History Characters / CityOfHeroesEnemyGroups

* ApeShallNeverKillApe: The Arachnos Arbiters are never to be harmed, and the only ones immune to KlingonPromotion as they are removed from the picking order to become avatars of Arachnos’ law and order; Lives are cheap, honor among supervillains is not!

* ApeShallNeverKillApe: The Arachnos Arbiters are never to be harmed, and the only ones immune to KlingonPromotionPolicy as they are removed from the picking order to become avatars of Arachnos’ law and order; Lives are cheap, honor among supervillains is not!

* VillainousRescue: It turns out THEY are the ones who answered The Resistance’s distress call to Primal Earth. Not that Arachnos are there out of the goddess of their hearts - they are all for anarchy equating to personal freedom and best case scenario get to become the new government when they overthrow the Praetorian government, and at worst will be allies of a newly formed Resistance government with access to all of the previous one’s tech and resources - win/freaking-win!

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* NaziHunter: They are on record for mercilessly hunt ing down the 5th Column or wiping out entire Council cels for so much as finding Nazi paraphernalia, and even carpet bombing sections of their own country they find 5th Column bases in just to make sure the Nazi S.O.B.s are powderized; Social Darwinists - they REALLY don’t like white supremacists!

* NaziHunter: They are on record for mercilessly hunt ing down the 5th Column or wiping out entire Council cels for so much as finding Nazi paraphernalia, and even carpet bombing sections of their own country they find 5th Column bases in just to make sure the Nazi SOBs are powderized; Social Darwinists - they REALLY don’t like white supremacists!

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: The cybernetic arms the Freakshow use generally end in either a [[AbsurdlySharpClaws big scrap metal claw]], a [[SinisterScythe curved sickle blade]], or a [[DropTheHammer giant hammer]]. The Freakshow generally either have one or ''both'' arms replaced with one of these weapons.

The noble thin blue line protecting the citizenry... or not, within the CrapsackWorld that is the Rogue Isles. The Rogue Isles Police is utterly corrupt and brutal, according to Lord Recluse's doctrine of might-makes-right -- no wonder that most corporations prefer private security.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: They only appear as lowbie fodder in Mercy Island's overworld, and completely disappear from the fabric of the Rogue Isles afterword without any further acknowledgement -- when anything resembling law-enforcement does take place, it's usually Arachnos' DoomTroops who are apprehending people, not these guys.

Why did it have to be snakes? The starter villains of City of Villains are the giant, intelligent serpents known as the Snakes, monsters who lurk in their network of tunnels and kidnap people to feed to their young. They are generally disliked by the fanbase for being somewhat overused in the early levels, in comparison to the variety with early Heroes-enemies.

The noble thin blue line protecting the citizenry... or not, within the CrapsackWorld that is the Rogue Isles. The Rogue Isles Police are straight up corrupt and brutal - no wonder that most corporations prefer private security - though whether it really counts as corruption when its entirely understood as their entire purpose is something of a puzzle.
* BadCopIncompetentCop

* KnightTemplar

* MookLieutenant: Luddite Friars support their fellows with the Empathy powers ''Heal Other'' and ''Fortitude''.
* PlayingWithFire: Martin Henri has the ''Fire Blast'', ''Fire Breath'' and ''Flash Stomp'' powers, [[spoiler:since he's [[PowersViaPossession being possessed by]] [[EvilIsBurningHot Bat'Zul]] when you fight him.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:It turns out the Luddite cultists are catspaws of the very demons they're ranting about, with Martin Henri's visions granted by the demon lord Bat'Zul, who Aeon has been harnessing as an energy source. When the Luddites finally get an opportunity to disable the [=PTS=], it unleashes a horde of demons upon the island, and when the dust settles they're ''still'' oblivious to what's really going on.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist

* TheSymbiote: The P.P.D. have a program where cops can volunteer to let themselves become merged with Nictus. Said cops are super powerful as a result and said Nictus are quite happy to have hosts to extend their life spans, however…
* YourDaysAreNumbered: The members of the P.P.D. that volunteer for Nictus fusion are substantially more powerful, but doing so eats up about a quarter of their life span. Let’s hope that comes with an early retirement plan.

