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Van Kleiss
Van Kleiss
And I live off nanites. What Providence calls a "cure," I call death
Van Kleiss is described as every mad scientist you ever saw only a lot freakier and dangerous. His body's molecular structure is unstable and thus has to stabilize himself using Nanites extracted from Evos captured by the Pack and experimented upon by him. He possesses the ability to control everything in his Kingdom Abysus but out of his territory he cannot use his powers. He knows a great deal about the Nanites which causes Evo Mutations and about Rex's past (implying he had a hand in his mutation), and claims that he will tell Rex everything but only if Rex joins his team.
- Achilles' Heel: He is powerless unless he is on his native soil. He spends a lot of time trying to get around this, while at the same time exploiting his own weakness so people won't think he's a threat.
- Action Survivor: The whole "A brief history of Time" about Van Kliess trying to survive.
- And I Must Scream: After "Lions and Lambs" Van Kleiss was sent to ancient Egypt. While there, he became aware of a cosmic presence trying to eliminate him because of his tampering with history. He decided he needed to get back to his own time, and so built a device to do so. Unfortunately, the device he used (resembling a sarcophagus) opened up way too early, landing him in ancient Rome. He repeats the process again and again, rebuilding the device in each era, each time traveling a little further into the future, constantly terrified of the presence following him. When he finally returns to the present time, it's revealed that he wasn't using time travel. The capsules he placed himself in were hibernation chambers that left him completely awake and aware while preserving his body for centuries or millenia.
- Apple of Discord: Van Kleiss tries this on Rex in regards to his recently-discovered brother. Seems to have worked, at least a little. Possibly subverted, as subsequent events made it so that one of the victims could only benefit from the gambit. Van Kleiss sowing suspicion on Rex's part may have prepped him to take Cesar's eventual betrayal in stride.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: His modus operandi in a "Brief History of Time" was to fight his way through warrior ranks (largely without his powers) until everyone was convinced he was a god, and then to commandeer a lab and revolutionize the local civilization until technology was good enough for him to make a Not!Time Machine. It was implied he did this multiple times over 4000 years.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: Rex and Van Kleiss in "Written in Sand". Also lampshaded.Rex: Back to back!
Van Kleiss: What?
Rex: Haven't you ever read a comic book? Back to back! - Badass Longcoat: He wears a pretty badass brown longcoat.
- Bad Boss: When the newest member of the Pack cripples Van Kleiss' nanite suit, he petrifies the Evo on the spot.
- Beard of Sorrow: Sports one after his numerous And I Must Scream stays in his hibernation chamber. As befitting the trope it makes him look haggard and weary and when he reveals that he's still a bad guy he makes sure to give himself a shave first.
- Been There, Shaped History: It's heavily implied that legends of monsters across several mythologies were actually EVOs Van Kleiss created to serve him while voyaging through the past; we see him transform a lion into a Chimera-like behemoth in the Roman Colosseum, at the very least.
- Brought Down to Badass: "A Brief History of Time" has him with limited use of his powers for the episode. Despite this, he is shown to be a very badass warrior. Enough to eventually gain control over the local kingdom. On multiple occasions. In multiple eras.
- Brought Down to Normal: When Rex is forced to activate a machine that resurrects Van Kleiss, he makes alterations that render him curable. Van Kleiss is not pleased, but declares that he still has his most powerful weapon intact: his intellect.
- Control Freak: As Rex points out at least once, Van Kleiss has to be in charge. This has actually ended up scuppering his plans on a couple of occasions, not least because of the lack of faith it implies in his subordinates.
- A Day in the Limelight: the " A abrife history of time" episode is about him and his Time travel trip.
- Dark Lord on Life Support: He constantly needs new active nanites to sustain himself. When he leaves Abysus, he needs a machine hooked up to him.
- Didn't See That Coming: most of his plan End because small things That he missed.
- Discard and Draw: He lost his powers when Rex cured him, so he took Rex's nanites, giving him new powers. New powers that allow him to leave Abysus without any impairment.
- Evil Genius: The sheer scope of his knowledge, scientific or otherwise, is incredible. He was apparently a programmer of some sort while working with Cesar, but he displays mastery of metallurgy, weapons crafting, quantum and relativistic physics, electrical and mechanical engineering, all kinds of biology, ancient dialects of multiple linguistic families, anthropology of ancient civilizations, and infrastructure development on a grand scale. In most of these, he has complete and total mastery, as he is able to develop those fields past modern levels from first principles.
- Emperor Scientist: He is the ruler of Abysus and formerly worked on the Nanite Project.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Somewhere between "scientist", "ruler", and "EVO vampire", he found the time for "absolutely badass swordsman."
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: He's pretty handsome and acts polite and civilized, but it's plainly obvious that he's nothing more than a power-hungry madman.
