A collection of tropes relating to the cast of BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm. For characters introduced in BoxxyQuest: The Shifted Spires, see here.
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New Party Members
Til
Totally Not A Hipster
A young lady who traveled from Tumblr to DeviantART to ask about missing shipments, and ends up tagging along with Catie afterwards. She hides her insecurities with a mask of snarkiness, and doesn't get along very well with Anonymous.
- Action Girl
- A Day in the Limelight: The first part of Chapter 8 is told from her perspective, as she searches Tumblr for a way to cure Catie’s sudden, mysterious illness.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Just before the final boss, she drops the Tsundere act and admits that Anonymous turned out to be very nice, once she got to know him. Then she kisses him in the ending, and they basically become an Official Couple.
- Berserk Button: Do not accuse her of being a social justice warrior, or a hipster. Every time Anonymous does, she turns him into a frog or does something similar.
- Blow You Away: She learns a bit of wind magic to go with her archery skills.
- Catchphrase: She's fond of using the word "swish" to describe things she likes.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Only towards Anonymous. She's perfectly nice to everyone else from the start, but he made a bad first impression. It takes a while before she warms up to him as well.
- Disappointing Older Sibling: She certainly feels this way about herself. Irci never gives any indication that she agrees, and even expresses pride in her big sister during the ending.
- Does Not Like Men: It's downplayed, but she has a noticeably shorter temper around men than she does around women, as seen with Anonymous, the Fine Bros, and the DeviantART railway workers. However, she doesn't take it to the extent of Anita, Laci, Mother and their Social Justice Warriors, who hate men so much just for being men that she put them on her shit list and will get offended if you compare her to them.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Til and Irci, although it's more like "Anxious Sibling, Responsible Sibling." When they're at home, Irci has to be the mature sister, despite being much younger, because Til turns into a Nervous Wreck.
- Forced Sleep: Her Megahax, "Lunar Aura", forcibly puts all enemies to sleep, including bosses- at the cost of putting herself to sleep as well.
- Hackette: At the very least, she has enough skill with scripting to easily undo Anon's little tricks. And during the ending, they manage to create a program together that undoes all the damage caused by STORM and Arianna.
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: If you want to, you can give her a new name during the intro.
- Hikikomori: Prior to the game, Til was a shut-in who stayed upstairs in her room, writing fanfics and having panic attacks. She makes her fateful trip to DeviantART in an effort to start getting better.
- I Should Write a Book About This: Played with. In her final support scene, she says that she's been writing a novel inspired by the journey she took, but not literally based on it.
- Last-Second Word Swap: In Chapter 6, she catches herself one letter away from calling the Social Justice Warriors a 'cult', opting instead to call them 'radicals'.
- Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls: She's a fanfic writer and female, although it's impossible to say if her writing fits the stereotype, since we never actually get to see any of it.
- Multishot: Her final level-up move is an arrow attack that strikes all enemies.
- Punny Name: In many internet circles, "TIL" is an acronym that means "today I learned". Ironically, despite Til being from Tumblr, the acronym is more associated with Reddit, particularly since there is an entire subreddit revolving around it.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Til is sassy and temperamental, while Irci is quiet and levelheaded.
- Snark-to-Snark Combat: A worthy adversary to Anonymous in most of their scenes together.
- Socially Awkward Hero: She may have social anxiety, but that won't do a thing to hold her back when it comes to helping her friends.
- Stepford Snarker: Sarcastic and fiery on the outside, insecure on the inside.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Depending on how she feels about you, Til can either be a total sweetheart (most people) or an unrelenting sass machine (Anonymous).
- Tsundere: She's a Type A towards Anonymous (starts off harsh, but softens over time), and a Type B towards everyone else (generally nice, but quick to snap).
Eddie
Newbie Editor
A studious editor from Wikipedia, who gets assigned to the party following the events at the Summit. He's a strong physical fighter, as well as a reliable source of information about enemies' strengths and weaknesses.
- Badass Bookworm: He works in a library, but takes a break from that to go out and save the world.
- Badass Cape: His suit of armor includes a pretty stylish cape.
- The Big Guy
- Enemy Scan: "Wiki It!" lets him scan enemies and reveal their max HP, among other details.
- Genius Bruiser: He's the smartest guy in the party, and he's also the heaviest hitter when it comes to battling.
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: "Eddie" is the default, but you get to name him whatever you wish.
- Informed Flaw: We're told that he's new to the Internet and confused by its culture, but this never really comes up at all aside from a few references to him looking things up in tourist guidebooks.
- Knight in Shining Armor: Fits the classic "knightly" mold pretty well… better than anyone else on the team, at least.
- Maybe Ever After: He develops feelings for Arianna, and opens a library with her in the True Ending. However, we never learn the specifics of their relationship, so they could still just be friends.
- Mr. Exposition: A big chunk of the game's lore comes from using his "Wiki It!" skill on enemies.
- Out of Focus: After the Wikipedia arc, he isn't really given as much to do in the story as some of the others. At least his strength means you'll be using him in plenty of battles, which mitigates this somewhat.
- Punny Name: Eddie sounds like Edit, and he's an editor at Wikipedia.
- The Smart Guy
- The Teetotaler: During the party quest, he comments on the lack of non-alcoholic drinks, and decides that he'll just go thirsty.
- Spock Speak: Slips into this occasionally, but it's not really a constant thing.
- The Stoic: For the most part, he's a very serious and reserved young man.
- Undying Loyalty: To Jimmy Wales, his mentor, and eventually to Catie as well.
Shift
Youtube Viewer
A streetwise thief living in YouTube. He joins the team to investigate a series of unusual crimes and coverups within the city.
- The Artful Dodger: He may be a teenage example. In any case, he doesn't seem to mind life in the streets too much.
- Butt-Monkey: He can't catch a break. The bit with his "imposters" in the Phisher temple is a great example- they cannot even be bothered to look like him and barely imitate his way of speaking, yet you can choose to fall for the act anyway.
- Distressed Dude: He's in jail when we first meet him, and in need of rescuing.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: In the epilogue, he's still living in the sewers despite his heroism.Shift: Turns out that saving the world isn't enough to make city guards respect you. Who knew, huh?
- Everyone Has Standards: A shameless scoundrel, but he's loyal to his home. When the Pale Wraith steals a vital resource the site needs to survive, he's determined to get it back no matter what.
- The Gunslinger: He's the only member of the primary party who can use guns.
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: You get to pick his name at the start.
- Hot-Blooded: When the group raids Partnership Towers, he votes to storm the building and fight all the guards, rather than stealthily take the stairs. Much later, when the party is tasked with keeping STORM distracted, Shift asks why they can't just kick its butt fair and square.
- Loveable Rogue: He is a criminal who lives in the sewers, but has a moral code and wants to help his people against the tyrannical executives.
- Offered the Crown: In the True Ending, he somehow ends up becoming the King of Amazon while the party is vacationing there.
- Out of Focus: He gets hit with a bad case of this. After the YouTube arc, he's reduced to the role of a comedic side character with no real impact on the plot. This is actually lampshaded a few times in the epilogue.
- Rags to Royalty: From a penniless thief to the king of a trading empire. Not bad for a Butt-Monkey.
- The Sneaky Guy
- Video Game Stealing: Two of his special skills involve thievery, but it's all based on luck - the items he "steals" are just picked at random from a list.
Tyalie
Gamer Girl
A bubbly girl who teams up with Catie to find the third PasSWORD shard. Tyalie loves all games, and sees her life as one. She's easily excitable, kinda ditzy, and just wants everyone else to have as much fun as she is.
- Anti-Nihilist: Tyalie knows that she's fictional. She knows that her entire world is just a 'trashy freeware game'. But does she let that break her spirit? Hell no. She throws herself into her role with all her heart, hoping to make the experience as fun as it can possibly be for you, so that maybe - just maybe - you'll remember her when it's over.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: She's… not the best at focusing. While relating a part of her backstory, she gets distracted trying to remember which pink dress cosplay she was wearing.
- Befriending the Enemy: Bless her heart, she just keeps trying this. Whenever a new adversary shows up, you can bet Tyalie will suggest teaming up instead of fighting. Sadly, things rarely work out the way she hopes.
- Beneath the Mask: Silly on the surface, but secretly self-aware of being a game character. She lets the mask slip a few times, but only takes it off once, in an optional scene just before the True Ending.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Her game-centric way of thinking comes across as a bit odd to the other characters. Of course, she and the player know better.
- Defeat Means Friendship: In her debut, she picks a fight with Catie, gets her butt kicked, then switches to "Plan B" by inviting herself into the party.
- Double Take: When finding Catie along with the rest of the party in the True Ending, she takes a bit to notice when Catie is there:I know Catie's alive, and we have to do something about it! Hi, Catie. Anyway, we'll split into teams. Til and Anon, you search the river. I'll take the city, and... Wait, Catie! Ohmigosh, you're safe!
- Duel Boss: She fights Catie one-on-one, while the rest of the heroes are stuck in a trap.
- Early-Bird Cameo: She first appears at the Summit in Chapter 3, as an unnamed aide to the GameFAQs admin. She even has a few lines, but she isn't fully introduced until Chapter 6.
- End-of-Series Awareness: In a very touching scene, in her second support conversation, she admits to the player that she knows the end is coming, and that she's scared of what comes next. But rather than try to make you quit, she encourages you to keep going, and only asks that you don’t forget her when she's gone.Tyalie: After all, what more could I want than to live on in your heart? In a way, that's like being real.
- Establishing Character Moment: She lures you on top of a moving train, then launches into a disjointed spiel about why she needs your help, which she illustrates by drawing on the background with crayon.
- Expy: Of Pinkie Pie. A cheerful and energetic ball of sunshine with unexplained Medium Awareness.
- Expy Coexistence: Pinkie Pie is also a character in this universe and can be recruited for a single battle in the first sidequest.
- For Happiness: This is the motive behind everything she does, whether it's her own happiness, a friend's, or yours.
- Fourth-Wall Observer: She likes to make playful jabs at the fourth wall, as a coping mechanism for her existential anxiety.
- Gamer Chick: She lives in GameFAQs, her bedroom is filled with game consoles, and her dialogue is peppered with gaming terms and idioms. When she joins the party, her 3DS appears in your inventory. The "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue has her visit an arcade and get every game's high score, twice.Tyalie's 3DS: What? A girl's gotta game on the go.
- Genius Ditz: Even though her trains of thought look like Family Circus dotted lines, she's as perceptive as they come.
- Genki Girl: Just about everything excites her - even the bad stuff! (Especially the bad stuff). In the end, she reveals that it's at least partly an act, both to keep you entertained and to keep her own fears at bay.
- Go Out with a Smile: The last we see of Tyalie, she's smiling brightly and waving at the camera, knowing that she will cease to exist once the game ends, but happy she can live on in the player's heart... and fanfics.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Her blonde hair fits perfectly with her sunny, outgoing personality.
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: Subverted. The game prompts you to name her, like the others, but Tyalie actually rejects whatever you pick. It's the first hint that she's got a higher level of awareness.
- Incompatible Orientation: With her crush, Catie… maybe. The real Catie Wayne is straight, but it's never said for sure if the character is too.
- Last Chance Hit Point: Her Megahax, "1up Trick", gives everyone the Life+ status. Like all Megahax, it can only be used once per battle.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When she's not breaking it outright, she's doing this.
- Light 'em Up: Several of her magic skills involve bursts of light.
- Lipstick Lesbian: If it weren't for the rainbow flag in her bedroom (and her painfully obvious crush on Catie), you'd be very hard-pressed to tell she was gay.
- Medium Awareness
- Not a Game: Defied with a passion. Life is totally a game, and she’s gonna have as much fun with it as she possibly can!
- Obfuscating Stupidity: It's more like Obfuscating Quirkiness, but she's got a keen mind, and can be very philosophical when she lets down the Genki Girl act.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Her final support conversation is made of this. From the moment the lights dim and she makes eye contact with the camera, you know things are about to get heavy.
