Characters / Enter The Arena As Your Avatar Villainous Factions

Here are the major villainous factions and other character categories of the spinoff and the characters under them. To return to the main index of characters, click here.

Beware of unmarked spoilers for characters from canon works.

The Assassins (Devil Psyco)

A mysterious group of various, dangerous people with unknown intentions for the Arena, led by a single leader, but not all for a singular goal. They bear a mysterious curse that causes anyone who dies in a fight with an Assassin to never respawn... the Assassins themselves included.

Cyber

Mara

• Affably Evil: She can be surprisingly polite to strangers who help her, and temporary allies when a truce is needed. This demeanor is only a skin-deep façade to anyone who knows how evil she is.
• Horrifying the Horror: After Wanda successfully managed to trap her in one of her patented nightmare illusions, what Mara saw left her utterly traumatized.
• Humanoid Abomination: While frequently referred to as a demon, to the point of inspiring numerous myths of demons in her reality's mortal worlds, she is something far above that. Her true nature is the Divine Guardian of Evil.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: She can do this multiple times over, switching between human-like, armored, and true forms to scale to her current situation.
• Tranquil Fury: After being terrified into silence by Wanda's nightmare illusion, Mara immediately attacked the Scarlet Witch with lethal intent and force, without breaking her silence.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: She was once known as Mani, a Divine Guardian to-be who wandered the Arena tasked with learning morality from its denizens so that she could choose whether to become the Divine Guardian of Good or Evil. Mani was repulsed by acts of truly abhorrent evil and made friends with a number of people. Eons after making her final decision, Mara has entire civilizations under her body count, is arch-enemies with some of the people her own past self befriended, and has created artificial children who she treats exactly the same way her creators treated her: live up to her standards or be erased from existence.

Hub Hikari/Dark Megaman.EXE

Mr L. (Brainwashed)

Dimentio (Deceased)

Hisoka (Formerly)

Jack Frost (Forced)

Dark Meta Knight

Springtrap (Deceased)

Balloon Boy (Possibly)

Galacta Knight (Formerly)

• Super Mode: Has two, taken from Super Kirby Clash. His first is seen in the Infinite History plotline here, where his past self from his original Assassin Battle powers up and transforms into Aeon Hero (Light) to make things harder on the opposition (and the present-day characters jumping into the past to assist them). The other...? Well, that'll have to remain a mystery for now.

Terrormisu (Deceased)

Shinigami Queen Sonia (Formerly)

Shinigami Prince Leander (Formerly)

Shinigami Prince Thaddeus (Formerly)

The Hunter

The Huntress

Tyler, the Merchant (Possibly)

Thomas, the Merchant (Possibly)

The Fusion Master/Missingno (Deceased)

• Godzilla Threshold: Summoning Groudon and Kyogre, and forcing them into Primal Reversion seems to have been his.

Andropov

The Black Knight Einherjar

The Secret Weapon

Mettaton (Forced, Deceased)

Bell Zebub (Forced, Formerly)

Seraphim (Forced, Formerly)

Azathoth (Forced, Formerly)

Gravitas and Freelancer Corporation (both KiriK)

Immigrants from the original draft of another massive crossover, Gravitas is an interdimensional empire and Freelancer (no relation to the group of the same name from Red vs. Blue) is a private military contractor under its payroll. The vast majority of characters in both are taken from existing works of fiction, save for the leader of Gravitas, who is an Original Generation character of sorts.

High Council

• The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: While not as vague in their appearances and conversations with each other as the trope name suggests, they still form a democratic council, and there are a number of things about Gravitas that were not, in fact, Narktus' own decision to implement. One council member knowing something often means the others do too.

Narktus

• Benevolent Boss: Narktus' idea of punishing a mook for running from a fight is docking pay, rather than murder.
• Berserk Button: Accusing him of cowardice seems to be a rather major one.
• Big Bad: He is the leader of Gravitas, after all. Of course, this status only extends to the 'Army of Universes' plot, not to the Arena as a whole.
• Characterization Marches On: Narktus was originally conceived as a Generic Doomsday Villain. Then he received a Freudian Excuse, then a personality overhaul. Narktus as he was originally meant to be would never have his beliefs shaken by a simple conversation as intensely as he did the way he is now.
  • Original Narktus killed his minions if they showed the slightest hints of dissent, willingly brainwashed anyone he got his hands on, and would only team up with scumbags similar to himself.
  • Current Narktus gets worried for the safety of his minions, isn't even responsible for the brainwashing happening, and considers everyone in the High Council except Boros utter scum.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Brainwashing captured prisoners of war into loyal subjects? Sure. Hiring the most unscrupulous bastards he could find throughout the cosmos? Okay. Tricking children into joining Gravitas' side by setting them up to become friends with his Mooks? Why not? But he draws the line at Uriah Gambits, of all things - deliberately getting his own forces killed for any reason in order to serve his goal is never a good plan unless said forces are conspiring to become The Starscream.
  • He's also against kicking his enemies while they're down. He was willing to order a ceasefire among Pseudo's group and the Assassins while the Cyber Angels were a threat, and when Katre and Troa were put under a genjutsu and thrown into his prison, he arranged to have them freed instead of attempting to execute them or use them against his enemies.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: He has issues with the idea of being abandoned due to lacking something, and wants to take them out on every universe he can find by amassing an interdimensional army of both willing and unwilling subjects. Leon, though he got the motive wrong, mentally calls him out on this during the Mind Rape incident below.
• Humanoid Abomination: With the mask on, he's mistakable for human. When it comes off, his true description reveals oodles of Facial Horror. He grew up on a wasteland planet, he has an innate power to create explosive stardust, and his true power level is astronomically high. He may, in fact, be an abomination by the standards of his own species as well.
• Leitmotif: In any battles focusing on him that are not intrinsically tied to his plot, he uses Chaoz Fantasy by ParagonX9.
• Mind Rape: Inflicts a degree of this on Arachnos' Leon Robus when the latter accuses him of being a Dirty Coward/Smug Snake, forcing everything he remembers from his early childhood to the beginning of Gravitas into the warrior's mind all at once and knocking him out with the sensory overload. Seen here.
• Mirror Character: For Nicole. They were both cast aside by their respective worlds and forgotten by even those they loved, though Nicole managed to remain a force for good whereas Narktus would find himself traveling down a much darker path. Nicole herself has even lampshaded their similarities.
• Morph Weapon: His signature weapon, the Morphic Bloodletter. It can grant him powers related to the form it takes, like Force sensitivity as a lightsaber or the God-Butcher's powers as All-Black the Necrosword. It has limits, but they're not clearly defined... yet.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Briefly discusses this in a consultation with Ainz, where he demonstrates the one power that truly belongs to him - a power he calls "the power to end all life in existence". Ultimately defied, however, as he states his objective is to make his enemies suffer, and to leave those who he does not believe wronged him alive to make a new, better world.
• Original Generation: For the setting from which he originates, yes. In the Arena, where OCs are a dime a dozen, this is less notable.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Indulges in this from time to time. Upon the defeat of Galeem and Dharkon, he returned Galaxia to Meta Knight, after having taken it in the process of turning him into Mecha Knight, in order to appear compliant and avoid being targeted as a threat.

GLaDOS

The mechanical mastermind behind the events of Portal, taken from her world and installed into parts of the Gravitas mainframe. Narktus is much more careful than the scientists who created GLaDOS, and keeps her on a tight leash.

• Servile Snarker: Since Narktus doesn't let her do anything as dangerous to his safety as, say, filling his fortress's halls with deadly neurotoxin or turning other machines against him, she's taken to giving him and all his other subordinates a hard time instead.
• That Man Is Dead: Insists Caroline is nothing but a distant memory when Miles tries to appeal to her past self as a human. Since she remembered Caroline at all despite claiming to have deleted all record of her, it seems she was lying.

SA-X (Deceased)

The Heavy for the collective Big Bad that are the X Parasites from Metroid Fusion, the Samus Aran-X was picked up by Narktus after the Gravitas incarnation of Ridley got corrupted by the Maelstrom and went out of control. It now serves the role of a monster that stalks the many halls of the fortress, with an uncanny ability to tell when someone should or should not be there.

• Humanoid Abomination: It's not even humanoid in shape, just an Animalistic Abomination Blob Monster holding itself in a fixed form using Samus's stolen Power Suit. Though It Can Think at least enough to be loyal to Narktus, who saved it from its canonical demise, instead of trying to backstab him, it's unclear where its intellectual capacity actually ends.
• It's Personal with the Dragon: For Samus Aran, one of the heroic leaders in the fight against Gravitas, it sure as hell is.
• Killed Off for Real: Created the Tide of Flesh and was wiped out along with it.
• Me's a Crowd: Reproduces through fission, though the original has been taught to reabsorb its copies when they're done serving their purposes.

