History Characters / AChampionInEarthBet

* BigBrotherIsWatching: Set up an entire network of CCTV cameras all over the city to monitor the populace and inflict his power on anyone he wants to.
* BoomerangBigot: Believes that all parahumans are abominations that must be killed on sight. But obviously he's not a parahuman, he's been given God's gift..

* TheFundamentalist: Is an ex-Taliban who believes he was given Allah's blessing and duty to keep the world pure and free of parahumans. To this end, he'll kill anyone in Kabul he observes not following his radical interpretation of Islamic preachings: the five daily prayers, women wearing anything other than a burqa, anyone ''not'' a Muslim, etc.

** [[spoiler: An Endbringer using an alternate inhabited world as a battlefield against the Avatar? Too much collateral; use an alternate ''uninhabited'' world instead!]]

* TheOmnipotent: Thus far, no-one's ever been able to ''beat'' him, just stop his schemes.

* IgnoredExpert: One scene has Johnny Kong, a teamwork Thinker, advising Lord Walston on keeping some capes out of a future operation to prevent possible future unrest, only for Walston to ignore his advice on account of viewing half-measures against scum (dissidents) as weakness.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Lord Walston, head of the King's Men, has become effectively an ultranationalist, who advocates order and stability over personal rights.
** Johnny Kong is also of the opinion that disloyalty to one's country and superiors is a vice above all else, even above blind obedience.

* {{Expy}}: If [[DeathNote Light]] was thrown out of the Taliban for being too extreme and had bought the Shinigami Eyes.

A parahuman who has subjugated Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, to his absolute rule. With an interpretation of Islam that [[EvenEvilHasStandards was too strict even for the Taliban.]]

* BoomerangBigot: Believes that all parahumans are abominations that must be killed on sight. But obviously he's not a parahuman, he's been given God's gift...

A parahuman who has subjugated Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, under his absolute rule of Muslim virtue.

* AchillesHeel: For one thing, there's a range limit on his power, it's just larger than the city. For another, he must see the person in real-time... [[spoiler: operative word: ''[[LogicalWeakness see]]'']].

* InstantKill: His power: If he can see someone he wants dead, they die. No ifs, ands or buts about it, heedless of Breaker or Brute powers.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: In less than a year, he went from someone with no power base to the ruler of over half the country.

* OneNationUnderCopyright: The Ivory Coast's fate under Swarm's rule; she's essentially running the country like a giant corporation.

* TheChessmaster: Doubly so; in addition to being a ManipulativeBitch that picks and chooses who comes into power at her leisure, she was a grandmaster chess player before her Trigger.

* ArtificialHuman: Artificial ''Parahuman'' in this case; he was the attempt of an Uzbek bio-tinker to create {{Super Soldier}}s for the country.

* SuperSoldier: Was created to be one, and has the super strength, speed and resilience to go with it. The superpowers from throwing in one Cauldron vial into his creation are just the icing on the cake.

* ALighterShadeOfGrey: In the MoralityKitchenSink of Earth-Bet, Black Sun is relatively better than most warlords. Though she invests heavily into the living standards of those under her protection and she clamps down hard on child traffickers and those who threaten the peace, she also recruits villains and gives them leeway and another thing she clamps down on is freedom of speech.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His Trigger event was going through with his general's orders to fire on protestors to take over a city, and when he got his powers the next day, he killed the general and took over.

* HavingABlast: L'As de Trefle can turn small objects that he touches into contact-fused bombs. His exceptionally heavy armor comes with a CoolGun with bullets that he can charge before firing, as well as allowing him to [[FlyingFirepower fly]] and release [[SmokeOut concealing smoke]].

* {{Flight}}: L'As de Carreau has 360° vision, SuperReflexes and hypersonic flight... [[RequiredSecondaryPowers but doesn't make her tough enough]] to ''survive'' flying at such speeds. Her armor fixes that by giving her that [[LightningBruiser toughness]], and also inertially protects her from harm if she collides with anything or anyone, especially while impaling them with her [[BladeOnAStick spear]].

* TheCape: Is this in spades. In Earth-Gimel, it's theorized that if he didn't come on the scene when he did to act as a beacon and superheroic ideal, the rise of mutants into the public eye would've been a lot more controversial, tragic and violent.

* FunctionalAddict: Conquest kept him addicted to drugs to keep him motivated enough to stay, while not addicted enough to affect his capability.

* SurveillanceDrone: Without the detachable eye part; she can create a number of vantage points that she can see from as if she was standing there, which she can create from any point in her line(s) of sight.

* SuperStrength/SuperToughness: Her Brute power makes her bulletproof and capable of bench pressing a few tons.

A Cauldron Cape, member of the Triumvirate, former leader of the Houston Protectorate branch and current member of the Mexico City Branch, recruited after the Slaughterhouse Nine operation. Widely known as ''the'' Trump in parahuman circles, he was transferred to the Mexico City branch to facilitate the country's inclusion into the Protectorate, and later requested to join the Guild to become more of a front-line fighter against villainy.

* JobSystem: A winner of the SuperpowerLottery in that his [[GadgeteerGenius Tinker]] specialization is ''variable''; he can change it once a day to any specialization he wants, from [[MadeOfIndestructium robustness]] to [[TimeMaster chronotech]]. The latter has proven immensely valuable to cancelling [[AndIMustScream Grey Boy loops]].

!!Les Quatre As (The Four Aces)

* PlayingCardMotifs: Natch. Their four members are named L'As de Coeur (Ace of Hearts), L'As de Trefle (Ace of Clubs), L'As de Carreau (Ace of Diamonds) and L'As de Pique (Ace of Spades).

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Despite their hateful rhetoric, their movement has a lot of steam, especially among [[MyCountryRightOrWrong ultra-nationalists]], and they have many child organizations around the world, such as the Empire 88.

* WorldsBestWarrior: Though he has suffered several losses in his career, there is very little doubt that he is Earth-Gimel's most powerful superhero.