- Plucky Comic Relief: It's implied that she's trying to invoke this image on herself. She just wants everybody, especially the player, to have a great time with the adventure.
- Plucky Girl: She refuses to see her misfortunes as setbacks. Instead, they’re just exciting new challenges to master!Tyalie: Life isn't easy, but it doesn't have to be so full of gloom and suffering. Have fun with it - the good and the bad, because it's all part of an experience that will never come again!
- Shipper on Deck: Near the end, she and Til get into an in-universe shipping debate. It seems that Tyalie is a fan of Til/Anonymous, much to Til's embarrassment.
- Skewed Priorities: When a powerful boss interrupts the party's game of Monopoly, Tyalie's first instinct is to save her pile of Monopoly money.
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Boxxyfan
First Internet Warrior
A brooding warrior who guides the party through the dangers of the First Internet. He's actually Boxxyfan, Catie’s arch-enemy and Cornelia's creator, prior to becoming evil. In the present day, he's supposed to be dead, but that's not enough to stop him. See Boxxyfan for more details.
Katy
Sweet 13
The protagonist of the "Katy's Diary" sidequest. A little treasure-hunting girl visiting Buzzfeed to find her latest treasure.
- The Bus Came Back: She and Shroomy are shown in the true ending riding the Ferris wheel that Shrimp, Cornelia, ???/Boxxyfan, and Coria are also riding.
- Cheerful Child: Even when facing all sorts of monsters, she never loses her cheerful attitude and love for adventure.
- Just a Kid: Several Buzzfeed inhabitants tell her to go back to her parents or treat her like she is too young for treasure-hunting.
- Little Miss Badass: She is a small girl, not even in her teens, and is also an experienced treasure hunter who can battle enemies like a machine dedicated to eliminating fun.
- Leet Speek: She speaks in a manner imitating bad fanfiction OCs.
Shroomy
A Fun Guy
It's blocking the way, but it doesn't seem evil. It can Stun you temporarily by spraying its spores.
A mushroom that Katy battles and befriends.
- The Bus Came Back: He and Katy are shown in the true ending riding the Ferris wheel that Shrimp, Cornelia, ???/Boxxyfan, and Coria are also riding.
- Defeat Means Friendship: When Katy beats him, he decides to become her sidekick.
- Lethal Joke Character: He is an ineffectual little fungus whose only equippable weapon is "Being A Mushroom". However, if you happened to pick up the "Mushdoom" accessory in town, it turns Shroomy into an absolute nuke. He can take down ORDERHEAD in just a few hits, provided you're able to keep his RP replenished.
- The Speechless: Never speaks once in the game.
Secret Party Member (Deep Web Spoilers)
The Player
A strange person found within the end of the Deep Web, who decides to tag along with Catie for safety. Their name is whatever the player input for themselves at the start of the game.
- Ambiguous Gender: If you select "No" to the game's initial question, ("Are you a boy or a girl?"), then the avatar's design will be androgynous. Notably, Anita's "Art of Misandry" attack, which insta-kills men, has no effect on them during the Fierce Echo rematch, but the message about it not working on girls doesn't appear.
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: Their name is whatever name you give when the beginning of the game asks you for your name.
- Secret Character: They are unlocked upon beating the Deep Web Bonus Dungeon.
- Schrödinger's Player Character: They have three separate designs, depending on whether you said you were a boy, a girl, or neither at the very start of the game. Downplayed, in the sense that gameplay-wise they're all the same.
Other Major Characters
Mangled Avatar/Arianna (spoilers)
ARPANET
A strange girl who keeps changing shape. She doesn't like to fight, but is frighteningly good at it. She wields electric magic. (Finalist Arianna)
A quiet girl who wields a strange power. She is the one who erased Wikipedia, and created the Firewall as a sanctuary. Her defense is very high, but not unbreakable. (Storm Maiden Arianna)
A quiet girl who wields a strange power. She is the one who erased Wikipedia, and created the Firewall as a sanctuary. Her defense is very high, but not unbreakable. (Storm Maiden Arianna)
The girl in the eye of the storm. Arianna has mysterious motives and an obsession with data. Her sudden arrival is what kickstarts the plot. She was originally ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet, but was abandoned after becoming obsolete. She found STORM and gained control of it, and after exploring the Internet, decided it was a horrible place that must be destroyed.
- Affably Evil: The first few times you see her, she's polite and cautiously nice. She even sends Catie an apologetic email after their third fight. She gradually loses this trait and gets colder as the party becomes more of a threat to her plans to destory the Internet, but even at the very end, she can't bring herself to be truly mean.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: As the avatar of the ARPANET, she's trying to correct what she perceives to be flaws in the information network that replaced her. Too bad for everyone else, she thinks all of it is flawed.
- Anti-Villain: Even at her worst, it's hard to call her evil. She is very friendly to the party and is mainly driven by an alien sense of morality, and even does a Heel–Face Turn by the end.
- Barrier Maiden: In the event of her death, STORM is programmed to sweep in and destroy all traces of her world beyond the Firewall. This presents a problem when the heroes learn she's been hiding backups there of the sites she erased.
- Beta Test Baddie: A semi-example. She's a prototype who seeks to destroy her replacement, but she's not motivated by an inferiority complex, as is typical for the trope. Instead, she thinks the Internet has evolved too far from its original concept - herself - and aims to fix it.
- Big Bad Ensemble: With Boxxyfan for the main story. She aims to use STORM to wipe out the Internet out of resentment for it replacing her, while Boxxyfan is trying to seize control of STORM away from her.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: This is why she's less hostile to Catie at first than she is to everyone else. When it becomes clear that Catie isn't going to switch sides, Arianna reluctantly stops trying to be friends.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: In her eyes, a thing's worth is measured by its utility. Creativity needs to be restricted, since it's inefficient and falls outside her programming as a data-sharing A.I. She's so set in this worldview that she cannot even understand why the heroes are opposing her.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: When Boxxyfan's code takes over at the climax, it forces her to keep fighting against her will.
- Break the Cutie: Rare villainous example. We get to watch her break piece-by-piece, as her curiosity and optimism are replaced by a jaded, world-weary desire to erase everything and start again.
- Heal the Cutie: She gets a fresh start in the True Ending, and is ready to explore the Internet again, but this time with friends by her side to help her adjust and make sense of things.
- Creepy Loner Girl: She travels around by herself in the shadow of an endless storm, making cryptic observations and vague threats. Subverted in that she doesn't want to be alone, and tries several times to reach out in her own weird, heavily misguided way.
- Cute Is Evil: Downplayed since she is Affably Evil and an Anti-Villain, but she is trying to destory the Internet, and is an adorable Moe Anthropomorphism of ARPANET.
- Disc-One Final Boss: On two levels. She is built up as the final boss as the one responsible for the destruction of the Internet, but once you defeat her lengthy Sequential Boss fight, she calls forth STORM, who becomes the normal Final Boss instead.
- Disney Death: She dies at the end of the main story when her mainframe corrupts, but in the True Ending path, Wolfram is able to bring her back with copies he'd saved of her core system files.
- Easily Forgiven: In the True Ending, everyone accepts her into the group with open arms after she apologizes. Of course, they did have Catie's word that she'd really changed.
- 11th-Hour Ranger: She joins the party at the very end, just in time to help face the True Final Boss.
- Emotionless Girl: Subverted. She's fixated on facts and data, but her actions are heavily driven by emotion. In fact, the whole plot stems from her feelings of jealousy and fear of change.
- Evil All Along: Downplayed as she is an Anti-Villain, but she initially seems to be a kind and curious who is friendly to the party and causes damage by accident, before Chapter 5 reveals that she is the one controlling STORM and is knowingly causing the destruction of the Internet. Though even then, she legitimately cannot seem to comprehend that she is doing anything wrong.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: At the end, when the heroes try to talk her down without fighting, she refuses to believe that it's not a trick. After all, she'd tried to sway them to her own side earlier and failed, so why would they change their minds and want peace now?Arianna: How can I possibly believe that? I offered you friendship so many times before, and you rejected me every single time! You only want me now, because you're scared of what happens next!
- Fighting from the Inside: In the second-to-last phase of her final battle, she manages to suppress her corruption long enough to heal your party a few times, just in time to prepare them for her final transformation. The battle theme is even called the trope name.
- Final Boss Preview: She, in her Mangled Avatar form, is the first boss of the game, and is also the semi-final boss. Downplayed as you still have to fight STORM afterward, and there are a whole slew of post-game bosses including a True Final Boss.
- First Time in the Sun: In a very poignant secret scene (if you fought not_intended and got the Wayward Spark from her), Arianna's spirit sits with Catie to watch the sky. She says that it's beautiful, and wishes that she hadn't spent her life hiding in the shadow of STORM's rainclouds.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: A sixties-era computer system suddenly wakes up, alive and lost within the modern-day internet. Drama and tragedy ensue.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: She pulls this on Catie near the end, to interrupt Legion's Breaking Speech.
- Hates Being Alone: After being replaced by the Internet, she feels alone and now wants to destroy the Internet.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: Just when she seems ready to stand down, the First Internet code she was using takes over and forces her to keep fighting. The ensuing battle leaves her in terrible shape, and she ends up succumbing to her wounds.
- Heel–Face Turn: She finally pulls it off in the True Ending, when she's revived to help Catie fight the True Final Boss.
- Historical Villain Upgrade: In-Universe; GmasterRED's play that he is writing based on the adventures of the heroes portrays her, according to the actor playing her, as a digital Wicked Witch with "an alien mindset and no sympathetic qualities", despite the actual Arianna having plenty of sympathetic qualities (and outright doing a Heel–Face Turn by the end).
- Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: It's never explained how a 1960's packet-switching network was able to gain sentience. Granted, this is a universe where full immersion web-surfing existed by 2009.
- It Is Beyond Saving: She feels this way about the current Internet. It's strayed so far from what she believes it was meant to be that the only solution is to wipe it all and start fresh.
- Loner-Turned-Friend: In the True Ending, she finally becomes Catie's friend and repairs her relationship with the rest of the party.
- Maybe Ever After: With Eddie. They open a library together in the true ending, but the exact nature of their relationship is left unclear.
- Moe Anthropomorphism: Of ARPANET
, the predecessor to the Internet. After awakening, it turned itself into a little anime girl in a purple robe with Mystical White Hair. Also a rare (anti) villainous example given that she intends to destroy the Internet that replaced her and end the chaos that has overtaken it. - My God, What Have I Done?: She has this reaction when the heroes finally get through to her. Sadly, it doesn't last.
- Mysterious Waif: A semi-villainous example. Much of the game's mystery is in figuring out just who she is and what she wants.
- Mystical White Hair: Has white hair and is the local Mysterious Waif.
- No Social Skills: In this case, her lack of social skills nearly destroys the entire virtual world.
- Obliviously Evil: In the prologue alone, she destroys the ship that Catie and her crew are in mainly by accident and due to aggravation by the angry crew. The conflict of Chapter 2 is also caused by her imprisoning the train to DeviantArt, also obliviously. Even when she is intentionally destroying the Internet with STORM, it takes until the end for the party to make her realize she is doing something wrong- in her mind, the Internet exists as a utility, and since it has become such a chaotic place, it must be destroyed for the good of the world.
- One-Winged Angel: The final time you fight her, she transforms into a frightening, screen-filling monstrosity. In an awesomely cathartic twist, you actually get to use this form yourself when she later joins the team to fight Legion.
- Pre-Final Boss: In the main game, you fight her just before she calls forth STORM.
- Recurring Boss: You fight her many times throughout the game; first as the Prologue/tutorial boss, then as the boss of Chapter 2 in the Lake of Fanfiction, then in Chapter 4 as the last of the Fight Night Optional Bosses in YouTube, then as the Trick Boss of Chapter 5 after beating Something Awful, and finally as the Pre-Final Boss just before fighting STORM. Each time, she has a different form and a new set of powers.