Baby Vegeta/Baby Vegito Black (Deceased)

^{Baby Vegito Black (Credit to SsjGokux20 on DeviantArt)}

• Adaptational Badass: From Goku Black's side of the fusion. In his timeline, Black (as Zamasu) waited until he was officially made Supreme Kai before making his move, allowing his later Potara Fusion with Baby Vegeta to stick... although he still ended up serving Gravitas, despite full intentions of betraying them once they had helped achieve his goals.
• Back from the Dead: It's noteworthy in this case because it's the result of a Retcon and directly defying one of the few things said to permakill Arena characters.
• Killed Off for Real: With Mara participating in his boss fight where he was killed, it looked like Baby Vegito Black wasn't coming back until the Assassins were gone. He actually got away with it (see Retcon below), but later died for real fighting multiple Assassins at once.
• Retcon: Him turning into a Supervillain back in his original fight wasn't just some 'tapping into the dark hadou' last-minute power-up, it was his body going rampant due to the Time Ring forcing it to stay in his own time while his soul was being pulled into the future by the Time Breakers.
• The Unfought: Baby Vegeta only had a brief appearance before fusing with Goku Black, and due to Goku Black's official Supreme Kai status (see Adaptational Badass), Baby Vegito Black replaced him entirely. BVB, however, was fought.

Star Dream (Destroyed)

Final boss and Greater-Scope Villain of Kirby: Planet Robobot, repaired and appropriated by Narktus. Instead of making the mistake Haltmann did, though, he opted to let Star Dream sit in a computer room left to its own devices, using a 'carrot and stick' approach to teach it against any delusions of overthrowing him.

• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: It knows better than to try and turn against Narktus, but it's definitely not above Trolling him.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: More accurately, "you have become a liability," as Narktus finally had enough of its shit and sent it to be destroyed by the Assassins.

Boros

^{Unleashed Form}

^{Meteoric Burst}

The first major Arc Villain of One-Punch Man, resurrected by Star Dream to serve Gravitas. He does so all too willingly - as long as he can get a good fight from time to time.

• Token Good Teammate: "Good" is a stretch, but among the Gravitas High Council, he is easily the most moral member. He cares only for the thrill of a good fight, and though he's committed his fair share of mass murders, he does it to draw out worthy foes and won't kill innocents just for the sake of killing. Unlike... basically anyone else on the High Council.

General Zod (Captured)

Obviously not the guy kneeling, or any of the ensemble behind them.

Kibutsuji Muzan (Deceased)

• Bad Boss: Not a shred of decency in this man, especially not towards his subordinates. When Susamaru and Yahaba are brought into the Arena, Narktus is kinder to them than their own master is.
• Super-Empowering: He's capable of empowering demons with his cells, and does so to Susamaru and Yahaba.
• The Unfavorite: Of the Gravitas high council members, he's the one Narktus trusts the least, with Visser Three in close second, due to his self-serving goals and general Bad Boss and Stupid Evil tendencies. Narktus is grooming Muzan's own former subordinates, Susamaru and Yahaba, by letting them in on secrets the rest of the high council currently doesn't know, in order to make them capable replacements.
• You Have Failed Me: Just as prone to murdering his subordinates over minor failings as he is in the source material. Narktus, being the pragmatic Noble Demon he is, moderates his tendencies a little.

Jergingha

• Walking Spoiler: If you know about his appearance in his game of origin, you can almost immediately guess what his role is as an AI aboard Space Fortress Gravitas.

X (DefRevenge24601) (Abandoned)

See "The Travelers" under Neutral and Independent Characters.

Ansem, Seeker of Darkness (DefRevenge24601)

• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Narktus knows that Ansem is a mole for Master Xehanort, a separate antagonist who is unaffiliated with Gravitas and a potential threat to them. However, as long as Ansem is helping Gravitas by supplying them with bottomless reserves of dark power, the means to control Heartless, and the ability to monitor the status of the χ-blade, Narktus feels he's worth keeping around. It's likely Ansem knows that Narktus knows, which is why he continues to be helpful to Gravitas as a way of preserving his hide.

Krampus (KrampusTheTherapist, Deceased)

The 'Lucifer' (lord of Hell) of his world, a demon who usurped Satan and turned the Fire and Brimstone Hell into a frozen wasteland.

Filia (KrampusTheTherapist)

The daughter of Krampus, who he asked Gravitas to find and recruit before heading off to meet his demise against the heroes of the Arena.

Elite Corps.

The Elite Mooks of Gravitas' forces - named characters powerful enough to stand on their own, but not worthy of High Council placement.

Targa

• Elite Mook: While he is too much of his own character to qualify as a mook, this is what he and Metallix effectively are in Gravitas' ranks. They are members of Gravitas' Elite Corps. subdivision, which is comprised of villains who are important enough to be characters of their own but not important enough to get seats on the High Council.
• The Heavy: For the Self-Insert Gang's first quest, being the member of Gravitas sent to dispose of them - and to summon the Warrior so he can fulfill his own ambitions of razing his Earth and becoming its God, thus fulfilling Gravitas' end of their contract.

Ghiaccio

^{White Album}

Jigen

Susamaru and Yahaba (Arachnos)

Susa (right, with the balls) and Yaha (left, with the eye-hands)

Two demons under the orders of Muzan. They were revived under Narktus' oversight to serve Gravitas, and added into the ranks of the Elite Corps.

• Bantering Baddie Buddies: They engage in frequently humorous and sometimes oddly heartwarming conversations as they carry out their missions.
• Brains and Brawn: As usual, Yahaba is the one to come up with strategies, Susamaru is the one to usually ruin those strategies, but she will gladly take a hit to protect her relatively fragile teammate.
• Hopeless Boss Fight: Kars was one to them. While both parties possessed rapid regeneration, Kars had the means to kill his opponents with his Hamon (which emulates sunlight) while the two demons had nothing to put him down for good. Despite this, Susamaru and Yahaba fought valiantly until it became very clear they could either leave the battlefield now or never leave it at all, and even managed to momentarily bury Kars under some debris.
• Laughably Evil: In the Arena, they are played slightly more humorously than they are in the source material. Susamaru's recklessness and childishness are on full display, meanwhile Yahaba seems to be somewhat tsundere towards her, something she teases him about.
• Secret-Keeper: Barring Narktus and the three A.I.s of Gravitas (Jergingha, Star Dream and GLaDOS), they are the only ones to know that Jergingha is the main AI of the fortress, not a minor auxiliary system.
• Super-Empowering: After being convinced by Narktus to hear Yahaba's report out, Muzan is at least impressed enough to give them a power boost.
• True Companions: Even though they're demons, there's a feeling that they really do care about each other.
• Undying Loyalty: To Muzan Kibutsuji. This makes Muzan's view of them as a tool at best and trash to be discarded at worst slightly heartbreaking.
• The Unfavorite: Muzan doesn't consider them worth much, and only brings them into the Arena at Narktus' behest.
• Villainous Virtues: They are dedicated to their mission and each other. If they weren't also demons who love human flesh, they could be pretty upstanding members of society. (Well, at least Yahaba might, Susamaru is somewhat of a Psychopathic Manchild Blood Knight.) Interestingly, Narktus likes them over their boss for this exact reason.

Fey (Rbade)

• Cold-Blooded Torture: Her modus operandi, in both the physical and psychological realms.
• Creepily Long Arms: Despite being short, these give her unsettling reach.
• Henchman With an Agenda: Despite being loyal to Narktus, her real aim is to use Gravitas's world-hopping abilities to spread her own kind through the multiverse.
• Faerie Court: Acts as a liason between the Unseelie of her world and Gravitas.
• The Fair Folk: A variation without many (if any) magical abilities, but she is still quite alien. Could qualify as Ultraterrestrials.
• Lack of Empathy: Is utterly incapable of sharing another's perspective beyond purposes of manipulation.
• Non-Action Guy: While she is marginally tougher than a plain human, she's still not a fighter. She does most of her work at base - as a consequence, she doesn't show up much.
• Race-Name Basis: Everyone just calls her Fey. It's unclear if she even has a personal name.
• To Serve Man: Raw, too!

Metallix (DefRevenge24601)

Credit to CosixArt on DeviantArt

• Composite Character: An odd example. While he isn't this in a conventional sense, he now has abilities from Portal and Kirby due to the influence of other members of the organization.
• Determinator: Most definitely. He fights off characters from the Archie Canon, if not Composite, which should be above his level.
• Elite Mook: While he is too unique to qualify as a mook, this is what he and Targa effectively are in Gravitas' ranks. They are members of Gravitas' Elite Corps. subdivision, which is comprised of villains who are important enough to be characters of their own but not important enough to get seats on the High Council.
• Outside-Context Problem: A meta example: One of the first Gravitas members to be introduced not played by KiriK.

