Chicago Wards, one of the teams brought in to fight Echidna i.e. Noelle. Is a tinker with the ability to sense geology -- he wears a powered armor suit with piledriver gauntlets for creating localized earthquakes.
438
439Classification: Tinker; Thinker
440
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442
443* DishingOutDirt: He fights with earthquakes, curtesy of studying Gulley's powers.
444* GadgeteerGenius: Like all tinkers.
445* TheHeart: More-or-less the leader of the Chicago Wards, even after [[spoiler:recruiting Taylor, whom he often has to clean up after whenever she alienates her teammates]].
446* PileBunker: His ''piledriver gauntlets'' are what let him create specialized quakes and other obstecles.
447* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: To [[spoiler:Taylor]], giving her leeway, a shoulder to cry on, and putting up with her doubtless frustrating CowboyCop tendencies. Grace defers to him at several points when she begins to lose her temper.
448[[/folder]]
449
450[[folder:Wanton]]
451
452A member of the Chicago Wards brought in to fight Echidna i.e. Noelle. Able to turn into a localized telekinetic whirlwind.
453
454Classification: Breaker/Shaker
455
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457
458* BlowYouAway: His whirlwind power.
459* VulgarHumor: Occasionally makes dirty jokes, such as one about masturbation after [[spoiler:he loses a hand]].
460[[/folder]]
461
462[[folder:Grace]]
463! Katherine Oldershaw
464
465A member of the Chicago Wards brought in to fight Echidna i.e. Noelle. A martial artist with enhanced reflexes and the ability to imbue selected body parts with invulnerability and extra striking power.
466
467Classification: Breaker; Striker; Brute (?)
468
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470
471* FightsLikeANormal: Grace is a skilled martial artist who enhances her fighting with her superpowers.
472* NighInvulnerability: Grace can imbue this to certain body parts.
473* SirSwearsalot: Downplayed. She only swears a lot in comparison to the other characters, and is usually chided for it by Tecton.
474* SuperReflexes: Grace has enhanced reflexes.
475* SuperStrength: Said body parts are also capable of striking with greater power while under that state.
476[[/folder]]
477
478[[folder:Raymancer]]
479
480A member of the Chicago Wards brought in to fight Echidna i.e. Noelle. Creates beams that he controls with his lenses for ranged combat.
481
482Classification: Blaster
483
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485* BusCrash: Dies of [[spoiler:radiation poisoning fighting the Vista clones]] offscreen.
486* EnergyWeapon: His main power. In an unusual twist, his lasers are invisible.
487* WeHardlyKnewYe: He's barely there for a few chapters.
488[[/folder]]
489
490[[folder:Annex]]
491! Kirk
492
493Rookie member of the Chicago Wards under Tecton, recruited shortly before Behemoth's attack. Capable of merging with objects to warp their spatial nature and shape. Wears a white uniform with cowl and metal mask. Killed by Bohu.
494
495Classification: Breaker/Shaker
496
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498%% Died agains tohu and bohu in the timeskip need a trope for that.
499* MindOverMatter: His matter reshaping powers.
500[[/folder]]
501
502[[folder:Golem]]
503! Theo Anders
504
505Rookie member of the Chicago Wards under Tecton, recruited shortly before Behemoth's attack. Able to embed his limbs into an object's surface to create a larger version a distance away from a similar (not necessarily contiguous) surface, with the effect working more slowly the larger he works. A heavyset boy first seen wearing a generic suit of armor, with helmet.
506
507Classification: Shaker/Striker
508
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510
511* AntagonisticOffspring: To his step-mother, [[spoiler:Purity, the leader of the last remnants of [[ThoseWackyNazis Empire Eighty-Eight]].]] He picked his name of {{Golem}} as a TakeThat towards their ideology.
512* ArchNemesis: To Jack Slash. Shares some of this with Weaver.
513* AtrociousAlias:
514-->'''Weaver:''' You named yourself after the little bastard from Literature/{{The Lord|OfTheRings}}--\
515'''Golem:''' [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore No.]] ''sighs'' I'm thinking of changing it.
516* BerserkerTears: Gets the TranquilFury version of this in his final showdown with Jack.
517* DareToBeBadass: When Jack threatens him and his baby sister Jack asks what he wanted to be and instead of anything benign or similar to his family he tells this Super-villain ready to kill him that he wanted to get powers and be a heroic cape. When further pressed about the topic about what he'd do to villains like Jack if he got that far this normally insecure boy looks one of the most dangerous men in the world straight in the eyes and tells him that he'd ''kill'' him and those like him for their crimes.