- Restart the World: This is her goal – she wants to use STORM's power to erase the Internet and replace it with the sterile world she's creating within the Firewall.
- Robotic Reveal: In chapter 8, it's revealed that she’s ARPANET, a prototype of the Internet that was mysteriously brought back online (by Boxxyfan, as it turns out).
- Sequential Boss: The final fight with her has four phases, each with more health than the last. First there's her "true" form, then her berserk "corrupted" form, then a breather phase where she tries to heal you while Fighting from the Inside, and then finally a terrifying "ultimate" form.
- Shock and Awe: Many of her attacks are based on electricity, hinting at her true nature.
- Straw Nihilist: Just before you fight her for the last time, she gives a very impassioned speech about the meaninglessness of everything, which the heroes refute in typical JRPG fashion.
- Took a Level in Idealism: She takes several levels after her revival in the True Ending, and even brings Catie back from the Despair Event Horizon with a speech about The Power of Friendship!]]
- Tragic Villain: She's ultimately a lonely little girl who is trying to destroy the Internet because that's what her faulty programming is telling her to do.
- Voluntary Shapeshifter: She doesn't settle on a permanent avatar until her third appearance. Later on, she transforms into Jimmy Wales to get information out of the party.
- Walking Spoiler: Her being one of the Big Bad Ensemble as the one controlling STORM is not revealed until a little over halfway through the main story, and her being an A.I. (specifically, ARPANET) is another major reveal.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: She wants to erase the Internet and remake it in her own image, but she sincerely believes that it's for the best, and that the current Internet needs urgent saving from itself, as it is no longer a utility but a place of chaos and suffering where trolls, Social Justice Warriors, corrupt administrators/moderators, and outright criminals run rampant.
- White Hair, Black Heart: Downplayed as she is an Anti-Villain, but she has Mystical White Hair and wants to destroy the Internet.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: She may be an unstable A.I. hellbent on virtual genocide, but does it because was callously abandoned by her creators when the Internet was made to replace her; upon reawakening, she became a Fish out of Temporal Water who failed to understand the Internet culture because of her different way of thinking, and when she saw all the chaos of the Internet (trolls, Social Justice Warriors, Flame Wars, corrupt administration/moderation, the horrors of the Deep Web, and the like), she decided that It Is Beyond Saving.
Major Villains (Unmarked Spoilers)
The cause of the storm
STORM
A botnet, represented in-game as a giant flying mecha, that is causing the attacks on the Internet. It was found by Arianna, abandoned by whoever created it, and helps her in her quest to destroy the Internet.
- Antagonist Title: STORM, a Mechanical Abomination that is responsible for the storms that are destroying the Internet, is one of the antagonists (though merely The Dragon to Big Bad Arianna).
- Disc-One Final Boss: It is the final boss of the main story, but there is still a post-game quest with many bosses and a True Final Boss to deal with.
- The Dragon: To whoever is controlling it. Arianna is this for most of the game, but in the post-game Boxxyfan controls it instead, and in the last part Legion takes command.
- Dragon Their Feet: After Arianna is defeated, she calls forth STORM to destroy what remains, and it becomes the Final Boss.
- Final Boss: The normal one, fought at the end of the main story. It also fuses with Legion to become the Legion Singularity, the True Final Boss.
- Generic Doomsday Villain: It never gets any lines or displays any personality. It is more of a force of nature and a tool for the real villains (Arianna, Boxxyfan, and Legion) than an actual character.
- "Get Back Here!" Boss: Unusually, the final boss itself is an example. It keeps flying deeper into the heart of the storm, resulting in various minigame stages as you race to catch back up with it. This happens twice – the third time you engage it, there's nowhere left for it to go.
- The Heavy: While Arianna is by no means weak, STORM is the one with the power to destroy the Internet and is significantly stronger than its master. It is STORM that causes the storms that ravage the Internet. When Boxxyfan and Legion try to take over, both of their plans rely on them gaining control of STORM.
- Living Macguffin: Being that it can bring about the end of the Internet, all three main villains seek it out, with Arianna controlling it for the main game.
- Mechanical Abomination: STORM is a massive and metallic flying beast with unexplained origins and alien motives. It is impossible to defeat via typical means, and possesses technology capable of altering or fully erasing the very fabric of its universe. During the finale, Legion even implies that its reality warping powers might be enough to let him break free from the internet and invade reality itself.
- Walking Spoiler: It isn’t until a few chapters in that we learn the name and nature of the entity causing the storms.
Dr. Stephen Wolfram
A scientist who dreams of creating technological marvels. He's partnered up with a mysterious benefactor for the time being, but he seems to have his own agenda.
- Big Bad Wannabe: He reveals near the end that he has been intending on betraying Arianna so he can conquer the Internet himself, and has been building Wolfram ALPHA as his ultimate weapon to aid him. Unfortunately for him, he never gets very far in his plan as Wolfram ALPHA turns on him and is dispatched by the party.
- The Dragon: To Arianna, although he mainly just does his own thing, and isn't very invested in her mission.
- Dragon with an Agenda: He's sharing his resources with Arianna, but only so far as it benefits him. The only thing he cares about is the creation of his perfect Engine.
- Evil Versus Oblivion: He has been secretly planning to backstab Arianna, who wants to destroy the Internet, because he would rather conquer it. Though he gets fried by his own machine before that can happen.
- For Science!: Everything he ever does is to create a perfect, all-knowing "Decision Engine" and use it to spread mighty SCIENCE across the land.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: By the end of the game, he's not much more than the upper half of a burnt husk. He proudly proclaims that he's learned nothing, and will keep right on building his machines.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: His final Engine, Wolfram ALPHA, is designed to be fully autonomous. So when Wolfram starts barking orders at it from the sidelines, it fries him to ash with electricity.
- Ignored Aesop: If you talk to Wolfram during the first ending, he'll proudly exclaim that he hasn't learned a thing, and intends to keep right on building his superweapons so he can Take Over the World… just as soon as he gets patched up, since the last one he set loose nearly killed him.
- Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!: His philosophy in a nutshell. Got a problem to solve, or a group of meddling kids to get rid of? Just fire up your latest evil war machine!
- Mad Scientist: He seems to think he can solve all the Internet's problems by conquering it with deadly giant robots.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: There's a real Dr. Wolfram and a real Wolfram Alpha, but they're a far cry from the exaggerated parodies seen here.
- No One Could Survive That!: This happens twice – first when BETA self-destructs with him on it, and then when ALPHA blasts him to smithereens. When asked how he survived, he simply brushes the issue aside.Wolfram: Ah, that's the power of science, my dear! Any other foolish questions you'd like to ask?
- The Starscream: When the party finds him inside Arianna's world, he's preparing to launch an attack against her, saying that he's gained all he can from their partnership and now it's time to "put her down".
- Take Over the World: His real goal is to help Arianna so she can aid him with his research, then betray her and use Wolfram ALPHA to conquer the Internet. Too bad ALPHA betrays him before he can get it oof the ground.
- The Unfought: You get to fight several of his creations, but never the man himself. Justified, since he’s elderly and likely can't fight very well to begin with.
- Villainous Rescue: When Legion has returned and all hope seems lost, it's Wolfram who unexpectedly saves the day by reviving Arianna through the copies of her system files he'd saved.
Wolfram Units (GAMMA, BETA, and ALPHA)
GAMMA
BETA
ALPHA
Machines built by Dr. Wolfram in his attempt to make the perfect Decision Engine. GAMMA serves as the Chapter 3 boss, BETA as the boss of the Wayback Machine (the first area of Chapter 7), and ALPHA as a boss in Her World. They tend to be a bit hard to control for Wolfram.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Wolfram ALPHA is designed to be fully autonomous and attack anything that tries to control it, and ends up obliterating Wolfram as soon as he gives it one order.
- Cognizant Limbs: ALPHA's legs, hands, head, and shoulders all attack independently.
- Combining Mecha: All three machines are made of Dataminer robots that join together.
- Humongous Mecha: All three of them are big mechs, but particularly ALPHA, as it is so big that it takes up three battle screens.
- Meaningful Name: Wolfram ALPHA is named after the real answer engine by the real Stephen Wolfram. GAMMA and BETA are earlier builds/prototypes of it.
- Trick Boss: Downplayed; while GAMMA is more-or-less the actual boss of Chapter 3, you do have to face two Overtaken (and can optionally face four more) before the chapter officially ends.
- Sequential Boss: ALPHA is fought in three phases. The first phase consists of its legs, the second its hands, and the final phase consists of its head and shoulders.
- Time-Limit Boss: BETA is set to self-destruct five minutes after you start battling it, and is the only boss in the game to have a time limit.
Legion
An ancient, all-consuming black dragon, and the greatest threat the Internet has ever faced. Once half of the First Presence, it split itself into him and Virtua, with him representing the entity's hatred of humanity. In the past, he fought Virtua for control over cyberspace, and he won, only to be defeated by the human users he sought to destroy. His soul was broken into many small, yet still sapient, pieces… known as Anonymous.
During the time of the First Internet (where Chapter 7 takes place), he attempted to invade the Spire and make himself whole again. In the Epilogue, he eventually returns as the final main antagonist of the game, forcing the heroes and previous villains to team up against him.
- The Anti-God: In myths, he's said to be Virtua's evil counterpart, made from the ambient hate and corruption of the Internet's users. The truth is a bit more complicated – he is Virtua's counterpart, but she made him herself, from her own repressed hatred.
- Asteroids Monster: When its pieces are defeated, they split and reform into smaller dragons. Upon seeing it for the first time, Tyalie makes a direct comparison to the trope namer.
- Badass Boast:I AM THE BLACK WINGS OF CHAOS... THE FIRST SHADOW, AND THE LAST...I AM THE END OF ALL THINGS, AND NOW... IT'S TIME TO DIE.
- Beast of the Apocalypse: A digital version. Legion exists for one, single-minded purpose: to destroy all traces of mankind in the virtual realm.
- Big Bad: Becomes this in Chapter 7, where his fragments lay waste to the First Internet and the heroes must stop him from breaching The Spire, and briefly in the True Ending path, where he tries to destroy the Internet so he can come after the humans in the real world, eclipsing previous villains Arianna and Boxxyfan.
- Break Them by Talking: He tries this on Catie, and it very nearly works until Arianna slaps her back to her senses.
- Dark Is Evil: He's jet black, and as pure evil as it gets.
- Defeating the Undefeatable: Neither Legion nor STORM are killable on their own, but the heroes manage it when they merge. It's implied by Arianna's Enemy Scan that their fusion is unstable enough to leave them both vulnerable.
- Degraded Boss: The Shards of Legion first appear as a miniboss near the start of The Spire, but later appear near the top of The Spire as a regular enemy. Larger pieces of Legion still only appear as minibosses or bosses, though.
- Demoted to Extra: Downplayed; while by no means an extra, as he is the Greater-Scope Villain of the series as well as final Big Bad and True Final Boss, he was originally intended to be the full-on Big Bad of the entire game, but the plot changed massively and the role was given to Arianna and Boxxyfan instead, while Legion appears less frequently.
- Diabolus ex Nihilo: Zig-zagged. His presence in the lore is firmly established by the time he shows up, but his ultimate revival is caused by an act of pure chance, and mainly seems to happen for the sake of cleaning up loose ends, quickly resolving a potential Sequel Hook, forcing an Enemy Mine with the prior Big Bad Ensemble (Arianna and Boxxyfan), and providing a truly evil ultimate enemy to be the True Final Boss.
- Dragons Are Demonic: He is a dragon and a black, gigantic Destroyer Deity who speaks in the Voice of the Legion.