- Faux Affably Evil: He may act like a perfect gentleman, but at the end of the day he cares only about himself.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: According to Cesar, he was a minor lab technician before the Incident. Cesar turns out to have been understating his importance, but nevertheless he was hardly at the forefront of the project.
- Friendly Enemy: He is capable of acting friendly with the heroes, but none of it is genuine.
- From a Single Cell:He can regenerate from any injury , at least was .
- Genius Bruiser: While Van Kleiss has always been a formidable opponent, it could usually be attributed to his powers and/or plans. However, "A Brief History of Time" shows that, when powerless, he is an extremely good fighter. In each era and location he visited, it seems he became a warrior of some sort(a gladiator in Rome, a Samurai presumably in Japan, etc.), and even knew the local language fluently, bumping him up to near-Crazy-Prepared.
- Genius Loci: Rex outright states that he is Abysus, and not just controlling the land.
- Giving Radio to the Romans: During his time spent trapped in the past seeking a way to return to the modern day, Van Kleiss managed to cut deals at least twice with local powers within both ancient Egypt and fittingly-enough with the Roman Empire; in the latter case he shared "metallurgy and tactics" with Emperor Severus in order to secure position within the Emperors' court.
- Godhood Seeker: Seeks to become all-powerful.
- Good Thing You Can Heal: His original powers allowed him to regenerate from the land around his palace, no matter how badly injured. He presumably lost it once cured.
- Genius Loci: Van Kleiss's little sanctuary is literally a part of him. The entire place is seeded with his Nanites. This comes back to bite the team when Kleiss dies; without him around, Abysus' Nanites go out of control and threaten to spread everywhere.
- Gladiator Games: Van Kleiss is sold into the arena after being captured by the Romans in "A Brief History of Time".
- Green Thumb: While on Abysus, he can control giant roots out of the ground.
- Healing Factor: Van Kleiss's nanites can cure him from almost every thing, or at least at the beginning.
- Hijacked by Ganon: Goes for it in the end, after manipulating damn near everyone.
- Hero, Rival, Baddie Team-Up: he Team up with Rex once .
- If It Swims, It Flies: Van Kleiss controls an E.V.O whale-blimp.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: A point to note: Regardless of Van Kleiss' seemingly clever plans, they always end in utter failure. In the episode "What Lies Beneath" Rex defeats him and robbed him from his power, and then mocks him over it.
- Ironic Echo: In Rampage, "Here's where you must be thinking: Did I think this plan through?", first said by Rex to Van Kleiss, then Van Kleiss to Rex after EV Oing Noah.
- Karma Houdini: Despite some losses, Van Kleiss always escapes the consequences of his actions, as Breach always comes and rescues him..
- Leitmotif: Van Kliess's theme created by Kevin Manthei plays whenever he shows up and whenever he fights.
- Meaningful Name: The name "Van Kleiss" is Dutch meaning "of the Earth", a nod to his power over Abysus' soil and vegetation.
- Mythology Gag: When Van Kleiss gets sent back in time 4000 years, one of the stops that he makes is in Ancient Rome where he is a gladiator in the arena; one of the many challenges he faces that earns him his freedom is fighting with a Lion: which he transforms into a Chimera that served him. Those well-versed in mythology can see the direct parallel to the story of Androcles and the Lion.
- Nightmare Fuel: In-Universe for Breach and Circe.
- No Name Given: We're never given his first name over three seasons and 60 episodes.
- Manipulative Bastard: He's very good at this. While his latest scheme, a contingency plan to force Rex to resurrect him in the event of his own death, backfired pretty hard, he still ended up a lot better off than he would've been without it. By definition, since you can't get much worse off than being dead. As of episode 21 however, Van Kleiss may just meet these qualifications. While Rex gets his powers back after Van Kleiss absorbs Rex's nanites, Van Kleiss still has Rex's nanites, and the power to make any human being he wants into an Evo.
- One-Man Army: He killed hundreds of Providence soldiers in Episode One with a single blow.
- Obfuscating Insanity: As revealed in the series finale when he attempted to pull a Ganon-style hijacking.
- Obviously Evil: He’s not a nice man, and he makes no attempt to pretend otherwise.
- Omni Disciplinary Scientist: He certainly has the greatest scope of knowledge of any scientist in the series, though he's not necessarily as successful on the cutting edge.
- Omni Glot: "A Brief History of Time" shows that he knows a lot of different languages, and even specific dialects therein.
- Our Vampires Are Different: Nano-vampire, technically, before being cured. Still has some vampiric traits.
- Out-Gambitted: His plan was to gain the Meta Nanites for himself was foiled long before he even had the chance to get them.
- Pet the Dog:
- He feels sorry for his killing of the Providence soldiers in the first episode, and says that their deaths were just a waste.
- Power Parasite: After getting depowered by Rex, Van Kleiss stole Rexs' Nanites and depowered him as a result. He gets powers opposite to Rex's — creating Evos.