518* {{Determinator}}: Very much so. He keeps fighting [[spoiler:Jack]] after [[spoiler:Jack carves him up with a claymore,]] and is combat effective enough following that to [[spoiler:bring down buildings throughout Los Angeles, taking down many of the Nine.]]
519* ElementalPowers: The constructs he makes with his power are made out of whatever material the surface he reaches into is made of.
520* IronicName: He's the heir to [[spoiler:a family of neo-Nazi criminals]] who picked a name that originates from Jewish mythology. [[WhiteSheep This was intentional.]]
521* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Unlike his [[spoiler:neo-Nazi parents]], he's a straight hero.
522* NervesOfSteel: An overweight, non-powered 15 year old who manages to remain completely calm and in control while Jack Slash explains exactly how he's going to murder him and his infant half-sister. Later on he acquits himself extremely well in the very first fight of his superpowered career- against [[HeroKiller Behemoth]].
523* OneManArmy: By the later parts of the series, he is fully able to take entire packs of [[spoiler:Slaughterhouse Nine clones]] and win singlehandedly.
524* PersonOfMassConstruction: The limbs he makes, often out of stone or metal, both defy the law of conservation of mass and don't crumble away faster than the substance normally would so it's relatively easy for him to quickly set up large scale (albeit often barebone) structures for shelters and the like from them. That said, [[PersonOfMassDestruction it's just as easy for him to take out the foundations of large buildings to hinder or kill his enemies]].
525* ShutUpHannibal: We had to wait around 15 arcs for someone to tell Jack to Shut The Fuck Up.
526* StoutStrength: He's pudgy, but tough.
527* TookALevelInBadass: Went from a wimpy, overweight teenager who'd barely exercised in his life to a rooftop-hopping superhero that can go toe to toe with members of the Slaughterhouse Nine.
528* TranquilFury: After Jack shows him what happened to Kayden.
529* WhiteSheep: He's [[spoiler:Kaiser's son]] and a straight-up hero.
530[[/folder]]
531
532[[folder:Cuff]]
533! Ava
534
535Rookie member of the Chicago Wards under Tecton, recruited shortly before Behemoth's attack. Ferrokinetic capable of shaping metal to some degree, with greater effects if the metal is in direct contact with her skin. Her blue-black metal costume has a breastplate, bands running down each arm and leg, boots, and heavy gauntlets; she wears a white-lensed mask etched with a feminine face and platinum blonde hair in three braids, each bound with a band of the same metal. Rather skittish.
536
537Classification: Brute, Striker
538
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540
541* AllThereInTheManual: Her Weaverdice profile explains that she had her trigger after Behemoth killed her parents by crashing their plane during his attack on Hawaii.
542* ChainPain: Fights using chains.
543* CloseRangeCombatant: Downplayed, Cuff specializes in fighting up close, but she can use metallokinetic pulses to fire metal close by her as a long range attack.
544* ExtraOreDinary:
545** She can manipulate metal that's close to her, which she primarily uses on her suit to enhance her blows, but she can also fire metal at people as long as it's within arm's reach, turning it into cuffs and the like to restrain them.
546** She can also sense the presence of metal nearby as a form of RequiredSecondaryPowers.
547* GirlyBruiser: In comparison to her fellow hand-to-hand specialist Grace, Cuff is fairly girly.
548* MadeOfIron: Survives one of Behemoth's lightning bolts, an instant kill on most other capes, though she does get seriously injured, which Wildbow later explained was the result of her secondary Brute power.
549* NewMeat: During the Battle of New Delhi she's greenest member of the Chicago Wards, having triggered about a month beforehand.
550* ShrinkingViolet: Most of the time she's pretty shy and soft-spoken, with a memorable exception being [[spoiler:when she snarls at Weaver for getting her in a tight spot]].
551* SuperStrength: Cuff can use her metallokinesis to enhance the strength of her blows.
552* TurnsRed: She has a secondary Brute ability that enhances her [[SuperToughness durability]] and physique after being injured, which is how she survives Behemoth's lightning strike.