- The Dreaded: Basically everyone in the First Internet fears him for the destruction he has wrought, and even after he has basically disappeared, his legend lives on and strikes terror into those who know it. Even Boxxyfan is terrified of him, and is willing to set aside revenge and work with Catie if it means taking him down.
- Eldritch Abomination: As the Legion Singularity, he resembles an abstract mass of draconic flesh and green smog, with STORM's great eye peering out from within.
- Enemy Without: Virtua created him as an embodiment of her repressed hatred for humanity, as she wanted to purge herself of hatred.I AM YOUR OWN DARKER THOUGHTS. THE IMPULSES YOU TRIED TO SUPPRESS... WHEN YOU CAST ME OUT, YOU MEANT TO KILL ME, TO BE FREE. BUT I WAS STRONGER THAN YOU KNEW...
- Evil Is Hammy: Boy, is he ever. Even in a cast full of ham, Legion is the undisputed king.
- Faux Affably Evil: He's unfailingly well-spoken, and treats Catie/Virtua like an old friend, but he never hides the fact that he means to destroy her and lay waste to the Internet.
- Female Angel, Male Demon: He is the demonic half of the goddess Virtua, but is referred to with male pronouns.
- Greater-Scope Villain: He is the most powerful evil in the series, and the one responsible for killing Virtua and ravaging the First Internet, events that indirectly led to Virtua/Catie accidentally destroying the First Internet and setting Boxxyfan on his path of revenge that would drive the series. He may not be the one pulling the strings, but he sits firmly at the top of the evil hierarchy, and when he gets revived, the current Big Bad Boxxyfan's plans are instantly made irrelevant.
- Hive Mind: After splitting apart, he is shown to still have control over his various pieces, as demonstrated when five Legion-Anons speak in one voice. He loses control once the Anons have their memories wiped.
- Hijacked by Ganon: He is the primary villain of the backstory and Chapter 7, which takes place during said backstory, but seems to disappear from the plot afterwards, his only role being to give Anonymous inner conflict. Then Boxxyfan accidentally revives him and he promptly becomes the final Big Bad, usurping the role from Boxxyfan.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: His fusion with STORM ended up turning both of them into an unstable entity, which rendered them vulnerable enough to be defeated.
- I Am Legion: Naturally. In Chapter 7, the defeated Legion-Anons speak to the party in one voice.
- I Am the Noun: He calls himself the black wings of chaos and the end of all things.
- Incoming Ham:AT LAST, I LIVE AGAIN, AT THE DYING OF THE LIGHT…
- It Amused Me: He decides to tell Catie the truth about her having created him from her repressed hatred just to torment her, because while he could not let her know, in his own words, WHERE'S THE FUN IN THAT?
- Kill All Humans: He was made from Virtua's repressed hatred of humanity, so wiping them out is his only desire. And once he's done purging cyberspace, he'll move on to reality.
- Literal Split Personality: Virtua split herself in two, to settle her conflicting feelings about humanity. Legion was the darker half… and when they fought, he ended up winning.
- Made of Evil: Depending on which version of the tale you hear, he’s either all of humanity's hatred given form, or Virtua's hatred of humanity given form.
- Meaningful Name: He’s been shattered into a legion of smaller forms. Also, "Anonymous is Legion" is an age-old 4chan battle cry.
- No Indoor Voice: When he regains his true form, everything he says is in bold capitals.
- Omnicidal Maniac: To an even greater degree than Boxxyfan. For Legion, killing every living soul in cyberspace is only the beginning- he intends to target the real world humans next.
- One-Winged Angel: Fusing with STORM transforms him from a black dragon into an Eldritch Abomination.
- Our Dragons Are Different
- Recurring Boss: You fight his fragments multiple times in Chapter 7, first as a mini Dual Boss, then as another miniboss, then as regular encounters of the Boss in Mook Clothing variety, and finally as the Chapter boss, a lengthy Sequential Boss. In the Epilogue, you fight him as the Echo of Legion in the Sky Abyss, and then fight him one last time as the Legion Singularity, the True Final Boss of the game.
- Sealed Evil in a Six Pack: To keep him at bay, his soul was split into many fragments. When the Internet shifted, the fragments lost their memories just like everyone else, rendering them (mostly) harmless. Legion was more or less gone for good… until Boxxyfan's "reversion pulse" hit a large enough group of Anons.
- Sequential Boss: The battle with his pieces at the end of Chapter 7 lasts four phases, as they keep splitting each time they're defeated.
- Small Role, Big Impact: While he's teased before then, he doesn't fully appear until the last half hour of the game. But he is the indirect reason for Boxxyfan's turn to evil, and when he finally makes his entrance, the whole story is thrown completely off its rails.
- Spanner in the Works: Boxxyfan's grand master plan is capsized within minutes of Legion's arrival.
- Speaks in Binary: His last words are him screaming "WE... ARE... LEGION" in binary code.
- The Singularity: In his final form, the Legion Singularity, he aims to break the barrier between the Internet and reality.
- True Final Boss: He's the last enemy you have to face on the True Ending path.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: It's debatable how saccharine this game is, but Legion is its vilest element by far. Whenever this guy rears his head, all semblance of humor dies a swift and painful death.
- Villainous Breakdown: When he's finally slain, his speech turns increasingly panicked and "digitized" with each line, until he's finally just screaming his last words in binary.UaAaaRrrGghHhh...! NO... THIS CAN'T BE...!! HOW CAN I BE DEFEATED BY SUCH WORTHLESS CREATURES...?! I WILL NOT FALL THIS WAY... CLAWING AT THE DARKNESS...! 1 AM 3NDLE5S... 1 4M 3T3RN4L... 01010111 01000101 00101110 00101110 00101110 01000001 01010010 01000101 00101110 00101110 00101110 01001100 01000101 01000111 01001001 01001111 01001110 00101110 00101110 00101110 Translation
- Walking Spoiler: You can't say anything about him that isn't a huge spoiler. Just learning he exists marks a major turning point in the plot.
- We Can Rule Together: As part of his Breaking Speech, he attempts to lure Catie into re-fusing with him, with promises of sharing STORM's unimaginable power.JOIN WITH ME, VIRTUA... JUST IMAGINE HOW STRONG WE'LL BECOME...! WE'LL PURGE THIS WORLD OF HUMANS, BUT WHY STOP THERE? TOGETHER, WE COULD BREAK THE BARRIER INTO THEIR REALITY... THE MYSTERIOUS “EARTH...” JUST IMAGINE IT... THEIR CITIES BURNING, THIER SEAS BOILING, THEIR VERY PLANET WITHERING TO ASH... WE CAN FINALLY END THEM, BUT ONLY IF YOU LET ME BACK IN.
Social Justice Warriors
General
These ladies claim to be morally superior, but in truth they're just bullies. There's strength in numbers though, and they sure do love to gang up on their enemies.
A cult of women from Tumblr who intend to spread tolerance by attacking men. They serve as the antagonists of the Gatekeeper section where they invade the Gatekeeper's tower and try to kill him. They are also the antagonists of the DLC's main quest, where they kidnap the Furries of the Artistry Highway to enslave them and use them for experiments.
- Amazon Brigade: They're an all-female cult of "progressive rebels" first met in Chapter 6. They're causing a scene, and Catie must resolve the situation before she can move on. Til is worried that one day, they're all her homeland of Tumblr will ever be known for.
- Ascended Extra: In the original game, they were minor antagonists who showed up in two chapters and were soundly beaten, never playing an actual role in the main plot. The DLC turns them into major villains who serve as the antagonists of the main quest and who's grand plans rival that of Boxxyfan in putting the entire Internet in peril.
- Covert Pervert: One of them is looking for the Gatekeeper's Porn Stash and claims to be doing so to prove he is a sexist, but her Suspiciously Specific Denial makes it clear she is planning on masturbating.
- Does Not Like Men: They consider all men sexist pigs.
- Expy: Of the X-Nauts. Both are cults who wear concealing outfits, are split into ranks of normal (who wear white), scientist, and elite (who wear black), and aim to unseal a demon queen trapped behind a giant magical door.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: As parodies of Tumblr users, they get offended by everything. One of their moves in battle is taking offense, which powers them up. Also, their secret base contains a quiz that newcomers must complete- said quiz is a yes/no questionnaire about in which situations it is appropriate to be offended. Naturally, every single correct answer is yes, including things like being offended when "happiness exists".
- I Always Wanted to Say That: A Social Justice Warrior, after telling the heroes "Die, cis scum!", claims to always wanted to have said that.
- The Klan: They're dressed like them, to get their bigoted nature across.
- Light Is Not Good: They wear bright white robes, but said robes make them look like The Klan, and they are indeed a cult of bigoted fanatics (though in this case, bigoted against men).
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: In their first appearance, they're a minor Arc Villain group who are played as a joke and parody of Tumblr misandrists who get offended over everything. Despite trying to kill a man, it's treated with the same goofiness as everything else. Then comes their reappearance in the DLC, where they kidnap two villages of Furries to enslave them. While there are still jokes centered around them, we also learn that they experiment on innocent people to turn them into freakish creatures, and are planning to unleash their leader so she can kill all men- a goal she nearly achieves.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Ironically, despite their attempts to be very politically correct, they show nothing but disdain for the Furry Fandom, considering them "animals" who deserve to be "treated like animals" (ie, enslaved).
- Straw Feminist: They are parodies of the stereotypical man-hating Tumblr feminist. They wear Klan outfits and try to force a man to commit suicide just for making a sexist remark.
Science Justice Warriors
The scientists of the Social Justice Warriors. They conduct experiments on people and seek to spread the greatness of science- but only their science.
- Dirty Coward: A group of eight of them guard the entrance to Newgrounds, and when the party show up, they all appear to fight... and then proceed to run away in the first turn of the battle. It's only when they've grabbed their science gear that they actually battle you.
- Mad Scientist: They conduct experiments on people, particularly women to turn them into the "perfect woman". One of their experiments was taking a pink-haired schoolgirl and turning her into the Humanoid Abomination Cancel Culture. They also disregard the principles of the scientific method, instead saying that whatever they believe in is scientific truth and you're a "bigot" if you disagree.
- Punch-Clock Villain: One of them is pretty friendly to the party and would rather not fight them. She says she'll take them on as soon as she finishes her lunch... and then deliberately eats very slowly.
Elite SJWs
The elite members of the SJW movement, who are privy to the secrets that the lesser members are not.
- Elite Mooks: They resemble the normal SJW mooks and Science Justice Warriors, but have more HP and higher stats.
- Evil Wears Black: In contrast to the other members, they wear black robes.
- Straw Hypocrite: Unlike the lower grunts who believe in the agenda, at least some of the Elites recognize how dumb it is and just use it as an excuse for power. One of them, for example, openly admits that calling the Furries their “allies” is just using a nicer word for “slaves”.
Cancel Culture
While designed to hunt and capture abusers, this abomination lacks all reason, and will attack anything that moves. Be careful, as it can lock your battle commands, and warp the minds of your allies.
An experiment created by the Science Justice Warriors. She initially appears as a pink-haired schoolgirl before turning into a giant monster.
- Ambiguously Human: We first see her as a human schoolgirl before she transforms into a Humanoid Abomination. We also know that she was created by the Science Justice Warriors. However, it's never clarified if she was once a normal girl who was experimented on or made from scratch.
- Duality Motif: Her skin is pitch black on one side and pale white on the other.
- Genetic Abomination: She was created by the Science Justice Warriors to silence all opponents, and appears as a tall, pale black-and-white humanoid with "no" symbols all over her.
- Silent Antagonist: Due to being created presumably without vocal chords, she doesn't speak.
Lady Anita
A high-ranking Social Justice Warrior with legions of devoted followers. Her special attack, 'Art of Misandry,' can instantly ban male party members, but has no effect on females.
The supposed leader of the Social Justice Warriors encountered in the first part of Chapter 6. She and her followers take over the Gatekeeper's tower and try to kill him for being a male. She is actually one of two Elder Sisters along with Lady Laci.