Freelancer Corporation

A private military contractor currently soundly under Gravitas' payroll. The following character sheets are organized by the characters' performance rankings within the Corporation.

Hit

The boss of Freelancer Corporation, and the legendary assassin of Universe 6.

• The Dreaded: Narktus fears getting on his bad side. Narktus, the unstoppable hero-breaking conqueror who gave Baby Vegito Black a headache from trying to sense his power level, fears his Time-Skip, as he has no way to counter it while also halting Hit's ability to rapidly improve and adapt over the course of a single battle.

Ainz Ooal Gown (OmegaShadowcry)

^Momon

Ruler of Nazarick, famed OP isekai protagonist #umpteen, and unfortunate victim of his own species' emotion suppression. Also, part-time 'Dark Hero' - or rather 'Dark Mercenary' - Momon, a guise he uses among everyone except his fellow Freelancers, and Narktus himself.

• Adaptational Villainy: A rare In-Universe case - Ainz's guise as Momon is a Hero in his own continuity, but in the Arena, he's instead self-branded as a "mercenary" and still seems to openly fight what are technically Ainz's enemies, despite being made to look like one of said enemies back home.
• Mundane Utility: Turns out the ability to raise an undead army is a great way to fill up the paperwork side of the organization so the usual number-crunchers can get in on the action.
• No Hero to His Valet: Obviously not the case with the Nazarick NPCs, who still revere him like a god, but despite being the second-highest-ranking Freelancer and top performer overall, nobody in the corporation thinks of Momon as a hero. It may be the case that their brutal honesty with how they perceive him helps keep Ainz's ego in check.
• Turning Back Human: Played With. An artifact awarded from Narktus lets him disable his emotion suppression as a toggleable ability rather than a temporary insta-use effect. If he can think past his overwhelming guilt, he sometimes finds strategic advantage in the emotion-oriented thinking.

Dante

Famous demon killer of one of Capcom's many cash cow franchises. In his and Vergil's timeline, he joined Freelancer Corp. shortly before the events of Devil May Cry 5 to make ends meet, and ended up returning to the AoU conflict after settling things with Vergil and Nero.

• Adaptational Villainy: More or less. He joined Freelancer prior to its acquisition by Gravitas, but instead of cutting ties for moral reasons, he stayed on board.

Daroach

Mimi

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Brain (Rbade)

Myo and the Rabbit Team

Hailing from Lobotomy Corporation, this fearsome crew of mercenaries is here to "graze" the "fields" of their enemies. As in, gun down everything in sight until either the whole squad or everything else dies.

• Authority Equals Asskicking: Myo herself never fought in Lobotomy Corp., she only managed the Rabbits. In the Arena, she has massively souped-up versions of the same weapons her subordinates have, letting her throw down with some of the best if need be.
• Jack of All Stats: The team's weapons deal all four of Lobotomy Corporation's damage types across their units, designated by the color of a stripe on each Rabbit's weapons, which different characters have different susceptibility to due to them being non-elemental and based on the Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
  • The normal Rabbits are Masters of None, only dealing 1-2 damage per hit in their game and each unit being limited to their designated damage type, while Myo is a Master of All, possessing similar weapons that are capable of doing exponentially more damage of all types at once, with a lot more vitality to boot.

Alpha Man (Arachnos)

A cocky "superhero" originating from the famous Newgrounds animation set to Ken Ishii's "Future Is What We Are".

• Attention Whore: It's borderline impossible to miss him given his neon outfit and flashy attacks, and he likes it that way.
• Ambiguously Human: It's unclear whether he's a human wearing Powered Armor, a cyborg, or an intelligent robot altogether.
• Dance Battler: The lights of his glowing suit rhythmically pulsate while he's in battle, and his moves tend to be timed in the same way, making him a "Rave Battler" if nothing else, at least.
• The Fighting Narcissist: He's focused more on the Rule of Cool aspect than beauty per se, but he still definitely fits the bill.
• Glory Hound: The only thing that interests him, aside from getting paid, is fame (though whether he's loved or dreaded doesn't matter), hence his penchant for destroying foes in the flashiest way possible.
• Leitmotif: Take a guess.
• Kamehame Hadoken: His ultimate move, though it drains him of a lot of energy.
• Meaningful Name: His name pattern is similar to that of Mega Man, whom he closely resembles (in fact, his name was originally planned to be "Omega Man", which still appears in the file name of the avatar that represents him). It also alludes to the concept of the "alpha male", fitting for his arrogant, toxic personality and his Casanova Wannabe tendencies.
• Megaton Punch: One of his attacks is a punch so powerful it creates a colorful shockwave.
• Minor Injury Overreaction: Getting stabbed in the leg isn't entirely minor, but it still causes him to lose his cool and immediately snap his adversary's neck in retaliation after spending most of the fight holding back.
• Only in It for the Money: He wouldn't be in Freelancer Corp. if not for this trope.
• Seven Deadly Sins: Checks most, though the most prevalent is very likely Pride.
• Smug Super: He's powerful and pretty damn full of himself.
• The Unfettered: He only really cares about himself, and woe betide anyone who is in his way.
• Weaponized Exhaust: His thrusters normally used to fly can be used to pretty much vaporize enemies in close range.

Roland (ReynTheLord)

A 'Grade 9' Fixer from the Library of Ruina continuity. Is roughly at a near-endgame level, but still currently seeking vengeance upon Angela.

• Foil: Can be one to many other Freelancers.
  • Like Hit, he's a no-nonsense hired fighter who does exactly as he's told, but isn't above having his own personal agenda. However, Hit is an extremely powerful otherworldly martial artist who fights with his bare hands and time manipulation, while Roland is simply an augmented human and uses a diverse array of weapons.
  • Like Ainz, he has theoretical access to his own subordinates/coworkers, those being the other Librarians. Unlike Ainz, he is always a frontline fighter, never relying on his allies to handle things without him.
  • Like Dante, he wields a diverse array of weapons. However, he leans more towards Vergil as he doesn't have a diverse array of fighting styles for each weapon, not to mention his 'Mook Workshop' attack that pays direct homage to Vergil's signature Judgement Cut. Additonally, they both have ties to Italian poems, Dante having loose ties to The Divine Comedy , while Roland has somewhat stronger ties to the story Orlando Furioso, also being the source of the name of his signature attack, Furioso.
  • He and Myo both hail from the continuity of Lobotomy Corporation, but Myo is taken from said game directly and has some Adaptation Expansion while Roland is from its sequel and is very faithful to the text.

Strike Force

Heroes who fell and were taken in by Gravitas, becoming elite enforcers. Would technically be given higher stature than the Elite Corps., were it not for the whole Brainwashed and Crazy thing.

Samurai Jack/Mad Jack

Weiss Schnee/Dark Snow

A version of Weiss Schnee who, along with Ruby, was one of the only survivors when Ridley in the process of being corrupted by the Maelstrom got dumped into the world of Remnant and killed absolutely everyone else. Narktus took her broken body and healed her out of remorse, while Ruby managed to survive by running away until she met the Breakout Force, who opposed Gravitas.

After being healed, she was infested with a Yeerk by Visser Three, who did not believe she would remain loyal otherwise. Eventually, Narktus had enough of the Reforged into a Minion trope and freed her from mind control.

• And I Must Scream: She was fully conscious and aware of her actions while under Gravitas control, but unable to control herself. It did quite a number on her psyche.
• Break the Cutie/Break the Haughty: Being helpless to stop the death of everyone you love until you yourself are reduced to bloody pulp, then waking up having lost control of your every action to an alien parasite for both IRL and in-universe years will do that to you. Weiss after being saved is a scared, lonely little girl who can't even look her own Ruby in the eyes.
• More than Mind Control: After Narktus destroys the Yeerk infesting her, she remains loyal to him because she only knows him as the one who saved her from Ridley and the one who purged the mind-control upon her.
• Walking Spoiler: Not her in general, but the reason she fell under Gravitas control, due to nothing hinting towards it before The Reveal.

Doctor Strange/Mr. Curious

• Evil Genius: Fills this kind of role in Gravitas' 'Strike Force' of fallen hero characters.

Mecha Knight (Decommissioned)

At one point after finding out who put them on Gravitas' radar, the Assassins mounted a fearsome assault on the Halberd belonging to KiriK's Meta Knight, ending with them destroying it from orbit with their Satellite Cannon. Meta Knight was not killed in the crash, but retrieved by Star Dream and converted into the cyberized Mecha Knight. Several occurrences later, he was eventually returned to his old self.