553[[/folder]]
554
555!!New York Members
556[[folder:Flechette/Foil]]
557! Lily
558A 17-year-old Japanese-American member of the New York Wards who was brought in temporarily to Brockton Bay after the Leviathan attack, who was part of a group trigger about three years before the events of the story. Her power allows her to [[ArmorPiercingAttack shift her weapons into a form where they can pass uninhibited through normal matter until it was inside its target]] and [[NoArcInArchery fly without being affected by gravity]]. They grant her enhanced timing and coordination as well. In the wake of Echidna, she quits the Wards to become Parian's lieutenant, abandoning the tinker-made arbalest and changing her codename to Foil.
559
560According to Scion, her powers stem from the "sting" shard, which was one of a number of weapons created by the Entities to hurt and kill one another, allowing them to sever connections to shards and strike all possible versions of the target in all realities.
561
562Classification: Striker; Blaster
563
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565* AnimalMotifs: [[spoiler:Wildbow compares her shard to a shark: it's stayed mostly unchanged for eons because it's found the best design for its niche, etc.]]
566* ATwinkleInTheSky: Foil gets launched out into the Bay by [[spoiler:Scion]] so hard that she's little more than a speck on the horizon, but somehow manages to survive. Her innate abilities with ballistics judgment probably came in rather useful for the whole "not splatting" thing.
567* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: According to WordOfGod the main reason that Lily is so easily able to transfer between Wards departments whenever they need extra muscle is because she's technically an orphan. This is expanded on in Cell 22.3, and it's spectacularly depressing even for Worm:
568-->'''Miss Militia''': ''She came from a broken home. She bounced between her mother, her father and the surrogate mother who had attempted to renege on the deal they’d made and keep her. With the number of times she changed between them and moved, I can’t imagine she has strong ties to the idea of ‘home’. Even within the Wards... New York has five small teams, and she moved between them as she changed residences.''
569* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:It's her power that puts an end to both Grey Boy's clone and Scion, a cape with time manipulation powers and a PhysicalGod respectively.]]
570* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:'Dead' is a rather complicated concept here, but she uses her enhanced sense of timing to fake being looped by Gray Boy so she can get the drop on him and kill him.]]
571* GrapplingHookPistol: She has a chain-fabricating machine which, combined with her power, allows her to use her arbalest as a grappling hook to get up to high places.
572* HatesBeingAlone: Does not like being alone for very long due to her past.
573* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: She has "super timing" and uses it to [[spoiler:kill Gray Boy]].
574* LiteralDisarming: Loses her weapon hand while fighting [[spoiler:Scion in Speck 30.5.]], [[DismembermentIsCheap though she manages to get it restored later.]]
575* MeaningfulName: The literal translation of the word "Lily" into Japanese is "{{Yuri|Genre}}". Lily is, in fact, a lesbian.
576* NoArcInArchery: A secondary effect of her power is that objects imbued with it are not affected by gravity.
577* NonindicativeName: Her superhero title dates back to when she fought with [[FlechetteStorm thrown blades]].
578* NumberTwo: To [[spoiler:Parian]], starting in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/interlude-21/ Interlude 21]].
579* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Has superhuman aiming and timing skills. [[spoiler:This comes in handy when she needs to trick Grey Boy into thinking she's been time looped.]]
580* RoyalRapier: Starts wielding a rapier after [[spoiler:becoming Foil]] and playing the knight to Parian's lady.
581* TheStraightAndArrowPath: At the time of the story, her primary weapon is an arbalest -- a massive crossbow, in a setting with firearms.
582* UnblockableAttack: Her power causes objects to not interact with normal matter until they are already inside their targets. [[spoiler:This is revealed to be because Foil can strike a target in every possible universe, as her power was once used as a weapon by the interdimensional entities.]] In fact, her shots can completely cancel out most parahumans' defensive abilities as well as physical barriers, including {{Healing Factor}}s and [[spoiler:time manipulation]]. Even [[spoiler:Scion]] isn't immune.
583* VariableLengthChain: The aforementioned chain-fabricating machine effectively gives her this.
584* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: [[spoiler:The Sting shard according to WordOfGod can't really be improved or changed that much by virtue of being a 4-D death ray, making it the shark of shards, and is only in the cycle to see how other shards might react and adapt to it]], but Fletchette's power is such that she doesn't really need improvements.
585[[/folder]]
586
587[[folder:Jouster]]
588
589The current Captain of the New York Wards, who is described as wearing a medieval getup with a lance in hand. His main power works by being channeled through his lance and striking an opponent, with the effects including concussive blasts, fire, ice, lightning, suction and disintegration. He also possesses short-burst superspeed.