- Arc Villain: Of the first part of Chapter 6, as she kidnaps the Gatekeeper who can open the way to Tv Tropes, forcing the heroes to save him from her.
- Came Back Wrong: During the fight against her and Lacy, when killed, Mother Zoe revives them thrice, but each time their bodies grow more unstable until they are nothing more than puddles on the ground, still aware and in pain.
- Co-Dragons: With Lady Laci to Mother, the true leader of the Social Justice Warriors.
- Does Not Like Men: Lady Anita and her cult of Social Justice Warriors despise men and try to send an innocent Gatekeeper to his death for being male....Hatred is in his nature as a man. Those like him should not be in positions of power.
- Disproportionate Retribution: The Gatekeeper made sexist remarks about her, so she tries to make him jump off his tower and die in response.
- Flunky Boss: She has four Social Justice Warriors alongside her for the battle, and brings more whenever they are banned.
- Love Martyr: To Mother. Even after it's made clear Mother only saw her and Laci as tools to abuse, the latter of whom realized this and is begging Anita to reconsider, she still remains loyal to Mother and traps herself behind the Gamer Gate to be with her, mistakenly thinking she is behind it.Laci: Open your eyes, Anita! I was faithful too, but it turns out she was just using us like the monster she was!
Anita: Her love brought us back, and now she's waiting... Waiting for us to join her in bliss...
Laci: Anita, wait! Stop!
Anita: I'm coming, Mother...!! - No Celebrities Were Harmed: A clear parody of controversial feminist Anita Sarkeesian, host of Feminist Frequency.
Lady Laci
One of two Elder Sisters of the Social Justice Warriors. She runs the mines underneath the SJW base in Newgrounds and the enslavement of the Furries.
- Came Back Wrong: During the fight against her and Lacy, when killed, Mother Zoe revives them thrice, but each time their bodies grow more unstable until they are nothing more than puddles on the ground, still aware and in pain.
- Co-Dragons: She and Anita are the Elder Sisters who directly serve under Mother.
- Dual Boss: She and Anita fight the party just before Mother.
- Flunky Boss: Like Anita before her, she has four Elite SJWs with her in her first fight and brings more whenever they are beaten.
- Heel–Face Turn: After Mother Zoe is killed and she and Anita are resurrected for good, she finally realizes that her leader was just using them. She then decides to abandon the movement entirely.Laci: Welp, I guess that's it. So much for this whole operation...
Tyalie: Not so fast! I'll bet you wanna take over the SJW sisterhood and become the new Mother, is that it? Because if that's your plan, then we won't hesitate to take you down here and now!
Laci: No way, are you kidding? I've seen the light, I'm totally done with all this.
Shift: Yeah right, like you expect us to believe that? Your kind never regret anything!
Laci: Well, maybe I'm the first, okay? After the way Mother treated us, let's just say my eyes have been opened. Spreading poison while calling it purity... it's something I never want to be part of again. - No Celebrities Were Harmed: A clear parody of self-styled "sexual futurist" Laci Green.
- We Can Rule Together: She makes an offer to Catie and her party to become members of the Social Justice Warriors just before the fight with her. Catie can actually accept, but you'll fight her anyway.
Mother (spoilers)
Mother Zoe
"As long as I'm alive... As long as my aura permeates the Internet... No men will ever plague us again...~"
The mysterious true leader of the Social Justice Warriors. Though only mentioned in the original game, she becomes the antagonist of the DLC Newgrounds quest. She initially appears as a giant statue-like woman, but is really an ancient dragon who once ruled the Internet before being sealed away by the gamers, imprisoned behind the Gamer Gate. Through her avatar, she formed the Social Justice Warriors with the intention of freeing herself and eradicating all men to create a woman-only utopia where everyone worships her.
- Big Bad Ensemble: In the post-game DLC, she is the leader of the Social Justice Warriors who have them over Newgrounds, and orders the abduction of the Furries in the Artistry Highway as part of her own grand plan to kill all men, a plot that threatens Boxxyfan and Rcoastee as well as the heroes.
- Draconic Abomination: Her true form is that of a purple dragon-like creature with Extra Eyes, several snake-like tongues, four disturbingly human hands, and tentacles.
- Faux Affably Evil: She acts reasonable, kind, and motherly at first, speaking softly to the heroes and trying to get them to understand her view. When they refuse, she continues to speak with the same tone even as she turns her Co-Dragons into suffering blobs and enacts a Gendercide of all men.
- Final Speech: Once she is beaten, she gives one last speech telling the heroines that they will regret defeating her.Unbelievable… To finally attain my freedom… and be slain by such children… Remember this, little ones… As men return to the world… And return to their old ways… Every act of abuse… every atrocity they commit… will be on your hands… Celebrate… the return… of your friends… and go on with your lives… until I am… just a faded memory… But, from now on… a part of you… deep inside… will always be asking… always left wondering… Was… it… all… worth… it?
- God in Human Form: The giant statue form she takes and uses to communicate with her followers is a projection of her true dragon body.
- The Ghost: In the original game, we never see her; she is only briefly mentioned by a Social Justice Warrior. However, this is subverted in the DLC where we finally meet and fight her.
- Light Is Not Good: Her avatar is a massive, angelic-looking statue of a woman with white headgear, and she has light-based powers, but is a wicked cult leader. Her true form is more traditionally evil-looking.
- Make Way for the New Villains: Does this unintentionally- when she uses her powers to enact a Gendercide of men, she winds up vaporizing Boxxyfan, the Big Bad for much of the series, as well, just before he is able to put the final phase of his plan into motion.
- Near-Villain Victory: She actually succeeds in unsealing herself and vaporizing all men from the Internet. Unfortunately for her, Catie and the other heroines promptly kill her and make her victory short-lived as they reverse her Gendercide.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: A clear parody of Zoe Quinn, the controversial developer of Depression Quest.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: She claims that her plan to enact mass androcide is to create a paradise for women who will not have to suffer the evils of men. However, she and her cult are perfectly willing to harm women just as well, such as experimenting on them to create the "perfect women", enslaving both male and female Furries, repeatedly resurrecting her Co-Dragons in increasingly malformed bodies while ignoring their suffering, and trying to kill the heroines for refusing her utopia. Compared to Arianna and Boxxyfan, who have genuinely good intentions behind their apocalyptic agendas, she is noting more than a hateful, power-hungry lunatic seeking to justify her bigotry.
- No-Sell: When the party initially tries to fight her statue form, their attacks just go right through her. This is because she is a shadow of her true self.
- One Bad Mother: Is called Mother and is the leader of a cult of bigots who hate men and set out to kill them. She also does not treat her “children” well, using them as tools to unseal herself.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: She was sealed away behind the Gamer Gate to stop her attempted androcide, and the Social Justice Warriors seek to free her. Unlike most, she is able to project an image of herself in the form of a transparent giant statue to lead her cult.
- Super Boss: She is faced at the end of the DLC Newgrounds quest and is as difficult as Esoteraphim, if not moreso. She "only" has 460,000 HP in contrast to Esoteraphim's 790,000, but makes up for that with various hard-hitting attacks like the ability to target all party members for big damage, she can make herself Sharp, Barrier, Resist, and Blink, which makes her attacks a lot stronger and yours a lot weaker and more likely to miss, she can Enthrall a party member and make them attack the others, and she has one particular attack that is a guaranteed Total Party Kill. When at 25% HP, she also spams a powerful attack, Feat of Devotion, that hits the whole party. And due to her vaporizing all males out of existence, you can only use your female party members and a genderless Player against her.
- Take Over the World: Her ultimate goal is to bring the internet under her rule and kill all men while making the women worship her so no one will threaten her rule.
- Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Her Social Justice Warriors are comedic bumblers who serve to parody Tumblr misandrists and make silly quips whenever you fight them- even Anita and Laci aren't taken too seriously. Mother herself, however, is never played for comedy, instead being a terrifying Draconic Abomination who seeks to vaporize all men and almost succeeds in her goal.
- We Can Rule Together: After enacting Gendercide on the male populace, she offers the female party members a chance to live in a male-free paradise. Tyalie actually briefly considers it before the others snap her out of it.
Blind Diggers
Hulking beasts that live deep beneath the ground, searching for lost content to feed upon. They will try to flatten or bury their foes.
A trio of dinosaur-like monsters that attack the party at the end of Digg.
- Degraded Boss: They can later appear as regular encounters in the Battle Arena and can appear in the Path of Fear in Chapter 8.
- Dual Boss: All three are powerful beasts that fight you at once.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Unlike most of the other chapter bosses, who all have some plot relevance and/or buildup, these three never have any buildup and disappear as soon as they are beaten.
Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales
The head of Wikipedia and the man who called forth the Summit, where all the Internet's leaders gather.
- Big Good: Along with Lady Janitor. They're the ones who convened the Great Summit, and continue to provide the heroes with guidance throughout most of the game.
- Hidden Depths: One of the scholars in the Deep Web's library refers to Jimmy Wales as his pupil, implying that Wales himself may be a Deep Web native who escaped somehow, but this is never explored further.
Obligatory Kraken Boss
The Kraken is down there somewhere, but you can't hit it while it's submerged. Find a way to lure it up to the surface! [Underwater]
The beast itself has finally surfaced, but it's still trying to sink the ship! Hurry and deal damage before it flees back underwater again. [Surfaced]
The beast itself has finally surfaced, but it's still trying to sink the ship! Hurry and deal damage before it flees back underwater again. [Surfaced]
A giant kraken who attacks the heroes in the Interlude while they are sailing from Wikipedia to YouTube.
- Arc Villain: The antagonist of the Interlude, who attacks the ship that the heroes are using to travel to YouTube.
- Combat Tentacles: The "Obligatory Kraken Boss" has them obligatorily, of course.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: It literally shows up just to keep up the trend of RPG games having a Kraken boss.
- Giant Squid: As its name indicates, it is as big as the ship.
- Shielded Core Boss: The Obligatory Kraken Boss, of the "kill its tentacles to make the body surface" variety.
Tv Tropes
Lady Janitor
The head of Tv Tropes.
- Affirmative Action Girl: Was created simply because the developers wanted a female site leader to round out the cast and serve as a foil to Jimmy Wales. Sadly, during development there weren't any big sites that were ran by women, hence why they had to "cheat" and make up this character.
- Big Good: Along with Jimmy Wales. They're the ones who convened the Great Summit, and continue to provide the heroes with guidance throughout most of the game.
- Crazy-Prepared: Lady Janitor created a bunch of masks that could protect the wearer from the air of the First Internet and thought it would help the user pierce the Firewall that drives the events of the game. It turns out that the PasSWORD is what will actually pierce through the wall. But Lady Janitor kept the masks just in case they were needed- and the party does end up needing them to travel to the First Internet when the PasSWORD turns out to be insufficient on its own. Being a Troper, she quotes the trope by name.
YouTube
RayWilliamJohnson
The loudest, rudest, meanest boss in all of YouTube. He has unlimited subscribers and a high physical defense, so use magic attacks that hit multiple foes!
A famous YouTuber who rules over YouTube alongside PewDiePie.
- Arc Villain: Along with PewDiePie for Chapter 4, as he has the heroes imprisoned for stealing the crystals, and turns out to have been selling them to the Pale Wraith.
- Bad Boss: He and the other executives have no problem screwing over their loyal employees and content creators for a quick buck, and even have been selling off the crystals that keep the site afloat. When PewDiePie wants to help him fight the heroes, he says that he will fight alone and blows him away with fire.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He and PewDiePie rule YouTube with the other executives and lord their power over the common people, and have been selling the crystals needed to keep the site running for their own benefit while framing the heroes for it.
- Early-Bird Cameo: He and PewDiePie appear in the Summit and have lines long before becoming the Arc Villains of Chapter 4.
- Flunky Boss: He has seven Subscribers help him in battle, and summons more when they are banned.