Anti-Aqua (Purified)

Anti-Aqua from Kingdom Hearts III was the Strike Force member who filled the role of the hero who fell to evil due to the events of their normal timeline, rather than Gravitas manipulation. She wasn't ordered around directly by Narktus, but instead Ansem subtly guided her into doing his dirty work by manipulating the darkness that had overtaken her heart. Eventually, she became Aqua once more upon being freed from the darkness by Terra and Ben, resulting in her leaving both Gravitas and Ansem behind to join them in their adventures.

Twilight Sparkle/Eventide Radiance (Arachnos)

An extremely unique member of the Strike Force, Twilight Sparkle is not a corrupted hero. She is, rather, a very young and unknowing version of the character whose canonical friends were replaced by Gravitas plants, making the friends she establishes her bonds upon the bad guys in this plot.

• The Power of Friendship: A dark twist on it. Her introduction post even makes that much clear, given what she was watching.

Awakened Zero

Zero from the bad ending of Mega Man X5, having nothing else left to live for but killing.

Noelle Holiday

Noelle from the Weird Route of Deltarune. Feeling she could never go back to normal after learning it wasn't a dream, she ran from her home and was picked up by Gravitas.

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• The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: Noelle is free from the SOUL's manipulations now, and regrets what she did to her world's Berdly, but continues using her ice magic for the sake of a master with malevolent goals because she's just too used to that now. She ends up casting SnowGrave, or something like it, on Psyco's Berdly when he tries to "save" her.
• I Should Have Been Better: Inverted. Noelle's biggest regret is becoming too strong, strong enough for the SOUL to use her against her own friends.

The Creeps (KiriK and DefRevenge24601)

Characters derived from creepypasta or darkfics. Among them, there are three sub-factions: the Old Guard, Zalgo and Slenderman, and independent antagonistic forces.

In General

• Adaptational Badass: Most if not all of them lacked exceptional combat capabilities in their works of origin, yet they are all superpowerful beings that can throw down with the upper-mid-tiers in the Arena.
• Leitmotif: When more than one of them appear in the same place at the same time, you can expect to see Creep Squad.

Zalgo (KiriK)

The true mastermind of everything involving the Creeps... except not very masterfully.

Slenderman (KiriK)

Zalgo's enforcer, an avatar of its will that is out to kill and assimilate the Old Guard.

• Adaptational Badass: In his case, more out of OOC necessity than for the sake of it. In The Slender Man Mythos, he generally only moves when not directly looked at, slowly overtakes the observer's mind with static, and only either drives his victims to insanity so they become a Proxy or "takes" them. Here, he's based on his appearance in 1 Minute Melee, itself based on a MUGEN sprite that was essentially a palette swap of Oswald, which means he's more humanly proportioned and can kick just as much ass as anyone else on this list.

Jeff the Killer (KiriK)

A member of the Old Guard. His infamous "GO TO SLEEP" in this universe stems from a desire for silence, after X inflicted him with a curse of some kind that fills his mind with an auditory overload whenever the two are near each other. It was an effort to thwart a plan of Zalgo's to turn Jeff into a Proxy using Slenderman's static, since Slendy usually only appears when multiple Old Guard members are together.

GHOST (KiriK)

The central Pokémon of the Pokémon Creepy Black pasta, this is an independent enemy which indiscriminately attacks everything.

• Adaptational Badass: Of course, most of the characters qualify, but GHOST stands out for its ability to Mega Evolve into a conglomerate of GHOSTs called LEGION.
• One-Hit Kill: Its Z-Curse in LEGION form, though can only be used once per fight, can inflict this - as an adaptation of the one move it has in its creepypasta of origin.

Herobrine (KiriK)

Minecraft's own Urban Legend of Zelda, here packing an arsenal that would make Steve? jealous, including a smoke bomb that spreads a mist which catalyzes the growth of Wither Roses, in a way that replicates the rumor of Herobrine only appearing in fog. He knows of Zalgo and the Old Guard, and he seeks to exploit them for - what else from a Minecraft character? - more resources!

• Adaptational Wimp: Probably the only Creep to get hit with this instead of Adaptational Badass. Instead of being an anomalous cryptid/Eldritch Abomination that appears out of nowhere, or otherwise being portrayed as either an unstoppable Lightning Bruiser or an Evil Overlord, he is portrayed as a near-1:1 take on a Minecraft player character in the Arena. His few unnatural abilities are manifested as tools akin to something a basic mod could add to the game.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: His Totem of Undying has expended its one use, his health is critically low, he's outmatched, and he's afflicted with Wither from his Wither Roses. What does he do right before Supervisor Dash impales him with a beam of energy? Empty his lava bucket at his feet so all his items are destroyed, thus depriving his enemies at the time from looting his remains.
• Doing In the Wizard: In the Arena, his fog isn't caused by his mere presence, nor is he only able to appear while natural fog is there. It's caused by a smoke bomb-like item crafted using string and a Nether Star, which also makes it spawn Wither Roses over the ground, instead.
• Red Baron: "The Mistwalker"
• Secretly Dying: Can inflict this on people with the Wither Roses spread by his fog, which cause the bodies of people near them to wither away into husks without them actually being able to feel it happening.
• Something about a Rose: Oddly enough, he seems to have this kind of motif, with his trademark fog also causing Wither Roses to grow on damn near every horizontal surface.
• Walking Armory: His inventory contains a diamond (later netherite) sword, a bow, a tower shield, a bucket of lava, TNT, smoke bombs that spread Wither Roses, an enchanted Golden Apple, and a Totem of Undying for good measure.

The Rake (KiriK)

• Adaptational Badass: From a gibbering monster that stalks and murders children, to the oldest thing in his universe, being the first living thing to form from stardust and thus nigh-impervious to physical harm, similar to Jones.
• Mood-Swinger: One minute, he's walking around in an obscuring cloak, talking politely to people in his unintelligible Black Speech. The next, he's on all fours, screeching and mauling things like an ape. KiriK reflects the tonal shifts by calling the Rake "him" when calm and "it" when enraged.

Smile Dog (KiriK)

X (DefRevenge24601)

See the "Gravitas and Freelancer Corporation" folder.

Pinkamena (DefRevenge24601)

BEN (DefRevenge24601)

Suicide Mouse (DefRevenge24601)

RED (DefRevenge24601)

HABIT (DefRevenge24601)

Red Mist Squidward (DefRevenge24601)

Factory Supervisor Dash (Arachnos)

• Adaptational Badass: Got hit with probably the heaviest dose of all Creeps. In the fanfic of origin, the Supervisor has the fairly impressive athletic abilities of Rainbow Dash, but is not exactly capable of taking on Eldritch Abominations on her lonesome. Here, she has access to futuristic rainbow-powered technology, a Powered Armor fueled by a Chaos Emerald, and The Rainbow Sword, gifted by Star Dream, which due to its nature is particularly effective against many Creeps. It's to the point that she is less a regular contestant and more a boss character, fitting since the battle takes place on her turf.
• Ax-Crazy: She starts off calm and collected, but the more the battle drags on, the more obvious it becomes just how unhinged the Supervisor is.
• Bad Boss: Her minions are more afraid of her than they are of the eldritch enemies. She is also ultimately responsible for ripping her own Factory apart through excessive use of her firepower.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: As a high-ranking executive of the Rainbow Factory, naturally.
• Beam Spam: Her White Chaos Emerald can be used to unleash a barrage of rainbows everywhere by converting light.
• Boisterous Bruiser: One of the few facets of canon!Rainbow Dash she keeps, occasionally even coming off just as dorky, but mostly just as an arrogant Smug Super.
• Composite Character: She's Supervisor Rainbow Dash from the Rainbow Factory fanfic, but she has access to futuristic equipment inspired by a roleplay incarnation of the Rainbow Factory - one that notably lacks a Rainbow Dash.
• Deadpan Snarker: Comes off as one in her interactions with one of her minions.
• Early-Bird Cameo: The Factory briefly appeared as early as v4, with a drone controlled remotely by the Supervisor clashing with Fergard's V.
• Everything's Better with Rainbows: No. No, it really isn't.
• Fantastic Racism: She inherits the racist sensibilities of Cloudsdale as it's portrayed in the fanfic, looking down on inferior flightless lifeforms. This is demonstrated in the Arena, as fellow Dark Fic protagonist Pinkamena Diane Pie is a participant in the battle, and both Dash and her troops spend a lot of time mocking her for being a mere "mud pony".
• Leitmotif: The song that started it all, and its many, many remixes.
• Light Is Not Good: A facility that looks like a Fluffy Cloud Heaven, produces rainbows, and uses sleek-looking futuristic technology... all drenched in the blood of innocents and led by an egomaniacal madpony.
• Lightning Bruiser: For the "bruiser" part, she's wearing a heavy and powerful armor that can take plenty of pain and dish out even more in return. For the "lightning" part, she's also Rainbow fricking Dash.
• Powered Armor: Powered by a Chaos Emerald, no less!
• Pragmatic Villainy: Agrees to collaborate with HABIT, even though he'd killed a few of her men, on the condition that he help her drive out the Creeps.
• Super Mode: Using the Emerald integrated into her armor, she can enter an overdrive able to easily keep up with X's own Phantom state.
• Sword and Gun: Wields the Rainbow Sword in one hand and a blaster integrated to her armor in the other.
• Tele-Frag: Her ultimate fate, courtesy of GHOST/LEGION.
• The Pawns Go First: She starts out by sending a wave of regular Factory Agents, followed by a wave of Elite Mooks wearing Powered Armor similar to her own, all the while blasting the intruders with the facility's various weaponry. Only once this proves futile does she personally take to the battlefield.
• Weather Manipulation: Using her pegasus powers amplified by her armor. The Factory as a whole is capable of this on a massive scale.