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[[folder: The European Brigade]]
A parahuman organization that was supposed to be an international alliance of superheroes across Europe, but the Simurgh effectively rendered the project stillborn, with only a few token heroes in its roster. With the Avatar's arrival and [[spoiler: his triumph over the Simurgh]], the project has been given new life, with new recruits being chosen.

!!Napoleon
A Polish superhero.

* CombatClairvoyance: His Thinker power generates tens of thousands of predicted scenarios of the future within a minute, painting him the most likely scenario of what's to come and the best course of action to take.
* FalseFlagAttack: In his first scene where he's caught on the wrong side of a five-on-three villain face-off, after using his powers to come up with a plan, he gives an order to one of the five villains to distract them all for a crucial moment.
* PragmaticHero: Shows shades of this. He won't hesitate to go for kill shots against villains he faces, especially if one of his teammates is injured.
* SuperheroPackingHeat: Carries a sidearm since his power isn't the most offensive.

!!Ice Queen
An independent parahuman from Italy, and one of the strongest parahumans in Europe. The Avatar asks her to consider associate membership with the European Brigade.

* AnIcePerson: Her control over ice and snow, as well as alter its physical properties, is second-to-none. And considering she's effectively used it against ''[[MakingASplash Leviathan]]'', that's saying something.
* ImNotAHeroIm: Doesn't care for her Ice Queen moniker given by the media, preferring her astronomer credentials as Dr. Esposito.
* TheHermit: Is incredibly antisocial, and prefers to live alone in her ice observatory on a mountaintop.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: The Avatar tells her as much, considering that despite her preference to being alone, she still comes down from her mountain to defend humanity against A and S-class threats.

!!Peur-de-Rien
A French independent parahuman team that strives for heroic panache in their deeds, who holds significant prestige in the country. The Avatar asks them to consider being associate members of the European Brigade, if not full members.

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The [[NumberTwo second-in-command]] Cyranette can summon a weightless blade that cuts effortlessly through most solid materials.
* EyeBeams: The power of [[GratuitousNinja Laser Ninja]], the team's youngest member. He's also incredibly agile, though it's up for debate whether it's a Mover power or if he's just a really talented LeParkour.
* GiftedlyBad: Cyranette likes to spout [[YouFightLikeACow witty wordplay and poetry during her fights]] like her namesake ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'', but unfortunately, her skill with such only exists in her delusions.
* {{Homage}}: The Tinker Goldorak actually patterned himself after the anime Anime/UFORoboGrendizer (which he couldn't get away with if he was government-sponsored).
* HumongousMecha: Goldorak, the last surviving founding member and current leader, is a Tinker who specializes in giant robots. Unfortunately, limitations to his teleporter tech means he can't actually operate outside Paris.
** This changes when the Avatar tells him about a potential Brigade Tinker from Spain that specializes in [[{{Hammerspace}} pocket dimensions]], which could help him move his machine to further engagements.
* OneWomanArmy: The parahuman Charge applies, as she gets linearly stronger and faster the more enemies she faces, which means she's at her best at the beginning of a fight.
* MyGreatestFailure: They got caught in a [[DisasterDominoes Simurgh plot]] after an encounter in Lausanne, where, in a battle with the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the Front pour la Patrie, offshoot organization of Gesselschaft]], the French-Algerian team leader killed an enemy cape that turned out to be [[WouldHurtAChild a 15-year-old girl]]. The scandal left a big mark on the team's reputation, and the deaths of the majority of the team (including the leader) in 2003 by Behemoth at Lyons didn't help matters either. It says something about their reputation that other independents still decided to join them after that disaster.
* TheMinionMaster: The bio-Tinker Éprouvette can create powerful creatures to fight alongside her, and her skills allow her to pull double-duty as the team's {{Medic}}.
* SuperSenses: L'Inspecteur Masqué has hyper-awareness of everything around him, making him adept at figuring out enemy plans.
* SuperToughness: La Matraque Bleue, in addition to her own strength and durability, can [[TheMagicTouch reinforce other objects]] with the same toughness, like her [[DropTheHammer warhammer]] weapon.

!!Leonardo
A Tinker from Milan and newly-minted Cauldron Cape that is a member of Italy's Legione Difensa.

* HeroWorshipper: The Avatar has really caught his attention.
* JobSystem: A winner of the SuperpowerLottery in that his [[GadgeteerGenius Tinker]] specialization is ''variable''; he can change it once a day to any specialization he wants, from [[MadeOfIndestructium robustness]] to [[TimeMaster chronotech]]. The latter has proven immensely valuable to cancelling [[AndIMustScream Grey Boy loops]].
* RenaissanceMan: Like his [[Creator/LeonardoDaVinci namesake]], his power allows him to excel in a multitude of Tinker specializations, making him incredibly versatile.
* NewMeat: Only recently came onto the cape scene, and thus he's a little unprofessional and green around the gills.

!!Niszczyciel
A Polish parahuman and ex-criminal.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Hasn't had an easy go with the law: started off as a criminal, triggered in jail, got convinced to give heroism a try, but lost faith when he couldn't harm the Simurgh and decided to become a full-on villain, but after the Avatar arrived, he turned himself in and asked to make amends as a Brigade member.
* MustMakeAmends: After the Avatar [[spoiler: killed Leviathan]] and spoke about hope and redemption, he decided to turn himself in and [[HeelFaceTurn give heroism another go]].
* NoSell: When he first chose heroism, his destructive field had everyone thinking he could hurt Endbringers. The first time he fought the Simurgh, he broke his hand trying to punch her. [[spoiler: He later finds out this may have been deliberate when he successfully destroys Leviathan's flesh during testing; the Simurgh may have actually broke his hand with her telekinesis to both break his spirit and to protect herself from an attack that ''could'' hurt her.]]
* TouchOfDeath: Has a skin-layer force-field around him that can selectively destroy whatever he touches, making him nearly invulnerable.