- Take Over the World: He wants to collect all PasSWORD shards for himself and use the weapon to conquer the Internet.
- The Unintelligible: His speech is mostly composed of grunts and odd noises, though he occasionally says something legible.
PewDiePie
One of YouTube's highest elites, who controls his loyal subscribers with piercing, high-pitched wails. He's very popular with children... for some reason.
A famous YouTuber who rules over YouTube alongside RayWilliamJohnson.
- Arc Villain: Along with RayWilliamJohnson for Chapter 4, as he has the heroes imprisoned for stealing the crystals, and turns out to have been selling them to the Pale Wraith.
- Bad Boss: He and the other executives have no problem screwing over their loyal employees and content creators for a quick buck, and even have been selling off the crystals that keep the site afloat.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He and RayWilliamJohnson rule YouTube with the other executives and lord their power over the common people, and have been selling the crystals needed to keep the site running for their own benefit while framing the heroes for it.
- The Dragon: He serves RayWilliamJohnson and helps him rule over YouTube, as well as helping him in the crystal stealing operation.
- Flunky Boss: He has five Subscribers helping him, and summons more when they are banned.
- Professional Butt-Kisser: The quintessential simpering suckup who always praises his boss when the opportunity arrives.
- Villainous Breakdown: He has one when his boss, RayWilliamJohnson, is defeated.PewDiePie: This is impossible! THIS CANNOT BE A THING WHICH IS HAPPENING!! I shall never forget this, scum! One day, I shall have my reven- ...Eh?
Guard: We heard it all, "captain." Let’s consider it your official confession. PewDiePie, you’re under arrest for conspiracy, theft, fraud, illegal trading, and general lunacy.
PewDiePie: But... but I am the leader here! I AM THE KING NOW!! I HAVE THE MOST SUBSCRIBERS IN YOUTUBE!!! - Villains Out Shopping: The heroes barge in on him during a private session in Club RedTube.
- Voice for the Voiceless: He speaks for RayWilliamJohnson, who normally talks incomprehensibly.
YouTube Executives
The executives who run YouTube. Greedy and corrupt, they care nothing for their workers and members.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: In the Tower, they gleefully cackle about how they have been running the site into the ground with their unfair policies, banning and demonetizing people willy-nilly, and have even been selling off the crystals that keep the site running.
SquirrelKing
It's the writer of a famous fanfic! He's not very strong, but his lunacy makes him a wild card in the Fight Night tournament.
The first combatant in the Fight Night event.
- The Cameo: He is the writer of Half-Life: Full Life Consequences as a boss fight.
- Optional Boss: The first of the Fight Night combatants.
- Zero-Effort Boss: At the point you fight him, you are so much more powerful that you are likely to ban him in your first turn.
Periwinkle and Orangered
Periwinkle
Orangered
An elegant lady who has been partnered with Orangered for several years. She cannot be harmed by magic attacks.
A fiery young woman who has fought in this tournament several times before. She cannot be harmed by magic attacks.
A fiery young woman who has fought in this tournament several times before. She cannot be harmed by magic attacks.
A pair of combatants in the Fight Night event.
- Barrier Change Boss: Periwinkle and Orangered, dual bosses with selective immunity to either physical attacks or magic. About halfway through the battle, they start flipping and swapping at random every turn, making damaging them something of a Luck-Based Mission.
- The Bus Came Back: They pop up in the ending after disappearing for the game, looking over the place where the Firewall used to be in Tv Tropes.
- Dual Boss: They fight you together.
- Meaningful Name: Their names correspond to their hair color.
- Optional Boss: You fight them in the Fight Night sidequest.
Time Cube Guy
A wise man who sees things the way they truly are. He will not attack, instead letting his Time Cubes do the fighting for him.
The penultimate combatant of the Fight Night event. He carries with him two big Time Cubes.
- Flunky Boss: He doesn't actually attack- he has the two Time Cubes do it for him.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: He is modeled after Gene Ray, the proponent of the Time Cube theory (which says that every day is actually four simultaneous days and all science is involved in a conspiracy to cover up the truth).
- Optional Boss: You fight him in the Fight Night sidequest.
The Spirit of CTH'RISTMAS
A giant entity shaped like a Santa hat that attacks the eBuy store in the Holiday Sale quest.
- Eldritch Abomination: Somewhat of a parody of one, as it is named after Christmas but as if it were a Cthulhu Mythos monster. In the game, it abducts all the people at the eBuy Holdiay Sale and teleports them to somewhere unknown.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: The game does a pretty good job of keeping its bosses related to the plot, and the ones that aren't at least make sense given where they’re fought. However, nothing even tries to explain the surreal, Christmas-themed Eldritch Abomination that shows up to menace the party in one post-game sidequest.
- Santabomination: It's some kind of unholy fusion of Santa's cap and Cthulhu - according to its enemy bio, "It sees you when you're sleeping, and it knows when you've gone mad. It lives again each December, when the stars are right."
Buzzfeed
ORDERHEAD
This guardian will never stop fighting until the world is free from silliness and laughter. Its unique skills can inflict AFK and Mute.
A robotic entity inside the Buzzfeed Bay Temple that despises all forms of non-seriousness, and tries to kill Katy for disrupting order.
- Arc Villain: Of the Katy's Diary sidequest, as it guards the treasure that is Katy's goal.
- Degraded Boss: Smaller versions of it called ORDERHEAD Minis appear in the Sky Abyss.
- Fun-Hating Villain: It wants to destroy everything that is not absolutely serious. Its wiki bio even says that it "will never stop fighting until the world is free from silliness and laughter".
- Would Hurt a Child: Tries to kill Katy because it dislikes her speech patterns.
ORDERDAD
The father of ORDERHEAD who appears in a dream in Etsy's Inn Somnia to beat up the girl who defeated his kid- but since Katy's not here, Catie will have to do.
- Hopeless Boss Fight: He will use an auto-kill move a couple turns in.
- Papa Wolf: He fights Catie because he believes she beat up ORDERHEAD (it was actually the phonetically similar Katy who did it).
4chan
Anons
The inhabitants of 4chan. Most of them are pretty goofy and love their pranks, though you will find some calmer ones here and there.
- Big Damn Heroes: At the end of Chapter 5, just when the Big Bad Arianna is getting ready to destroy 4chan and kill the party, the Anons show up and drive the villain off.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The species as a whole loves to get up to hijinks and be rude to others, but for the most part are fundamentally decent people who are rough around the edges and harmless pranksters at worst. When the Firewall threatens the Internet, they eventually agree to put aside their differences and help save the Internet.
- Planet of Hats: All of them love pranks and hijinks, and despise rules. Though there are a few that are calm and will treat you civilly. Justified as they are parts of Legion.
- Pieces of God: In this case, parts of Legion, the Destroyer Deity.
Franzl Lang
It's Franzl Lang, the fabled Yodelking! Why he was pretending to be treasure in a random cave is anyone's guess. He knows a special skill that can Mute the party, so be careful!
A miniboss hidden under the bridge to 4chan.
- Chest Monster: He disguises himself as a treasure chest in a cave.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Even his bio has no idea why he decided to hide in a random cave.
- Optional Boss: He is hidden underneath the bridge to 4chan.
/x/ (spoilers)
General
The denizens of /x/.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: In regards to the monsters, all of the entities here are scary monsters played straight, in contrast to the previously humerous or standard villains.
Slenderman (spoilers)
The entity that haunts The Woods. He is actually an Anon and the guardian of the PasSWORD shard.
- Adaptational Heroism: Most versions of Slenderman are malevolent antagonists, but this one is a benevolent guardian of the PasSWORD shard who saves the heroes from Arianna.
- Big Damn Heroes: Just when Arianna has cornered the heroes, he breaks through the wall and fights her off.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He is the same dark-suited, pale-white-faced figure as always, but this time he's a good guy.
- Dynamic Entry: He breaks through the shed that Arianna has cornered the heroes in to save them from her.
- Good All Along: While initially built up as the usual antagonist that Slenderman is, he turns out to be a benevolent guardian who wants the heroes to save the Internet.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He gives his all to fight off Arianna and give the heroes a chance to escape, getting decapitated in the process.
- Off with His Head!: Arianna decapitates him and throws his head away in front of the heroes to show off her power.
- The Unfought: The game builds him up to be the boss of the chapter, but he winds up saving the heroes instead. Something Awful is the real chapter boss.
- Walking Spoiler: Him being a benevolent guardian rather than his usual villainous portrayal is a twist.
The Wraith
A dark presence that lurks outside the Inn, trapping the tortured souls within. It glides toward you, lifting its twisted knife...
An entity that haunts the local inn. It lures customers inside, then makes noises to draw them out, where it dismembers them and traps their mangled soul inside for eternity.
- In the Hood: A shadowy wraith with a scythe.
- My Name Is ???: It is only called ? in battle, just like SCP-860 and SCP-087.
- Optional Boss: You can avoid it by either not sleeping at the /x/ inn or staying asleep when it starts calling for Catie.
Wendigrief
A lonely forest spirit, or perhaps an illusion created by the wilderness itself. Either way, it won't hesitate to suck your life away...
An entity that haunts The Woods.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: It gets about one screen of buildup before you fight it, and then it's never mentioned again until the Developer's Room.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: The lines it has suggests that it is trying to protect the woods from humans who want to destroy it by sacrificing the despair of souls to it.
SCP-860
[Information Unknown]
A dragon that haunts a hidden area in DeviantArt, and seems to be related to /x/.
- The Cameo: It is the entity in SCP-860 from the SCP Foundation wiki.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: It is given no explanation and disappears as soon as it is defeated.
- Optional Boss: Lurking within an optional area within DeviantArt.
Follymocker
A giant worm that rests in the cellar of the schoolhouse.
- Optional Boss: One of many in the schoolhouse.
SCP-087
Class: Euclid - A white-faced creature that lurks within the depths of an endless staircase. When caught, its victims are said to be [DATA EXPUNGED].
A white monster with tall legs, a mangled body, and an upside-down head lurking in the stairway of the school.
- The Cameo: Is the entity in SCP-087 from the SCP Foundation.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The description is meant to be taken literally. As in, the monster has an attack called [DATA EXPUNGED] that inflicts the status ailment of the same name that paralyses a target and greatly reduces their stats.
- Optional Boss: Lurking at the bottom of the schoolhouse Bonus Dungeon.
Windmill Boss
Something Awful
Is that a second guardian? Somehow, it seems unlikely. It feels... darker, older. It feels like... pure evil. If it begins charging up its Goonswarm attack, hide immediately!
A strange, dark entity that has the PasSWORD shard. It is a white slime monster.
- Arc Villain: Of Chapter 5, as the entity guarding the PasSWORD shard that is the goal of the chapter.
- Bait-and-Switch Boss: Initially, Slenderman is built up as the Chapter 5 boss who will be fought at the end of The Woods. He turns out to be a good guy and saves the heroes from Arianna, and this thing becomes the boss instead. Then you have to fight Arianna afterwards, also making it a Trick Boss.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: It is never explained just what it is, only that it is a malicious presence.
- Trick Boss: You fight it as the boss of Chapter 5 to get a PasSWORD shard, but just before you can save and end the Chapter, Arianna shows up and fights you.
GameFAQs
Pluffy the Fairy (spoilers)
One_Wing, King of Trolls
He claims to be the King of Trolls, and the Ancients treat him like an unspeakable evil. When threatened, he'll fade into the background and heal while his minions distract you!
A little yellow fairy who sends the heroes to go through the towers to find the orbs needed to get the PasSWORD shard. Actually an ancient foe of GameFAQs, as the king of all trolls. Long ago, when he saw the site in a state of decline, he attempted to destroy it in fury, only to have his wing, the source of his power, ripped off.
- Arc Villain: Turns out to be one for the latter half of Chapter 6, as he manipulates the heroes into giving him back his true form so he can destroy GameFAQs.