- President Evil: He's the legally recognized ruler of Abysus, which he exploits particularly in the seventh episode by invoking diplomatic immunity—and it works until that little business with holding the UN hostage...
- Put on a Bus: Twice. It takes about a half-season for him to return each time.
- Really 700 Years Old: Well he is 4000 years old after his Time travel trip.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: By implication. He's been a legally recognized ruler for some time, but seems to have been a professional researcher since before the nanite event.
- Scars Are Forever: Despite his abilities to regenerate his cells and his entire body, he appears to have permanent scars.
- The Sociopath: Van Kleiss ticks all the boxes for this trope. He has no regard for the suffering he causes others, acts superficially polite when it benefits him, and effortlessly manipulates other people.
- Sympathy for the Devil: Some of his actions are justified as a result of the instability of his body. He must absorb the nanites from the bodies of others, and this may mean their death. Another example of sympathy for him is in the "A Brief History of Time" episode when he moves back in time 4000 years, and he has to struggle and move from civilization to civilization and try to survive until Returns to his present, and in the end he returns with disturbances in his mind.
- Staying Alive: He is a first-class fighter, and his most important motivation is to survive.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He claims to be merely working to create a better future for all EVOs, but we don't know how much he really buys into that, and how much is just propaganda. It's propaganda. He's been going for omnipotence since before the start.
- You Have Failed Me: Does this to Jungle Cat in "Dark Passage" after he damages Van Kleiss's soil circulation suit. He does the same to Quarry for trying to steal a dangerous weapon he’s been trying to get.
- You Killed My Father: At the end of the series, it's revealed Van Kleiss was the one who killed Rex's parents by locking them inside the nanite reactor room by damaging the device's hatch before it exploded.
Biowulf
Biowulf
An armored werewolf-like Evo with super human abilities, Biowulf is fiercely loyal to Van Kleiss. Due to Van Kleiss powers being limited to his native soil, Biowulf acts as the Pack's de facto leader.
- Affably Evil: He's quite gruff and cold most of the time, but after quite a while, he's mellowed somewhat.
- Defeat Means Friendship: With Rex, during 'Assault on Abysus'. The battle was largely ceremonial, though, and it was implied that he was already willing to give Rex a fair shake.
- Dragon Ascendant: After Van Kleiss disappears he becomes the Pack's new leader.
- The Faceless: He's constantly wearing a metallic wolf mask, so we never see his real face.
- Mysterious Past: Nothing is known about him before he joined the Pack.
- Noble Top Enforcer: Not apparent at first, but by Assault on Abysus, he has set up Abysus as the last safe Haven for E.V.O.s, reasoning that they have the advantage there, and Providence won't attack them while they do have the advantage, Providence proves too big and powerful to stop.
- Noble Wolf: A wolf like warrior that is very loyal to Van Kleiss and has a pack mentality.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: After taking over from Van Kleiss. He still needs to get over his habit of picking fights with other organisations' envoys (although maybe that was just because it was Rex), but otherwise, he's doing pretty well.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: The eyes on his wolf mask are red.
- Sycophantic Servant: While not as apparent as other examples, he becomes very defensive when he believed his role as Kleiss' #1 minion would be taken from him.
Breach
Breach
"I don't know if any of this was real, but it was nice having friend for a while."
Breach can open portals from anywhere to anywhere else, making her the Pack's main form of transportation. In addition to that, she can also fire the portals at her enemies like shuriken and send attacks through them. With these Evo powers and Breach's insanity, make her the Pack's most unpredictable member.
It was later revealed that she took the city of Greenville, OH and turned that place into her personal dollhouse. She uses this "dollhouse" to keep "shiny things" and have captive EVOs fight each other.
- And I Must Scream: Is forced to follow Van Kleiss through time for six thousand years until Rex manages to free her.
- Back for the Finale: She returns in the final episode of the series, to take Biowulf, Skalamander and Van Kleiss through one of her portals for either a payback, or a sequel hook.
- Berserk Button: She doesn't like it when you break her "toys".
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Outwardly, it seems like she's just a Psycho for Hire mook. It turns out that she's doing it for neither money nor Van Kleiss' vision of world domination (though she pays that lip service). She for some unfathomable reason seems to pick "favorites" to whom she'll be predisposed to trust. In Van Kleiss's case, it manifests as devotion, to the point of withstanding abuse and torture. All of which she justifies with an absolutely skewed sense of reality.
- Collector of the Strange: Her "dollhouse" has Evos, Creepy Dolls, and ice cream trucks.
- A Day in the Limelight: She doesn't appear that much overall in the series anyway. but she still has a few episodes focusing on her and one even directly named after her.
- Extreme Doormat: For Van Kleiss, since he's one of her "favorites".