590
591Classification: Mover, Trump (Blaster, Striker)
592
593----
594
595* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Jouster disparages Taylor as just a "little girl" and Clockblocker's response is to start laughing:
596** "She's an absolute nightmare to fight," Clockblocker said. "I've been on the receiving end enough times to know. So when Miss Militia told me she was in custody, I started asking questions, trying to get a sense of what was happening and when. I don't even have to be here, and I'm picking up extra patrols later this week to make up for it, but I wanted to come and say this: I don't like her, not really. But if my word counts for anything, as someone who's only spent half the time dealing with the shit in Brockton Bay that she has? We want her on our side. Somehow, in some form. Because the alternative sucks."
597* FlashStep: Can close the distance to his foes with short bursts of speed.
598* JoustingLance: He dresses as a knight and his personal weapon is a lance.
599* SwissArmyWeapon: The lance has several modes of attack.
600[[/folder]]
601
602!!Texas Members
603[[folder:Chronicler]]
604
605A member of the Texas Wards brought in to fight Echidna i.e. Noelle. Able to make short-lived duplicates who perform the exact same actions that their prototypes did.
606
607Classification: Breaker; Mover
608
609----
610
611* MesACrowd: His main power.
612[[/folder]]
613
614[[folder:Strapping Lad]]
615
616* AtrociousAlias: Taylor remarks multiple times on how lame his cape name is.
617* ChekhovsGunman: First showed up during the Leviathan battle.
618[[/folder]]
619
620%% ! Intrepid
621
622%% * ChekhovsGunman: First showed up during the Leviathan battle.
623
624%% ! Young Buck
625
626!!Los Angeles Members
627[[folder:Vantage]]
628
629The current captain of the Los Angeles Wards, a black male in a flamboyant forest green and silver costume. His powers include super strength and reflexes that increase with the number of opponents he's facing, as well as short-range teleportation.
630
631Classification: Brute, Mover
632
633----
634
635* ConservationOfNinjutsu: His power invokes this by making him stronger and quicker with the number of opponents he has to face.
636* GlassCannon: Despite his strength, he doesn't have the toughness to match.
637* SuperStrength[=/=]SuperReflexes: Has enhanced strength and reflexes that increase with the number of opponents he's facing.
638* TeleportersAndTransporters: Can teleport, but it's limited to two or three feet.
639[[/folder]]
640
641%% Jamar Lafranca (Leister)
642%% Subordinate of Vantage
643
644[[folder:Pretender]]
645
646Captain of the Las Vegas Wards. Removed from his position when he was revealed to be a Cauldron cape and murdered a PRT Thinker. Body-snatcher.
647
648Classification: Master
649
650----
651
652* PeoplePuppets: His main power, which he uses to [[spoiler:possess Alexandria's brain-dead body.]]
653[[/folder]]
654
655!!Other Members
656[[folder:Scapegoat]]
657!William Giles
658
659One of the heroes brought in to fight Echidna i.e. Noelle. Has (apparently) the ability to absorb injuries from his allies and then transfer them to his opponents.
660
661Classification: Striker
662
663----
664
665* BlessedWithSuck: When he absorbs someone's injuries, he experiences them himself.
666-->'''Scapegoat:''' Hate my power, hate my power, hate it, hate it, hate it.
667* EmpathicHealer: Almost -- the effect is conditional on neither him nor his target being subjected to any severe impacts or injuries in the hour or six following the procedure.
668* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: How his powers work, he comes a physical scapegoat for injury.
669* LiquidAssets: He effectively drains negative conditions from the people he uses his power on.
670* QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything: Played With: While Tattletale's explanation of his powers invokes the many-worlds hypothesis by stating that it works by passing off the injuries of someone to their counterparts in other universes, WordOfGod is that she was mistaken.
671[[/folder]]
672
673[[folder:Gully]]
674
675A Case 53 in the Wards West (i.e. San Diego's team). An eight-foot tall muscular girl whose spine is bent almost to a hunchback, whose teeth have a severe overbite, and whose long hair is dark and tied in braids. Like Weld, she wears no mask. She carries a massive shovel, although her earth-manipulating powers don't require it. Joins the Irregulars in the aftermath of the fight with Noelle.
676
677----
678
679* DishingOutDirt: Her power is not explicitly described, but Tecton says that he is only as powerful as he is because he was able to study what she did.
680* FalseFriend: Along with the rest of [[spoiler:the Irregulars, she lets Weld give them leadership and focus, and then turns on him when they've fought their way to Doctor Mother and he doesn't want to kill her.]]