!!Les Quatre As (The Four Aces)
The ace SuperTeam of France's Irréductibles, whom they call on to handle the worst threats, effectively the equivalent of the Protectorate's Triumvirate. The Avatar assists Irréductibles leader Victoire and Surdoué to convince France's government to give them associate status with the Brigade and allow them to assist in other countries.

* AHeroToHisHometown: After two members were killed in Newfoundland's Endbringer attack, France's government stopped sending them to foreign Endbringer fights, earning them some scorn on the international stage.
* CombatClairvoyance: TheLeader L'As de Coeur is a precognitive that can see how the next few moments play out if not for her power. Her armor has an enhanced [[SuperSenses sensor suite]] to augment that, provides her SuperSpeed and a [[HeroesPreferSwords tinkertech sword]] to do something about her visions, and a voice projector to warn others.
* FighterMageThief: Three of the four Aces fall into this trope, with the fast-hitting Carreau being the Fighter, the bomb-slinging Trefle being the mage, and the teleporting Pique being the thief. The fourth and TheLeader, Coeur, is mostly a SupportPartyMember with her precog providing battle intel, while still being able to hold her own if needed.
* {{Flight}}: L'As de Carreau has 360° vision, SuperReflexes and hypersonic flight... [[RequiredSecondaryPowers but doesn't make her tough enough]] to ''survive'' flying at such speeds. Her armor fixes that by giving her that [[LightningBruiser toughness]], and also inertially protects her from harm if she collides with anything or anyone, especially while impaling them with her [[BladeOnAStick spear]].
* HavingABlast: L'As de Trefle can turn small objects that he touches into contact-fused bombs. His exceptionally heavy armor comes with a CoolGun with bullets that he can charge before firing, as well as allowing him to [[FlyingFirepower fly]] and release [[SmokeOut concealing smoke]].
* MySuitIsAlsoSuper: The Tinker specialty of Professeur Plus, the team's engineer, is to create tinkertech that complements the powers of other parahumans. Every member of the Aces has PoweredArmor to complement their powers.
* PlayingCardMotifs: Natch. Their four members are named L'As de Coeur (Ace of Hearts), L'As de Trefle (Ace of Clubs), L'As de Carreau (Ace of Diamonds) and L'As de Pique (Ace of Spades).
* {{Teleportation}}: L'As de Pique can teleport to the side of anyone he's seen in the last nine days, across any distance. His armor complements that by briefly generating DeflectorShields and a PowerNullifier-effect in the instants after teleportation, as well as providing him with an [[ShockStick electrified staff]].
* TheNotableNumeral: Les ''Quatre'' As, a.k.a. the ''Four'' Aces.
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[[folder: The Pentagon]]
Kenya's elite SuperTeam, five capes that have great power synergy between them. They're the main reason Kenya is relatively stable compared to the rest of Africa.

!!Radar

* SuperSenses: All five of her senses are vastly superhuman, providing massive battlefield awareness, especially when coupled with her perfect memory.
* TheLeader
* TheSleepless: Is a Noctis cape, which means she doesn't require sleep.

!!Kinesis

* LiquidAssets: He can "steal" speed from others by touch, slowing them down while speeding himself up, and can also give the speed to others. However, [[HeroicRRoD overuse can burn him out and leave him in pain]].
* SuperSpeed: As a consequence of draining speed from others, and he is also able to give his teammates this as well.

!!Kraken

* CombatTentacles: Can [[ThinkingUpPortals open many small portals]] in a large radius around her, from which she can extend powerful tentacles to provide battlefield control.

!!Mamba

* KnockoutAmbush: When imbued with Kinesis's SuperSpeed, this becomes a very easy tactic for him to execute.
* PoisonousPerson: He can use his Striker power to manifest chemicals inside the body of anyone he touches. He usually uses paralytics and narcotics in this way to subdue his targets.
* TheMedic: Turns out manifesting drugs in a person's body can go miles in helping them heal.

!!Fortress

* DeflectorShields: Her Tinker speciality. She has used it to give personal shielding to her teammates as well as a useful bubble gun.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: She's used a lot of Kinesis's SuperSpeed over the years to develop and maintain her equipment, and the Avatar can't help thinking that she's aged a lot more than her birth certificate would imply.
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!!Villains and A-Class Threats
[[folder: Moord Nag (Murder Night)]]
The parahuman warlord of Namibia.

* LivingShadow: The reason she is so feared: her shadow beast [[LifeDrain consumes human life]] and gets stronger with every life it devours.
* OmnicidalManiac: Is constantly looking for political reasons to commit mass murder; the Avatar posits that she just wants a good reason to power up her shadow.
* ResetButton: If her shadow beast is destroyed, her shadow loses all its strength gained thus far and has to start over in its weak, sentient form.
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[[folder: The Purifier]]
A parahuman who has subjugated Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, under his absolute rule of Muslim virtue.

* AchillesHeel: For one thing, there's a range limit on his power, it's just larger than the city. For another, he must see the person in real-time... [[spoiler: operative word: ''[[LogicalWeakness see]]'']].
* BigBrotherIsWatching: Set up an entire network of CCTV cameras all over the city to monitor the populace and inflict his power on anyone he wants to.
* BoomerangBigot: Believes that all parahumans are abominations that must be killed on sight. But obviously he's not a parahuman, he's been given God's gift...
* InstantKill: His power: If he can see someone he wants dead, they die. No ifs, ands or buts about it, heedless of Breaker or Brute powers.
* TheFundamentalist: Is an ex-Taliban who believes he was given Allah's blessing and duty to keep the world pure and free of parahumans. To this end, he'll kill anyone in Kabul he observes not following his radical interpretation of Islamic preachings: the five daily prayers, women wearing anything other than a burqa, anyone ''not'' a Muslim, etc.