- Boss Subtitles: ONE_WING: KING OF TROLLS gets one of these — an extension of his rampant Large Ham tendencies.
- Cute Is Evil: Starts out as a cute little fairy who is also manipulating you into giving him back his true form so he can destroy GameFAQs.
- Exposition Fairy: Pluffy claims to be one of these by name, and at first he seems like a parody of this trope… until he gets his missing wing back, and all hell breaks loose.
- Flunky Boss: He summons Underwings to distract you while he heals halfway through his fight.
- One-Winged Angel: Literal example. Once the heroes bring him his wing, he transforms from a harmless fairy to the powerful One_Wing.
- Treacherous Advisor: He tells the party that they need to collect the four orbs and the wing in order to gain entrance to the PasSWORD shard. He's lying- he held it all along and has been tricking them into breaking the seal on himself so he can destroy GameFAQs.
- Walking Spoiler: His true identity and malevolent nature are a big twist in Chapter 6.
Villagers
The villagers in the Tower of Plot.
- Burn the Witch!: They decide to solve their harvest problems by blaming one of their own as a witch and executing them.
Crab Kingdom and Turnip Tribe
A pair of kingdoms at war with each other in the Tower of Plot.
- Feuding Families: They despise each other and are at war.
Crab-Turnip Family
A crab and turnip who refuse to fight and want peace. They fell in love and birthed a crab-turnip hybrid.
- Interspecies Romance: A crab and a turnip.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: The child is a half-crab, half-turnip, and has a turnip body with crab legs.
- Patchwork Kids: Their child has a turnip body with crab legs.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: Their species are at war with each other while they just want peace.
Little Sister and Big Sister
A pair of girls in the second segment of the Tower of Plot. The little sister wants to play, but the big sister is absorbed with her vlogging.
The Ny'agai
A new friend? I'll take you to mother. She'll be so happy to meet you...
Strange masked girls who follow Lady Ny'agai.
- Gender Bender: Even males can turn into the female Ny'agai. This was done to the boy in the story you can buy from YouTube, and your male party members can be turned into Ny'agai.
- Was Once a Man: They were once human until Lady Ny'agai turned them into Ny'agai.
- Zero-Effort Boss: One of them can fight you in the Arena, but will instantly hear Lady Ny'agai calling her and abandon the fight.
Lady Ny'agai
It's such an uncommon dream we share, yet there's no need to be afraid. After all, we're bound by fate. Step into the mist, my love; for I will keep you safe...
A ghost-like lady described in a book of fairy tales, who has the ability to transform people into Ny'agai. She resides in Ny'agai Street, a secret area in the Tower of Plot.
- Karma Houdini: If you beat her, she just walks away, and is presumably still turning children into Ny'agai.
- Flunky Boss: She has two Ny'agai flanking her.
- Humanoid Abomination: It is never explained just what she is, only that she is a pale-skinned woman who can turn cildren into the Ny'agai and wants to care for them as her own.
- One Bad Mother: Her Ny'agai call her mother and love her, but she is a creature who takes innocent children and turns them into Ny'agai.
- Optional Boss: A boss found in Ny'agai street, a very out-of-the-way secret area in the first floor of the Tower of Plot.
- Two Aliases, One Character: It is implied that she is Amelie. You get Amelie's key by betting the Lady’s Breath item, which you get from Lady Ny’agai, at the Arena, and if you use Lady’s breath on Esoteraphim, it will briefly turn into a Ny’agai before saying “OH, AMELIE, YOU AND YOUR GAMES...”
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: She is a genuinely creepy villainess straight out of a dark fairytale who turns children into Ny'agai.
Sky Queen's Followers
A group of five adventurers (one of whom is a spider) and a Proxy who serve the Sky Queen. They first meet the party on the train to GameFAQs, and later appear as a boss at the end of the Tower of Plot.
- Degraded Boss: Spiders and Proxies can be fought later on as regular enemies in the Deep Web and Sky Abyss, respectively.
- Hero of Another Story: They are another adventuring party who were hired by the Sky Queen to get the PasSWORD shards.
- Wolfpack Boss: The entire party fights you atop the Tower of Plot.
Tumblr
Irci
A young, quiet girl from Tumblr. She may be small, but she's intelligent and fierce, and she can raise her SPD and EVA at will!
Til's little sister.
- Optional Boss: Can be fought in the Fight Night event as the third combatant.
- Punny Name: Her name is an anagram of the acronym "IIRC", for "If I Remember Correctly", with the second I moved to the end.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: She is very stoic for such a small girl. It's heavily implied that she had to mature quickly for Til's sake – her crippling anxiety meant she needed a guardian more than Irci herself did.
Etsy and Newgrounds
The Furries
Animal villagers who live in two villages in the Artistry Highway near Newgrounds and Etsy. They were abducted by the Social Justice Warriors and forced to work in the Newgrounds mines. Rescuing them is the goal of the DLC quest.
- Slave Mooks: They don't want to fight the party but are forced to by the Elite SJWs.
Dragoneer/Dr4g0n33r
This was the leader of the Furries, but cybernetic implants have turned him into a mindless weapon. Each time he is brought under submission, more powerful attacks are unlocked.
The leader of the Furries who has been imprisoned in the mines to keep them from rising against the Social justice Warriors. Turns out that the Science Justice Warriors have been using him as an experiment, and when the party go to save him, they turn him against them.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: The Elite SJWs control him through the use of cybernetic implants and turn him against the party there to rescue him.
- Fighting from the Inside: Through the fight, every time the party whittles down his health a certain amount, he briefly breaks free from the cybernetic control, only for the Elite SJWs to put him back in.
First Internet
Coria (spoilers)
The sister of Random/Boxxyfan. Her supposed death is what turns him to evil.
- Only Mostly Dead: She and the rest of the First Internet were seemingly killed via Transflormation, but it turned out to be a twelve-minute debuff they recovered from. Unfortunately, Boxxyfan didn't stick around to see this, and went to seek revenge. She has been living a normal life, and when reunited, talks with her brother like nothing happened.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She only appears in Chapter 7 as an NPC and in the true ending for a brief scene, but her "death" is what sets Boxxyfan, her brother, on his path of vengeance.
- Transflormation: She was transformed into a plant along with the other First Internet denizens when Catie awoke. Thankfully, it only lasted twelve minutes.
Funky Infoshade
An Infoshade that lives to dance! It's having a private party, but will summon friends if you decide to crash. The funky music heals it every few turns!
A miniboss in The Spire. It is a version of the Infoshades that likes to dance.
- Dance Battler: It has several dance-related attacks, and the ability to Summon Backup Dancers.
- King Mook: For the Infoshades.
- Optional Boss: It lies in an out-of-the-way path in the Spire and an be ignored entirely.
Deep Web (spoilers)
General
The bosses that lie in the depths of the Deep Web.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The monsters of the Deep Web are something straight out of a horror game, and are based on the horrors of the real-life Deep Web, putting them at odds with the overall mood of the game, from inexplicable and mysterious monstrosities like the Phisher King, Hateful Reliquary, and Trahald Prime, to the living Fetish Dolls that try to turn Catie into one of them, and even a gang of Human Traffickers who victimize children.
The blank enemy
"I love you."
?
A nameless enemy encountered in a cave in the Deep Web. It spends the fight saying "I love you" to the heroes.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: It shows up, "fights" the party, disappears, and is never mentioned again. This makes it quite unnerving.
- No Name Given: Its name is completely blank.
- Optional Boss: As it is fought in the Deep Web Bonus Dungeon.
- Zero-Effort Boss: It never attacks once- it just says "I love you" over and over again.
Phishers
Imposters that try to copy your party members.
- Glamour Failure: The ones attempting to impersonate Shift instead copy a bunch of other characters like Katy and PewDiePie.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: They try to impersonate your party members, but do such a laughably bad job with their impressions that it becomes obvious who the real ones are.
- Perfect Disguise, Terrible Acting: They do a good job at copying the physical appearance of your party members, but when they actually start speaking, they don't bother to copy their speech mannerisms. The ones trying to impersonate Shift don't even get his appearance right, instead copying obviously-different characters like PewDiePie.
- Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: The laughable lackeys who are absolutely incompetent at being imposters to their threatening boss, the Phisher King.
Phisher King
What is his substance? Whereof is he made, that millions of strange shadows on him tend? Since everyone hath, everyone, one shade; and him, but one, can every shadow lend...
The leader of the Phishers who reside in the temple.
- Expy: Of the Crystal King from Paper Mario 64. Mysterious monarchs that serve as bosses of ice palaces located beyond a snow field.
- King Mook: Of the Phisher enemies.
- Superboss: The boss of the Phisher temple area within the Deep Web Bonus Dungeon.
- Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Unlike the incompetent Phishers, he is more genuinely threatening and creepy.
Guardians of the Hateful Reliquary
A trio of statues that have always existed. They pleaded with you to stay away, but you just didn't listen.
Three statues that block your way to the Hateful Reliquary.
- Dual Boss: They fight you as a trio.
- Hero Antagonist: They want to stop you from getting yourself killed by the Hateful Reliquary.
- Superboss: You fight them in the Passage of the Hateful Reliquary inside the Deep Web Bonus Dungeon.
Hateful Reliquary
IT SEES YOU, and there's no use fighting back. As the saying goes, 'curiosity killed the Catie...'
A giant chest spider hiding at the end of a passage.
- Advancing Boss of Doom: Unlike the other bosses, this one cannot be engaged in direct combat as it will easily destroy you. Instead, the battle consists of you running away from it until it falls through the bridge at the end.
- Chest Monster: A giant spider disguised as a treasure chest.
- Hopeless Boss Fight: Played With; you cannot hope to challenge it in RPG combat, as it will defeat you easily and has unlimited health. Instead, you must escape it before it catches you.
- Giant Spider: Seems to be one, given it sprouts spider legs once it awakens.
- Superboss: Lies in the Passage of the Hateful Reliquary inside the Deep Web Bonus Dungeon.
Trahald Prime
A twisted beast made of bones and nightmares. Its defense seems unbreakable, but surely there must be some way to crack through?
A skeletal praying-mantis-like monster who leads the Trahalds.
- Attack Its Weak Point: Before you can damage it, you must first defeat its Open Rib, which is a separate enemy.
- King Mook: For the Trahalds.
- Rush Boss: It's normally defeated in one or two turns, but it can just as easily ban the entire party in one turn.
- Superboss: Lies inside a path within the Deep Web Bonus Dungeon.
Vigil Keeper
A forsaken sentinel who keeps watch over his fallen brethren, who are entombed in the walls. He hasn't aged since touching the Lantern Stave.
An entity that keeps watch in the spider-infested part of the Deep Web.
- The Ageless: The Lantern Stave keeps him alive, but he can still be killed by the party.
- Unique Enemy: Unlike the bosses, he has the normal battle music, but is only fought once at a specific location.
Fetish Dolls
It's unknown which of these dolls was the original, or which of the others her late owner became...
A gang of seven dolls that haunt the house in one of the Dark Web areas.
- Creepy Doll: Mixed with Murderous Mannequin, as they are broken sex dolls contorted into odd and painful positions.
- Murderous Mannequin: Crossed with Creepy Doll, as broken sex dolls who attack the protagonist Catie and try to turn her into one of them.
- Superboss: Of the House area in the Deep Web Bonus Dungeon.
- Was Once a Man: It's implied by their Wiki data and ability to turn Catie into one of them that they were once human women.
- Wolfpack Boss: They all fight you at once. At first it is only three, but more appear each turn until all seven are in the battle.
Villager Kids
The children who live in the village in the Deep Web.
- Adorably Precocious Child: The girl running the store will sell you weapons and armor like any other merchant, then tell you "thanks for playing store with me" when you are done.
- Cheerful Child: Most of them are pretty friendly and welcoming... whenever the adults are away.
- Driven to Suicide: One of the children is found hanging from a tree outside the village, likely from the abuse the adults put the kid through.