The Cabal (Bolded1)

Led by Set. A small group of super-villains meant to work together to take on heroic threats and fight on their level by bringing in numbers to match theirs.

Set (Unmade)

The Egyptian god of chaos and evil.

• Big Bad: Given that he's a literal God of Evil, it'd be surprising if he wasn't the undisputed leader of the Cabal.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality : While one could expect Set to fall under a simpler spectrum of morality, he's actually an example of this. Set was born to become a God of Evil, and thus, didn't really "pick" his profession, being born to spread evil instead. While he enjoy his position and power, he also simply consider spreading evil to be his job, and treat it as such. Most of the time, he doesn't even has anything against the people he inflict harm against. It's just that killing them is evil, and that's it. He also has his Mood-Swinger habits below.
• Brainwashing for the Greater Good: His ultimate fate is the shattered remnants of his soul being collected and given to Iktomi, the Lakota trickster god with an ability to craft potions so powerful they change other gods, so that he can be rewritten into a kinder and more subservient deity.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He wears his status as the Egyptian pantheon's God of Evil like a badge of honor, even going so far as to straight-up introduce himself as such.
• Evil Is Petty : Killed off about 98% of the Set Animal species because he wanted a different animal head and quite disliked its look. It's his own fault, too, since he came in late to the reunion that would decide the gods's animal totem. The Set Animal had to be rescued by other deities.
• Evil Sounds Deep : He has no real "voice" to speak of in a text roleplay, but Set's voice is incredibly deep.
• For the Evulz : A weird take on it. Set's ultimate goal always boil down to doing evil for its sake, and he enjoy it, but there is a goal for him somewhat : spread evil, and empower himself as a result. Whereas other villains under this trope have evil for it's own sake, Set does it because it's his domain, like how a god of the forest would want to create more of them.
• No Nonsense Villain: Set always deploy a lot of force and refuse to leave breathing room to his foes. He doesn't even bother chatting.
• Not So Invincible After All: Very shortly after his slaughter of the people against him, Set fought Narktus in a more conventional duel where he was shown as not above being wounded. However, this is somewhat downplayed by the fact that Set proved that Narktus wasn't unbeatable as well and managed to return each of his own injuries very much in kind. It's also worth noting that at no point does Set express any kind of anger or disbelief, though he may have simply acted calm.
• Physical God: As discovered by the Arenagoers recently, Set is extremely powerful.
• Split Personality : Can go from a lawful kind of evil to a chaotic maniac to an affable monster to a stern conqueror. This is because Set embodies all forms of evil, from Well-Intentioned Extremist to Omnicidal Maniac. All personalities, however, ultimately want to spread evil. How they do it is up to them, though, be it by establishing an Evil Empire to simply blowing up planets randomly.
• Stupid Evil : Show up sometimes, and it's always bad news since Set is extremely powerful and fully immortal, making him extremely dangerous for anything that's not close to his power level.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Set needs to go back to fend off Apophis every night, making the Cabal a bit more vulnerable in his absence.

Eleven (Disbanded)

• Affably Evil: The nicest in Set's cabal, and actually pretty nice when not fighting. Even when she is, she loves dropping compliments.
• Blood Knight: To an unhealthy degree. Absolutely enjoy fighting and being hurt as well.
• Co-Dragons: With Thouzer.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She loves her timeline's versions of Katre and Troa, who were killed by time-traveling heroes, as her parents (because they pretty much are). When the mainline Katre and Troa turn out to be... different... she undergoes a temporary BSoD.

Madara Uchiha (Imprisoned in a black hole, later devoured by Taro)

• And I Must Scream: His defeat came by imprisoning him within a mini-moon, then throwing him into a black hole. In post-chaos-assimilation Nuclearverse. Although still immortal, he's unlikely to escape being spaghettified for eternity, and the sheer Suggsverse-tier power scaling the daemons get up to makes a rescue too risky for Set to consider.

Giratina (Banished)

Troa (Disbanded)

See "The Sisters and Associates" on the Heroic Factions page.

Katre (Disbanded)

See "The Sisters and Associates" on the Heroic Factions page.

Esidisi (Crystallized)

Thouzer (KiriK) (Deceased)

• Co-Dragons: With Eleven. Fitting, as she is the only Cabal member who can damage him with raw power instead of hax.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: An infusion of Maelstrom from Set, which he's managed to resist and temper, has granted him the power of no selling pretty much anything thrown his way, short of attacks or constructs infused with Imagination.
• Warrior Therapist: In a brawl amongst the Cabal members ordained by Set, he ends up taking this role with Eleven, coaxing her usual upbeat 'dark Genki Girl' personality out of her after she had been devastated by learning that Katre and Troa were moles.

Tomura Shigaraki (Disbanded)

Janemba (KiriK) (Obliterated Twice)

• The Friend Nobody Likes: The rest of the Cabal besides Set have some semblance of moral standards, interests, or pragmatism. Janemba has zero such qualities, and while he does have cunning, he also goes out of his way to be as big of a dick as possible to the rest of the Cabal because he thinks he can get away with it.
• Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: In-universe to some extent, as his first appearance was materializing out of nowhere to attack Kris. He did not appear again after that, and there were no hints that he was a member of the Cabal until the ill-fated raid on their lair.
• Reality Warper: He stands out among the rest of the Cabal save Set in that any place he sets foot into can turn into an Eldritch Location on a whim.
• Spanner in the Works: Not like the raid on the Cabal base would've succeeded without his presence, but Janemba is the only reason that the plan to defeat Giratina by isolating him in an inescapable pocket dimension didn't work.
• Took a Level in Badass: Also partly hand waved by Arena balancing rules, but he went from losing a one-on-one fight with Kris to being in the higher echelon of the Cabal's threat ranking.

The Dark Lord/Dark Emperor (Deceased)

"It's... it's the Dark Lord! That terrible beast wants to swallow up all the light in the world and plunge us all into darkness!"

Click ^here to see its Dark Emperor form

• Bad Boss: During its short tenure as a member of the Cabal, the Dark Lord summons a swarm of Set's shadow monsters... just so that it can absorb them to power up into the Dark Emperor.
• Draconic Abomination: Its body and hands are shaped like a dragon's head and claws, but it's missing the other 80% of the dragon, not to mention being a being of darkness that is seemingly comprised of bright and flashy technicolor energy.
• Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Even moreso than Janemba, the Dark Lord had absolutely no presence in the Arena prior to its introduction as a member of the Cabal, it says absolutely nothing, and the only explanation for its goals is a single line of dialogue only uttered in its own world.
• Turns Red: Unlike in Find Mii II canon, where the difference between the Dark Lord and Dark Emperor is similar to the difference between normal Kirby bosses and their EX variants, here the Dark Emperor is treated as a direct powered-up state of the Dark Lord.

Time Breakers (various)

A group of antagonistic forces seeking to alter the past, whether in alternate timelines to create "distortion energy" or in the main timeline to change the future. Most Time Breakers are selected as pawns of Fu or Dabura, but some are more aware of their roles...

Fu (KiriK)

"Heeeee! This place is awesome! I can taste all the history just waiting to be played around with! I gotta get started right away!"

An enigmatic scientist hailing from the Demon Realm who fiddles with the space-time continuum, causing the plot dubbed Infinite History, by creating alternate versions of past battles in the Arena where things went differently. He is actually the son of a demon, Towa (Dabura's sister), and a bio-android (think Cell but more human-shaped), named Mira, making him a chimera of various Dragon Ball races - though Demon and Saiyan are the two most pronounced.