[[folder: Wyld Hunter]]
A Brazilian parahuman and A-Class threat that has ravaged the country for several years.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Disappears into the wilderness between attacks on civilization, and his last appearance was three days before the Avatar showed up on Earth-Bet.
* RealityWarping: Within his domain, Wyld Hunter has full control over his surroundings: making monsters appear, turning day into night, dropping lightning, even surviving in a vacuum. [[spoiler: That last part is important when the Avatar [[TheExile exiles]] him to the moon.]]
* TheExile: [[spoiler: To the moon.]]
* TheWildHunt: Or "Wyld Hunt" in his case; his modus operandi was riding through a populace every so often and using his powers to turn it into a living nightmare, inflicting as much harm as he could. Some towns and cities even begged to be [[LesserOfTwoEvils put under villain control just to have some defence against him]].
* XtremeKoolLetterz: ''Wyld'' Hunter.
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[[folder: Heartbreaker]]
A Canadian parahuman and one of the world's most infamous Masters.

* {{Brainwashed}}: Heartbreaker has an entire harem of women controlled this way, including one celebrity, which put him on the Protectorate's priority list.
* EmotionControl: His main schtick, and it lasts even past his death.
* LogicalWeakness: [[spoiler: Like the Purifier, his power is vision-based]].
* NoSell: Him using his power on the Avatar; you can't Master a [[AnthropomorphicPersonification sapient idea]].
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[[folder: The Kings of Pride]]
A [[VillainTeamUp coalition of parahuman criminals and warlords]] [[MultinationalTeam from around the world]], gathered for the purpose of [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable bringing down the Avatar]].

!!Lord Cognito
The leader of the premier crime cartel in Mexico.

* ChallengeSeeker: He openly welcomes conflict and challenge, always seeking {{Worthy Opponent}}s to test himself against, both physical and mental.
* EvilVirtues: Openly embraces his {{Pride}} and megalomania, claiming it as his source of strength.
* InstantExpert: His power enables him to touch books, electronics or tools and instantly learn all the information stored on them, in addition to how to utilize them. It even enables him to maintain and upkeep Tinkertech, though not repair or rebuild it.

!!Bariq
A warlord from Iraq.

* PoweredArmor: Utilizes a set that augments her already-devastating powers.
* ShockAndAwe: Her main source of power. Lord Cognito has called her a "modern-day Zeus".
* SuperSpeed: Her other primary superpower.
* TheStrategist: Her tactical mind has shown keenly in many of her conflicts with local forces.

!!Storm Rider
A Myanmar warlord in the process of conquering the whole country.

* BlowYouAway: His aerokinesis is his primary power, honed to the point where he can fly and deflect bullets with the air alone.
* ColonelKilgore: Lives for the glory of war and conquest. Comparisons to UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat have been made.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: In less than a year, he went from someone with no power base to the ruler of over half the country.
* LargeAndInCharge: He's 7 feet tall, incredibly muscular, and his charisma has drawn a lot of people and capes alike to his banner.
* TheStrategist: Like Bariq, his tactical skills have proven essential in outmaneuvering opposing capes.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: His incredible charisma at [[DefeatMeansFriendship convincing his defeated foes to flock to his banner]] is a main reason he's so dangerous.

!!Swarm
A warlord that conquered the entirety of the Ivory Coast.

* ArchEnemy: To the new Guild Tinker recruit Doctor Metal, after Swarm took over her home country and chased her out.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Was the CEO of the country's biggest Internet service provider, who Triggered when the government nationalized the service. Upon triggering, she promptly overthrew the government and took control.
* {{Nanomachines}}: Her Tinker specialty; her greatest weapon is her smart gel made up of millions of drones that can assemble into any configuration imaginable. It's what makes her one of the few Tinker 8s in the world.
* OneNationUnderCopyright: The Ivory Coast's fate under Swarm's rule; she's essentially running the country like a giant corporation.

!!The Queen of Black and White (Koroleva)
A conniving socialite puppetmistress from Russia and one of its strongest oligarchs.

* AristocratsAreEvil: She's an oligarch and a string-puller that is slowly putting Russia under her thumb; it goes without saying.
* GutFeeling: Her power gives hunches onto the chances of success or failure with every action she makes.
* TheChessmaster: Doubly so; in addition to being a ManipulativeBitch that picks and chooses who comes into power at her leisure, she was a grandmaster chess player before her Trigger.
* TheWomanBehindTheMan: Russia's bank shares are owned by her, St. Petersburg's city officials were picked by her, and the city's elites have their social relevance fully dictated by her whims.

!!Throne
The parahuman king of Uzbekistan, who conquered the entire country by force.

* ArtificialHuman: Artificial ''Parahuman'' in this case; he was the attempt of an Uzbek bio-tinker to create {{Super Soldier}}s for the country.
* PhlebotinumRebel: Was created to serve Uzbekistan, but instead overthrew the government and became its king.
* SmugSuper: And how.
-->'''Throne:''' The world is my court. So-called neutral grounds are as much my possession as anything else.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: Can create and banish swords from nothing as he wishes.
* SuperSoldier: Was created to be one, and has the super strength, speed and resilience to go with it. The superpowers from throwing in one Cauldron vial into his creation are just the icing on the cake.
* VictorGainsLosersPowers: With every parahuman he kills with one of his swords, he permanently imbues that sword with that parahuman's powers. And considering he can summon and banish those swords as much as he wishes, he's accumulated a ''lot'' of powers.

[[folder: Gesellschaft]]
A [[ANaziByAnyOtherName neo-Nazi]] organization in Europe, which holds a lot of power through racist rhetoric and ultranationalist leanings.