* IntrinsicVow / MoreThanMindControl: The Arachnos Seer Network is used to edit any thoughts of treachery against Lord Recluse and enforce loyalty. This is not only public knowledge, it is voluntary. Soldiers and Fortunatas understand when they swear to serve Arachnos they are agreeing to be psychically bound to said oath. Truth is other than having any secret plots or resentment against Lord Recluse literally erased, said troops are more or less left with their free-will intact.
* NayTheist: Arachnos have made religion illegal in the Rogue Isles; Specifically because Lord Recluse is a actual demi-god so pledging loyalty to any full god is essentially national treason.

* CoolGun: For some bizarre reason, the wiseguys of the Family use... Tommy Guns. In a game that is explicitly set in {{the present day}}.
* TheDon: Harry Frost.

* CoolGun: The guns wielded by Nemesis troops are as anachronistic as his robots, yet compete with and even surpass their modern equivalents. Notable weapons include the Storm Rifle, a [[{{BFG}} blunderbuss that fires explosive slugs]]; the Lance, a SniperRifle that doubles as a, well, lance; and an unnamed weapon that's a [[MixAndMatchWeapon hybrid]] of a [[GatlingGood gatling gun]] and a [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower]].

* KillItWithFire: Longbow uses flamethrowers. The description of their flame-using mooks notes they try not to use those [[VillainWithGoodPublicity in front of TV-cameras]].
* KnightTemplar: They can fall into this upon occasion, with a few members in particular being somewhat prone to it.
* ThatOneAttack: At high levels, Nullifiers, the only Lieutenant mob available to Longbow, gains an autohit, resistance debuffing, wide area Sonic Grenade. The debuffs stack from multiple Nullifiers.

* DealWithTheDevil - The Oranbegans were cursed when they made a deal with some demons to keep from being wiped out in an ancient war. Or, more specifically, when they failed to keep their part of the bargain. Which was to... well, basically feed... every last man, woman, and child of the enemy country to the demons. Unsurprisingly, they found they couldn't go through with it- the deal had been made in desperation- and so got cursed. Cue some twelve ''thousand'' years later, the Oranbegans having gone somewhat insane in the intervening years, and trying to rectify their 'mistake'. Unfortunately, their enemies were apparently a rather fecund bunch, and some two billion people can claim Mu ancestry. This doesn't seem to have deterred the Oranbegans.
** Another example would be the [[spoiler: original Circle of Thorns, which was something of a Aleister Crowley-like group of evil Gentlemen Sorcerors, who discovered the ghosts of the ancient Oranbegans and cut a deal with them for power. Of course, they merely ended up becoming their first hosts.]]

* IgnoredEpiphany: The mage - Akarist points out that the demons they summoned to save their culture have changed them so much, their culture is effectively gone. The others are implied to realize he is right, they just don’t care at that point.
* GoddamnedBats: Spectral Daemon Lords are a Lieutenant rank mob that is infamous for its high damage output and even higher accuracy debuffs that they deal out, especially by way of an autohit aura. The problem is that they start spawning at a level where reliable controls and accuracy buffs are unavailable to many players, and are one of the reasons the Circle one of the most avoided enemy groups. Their "upgraded" version, Nerva Spectral Daemon Lords come much later and are actually weaker, but are no less annoying due to being visually identical to normal Nerva Spectral Daemons.
** Earth Thorn Casters also are known to cause the players' ire with their strong defense debuffs, especially the autohit Quicksand. Thankfully, they only appear in a narrow level band of five levels or so.
* MagicalSociety

* PowerDegeneration:[[spoiler: The Oranbegans are apparently somewhat rough on the bodies they steal, burning them out from the inside, which explains why they almost always look very old. It does not, however, explain why they appear to be universally ''male'' when many of their victims are quite clearly female...]]
** [[spoiler:As of issue 21, human Circle minions are about fifty-fifty in the gender ratio as part of a group-wide cosmetic overhaul, so maybe it just took a while to take.]]

* SadisticChoice: Whenever they find a [[SecretLegacy decedent of the Mu bloodline]] they offer them the chance to either join the Circle of Thorns and begin intense brainwashing to drive out their humanity including killing those close to them, or the group use those they capture as ritual sacrifices. [[spoiler: Either way they possess said descendants to use their magic bloodline to manifest their spells through.]]

* TheseusShipParadox: The mage, Akarist, claims they have fallen into this - that they changed so much of their society to accommodate their demonic benefactors, that what they are now, no longer represents what they were supposed to be preserving.