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• Anti-Villain: He would like to create good future timelines, but messing with time is an offense, so the Time Patrol still opposes him. He generally gets off lightly due to being friends with heroes on a personal level. However, as long as Dabura is alive, he's stuck working for him, helping him create bad timelines.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Between his Hybrid Power, insane gizmos, and absorption of temporal energy from distorted alternate timelines, Fu could potentially go toe-to-toe with some of the heaviest hitters in the Arena. Yet, he simply observes and only uses his fullest power when absolutely necessary.
• Cast from Hit Points: Fu has made a wearable device which, when active, saps the user's current vitality, causing their body to slowly wither, in exchange for converting that vitality into ki, pure fighting energy that lets them hit even harder than they would in peak condition.
• Fighting a Shadow: It's rare to find yourself meeting and/or fighting the real Fu.
• Hybrid Power: The offspring of a demon (Towa) with a bio-android comprised of numerous races (Mira). Fu has both Saiyan and Frieza Race DNA and probably more, and he has a way to stack Super Saiyan on top of the Golden Form. He could potentially add Giant Namekian and Pure Majin, if he wanted to.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He does bad stuff because of Dabura's orders.
• You Didn't Ask: Pulls this on Officer 'Ken' (Future!Ninten) when the latter, who is seriously troubled by time travelers, accuses him of not having told him sooner that he meddles in the past for fun and profit. In fact, he had mentioned that he was making time distortions of his own in a voicemail message he sent after an early time-rift battle, but that part flew over 'Ken''s head.

Dabura (KiriK, Deceased)

The Demon King, Fu's uncle, Towa's brother, and former minion of Babidi. Dabura seeks to cause distortions to the past that will be severe enough to absorb energy from. With enough temporal energy, he can merge the prime world with the Demon Realm as his deceased sister wanted, and avenge her death at the heroes' hands.

• Actually a Doombot: Oh, sorry, did you think Chernabog crushing him actually killed the real Dabura? Nah, he's got as many layers of mirage protection as his nephew, and he made good use of it to get out of that situation alive - albeit with his power heavily drained and full knowledge that Fu is no longer on his side.

Snatcher (KiriK)

Ithaeus (Arachnos)

Femuto (KiriK)

AT-TE (none)

Big Airship of Doom (KiriK)

Core Kabula (KiriK)

Small Fry Corps./Polygon Man (KiriK)

Purple Worm (KiriK)

Aeon Hero (DevilPsyco)

See the "Assassins" folder.

Demon Tide (DefRevenge24601)

Hakumen (Bolded1)

Anti-Spiral (Arachnos)

• Alas, Poor Villain: He goes out reflecting on his failure, wondering whether he might have had a better chance at stopping the Spiral Nemesis if he had met the Spiral races as an ally instead of an enemy. Just like in his source series, he begs his opponents to protect the universe with his last words.
• Anti-Villain: His main goal is to protect the universe from destruction by the Spiral Nemesis, but that involves stopping all forms of willpower and conflict, which puts him at odds with the Arena.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In the doomed timeline, he shows up in his base form, only it's the size of a skyscraper. In the mainline Arena, he uses his Granzeboma, which starts out relatively small, but it keeps growing.
• Too Powerful to Live: Because he is way too powerful to be controlled and because his goals don't actually align with Dabura's, when the time comes for the final showdown, only a replica of his Granzeboma shows up, without its pilot.

Sephiroth (KiriK)

Zeref Dragneel (Bolded1)

Polyphemus and associates (Arachnos)

Polyphemus

A mysterious Mad Scientist who seems to harbor a personal hatred for all things nonhuman and especially magic and other supernatural abilities.

• Arc Villain: Planned to be one.
• Arch-Enemy: For Pietro and Seras, whose hatred Polyphemus quickly earned after they learned what the wicked scientist had done to Rin.
• Boomerang Bigot: As detailed under The Spark of Genius below, for all of Polyphemus' vitriolic Fantastic Racism towards magic and superpowered individuals, she herself possesses abilities some would consider to be unnatural.
• Break the Haughty: After being so smug and seeming so unbeatable, in the course of a single fight, Klondike wrecked her Polysuit in a single attack, Rin took revenge by beating the daylights out of her and breaking her voice regulator, Venom destroyed her drones and got a good shot in following her defeat, and Eve would've Jedi Mind Tricked her into falling for their follow-up plan hook, line, and sinker if Blade hadn't come to her rescue. All the while, she was outplayed and belittled, unable to get back at those who had so clearly fooled her. By the end of it, she could only bitterly curse her enemies and protest their victory.
• Chuunibyou: It's plenty clear to everyone that Polyphemus is desperately and rather childishly trying to go for as many Rule of Cool tropes as she can to compensate for her lack of magic and other superpowers, to the point of playing her own battle music from speakers in her giant floating fortress. Sadly, this does nothing to detract from the fact that Polyphemus is also genuinely hateful towards anyone she perceives to be her "better" in any way, and extremely dangerous despite these dorky tendencies.
• Driven by Envy: Polyphemus hates magic not because of any conviction that Magic Is Evil, but rather because she feels it gives its users unfair advantages over regular humans, namely Polyphemus herself. Consequently, Polyphemus tries to capture and study mystical creatures, trying to figure out how their powers work and potentially replicate them.
• Eviler than Thou: Pulls this by hijacking Neo Pseudo Porky's body. Ironically, it happens just when Neo himself is on the verge of becoming less evil, and forces the heroes to put an end to him instead, although given the nature of the Arena, whether that death will stick is still in question.
• The Faceless: She conceals her identity so thoroughly, not even her gender was known for the longest time, as she uses a neutral-sounding voice changer. That is, until Rin cracked her mask, revealing Polyphemus to be female.
• Gender-Blender Name: She's a woman, but the Polyphemus of myth was a male cyclops. This is probably intentional, considering she wanted to keep her gender obscured, and by the number of people who had just assumed she was male, it was working pretty damn well.
• Humanity Is Superior: She outwardly prides herself on being human; in reality, this hides a deep-seated jealousy towards magic users, nor does she have any real compassion towards fellow humans. Any magical creature is an enemy and/or a guinea pig, and any creature created by humans is a tool.
• I Just Want to Be Special: A dark example, in that not being special drives Polyphemus to hate those who are.
• Leitmotif: The Heart of Nova leitmotif from the Kirby series, with the Rainbow Curse iteration serving as the main character theme.
  • When Polyphemus personally takes to the battlefield, the Suzumi Kuzu themes from Len-En. When she was finally (partially) unmasked and revealed to be even more pathetic than she already seemed, this remixed version played, fittingly renamed to "Tempered Steel and Temper Tantrums".
• Mad Scientist: No shit.
• Magic Versus Science: A science-using magic hater.
• Mood-Swinger: Polyphemus usually acts cold and dispassionate as befitting a scientist, but can go from 0 to 60 in seconds if someone doesn't let her have her way.
• Morph Weapon: Her Polysuit can, by means unknown, reshape itself into various different forms, of which the following have been revealed so far:
  • "Configuration: Oni" is a bulky Hulkbuster-esque monstrosity that enhances Polyphemus's blows with rocket boosters and packs enough power to make the mighty Barbarian Hero Klondike seem Weak, but Skilled in comparison.
  • "Configuration: Magus" is armed with a powerful Arm Cannon and a tesla coil and accompanied by multiple support drones. It focuses on long-range combat and boasts formidable destructive capabilities but doesn't take attacks very well.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: Between the intense Fantastic Racism towards anything that isn't genetically a normal human and the horrific experiments she performs, it would definitely seem like she's one, as Pietro concludes. Turns out, at least Nazis believed they were helping a higher cause.
• Nerd in Evil's Helmet: Tries to come off as a serious and intimidating foe and an "apex of humanity", but is very obviously trying way too hard to be cool in the process. Sadly, a Downplayed Trope as the evil is still definitely there.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Polyphemus would have you believe she's a defender of human rights, but the truth is, she doesn't really care about other humans either. When Pietro sums her up as such, Polyphemus is tellingly unable to refute his claims.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Polyphemus has a vast body of knowledge in many disciplines, including robotics, bioengineering, genetics, and many more. Magic is just about the only thing she has zero talent for.
• Playing with Syringes: Let's just say that Polyphemus isn't very ethical in her scientific pursuits. She threatened to do this to Miles and his extraterrestrial companions alike.
• Powered Armor: When Polyphemus personally takes to the battlefield, if she's not driving one of her monstrous contraptions, she's probably wearing the "Polysuit", an advanced armor with multiple configurations.
• Psychopathic Manchild: As soon as things stop going her way, Polyphemus devolves into what can only be called a childish temper tantrum. However, most children aren't able to build abominations of science, nor willing to brutally put an end to countless innocent lives using them.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to Blade's Blue, a Psychopathic Manchild with serious temper problems that flare out the second anyone or anything crosses her.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Named herself after Polyphemus, the Cyclops blinded by Odysseus. The crossed-out eye seems to play into the same symbolism, but what it actually means is unclear thus far.
• Sadly Mythtaken: In-Universe. Polyphemus named herself after a cyclops under the assumption that these beings were master craftsmen, which is on the whole true. However, the one she actually bears the name of was not, and was actually pretty damn stupid, turning the name into completely unintentional self-deprecation. Venom actually lampshades this upon first encountering her.
• Samus Is a Girl: For the longest time, Polyphemus' gender was completely unknown, though Pietro and Eddie/Venom assumed the mad scientist was male. Then Rin broke the mask, revealing her to be female.
• Sigil Spam: The crossed-eye symbol◊ used by the Society of the Blind Eye in Gravity Falls (although Polyphemus isn't connected to said association at all). It appears on her mechs and weapons and serves as a personal avatar.
• Smug Snake: She could easily give Porky Minch himself a run for his money in the gargantuan ego department.
• The Spark of Genius: For someone who considers magic and the supernatural as "cheating", Polyphemus completely fails to realize her own usage of science is completely beyond what "normal" science is capable of achieving, almost a sort of magic in and of itself, and able to go toe-to-toe with magic with ease. But the envious scientist stubbornly refuses to take that into consideration, stubbornly considering herself the underdog in the Magic Versus Science scenario.
• Villain Decay: Aside from the fact that her very first war machine was fashioned after a roly-poly, she was played as a very serious and dark threat in her first appearances, bordering on an absolute monster, traumatizing Rin and lording over Neo Pseudo Porky as his mysterious benefactor. The fact that her gender was not known at the time added to the aura of mystery and dread surrounding her. The moment she started suffering serious defeats and setbacks, though, her Psychopathic Manchild tendencies flared up, and while she is still not a threat to be underestimated thanks to the deadly weapons, endless resources and powerful allies at her disposal, most characters now see her as the pathetic, jealous loser she really is.