* ManipulativeBastard: Rhetor, the organization's leader, whose Thinker power enables him to know exactly the right things to say and how to act to convince others.
* {{Irony}}: Aperçu is a high-ranking precognitive member who thinks that Gesselschaft's racist ideology is just a front for their real elitist intellectual goals, and that as a powerful Thinker, she is part of that inner circle that knows the truth. In addition, she knows about Rhetor's powers and how they work, and believes that since she knows about his manipulation, she can't be manipulated. All of which Rhetor told her specifically with his powers to manipulate her.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Despite their hateful rhetoric, their movement has a lot of steam, especially among [[MyCountryRightOrWrong ultra-nationalists]], and they have many child organizations around the world, such as the Empire 88.

[[folder: Ash Beast]]
A parahuman surrounded by a perpetual explosion and an A-Class threat that has plagued Northern Africa for many long years. His real name is Naguib Salmawy.

* HavingABlast: His body uncontrollably emits explosions that damage, push away and blind everyone and everything that comes close to him.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Immediately begs to be cured from his powers when he hears how much destruction he left in his wake.
* InelegantBlubbering: After several years of total isolation, hearing the Avatar's voice sends him in a messy breakdown. Then again when the hero promises not only he will ensure Naguib won't hurt anyone else by making him TheExile, he will visit him until a way to control or annul the explosions have been found.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Terrified of his power and resulting isolation, he has caused a lot of unintentional destruction while walking the earth all this time.
* PowerIncontinence: Which really ''blows'' when your power is HavingABlast.
* TheExile: The Avatar's best solution is to move him to an alternate Earth with no people with constant promises to visit and check up on him.
* WalkingWasteland: Everywhere's he's gone, he's pretty much scoured clean.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Triggering made him a WalkingWasteLand unable to communicate with anyone. The Avatar explicitely tells him he's just as much a victim of his power as the many he accidentally harmed or killed.
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[[folder: The Four Ghosts of Santiago]]
Four parahuman villains that between them, eventually took full control over the Cuban city of Santiago. The Guild, revamped with the addition of the Avatar and other international heroes, took them down.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: They never really set out to conquer the whole city, but when they clashed with the big dogs of the country, even the hero Invencible from Havana, [[TheBadGuyWins they were the ones standing tall at the end]].
* ShadowArchetype: Are this to the canon Undersiders, as a team of villains with good power synergy who ended up conquering the city after clashing with authority and winning the escalation game.
* TheWorfEffect: For all their synergy, reputation and track record, their whole purpose in the story are as the first targets chosen to demonstrate the Guild's updated roster and increased effectiveness.

!!Poseedor
The leader of the Four Ghosts, who triggered during the Castro regime.

* BodySurf: Poseedor's main power is to jump into the body of the nearest person when he is killed, [[DemonicPossession possessing them]], wiping out their mind and completely taking over their body. Has the minor flaw of not being able to use powers of any Capes he's put into.
* ImmortalityImmorality: The possibilities of getting away with anything due to being able to survive anything really appealed to him.
* NeverGoingBackToPrison: He learned early to never give his foes the option of taking him in alive, as when he's alive, he's not being killed, and thus, unable to jump into a new body.
* SuicideAttack: With his power, he has taken to killing his own bodies to BodySurf into the minds of his victims, and since no power around can protect against the possession, it's a very potent weapon.

!!Espectro
The second member to join the Four Ghosts.

* AintTooProudToBeg: Espectro's reaction once Poseedor had him at his mercy: begging for his life. Luckily for him, Poseedor saw the potential in his powers.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: When Poseedor cornered Espectro after the latter stole from him, he found the kid's power too tempting to ignore, so he offered him a partnership instead.
* {{Invisibility}}[=/=]QuieterThanSilence: His cape power is to render his whole person invisible, soundless and odorless. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, [[SeeTheInvisible it doesn't make him intangible to stuff like water.]]]]

!!Horror
Once a member of a budding villain trio called the Dominadores, she is the third member to join the Four Ghosts.
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* SupernaturalFearInducer: Her parahuman power, allowing her to send crowds running in panic.
* {{Turncoat}}: After the death of her first teammate, Poseedor and Espectro convinced her to join them and take out the other one.

!!Mil Ojos
An ex-heroine and the fourth member to join the Four Ghosts.

* BigBrotherIsWatching: She is a Tinker with a specialty in [[SinisterSurveillance surveillance]], monitoring the whole city of Santiago with her network of camera drones.
* FaceHeelTurn: A budding heroine in the Cuban country, until she approached Poseedor and asked outright to join them.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Why did she join the Ghosts? Villainy pays better.
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[[folder: Skylance]]
A Japanese parahuman warlord who came into power after the Sundering of Kyushu, taking control of the resulting refugee camps and establishing herself as their protector, though her intentions were hardly noble. The Avatar and the Guild helped take her down.

* FailureGambit: Skylance tries to enact one when the Guild comes for her head, planning to surrender herself for the good of her people, make herself a martyr, and get enough public support to pressure the government to release her. Unfortunately, Fuji-Sama crashes the party and short-circuits that narrative by calling her a coward.
* ManipulativeBitch: She is a demagogue that proclaimed to the refugees that the government and the outside world had abandoned them, that Leviathan's attack was a foreign plot, and that uniting under her leadership is the only way to survive. In reality, she actively keeps national and international aid out of the refugee camps, acquires and redistributes the aid supplies to keep them dependent on her, and her only motivation is to gain enough support that she can eventually supplant the government.
* NotQuiteFlight: Spends her fights falling from portal to portal through the air, keeping her aloft while launching attacks through more portals.
* ShadowArchetype: Is this to canon Skitter after she became the warlord of Brockton Bay, as a parahuman who took control of the chaos after a Leviathan attack, visibly helping the public while keeping the government out of her territory, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity while building up a lot of goodwill in the process]]. The difference is, while Skitter genuinely cared for the public, Skylance is doing it out of pure [[ManipulativeBitch demagoguery]].
* TheExile: After her capture, the Avatar puts her on an empty alternate Earth until her trial, after which she is Birdcaged.
* ThinkingUpPortals: Her parahuman power allows her to create portals that are stationary relative to each other, but not to the world. And she has a brutal range; she can launch high-speed streams of lava by establishing a portal beneath the Earth's surface on the other side of the planet (which is moving in the opposite direction to her current location, and thus moving at high speeds relative to where she is).
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Thanks to her doctrine and her own shaped narrative, she is held in high esteem within the refugee camps.