* BoobsOfSteel: The Mark-VI "Victoria" bots are a literal and standard example. Shy of a Warwalker, they're the hardest hitting machine in the Warworks, among the toughest, they can stealth for [[BackStab Assassination strikes]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking are actually pretty stacked in the upper torso chassis.]]

* CoolGun: The guns wielded by Nemesis troops are as anachronistic as his robots, yet compete with and even surpass their modern equivalents. Notable weapons include the Storm Rifle, a [[{{BFG}} blunderbuss that fires explosive slugs]]; the Lance, a SniperRifle that doubles as a, well, [[BladeOnAStick lance]]; and an unnamed weapon that's a [[MixAndMatchWeapon hybrid]] of a [[GatlingGood gatling gun]] and a [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower]].

* LargeAndInCharge: Rularuu is the biggest villain in the entire game, at a massive 100 feet.

** '''Ullutay''': A [[TheStarscream treacherous]] deity that can [[DishingOutDirt command the earth]] who often [[WoundedGazelleGambit takes the form a frightened child to lure in his prey]].

The original main villains of the setting. The Rikti are an alien race[[spoiler: actually, modified humans from an alternate reality]] who launched an unprovoked [[spoiler: actually instigated by Nemesis]] invasion of Earth which was only narrowly repelled, and during which many of the city's heroes were killed. It is into this vacuum that the player heroes must step.

* EnemyCivilWar: The Rikti are increasingly divided between the Traditionalists, who seek to end the conflict with Earth, and the Restructurists, who aim to totally alter their society in the name of fighting on.

* PsychicLink: The Rikti are generally linked to eachother via a "mind-web", though they seem to be capable of separating themselves from it to a degree (hence the Rikti factions).
* PsychicPowers: Rikti Mentalists and Mesmerists have these in abundance, and all Rikti possess telepathy.

Paragon City has a homeless problem - they seem to be forming an army, occasionally venturing forth from the sewers to smash and destroy. And some of them don't even look human any more... [[spoiler: because they're being transformed into Rikti as part of a desperate recruiting drive by the survivors of the war. The Lost gradually look more and more Rikti-like as the levels move up, before being replaced entirely at around security level 30.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy
* CrazyHomelessPerson - And how!

* PsychicPowers

** '''M'Teru''': A [[BeastMan monstrous]], spear-wielding [[EgomaniacHunter god of the hunt]] and the most savage of the Pantheon.

* CoolGun: The guns wielded by Nemesis troops are as anachronistic as his robots, yet compete . Notable weapons include the Storm Rifle, a [[{{BFG}} blunderbuss that fires explosive slugs]]; the Lance, a SniperRifle that doubles as a, well, [[BladeOnAStick lance]]; and an unnamed weapon that's a [[MixAndMatchWeapon hybrid]] of a [[GatlingGood gatling gun]] and a [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower]].

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!Goldbrickers

* CutLexLuthorACheck: Several character mention how odd it is that a man who can turn things to gold by touch feels the need to commit crimes.
* TheUnfought: Their leader, King Midas, is mentioned a few times, but never appears in the game.
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[[folder:Luddites]]
!Luddites
A cult of fanatical anti-technology crusaders, often found picketing Dr. Aeon's offices in Cap au Diable. Their leader is a former member of Aeon Corp named Martin Henri, who experienced strange dreams informing him that he was destined to destroy Cap de Diable's Power Transfer System, one of Aeon's crowning infrastructure achivements.

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* CoolGun: The guns wielded by Nemesis troops are as anachronistic as his robots.
* TheChessmaster

* SteamPunk

Worshippers of evil gods that were... banished, centuries ago. Their human worshippers are relatively few in number... unfortunately, they also have hordes of zombie minions, as well as animated masks and totems that serve as avatars of the gods. Shortly after the Rikti War, they managed to take over a bustling commercial district of Paragon known as Astoria and [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice everyone within it]]. Its now called Dark Astoria.

Even as things in Dark Astoria got worse the Banished Pantheon remained, in the process becoming more powerful as they become channels of Mot's will.

* MasterRace: Unlike the Council, the 5th Column aren't looking for loopholes to Hitler's philosophy, that are whole-sale white-supremacists.