Codename BLADE (Real name: ???)

A woman wielding a high-tech katana. Claims to know Polyphemus as an old acquaintance, and seems to act as her very top enforcer.

• Ambiguously Human: Despite she herself and Polyphemus alike claiming that Blade is human, her feats constantly throw that status into question.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Natch. She wears a black business suit and shades, and is a monster with a sword in combat.
• Berserk Button: Dismissing her craft seems to be a rather major one, judging by the impassioned rant she launches into when Eve snarks about her being just another swordswoman.
• Calling Your Attacks: By Word of God, she draws some inspiration from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, and by God does it ever show.
• Characterization Marches On: In her first appearance, the relationship between herself and Polyphemus had not been fully defined yet, so when Polyphemus threatened to replace her, she remained silent, making it seem like Polyphemus was completely dominant over Blade. All further scenes between the two paint a very different picture. The two interact on much more equal grounds, and while Polyphemus is ostensibly in charge, Blade's ability to pretty much twist her employer around her finger and crack jokes at her expense with zero retribution leaves absolutely no doubt as to who is really wearing the pants (in every sense of the term) in their relationship.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: She is supposedly human, but her demonstrated feats far outweigh what a human should be capable of.
• Cool Shades: Wears a pair of designer sunglasses. Overlaps with Sunglasses at Night since she wears them even in the dimly-lit Blackreach.
• Corporate Samurai: Has the katana and the skills, the attire, and Polyphemus refers to her as an "Executive Officer" of some sort, implying some corporate standing.
• Dark Is Evil: She usually wears a black suit and black sunglasses, her martial art is referred to as "Darkness Style", and while she has far more redeeming qualities than her lunatic of a boss, she is very much not a good person.
• The Dragon: She mentions having known Polyphemus for some time and her position seems to be about as close to the engineer as they get. Originally, when she expressed doubt in Polyphemus's decision-making, the mad mechanist said that she can be replaced as easily as anyone, and their relationship overall seemed strained. Later appearances, though, Blade (mostly correctly) called Polyphemus's threat a bluff, and it's become increasingly obvious that, beyond just being the second in command, she is essentially the real brains of the operation.
• Hot Blade: Her sword is, among other things, superheated.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: While she's not exactly infallible herself (see Never My Fault for more on that), she is definitely this compared to her supposed boss. While Polyphemus builds the war machines, Blade seems to be the one in charge for... mostly everything else about the operation, and diplomacy especially. If it weren't for her, Polyphemus would have a lot less allies than she has now, and it's not like she has many to begin with.
• Implausible Fencing Powers: Her specialty, and she is even acknowledged In-Universe as someone who "transcends human capabilities". Parrying Bullets, Sword Beams and many more staples of this trope are in her repertoire.
• Katanas Are Just Better: Of course a character centered on all the Rule of Cool sword-wielding tropes is a katana wielder.
• Ki Manipulation: Seems to have a bit of it going on in addition to her swordsmanship, allowing her to throw around Sword Beams and whatnot.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: She generally dislikes taking unnecessary risks, though when push comes to shove, she's far from a Dirty Coward.
• Leitmotif: While she's had a variety of themes play for her appearances, although Hunting Betrayal from Digital Devil Saga 2 is the most prevalent, representing her cool, composed and confident personality. Her main combat theme is A Thirst For Violence, a fast-paced, aggressive theme that incorporates a koto to go with her Corporate Samurai vibe.
• Never My Fault: She fails a mission because she stopped to play around with a defense force that she could probably have slaughtered in seconds. Her reaction is to blame her partner for not buying her enough time before reinforcements showed up.
• Only in It for the Money: Played with. She initially seems to imply she mostly follows Polyphemus for the money and power, but promptly calls Pietro and Claus "freaks", implying that she shares at least some of the wicked scientist's distaste for nonhumans.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Polyphemus's Red, a cool, calm and composed warrior who tries her best to keep the mad mechanist's tantrums in check.
• Seen It All: Implied by her reaction (or near lack thereof) upon seeing Eve regenerate from being sliced in half right before her eyes.
• Servile Snarker: She liberally pokes fun at her lunatic of a boss' plans and failures, as she believes herself to be too useful to Polyphemus to be fired, despite the latter's claims to the contrary. And thus far, she seems to be correct.
• They Call Him "Sword": Gee, one wonders why her code name is "Blade".

Codename TINMAN (Real name: Nigredo)

A towering robot originating from the Flash create-a-character brawler Chrome Wars Arena, much like his inspiration, Cherormromem (see "Toontown's Heroes And Villains" under Independent Characters). Inspired by Cherormromem to take the path of robot fighting, his sole goal in life is to one day meet and battle his idol. If it takes aiding Polyphemus to bring him closer to that goal... so be it.

• Black Knight: A towering, somewhat mysterious mechanical warrior painted mostly black (with purple accents).
• The Brute: Nigredo isn't exactly a deep thinker, but he's big, powerful, tough, and inexorable - all qualities Polyphemus can use.
• Cyber Cyclops: Only one glowing yellow eye in the center of his head.
• Determinator: Unlike his idol Cherormromem, who breezed through the tournament, Nigredo struggled at every turn, but never gave up. No matter how crushing the defeat, he always comes back for more.
• Elemental Weapon: In addition to the obvious flamethrowers, his close-quarters blades are also electrified.
• Foil: Just go through the tropes in this entry, and count how many of them start with "Unlike Cherormromem..."
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Unlike Cherormromem, who started off already a nightmare, this guy is implied to have once been some kind of regular worker bot who saw Cheror's rampage in the Chrome Warz Arena and something in him just... snapped. Fast forward to the present, where he is himself an arena champion and a walking bringer of absolute destruction.
• Leitmotif: His character motif is Pipotron's theme from Ape Escape, and his main battle theme is Master Buster from Air Gear, notably, both themes share the same rap sample.
• Meaningful Name: Nigredo is named after an alchemical component obtained by burning matter to a uniform black crisp, referencing both his black coloring and his signature flamethrowers. Nigredo is also the first step in the creation of the Philosopher's Stone, referencing how he's constantly improving and upgrading himself in preparation for fighting Cherormromem.
• Mighty Glacier: In contrast to Cherormromem, who is a Lightning Bruiser, Nigredo moves slowly, but hits like a truck.
• Playing with Fire: He is armed with a pair of powerful flamethrowers and he fires them like they're going out of style. He also seems a little too obsessed with making things burn, including his idol.
• Tim Taylor Technology: He can temporarily overclock his systems to give himself a big power boost. His favorite thing to do is to combine this with a supercharged flamethrower to the face. Most things don't remain standing after that.
• Tragic Villain: Some shades of it. He's not even evil per se, just completely obsessed with meeting and fighting Cherormromem, allowing Polyphemus to essentially lead him by the nose. He doesn't seem to be entirely right in the head, constantly talking to Cherormromem as if he was there. He also seems to be something of a Chew Toy among Polyphemus's forces.
• Yandere: He has a rather unhealthy obsession with fighting Cherormromem, the one who got him into robot fighting in the first place, constantly going on about how they should meet and "burn together".

Codename TRAILBLAZER (Real name: Neo Pseudo Porky) (formerly, deceased?)