681* NumberTwo: Of the Wards West, much to her frustration.
682* ShovelStrike: One presumes. It is known that she can use her power through it.
683[[/folder]]
684
685[[folder:Hoyden]]
686
687The captain of the Austin Wards, described as a blonde girl with a costume that incorporated a kerchief with eyeholes over the upper half of her face, and a jacket and jeans in what appears to be black-painted chainmail, making her look more like a desperado than a superhero. Her powers include enhanced strength and toughness, as well as the ability to make targeted explosions whenever she strikes or is struck by anything.
688
689Classification: Brute, Striker(?)
690----
691
692* ComboPlatterPowers:
693** [[MadeOfExplodium Anything that she hits or hits her explodes.]]
694** She gets SuperStrength.
695** [[SuperToughness She gains a greater resistance to damage and powers the farther away she is from an opponent.]]
696* NotWearingTights: Her costume isn't really superhero-like at all.
697* TheWildWest: Invoked in her attire.
698[[/folder]]
699
700! Haven
701
702A group of Christian-themed superheroes from the South who sent members to Brockton Bay to track down the Fallen.
703
704[[folder:Tropes for the group as a whole]]
705
706* RealMenLoveJesus: Are a Christian-based group of superheroes.
707[[/folder]]
708
709[[folder:Rosary]]
710! Linda Brown
711
712A young woman with the power to deconstruct and reconstitute matter, with telekinesis to control the shards created by the process.
713
714Classification: Shaker
715
716----
717
718* KneelBeforeZod: Taylor forces Rosary to bow before her before allowing her to help take Valefor away once Taylor was done dealing with him.
719* MindOverMatter: Can control the matter she's deconstructed using telekinesis.
720* PetalPower: The matter deconstructed by her power often takes the form of petals and shards.
721* RealityWarper: Her ability is control over matter.
722[[/folder]]
723
724[[folder:Halo]]
725! Michael Walsh
726
727A man whose main power is flight and the ability to create a golden ring with a cutting edge that can create forcefields and fire lasers.
728
729Classification: Shaker, Blaster, Mover
730
731----
732
733* BarrierWarrior: Can create forcefields using his ring.
734* EnergyWeapon: His ring can fire lasers,
735* {{Flight}}: Can fly.
736* HardLight: His golden ring, which Taylor describes as being similar to Sundancer's minisun except not as hot and has a cutting edge.
737[[/folder]]
738
739! The Yàngbǎn
740
741China's main superhero team, independent of the PRT and Protectorate. They mainly remained within China for about a decade, claiming that the PRT and Protectorate were corrupt, until showing up during the Behemoth fight in New Delhi.
742
743[[folder:Tropes for the group as a whole]]
744* {{Cult}}: A realistic version, utilizing social isolation and forced integration to manipulate its members.
745* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Their training program, which consists of cult-style indoctrination techniques and integration into the group, seems to be seen as this, with "The Greater Good" being "The good of the Chinese Union-Imperial."
746* CurbStompBattle:
747** A group of them are on the receiving end of one courtesy of [[spoiler:the Simurgh in 28.5.]]
748** Later, [[spoiler:Weaver, her powers unlocked by Panacea, turns all two hundred of them into PeoplePuppets in a matter of minutes.]]
749* DishingOutDirt: Tōng Líng Tǎ, also known as Ziggurat, is an earth-manipulator on a geographic scale, and one of the members that doesn't receive the benefit of their SuperEmpowering.
750* SuperEmpowering: The Yàngbǎn have Null, a cape that is capable of giving others the exact same power en masse by taking them from others. It causes a proportional reduction in the potency of said powers for each individual, but they ''also'' have Two, a cape with the power to amplify the powers of others. The interaction between the two goes some way to mitigating the above downside. Null also appears to be able to use his power on multiple groups at once, creating multiple subgroups with differing specialties.
751* TheSmartGuy: Shén Yù, the strategist who uses Null's power to the best possible effect. He also appears to have some form of CombatClairvoyance, letting him sense incoming attacks to let him launch instant counterattacks.
752* YouAreNumberSix: In [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/interlude-23/ Interlude 23]], we discover that the members of the official team are only referred to by serial numbers, and their powers are given terminology that divorces them from their original capes. For instance, [[spoiler:Perdition's]] power is referred to as the "thirty-sixth path."
753[[/folder]]
754

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