- Fire-Forged Friends: With Rex in "Lions and Lambs".
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Foe Yay Shipping: Rex/Breach is very popular between fans. - Hidden Eyes: Constantly in use in her earlier appearances, and frequent even once her face was shown.
- Heel–Face Turn: Though left ambiguous in the end, as she's last seen rescuing Van Kleiss and the Pack in the Grand Finale, but it's unclear whether she's helping them or planning on getting some payback.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: She tells Rex how glad she was he was a friend to her, and gives him a hug before she vanishes into the time portal.
- Living Doll Collector: Likes to "collect" people to put in her pocket dimension as playthings.
- Mind Screw: Her portals can lead to other dimensions, complete with altered physics and trippy space imagery (possibly also a part of her mind). A lot of the things she says in "Lions and Lambs" counts.
- Never Be Hurt Again: The whole plot of "Lions and Lambs" was about her being hurt by Van Kliess and Rex trying to help her.
- Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: She is definitely lacks a pure sense of evil. Just a sad and lonely girl with twisted point of view.
- Sanity Has Advantages: If she wasn't so childish and crazy, she'd be far more dangerous than Van Kleiss.
- Thinking Up Portals: Her main power, which she spams for all it's worth.
- Villainous Breakdown: Goes through this a few times throughout the series.
- Wall Crawl: While she doesn't get much mileage out of it due to her portals being far more useful, Breach has been shown to be able to cling to walls.
- Weaponized Teleportation: She is not at all hesitant to use her power during combat, and her portals giver her the opportunity to hit opponents with a flurry of attacks from all angles, or just remove them from the battlefield entirely.
- Yandere: She's quite fond of Rex, but very unhealthy about it. Rex seems to think its a romantic thing, but Breach's perspective on the situation isn't entirely clear. The episode "Breach" makes her interest in him very childish, seeing him as a new and interesting toy she picked as her new favorite.
Skalamander
Skalamander
A humanoid lizard Evo with crystal spikes growing out from all over his body and a crystal club growing out of his left arm. He can fire said spikes out of the club or grow it into a shield, providing short or long range attacks, as well as defensive abilities.
- Body Horror: There's no way to sugercoat this, he looks like his neck has been snapped, fatally. His neck is even twisted in a way that evokes lethal implications. And that's before you take into account that its snapped straight in the air! Up and to the side, both at 90 degree angles. He's a good example of an EVO who looks like his mutation could have killed him. He's constantly left drooling by the odd angle of his mouth, another sign that the design of his body is to a certain degree working against him...
- The Brute: Played With. Though he's definitely the team muscle, he's less aggressive than he looks and actually tries to keep the peace between the Pack and Providence at the beginning of Leader of the Pack.
- Gemstone Assault: He can shoot the crystals growing out of his body.
- Mysterious Past: Nothing is known about him before he joined the Pack.
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: He's a giant, twisted, perpetually-drooling evil lizard-man.
Circe
Jungle Cat
Jungle Cat
Voice Actor: John DiMaggio
Jungle Cat is an EVO that was seen having joined The Pack shortly after Breach's disappearance, and helping Van Kleiss look for Dr. Rylander's laboratory. He accidentally cuts one of the pipes providing Van Kleiss with Abysus. He was drained of nanites by Van Kleiss, and turned to stone...Amazingly, it did not take. He has now joined Providence, hoping to get revenge on Van Kleiss.
- Boisterous Bruiser: On one occasion, he's dealing with a pack of Providence grunts when he spots Black Knight about to take one of the Meta-Nanites. He beans her with a Providence soldier to stop her. Cue epic victory pose.
- Determinator: He can overcome the petrification Van Kleiss imposed on him by sheer willpower.
- In-Universe Nickname: Rex refers to him as "the cat".
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Attempted murder tends to have that effect.
- Not Quite Dead: What should have been a fatal Taken for Granite attack leaves Jungle Cat alive, but he reverts to stone if he loses focus.
- Not So Above It All: He comes off as a super-efficient hardass, a la Six, but he's got an eccentric sense of humor.
- Revenge: Wants it on Van Kleiss, but he's reasonable enough not to let it completely control him.
- Superpower Lottery: Were it not for the outward mutation, he'd have hit the jackpot. Strength, speed, claws, cloaking, voice mimicry; he's got the complete package.
- Taken for Granite: He gets better. Sorta. If he loses his focus, he goes back to stone, until he wills himself back to life again. He can also use this to his advantage though, because stone is tougher than even his nanite-enhanced flesh.
- Voice Changeling: Revealed in his second appearance.
- What You Are in the Dark: Couldn't bring himself to murder Van Kleiss in revenge, probably because Van Kleiss had recently been traumatized into insanity.
- You Have Failed Me: Van Kleiss casually murders Jungle Cat for damaging his nanite dirt suit. Unfortunately for Kleiss, it didn't take.