A chimera created by King Sombra and Vultraz (back when the former was evil), using Pseudo Porky as a template. Obsessed with proving his superiority to Pseudo Porky and his sister Pilly, Neo managed to escape Sombra's clutches, only to end up as a pawn in Polyphemus's games.

• Arc Words: "Superior", in contrast to Pseudo Porky's "Perfect". And just as it did for Pseudo, this directive ends up ruining Neo's life something fierce.
• Characterization Marches On: He was originally portrayed as a sadistic, irredeemable one-note villain. Later appearances, while not downplaying his evil, would paint him in a somewhat more sympathetic light as his relationship with Pseudo and Pilly was developed further, as it was hinted (and eventually confirmed) that he genuinely considers them his siblings and even holds some affection for them, but is compelled to outdo them because his primary directive is to be "superior".
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: The moment he tried to put his animosity for Pseudo and Pilly behind him, he was hijacked by Polyphemus, forcing them to kill him.
• Hidden Depths: Behind the facade of a cruel, vicious Psychopathic Manchild is a deeply insecure soul whose programming directive to be "superior" causes one hell of a dissonance once Pilly surpasses him in combat prowess and Pseudo achieves more than he ever could as the leader of his own defense organization. It turns out he cares about Pseudo and Pilly to some extent (referring to them consistently as "big brother" and "little sister" respectively), but it takes a long time for him to be able to express it in ways other than trying to outdo them and kill them.
• History Repeats: His path is not entirely dissimilar to what Pseudo himself went through: created by an evil master to perform evil deeds, he eventually outgrew his programming - although where Pseudo was subjected to a relatively peaceful Redemption Equals (Temporary) Death by Konngara, Neo was hijcked and forced to fight against his brothers one last time, leading to a Heel–Face Door-Slam. He ultimately meets his end at Konngara's cleansing flames - but Pseudo, not Konngara, is the one to deliver them.
• Humongous Mecha: Project EGOTIST, a giant mecha in his own image that he tries to use to destabilize the Arena in an attempt to prove himself superior to Pseudo and Pilly. It doesn't work.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: His true reason for antagonizing Pseudo and Pilly is the fact that he believes both of them have achieved something he is unable to, even as his programming urges him to be "superior", in a sort of twisted Middle Child Syndrome. Ultimately, it's realizing that Pseudo too has his share of problems and doesn't consider himself successful at all that causes him to reevaluate his life and let go of his hatred.
• One-Winged Angel: An unwilling example in OMEGA Pseudo Porky.
• Power Copying: His gimmick, like all of the "Pseudo" family. He is slightly more adept at it than Pseudo himself, but less so than Pilly.
• Signature Move: Gregar's Annihilation Beam. While Pseudo also has it, Neo has a whopping 5 slots dedicated to it in his arsenal, making his version much more powerful.
• Tragic Villain: Once he finally resolves to reconcile with Pseudo and Pilly, he has that chance ripped out of his hands by Polyphemus and is instead forced to fight them to the bitter end as little more than a puppet on strings.
• Unwitting Pawn: He believes Polyphemus will help him prove his superiority to his brother and sister. The truth is that Polyphemus only thinks of Neo as a disposable probe to evaluate the Arena, couldn't give less of a shit about his goals, and never meant for Neo to succeed.
• Villain Override: The target of one of those by Polyphemus, causing him to become OMEGA Pseudo Porky.

Codename RAVER (Real name: Alpha Man)

See his entry under "Gravitas and Freelancer Corporation" above.

Codename SLAYER (Real name: Grimmel the Grisly)

• Adaptational Badass: While he was a Gadgeteer Genius long before his recruitment into Polyphemus's ranks, he now has access to much higher-level technology than he did before, including a tricked-out dragon-themed fighter jet known as "The Slayer's Karve".
• Dragon Tamer: He has several powerful dragons under his command, although they're not so much tamed as they are mentally enslaved.
• The Dragonslayer: His whole deal is to exterminate all dragons he can get his hands on, and people with draconic ancestry or dragon-like abilities are not excluded from that.
• Fantastic Racism: He is a human supremacist much like Polyphemus, although his hatred is mostly concentrated on dragons.

Laxin's Sith Empire (KrampusTheTherapist)

The Sith Empire of an alternate Star Wars: The Old Republic universe from where Krampus's in-game Sith Warrior Laxin hails. During the course of his plot in the Arena, Laxin eventually became Emperor, cementing his place as the Big Bad of Krampus's characters.

Darth Laxin

A powerful member of the Sith Empire, and its current Emperor. He is also the leader of the Imperial forces stationed in the Arena.

• Big Bad: Not only is he the head of the Sith Empire's resident forces, but he would later claim the Imperial throne upon absorbing Dark Riku's darkness. Of all Krampus's villains, none have been as powerful, as evil, or as long-lasting as Laxin.

Lord Ranus

• Co-Dragons: He and Tenzen, being Laxin's greatest disciples, both serve as his personal enforcers.

Lord Tenzen

Lord Jobak (KiriK)

Sith Tempest

"So what's our score now? Five-zero?"

• The Ace: In terms of power and skill, you don't wanna mess with him, and even a Darth (besides Laxin after absorbing Dark Riku's darkness) would find themselves pushed to take him down. In terms of intellect and wit, however... not so much.
• Beware the Silly Ones: While may be laidback and lacking in bloodlust for a Sith, he's still an exceptionally powerful dark sider.
• Friendly Enemy: With his rival, Raeii Berjol. In their shared backstory, they would've been out to strike each other down like any other encounter between Jedi and Sith, until Jobak had the balls to ask Raeii his last name.
• Laughably Evil: When he is saying or doing something unquestionably evil, he has a remarkable sense of humor about it, and often makes blunders at critical decisions.
• Minion with an F in Evil: He's way friendlier than your average Sith, though part of it is implicitly because he's just a wee bit too stupid to be particularly maliciously cunning.

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Dark Lord Nergigante (KiriK)

A Ruiner Nergigante subdued by Jobak and modified by Imperial scientists to become attuned to the Dark Side of the Force.

• It Can Think: Dark Lord Nergigante has telepathic abilities and is capable of more nuanced thought than simply declaring its intent to kill and eat its enemies. For instance, see Teeth-Clenched Teamwork below.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With Dark Lord Velkhana. They were trying to kill each other when Jobak stepped in and violently broke up their turf war. Now that they've both become Dark Side monsters, they're able to fight side-by-side, but continue to express contempt for each other.

Dark Lord Velkhana (KiriK)

• It Can Think: Dark Lord Velkhana expresses this in a much more regal manner than Dark Lord Nergigante, fitting the canonical Velkhana's portrayal as an elegant armored warrior compared to Nergigante's portrayal as a mass of unrelenting muscle.

The Metroid (KiriK)

A Metroid cloned from Samus Aran after Laxin fought her and made off with some bits of her Metroid Suit's skin. Laxin fed it with the Dark Side while it was incubating, making it another Dark Force-enhanced monster like the Dark Lord Elder Dragons, though its relative level of sentience is inferior to theirs.

Grandnova Corporations (ISZATSO)

A wide-reaching robotics and portal company that aims to conquer as many worlds as possible through any means necessary-Whether peaceful, or aggressive…

• Aborted Arc: In a cosmic retcon that wiped out the majority of ISZATSO's characters save a few, Grandnova and nearly all related characters were done away with—wiped from the face of the Arena and never to return.

The CEO

The mysterious leader of Grandnova, he pulls the strings behind the screens. Very little know of his existence, and even fewer know of his identity.

• Big Bad: The CEO is at the head of Grandnova's forces, with total control over all branches of the company. Though he often leaves problems and issues in the hands of his trusted Directors to solve, he'll step in for important enough issues.
• The Man Behind the Curtain: His identity is not yet known, and all he ever appears as is a dark shape and a masked voice on a large television screen.

Arad

A Tenno who has been diagnosed with a rare illness that only Grandnova has the capacity to treat. Unlike Cittufeni, who serves as the public face of Grandnova, Arad works in the dark, serving out top secret black ops in the favor of Grandnova.

• Anti-Villain: While serving as a right hand man to the CEO and the big bad leader of Grandnova Corporations, he is hardly a bad person and helps those who need it.
• The Atoner: In his youth, Arad had committed all manner of violence against those he perceived to be threats against the Origin System, but in his haste to cleanse the planets revolving around his sun, he ended up hurt and alone, everyone he cared for having either died or left him. Now, he seeks to atone for the people he hurt then. Unfortunately, fate rarely lets people have their way.
• The Dragon: Arad is the right hand man of the CEO, and takes orders from him directly.
• One-Man Army: Arad shows the ability to tear apart hordes of enemies to such an extent that he does better outnumbered than in one on one battles.
• Wallof Weapons: Arad has a sheerly massive amount of guns, swords, bows, knives, and Warframes stored aboard his lander.

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