[[folder: Fuji-Sama]]
A Japanese parahuman, A-Class villain and far-right political figure. He was once a member of the Yamato Party and in line to be elected to the Japanese National Diet until a terrorist scandal crushed his career and caused him to trigger.

* DropTheHammer: He marches into battle with a giant hammer that weighs 10 times more than he does, which he can easily wield with his Brute power.
* FatBastard: Styles himself as a masked sumo wrestler by deliberately overeating, and is one of the worse villains in Japan.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: He is an ultranationalist to say the least. The aforementioned terrorist scandal was linked to attacks against Korean businesses in Japan, and he now controls a "foreigner-free" part of Tokyo while trying to be the face of the ultranationalist movement.
* TheExile: After his capture, the Avatar puts him on an empty alternate Earth until his trial, rather than a jail he can just walk out of. Later, he's put into a [[TailorMadePrison Lockbox]].
* TheRival: To Skylance, since her acts and nationalist doctrine have put her in the top position for the face of ultranationalist front, which he wants. The Guild uses this to their advantage when taking out Skylance.
* StoutStrength: Given his power to both [[NoSell ignore physical effects on his body]] and [[SuperStrength exert irresistible pushing force on anything he touches]], he certainly has the "strength" part, and he Invokes the "stout" part by making his cape image that of a masked sumo wrestler named after Mount Fuji. Ironically, he has no actual background in SumoWrestling.
* UnwittingPawn: How the Guild effectively used him in their operation against Skylance. By seeding him with information about her confrontation with the Guild, he crashed the party to try and usurp her ultranationalist agenda and put his narrative in conflict with hers, preventing her from controlling it and portraying herself as a martyr.

[[folder: Madame Lustucru]]
The psychopathic warlord of the city of Kolwezi in the Congo, inflicting horrors on its inhabitants day after day. The Avatar and the Guild helped oust her from power.

* DoNotGoGentle: Once she heard that the Avatar was gunning for threats like her, she was willing to do as much damage to the Kolwezi populace before she went down.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: The Avatar makes note of how nondescript and unassuming she looks in comparison to the evils she had done.
* ForTheEvulz: She outright says she has no motivation at all for the atrocities she does, other than "because".
* HopeCrusher: Is this in spades. One of the more [[KickTheDog sadistic]] plots she devised was to actually invoke a HopeSpot for her country - arranging for her and her forces to be ousted by a rebellion, only to reveal later that the rebellion was working for her all along.
* LesserOfTwoEvils: The Greater Evil in comparison to the Triple Alliance, three warlords in control of the ''rest'' of the Congo, who use her as the worse choice to allying with them. That said, some of the capes under her command thought of her as the better choice compared to the Alliance.
* MakingASplash: With horrifyingly, no Manton Limit. Meaning that even the water in the human body is hers to command at will.
* WouldHurtAChild: Oh, absolutely. Two of her final ploys included holding children hostage in a propane-filled room, and [[spoiler: dropping 200 children from 100 feet up]].

[[folder: Blood Count]]
An A-Class villain and the strongest cape in the warlord-infested city of Lagos, Nigeria. He was just one of the seven major warlords that were captured during the Guild's operation to cleanse the city.

* ComboPlatterPowers: What he develops the more LifeEnergy he absorbs with his powers, from {{Flight}} and a HealingFactor at the low end to a DangerSense, [[ShockAndAwe electric discharges]], [[BarrierWarrior force fields]] and SuperSpeed at the higher end. And that's an incomplete list.
* VampiricDraining: His powers effectively drain the LifeEnergy of people around him, slowly killing them with fatigue and exhaustion. As he drains life, he develops a smorgasbord of ComboPlatterPowers to go with it, GatheringSteam until he's said to be in Eidolon's class.
* VillainTeamUp: Was assisted by the General, one of his warlord contemporaries, to provide him with prisoners that he could drain to empower himself, enough to potentially match the Avatar.
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[[folder: Black Sun]]
One of the major warlords of Vietnam. She recently entered a ceasefire with her rival Phosphor after the Avatar's arrival.

* ALighterShadeOfGrey: In the MoralityKitchenSink of Earth-Bet, Black Sun is relatively better than most warlords. Though she invests heavily into the living standards of those under her protection and she clamps down hard on child traffickers and those who threaten the peace, she also recruits villains and gives them leeway and another thing she clamps down on is freedom of speech.
* AntiMagic: Her Tinker speciality is energy cancellation, and she has used it to great effect through devices like [[KillTheLights light-cancelling darkness generators]] or [[KillItWithIce heat-cancelling freeze bombs]]. There's a reason she's one of the few people worldwide rated Tinker 8.
* DisintegratorRay: Her infamous 'blacklight' ray weapon, which cancels electrostatic bonds between molecules on whatever it hits.
* YoungConqueror: Was only in her teens when she Triggered, and promptly used her new capabilities to eliminate the warlord that took over her city.
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[[folder: Phosphor]]
One of the major warlords of Vietnam. He recently entered a ceasefire with his rival Black Sun after the Avatar's arrival.

* ALighterShadeOfGrey: In the MoralityKitchenSink of Earth-Bet, Phosphor is fairly reasonable. He strives mightily to keep civilians out of the line of fire, but he's not above withholding resources and using strong-arm tactics to get what he wants.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His Trigger event was going through with his general's orders to fire on protestors to take over a city, and when he got his powers the next day, he killed the general and took over.
* PlasmaCannon: Can launch streams of burning-hot plasma from his hands.
* UnfortunateNames: He's a Vietnamese parahuman who named himself after [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar white phosphorus]]. According to the author, he suffers from self-loathing.