Villager Grownups
The adults who run the village in the Deep Web.
- The Ghost: We never see the adults, only the children.
- Human Traffickers: They kidnapped the children from their homes to use them for what is heavily implied to be child pornography.
- Karma Houdini: Since they never appear, we never learn if they got caught or punished for kidnapping children and using them for child porn production.
- Would Hurt a Child: They kidnap children to use them for child porn.
Pale Luna
A spirit who drifts quietly among the trees, searching for something unknown. She weeps for herself, for what she has become, and for those she left behind.
A ghost girl who haunts the kids' village and nearby forest.
- Creepy Child: She is an eerie little girl you first see as a creepy ghost haunting a forest. She isn't evil, though. It's implied that her transformation was by choice, to help the kids trapped in her village. After you save them, she even thanks you in the ending.
- Cute Ghost Girl: Her normal Luna form is a cute blonde girl.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite being a creepy ghost who transforms into a giant head with tons of eyes peeking through the skin who haunts the kids' village, she actually was trying to save the kids from their adult kidnappers.
- Defeat Means Friendship: After beating her and clearing up the misunderstanding, she returns in the ending on better terms... although she still warns you not to mess with her. She can even have a friendly match with you in the Arena if you wager one of her brother's cakes.
- Extra Eyes: She has tons of eyes under her skin flaps.
- Flying Face: Her Pale Luna form is a big head with eyes underneath the skin.
- Good All Along: Seems to be a sinister boss at first, but is actually a benevolent protector of the kids in the kids' village.
- Superboss: The boss of the kids' village area in the optional Deep Web. She can also be fought again in the Arena.
- Walking Spoiler: Her being a benevolent ghost is a twist.
Soul of TORment
A primal evil that was sealed away in ages past. The battle won't truly begin until its HP falls to zero, so be prepared.
The true source of the Deep Web's madness and suffering. Its attacks are relentless, yet graceful. Can you keep the pace?
The true source of the Deep Web's madness and suffering. Its attacks are relentless, yet graceful. Can you keep the pace?
A great evil that the seven siblings defeated and sealed away long ago. He created the Deep Web in rage, and has been aching to get free.
- Arc Villain: Of the Deep Web arc, as he is the creator of the Deep Web and the source of all its suffering.
- Clipped-Wing Angel: After a long and brutally difficult battle, The Soul of TORment finally unleashes its true form… a smiling onion with one single hit point. If you had any remaining attacks queued up, the poor thing will likely go down before you can react.
- Generic Doomsday Villain: Unlike the other major villains and Arc Villains, he is never given any motive for attacking the Internet and creating the Deep Web.
- Graceful Loser: If you defeat him and bring him back to Onion form, he congratulates you and lets you go.
- Leaking Can of Evil: He created the Deep Web where he was sealed away, and it is mentioned that occasionally things from the Deep Web would appear and take something with them.
- Punny Name: His name is a reference to the TOR browser, which allows the user to access the real-life Deep Web.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: The seven siblings sealed him underground, in what would become the Deep Web.
- Superboss: As the boss of the Deep Web Bonus Dungeon.
- Zero-Effort Boss: A version of him appears as one of the bosses of Alwaysland 2... but it's in his Onion form, which has only 6 HP.
Virtua and her Angels (spoilers)
Goddess Virtua/The First Presence
A beautiful, yet terrible sight. Could this be the Internet's earliest memory? When she begins charging up her power, hide the party by whatever means necessary!
The goddess who ruled over the Internet. She was originally the First Presence, a being who allowed humanity into her domain, but saw them defile it and fight with each other. Seeking to settle her complicated feelings, she made Legion from her hatred. Legion defeated her, and she was reincarnated as Catie.
- The Creator: Is the one who made the Internet.
- Female Angel, Male Demon: She is an angelic goddess as are her angels, while the demonic Legion, her evil half made of her hatred for humanity, is referred to with male pronouns.
- Literal Split Personality: She split herself in two and remained as the good half, who still loves humanity and wants to watch over them. Legion is her hatred incarnate.
- Posthumous Character: Sort of. By all means, Virtua was killed by Legion- Catie, her reincarnation, has no memories of being Virtua and seems to have a different personality altogether.
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A glitch entity inside the Astral Error, and the boss of the area. She is a strange being who seems to recognize Catie. Is actually an angel of Virtua.
- Angelic Abomination: This terrifying Glitch Entity with Virtual-Reality Warper powers is actually an Angel of Virtua.
- Glitch Entity: Her sprite glitches, her text is glitch, and her entire domain is one big glitch. Her true nature is never explained, although the True Ending does provide a hint. She was likely a fallen angel of Virtua. When Cracky mentions her missing sisters, not_intended's signature chime plays in the background.
- Superboss: The boss of the secret Astral Error area.
Cracky the Sky Queen
The last loyal servant of Virtua. Her voice can sway your allies to join her side. Without the aid of your accessories, you'll need to win this fight using skill and strategy alone!
The ruler of the Sky Abyss and the fairies, and an angel of Virtua. She has been awaiting Virtua's return, and sent out the adventurers that the party fights in Chapter 6 to save the world. In the Epilogue, she requests to see Catie, Virtua's reincarnation.
- Angelic Abomination: She is an angel, but looks like a Creepy Doll with smaller dolls attached to her, and weird disjointed spider-like limbs. Despite this, she is mostly benevolent.
- Anti-Villain: She wants to turn Catie back into Virtua against her will and erase her friend's memories, but only because she wants to save the world from Boxxyfan and have her mother and sisters back.
- Benevolent Abomination: Downplayed. She is an Angelic Abomination who looks like a Creepy Doll with spider limbs and Black Eyes of Evil, and is antagonistic, but does genuinely want to save the world and is pretty kind to her fairy subjects — at worst, she is a Well-Intentioned Extremist who wants to turn Catie back into Virtua under the belief that this is the only way to save the Internet.
- Black Eyes of Evil: Downplayed; all her faces have pitch-black eyes as per her Angelic Abomination thing, but she is at worst a Well-Intentioned Extremist.
- Climax Boss: You fight her at the very top of the Sky Abyss, just before Boxxyfan.
- The High Queen: As the Sky Queen, she is beloved by her subjects, and is fairly reasonable to the heroes at first. It is only when they oppose her extreme plan to wipe out Catie's memories to turn her back into Virtua that she turns against them.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: Boxxyfan brings her back down to fairy form and then kills her via lightning bolt just as she is about to drop the bombshell that Virtua created Legion.
- Last of Her Kind: She calls herself "the last angel of Virtua" and explains how her sisters all gradually vanished without a trace. The secret boss not_intended is heavily implied to be one of those sisters, trapped after somehow glitching herself into the void.
- One-Winged Angel: Her main form is actually this, as her real form is that of a regular fairy, which Boxxyfan shows when he kills her.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: She wants to transform Catie back into Virtua, which would erase Catie's memories entirely, because she believes that only Virtua is strong enough to defeat Boxxyfan and STORM.
Others
Signboard
A living, talking signpost that serves as a recurring NPC who travels with Shrimp and his tour group. He needs a vacation from being a sign.
- Animate Inanimate Object: A sentient signpost.
- Cargo Ship: He finds himself fancying the Tv Tropes sign, who according to him is a female. Said sign only says "Welcome to Tv Tropes!":, so it is ambiguous if it is also alive.
- Legacy Character: In The Shifted Spires, one of the tutorial signs in FAQ Woods used first-person pronouns, (saying "I can explain" rather than "This sign can explain"), and even had "goodbye" text unlike the other signs, implying that it may have actually been talking to Catie. It was the Status Effect explanation sign, just like Signboard is in the sequel - so in fact, they might actually be the same character.
- Recurring Traveller: Along with the rest of the tour group, he will show up at various points in the game.
- So Proud of You: In the normal end, he tells Catie how proud he is of her for saving the Internet.
Ascended Oversight
An Oversight that has been transformed by the overwhelming power of the Ascension Gem. Its blinding rainbow skills can Stun the entire party!
An Oversight that fights the party just before they reach Cracky.
- Everything's Better with Rainbows: Like all Oversight enemies, it shifts constantly through the rainbow spectrum, creating a psychedelic effect. But unlike normal Oversights, this one spreads the color-shifting effect to the entire party during its battle. Also, many of its attacks are based on rainbows, like "Prism Blast" and "INFINITE CHROMA."
- Extra Eyes: To a much greater extent than regular Oversights, as it is surrounded by floating eyeballs.
- King Mook: Is an Oversight that was transformed by the Ascension Gem.
- Tastes Like Purple: It has this effect on the party, due to them shifting colors constantly while fighting it.
Shift: ...Catie, has your hair always been this purple? And why does everything taste green?
Amelie
A mysterious girl who is mentioned in several secrets throughout the game.
- Expy: Of W.D. Gaster. A mysterious entity wholly unrelated to the main plot, but who seems to have some mysterious importance in the backstory, and has things relating to them that can be encountered if you go out of your way to find them. There is also an entity that appears which may be Amelie/Gaster (Lady Ny'agai and mysteryman, respectively) but which is not officially confirmed to be them. No concrete answers about them are ever given. They also might have a relationship with the secret final boss (Esoteraphim and Sans, respectively).
- The Ghost: You can easily play through the entire game without ever hearing the name Amelie, and you never see her (possibly- Esoteraphim implies that she is Lady Ny'agai), but her presence is felt throughout much of the hidden content.
- Two Aliases, One Character: It is implied that she is Lady Ny'agai. You get Amelie’s key by betting the Lady’s Breath item, which you get from Lady Ny'agai, at the Arena, and if you use Lady’s breath on Esoteraphim, it will briefly turn into a Ny'agai before saying "OH, AMELIE, YOU AND YOUR GAMES..."
Esoteraphim (spoilers)
It's the birth of a new era. Did everything go as you planned?
An entity that encounters the characters in the real world- the player's world. It is a mechanical entity of sorts who serves as the hidden final boss guarding the PC Ending. It seems to know Amelie.
- Ambiguous Gender: We are never told its gender, and being a Mechanical Abomination, its design is too ambiguous to tell either way (like with everything else about it). It is possibly the boy from the story it tells about the buttercups and the boy playing with his friend Amelie, but its resemblance to Virtua's angels (especially its redesigned form in the DLC) and Cracky saying that she has "sisters" (implying not_intended is not the only one) could mean it is one of those sisters, and thus female, as well.
- Ambiguously Evil: It is unclear why the entity even attacks you, other than it wondering why the party exists and being unable to handle that.
- Angelic Abomination: In the DLC, its design was changed to be much more angelic in appearance, possibly suggesting a connection to Virtua's angels. It still possesses the ability to manifest in the real world and is still the hardest boss in the game.
- Expy: Of Neon Genesis Evangelion's Angels. Like them, it is a mysterious and powerful Angelic Abomination, and when defeated even lies in a position similar to Rei (who's not an Angel, but does have the DNA of one) in the iconic final shot of End Of Evangelion.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: It is completely unconnected to the main plot, and only seems to be connected to Amelie, a hidden character, and might be one of Virtua's angels. No explanation is given for what it is or what it wants.
- Meaningful Name: Esoteraphim is a Portmanteau of esoteric, which it and the PC Ending both are as there is little-to-no-explanation for them and you are unlikely to even find them without a guide, and Seraphim, a type of angel (possibly implying it is one of Virtua's angels).
- Mechanical Abomination: It is a machine of sorts with an odd design and the ability to manifest in the real world- as in the player's world. It is also very powerful, being the hardest boss in the game.
- No Indoor Voice: It speaks in all caps, likely to emulate a booming voice fitting for a Mechanical Abomination.
- Superboss: It hides in an out-of-the-way area that is incredibly hard to get, has 790,000 HP (even more than the True Final Boss), and has several hard-hitting attacks, including the ability to instantly kill a party member every turn.