!!Other
[[folder: Toybox]]
An association of Tinkers who collaborate and sell their products to the highest bidders. As the Guild gained higher acclaim, they decided to ally with the Guild to offer their wares for future operations.

* JackOfAllTrades: Artisan's Thinker power makes him a master in all forms of craftsmanship, and his Tinker power, while unspecialized, makes creations that aren't that far off from those of a specialized Tinker.
* MadeOfIndestructium: Prochnost's Tinker specialization is robustness, and most of his Tinker creations require far less maintenance than other Tinkers. His skills are frequently used to improve other Tinkers' work.
* TheMole: One of its members, [[spoiler: Prochnost]], secretly works for the Queen of Black and White.

[[folder: The King's Men]]
The United Kingdom's premier parahuman organisation, headed by Lord Walston.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Between the Simurgh's attack on London, the effective decapitation of the country's leadership, and the lack of international aid that resulted in Britain seceding from the European Union, the country has been through a lot of problematic times.
* IgnoredExpert: One scene has Johnny Kong, a teamwork Thinker, advising Lord Walston on keeping some capes out of a future operation to prevent possible future unrest, only for Walston to ignore his advice on account of viewing half-measures against scum (dissidents) as weakness.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Lord Walston, head of the King's Men, has become effectively an ultranationalist, who advocates order and stability over personal rights.
** Johnny Kong is also of the opinion that disloyalty to one's country and superiors is a vice above all else, even blind obedience.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Lord Walston's parahuman powers, which give him full awareness of all sound in his radius, making him a [[BigBrotherIsWatching very effective clairvoyant]].
* StealthPun: Johnny Kong styles himself as a [[Creator/{{Confucius}} neo-Confucianist]]. In Mandarin, Confucius was called "Kong zi" (Master Kong), and in Chinese tradition, his name was "Zhongni".
* TeamSpirit: Johnny Kong, a member of the King's Men, is a Thinker specializing in teamwork and synergy.

[[folder: Madman]]
A dimensional traveler who has toyed many times with the Avatar and the Global Champions, and the MadScientist to end all mad scientists. He's the one who threw the Avatar into Earth-Bet in the first place.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Not many, but he has them.

* NoSell: When he first chose heroism, his destructive field had everyone thinking he could hurt Endbringers. The first time he fought the Simurgh, he broke his hand.

* SwissArmySuperpower: His cosmic energy manipulation is his most versatile power in his toolset, able to gift him almost any superpower he wants, from mental superspeed and matter creation to intangibility and healing. However, it's limited in its maximum output, it takes time to swap powers and some powers are more energy-intensive than others.

* TheNeedless: The Avatar has no actual bodily functions; he only puts on a show of breathing because it freaks people out if he doesn't.

%% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * BerserkButton: As Kaiser in a WhatIf scenario finds out, don't be a Nazi on the same planet as him.

* HeroicFatigue: He isn't a cynic yet, but he's getting there. He went from dreaming he can turn Indonesia into a democratic country in his youth, to just hoping he can keep it from collapsing in his lifetime.

* FailureGambit: Skylance tries to enact one when the Guild comes for her head, planning to surrender herself for the good of her people, make herself a martyr, and get enough public support to pressure the government to release her. Unfortunately, Fuji-Sama crashes the party and keeps that narrative from being spun by calling her a coward.

%%* DropTheHammer:

* VillainTeamUp: Was assisted by the General, one of his warlord contemporaries, to provide him with prisoners that he could use to drain and empower himself, enough to potentially match the Avatar.

* TheNeedless: The Avatar has no actual bodily functions; he only puts on a show of breathing because it [[UncannyValley freaks people out]] if he doesn't.

* RoyalRapier: His WeaponOfChoice; a MonomolecularBlade made of [[FantasyMetals omni-metal]], which can cut through tanks like butter.

* SuperToughness: La Matraque Bleue, in addition to her own strength and durability, can [[TheMagicTouch reinforce other objects]] with the same toughness, like her [[DropTheHammer warhammer]] WeaponOfChoice.

* DropTheHammer: His WeaponOfChoice.

%% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * Berserk Button: As Kaiser in a WhatIf scenario finds out, don't be a Nazi on the same planet as him.

* BerserkButton: As Kaiser in a WhatIf scenario finds out, don't be a Nazi on the same planet as him.

!!Bleu-Blanc-Rouge - Alexandre Morane

* WolverineClaws: Can reshape his own fingers into these. {{Monomolecular Blade}}d ones, to boot.

* DeathSeeker: Is called out as one by Tattletale, who says that despite her lack of durability, she throws herself into the line of fire as if she has less to lose than those she protects, like a part of her died with her brother. Météore leaves the conversation after that, but does concede that risking her life for the lives of others is a good exchange as far as she's concerned.

* HeatWave[=/=]ColdSnap: His Shaker power makes him immune to heat and allows him to instantly raise or lower the temperature of everything in a spherical globe around him.

* MakingASplash: Her main power is hydrokinesis.

* [[BigBrotherIsWatching Big Sister Is Watching]]: She can put people she touches on a mental list; it only has so many spaces, but she can talk to them, [[SeeingThroughAnothersEyes see through their eyes]] and hear through their ears regardless of distance and without them even knowing it.

* PowerCopying: His Tinker specialty is creating equipment that mimics the powers of parahumans he's observed, a lot of which he's modularized and put into his PoweredArmor. However, like most Tinkers, maintenance limits the number of powers he can have on hand.

* EyeBeams: The power of [[GratuitousNinja Laser Ninja]], the team's youngest member. He's also incredibly agile, though it's up for debate whether it's a Mover power or if he's a really talented LeParkour.

* GiftedlyBad: Cyranette likes to spout [[YouFightLikeACow witty wordplay and poetry during her fights]] like ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'', but unfortunately, her skill with such only exists in her delusions.

* {{Teleportation}}: L'As de Pique can teleport to the side of anyone he's seen in the last nine days, across any distance. His armor complements that by briefly generating DeflectorShields and a PowerNullifier-effect in the instants after teleportation, as well as providing him with an electrified [[SimpleStaff staff]].

* [[BigBrotherIsWatching Big Sister Is Watching]]: She is a Tinker with a specialty in surveillance.

** Although the heroism of her grandfather is dubious since he fought in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII for the Japanese. She personally thinks her grandpa fought for the wrong side.

* {{Teleportation}}: L'As de Pique can teleport to the side of anyone he's seen in the last nine days, across any distance. His armor complements that by briefly generating DeflectorShields and a PowerNullifier-effect in the instants after teleportation, as well as providing him with an [[StunGuns electrified]] [[SimpleStaff staff]].

* FlyingFirepower[=/=]FlyingBrick: A mix; his core powerset is {{Flight}}, {{Hand Blast}}s, and SuperToughness, only lacking in SuperStrength. He makes up for that with MindOverMatter.

A superhero from the Congo.

* FlyingFirepower: Combines flight with powerful energy blasts.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: When she tried to press charges for her fiancé's attempted rape, his family immediately alibied him, the police wasn't willing to push the case, her company (of whom he was an executive) fired her for "disturbing workplace harmony", and [[EtTuBrute her own family essentially condemned her]] for making a fuss and throwing away a potentially successful marriage.

* TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: As a college student studying abroad, she was frequently homesick and was glad to return to her home country to improve it. Her one dream is to return to her home of the Ivory Coast, after the Tinker warlord Swarm chased her out of it.

* HypnotizeThePrincess: Heartbreaker has an entire harem of women controlled this way, including one celebrity, which put him on the Protectorate's priority list.

* StatusBuff[=/=]StatusAilment: Is a Shaker that generates "entropy zones", which make everything and everyone in them [[DamageReduction harder]] or [[DamageIncreasingDebuff easier]] to damage.

* LiquidAssets: He can "steal" speed from others by touch, [[StatusAilment slowing them down]] while speeding himself up, and can also [[StatusBuff give the speed to others]]. However, [[HeroicRRoD overuse can burn him out and leave him in pain]].

The divine avatar of Adeltom, the God of Heroism, the Avatar has been around since the 1920s as Earth-Gimel's very first and most powerful superhero. He is the leader of the Global Champions, his earth's premier superhero team, who was dropped into Earth-Bet by Madman to solve a potential interdimensional threat. He joins the Guild to best handle international A-Class threats, as well as working in the Protectorate.

* FlyingFirepower[=/=]FlyingBrick: A mix; his core powerset is {{Flight}}, [[HandBlast immensely powerful cosmic energy blasts]], and SuperToughness, only lacking in SuperStrength. He makes up for that with MindOverMatter.

Although the Avatar was the member of the [[SuperTeam Global Champions]] selected as the quest's protagonist, the author gave the possibility of any of the other members to go instead. [[AllThereInTheManual Their profiles are detailed in the quest's first chapter]].

* NeverAcceptedInHisHometown: Downplayed. Her membership in the Global Champions has made her a popular figure around the world, but has a more controversial reputation in Japan, due to her making no secret of her opinion that her home country was very much in the wrong during World War II.

* LittleMissBadass: How she started out, triggering as a 7-year-old girl when she [[TakingTheBullet took bullets]] meant for her mother and transferred them back to the shooter. Her tenure with the Protectorate is filled with A and S-class encounters, including Endbringers and the Slaughterhouse Nine, and one of her go-to tactics is ''stabbing herself'' to transfer injuries to her targets.

* MagicalIdolSinger: If you replace magic with superpowers, she counts as one. Her concerts are used to boost morale and [[HopeBringer bring hope]].

* AHeroToHisHometown: After two members were killed in Newfoundland's Endbringer attack, France's government stopped sending them to Endbringer fights, earning them scorn on the international stage.

* {{Flight}}: L'As de Carreau has 360° vision, SuperReflexes and hypersonic flight... [[RequiredSecondaryPowers but doesn't make her tough enough]] to ''survive'' flying at such speeds. Her armor fixes that by giving her that [[LightningBruiser toughness]], and also protects her from harm if she collides with anything or anyone, especially while impaling them with her [[BladeOnAStick spear]].
* HavingABlast: L'As de Trefle can turn small objects that he touches into contact-fused bombs. His armor comes with a CoolGun with bullets that he can charge before firing, as well as allowing him to [[FlyingFirepower fly]] and release [[SmokeOut concealing smoke]], and is tough enough to resist anyone shooting back.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: It's stated that as a living concept of heroism, he literally spends 24 hours a day either performing heroic deeds or espousing them, and it helps that [[TheNeedless he doesn't need sleep]]. Though he isn't stupid about it and will inform and leave less important things to the authorities if need be, he will intervene for more immediate threats, like stopping a domestic abuser while searching for a super villain and taking the time to convince the victim to seek help.

* HeroicLineage: She's the daughter of a SuperCop and the granddaughter of a SuperSoldier.

A Garama cape from India, recruited alongside the Avatar. [[spoiler: Unknowingly a Cauldron cape]].

* IdolSinger: Her main profession, also used to boost morale and [[HopeBringer bringing hope]].

* HeroicFatigue: He isn't a cynic yet, but he's getting there. He went from dreaming he can turn Indonesia into a democratic country in his youth, to just hoping he can help it not collapse in his lifetime.

* SuperIntelligence: His Thinker powers have effectively made his thought processes instantaneous. If the only thing keeping him from figuring out a problem or noticing something is time to think or observe, he comes up with or notices it the very next instant. Then again, it doesn't work if he's ''not'' smart or observant enough to work it out.

** Another scheme involves popping in to troll Tattletale by making her power read him as a Nigerian Prince who wants to sell Male Enhancement drugs... and then throws a pie in her face.