History Characters / GriffinRanger

* ICannotSelfTerminate: Begs Harrell for death when he realizes he cannot beat him, to protect Kreet and his chicks. In a true WhatTheHellHero moment, Harrell obliges and kills him.

* SuicideByCop: Forces Harrell to kill him to protect Kwap.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He's such an unrepentant monster that he's even willing to do the same to greenies as he does to the griffins; one such greenie, tortured into madness, [[HeelFaceTurn Heel-Face Turns]] and ultimately undoes both his and Whitehead's plans. He himself is pinned down and ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by one of his own captives, Winter White-Tail, whom he shot and left for dead...only to find out the hard way that she was NotQuiteDead after all. Vaniss leaves him pinned on the floor - but sets the building on fire behind her.

* LaserGuidedKarma: After killing almost all the griffin captives with his plague and attempting to do the same with the survivors, he has a face to face meeting with Winter, who he shoots and leaves for dead to attack Vaniss and the surviving griffins. Turns out she's NotQuiteDead - and sinks her talons into his leg in a death grip, forcing him to inject his remaining plague into an already dying griffin. Vaniss [[CruelMercy simply leaves him there]] - but not before the hanz sappers set the building on fire behind them.

* BadassAdorable: Though at first she's as much TheLoad as Kwap, she eventually learns to put up quite a fight all by her lonesome and saves Kwap's life a couple of times in human!Earth. She even learns to use a greenie gun and knife, and even executes a commando raid on the lab solo.

* BadassAdorable: She can put up quite a fight all by her lonesome and saves Kwap's life a couple of times. She even learns to use a greenie gun.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Kwap uses his flamboyance and ladykiller looks to hide a ''very'' dark past. Far before he was born his people were conquered and their land stolen; wishing a better life than an aboriginal jungle-dweller with no civilized niceties at all, he signed up to be educated by the greenies - and was lied to about the price he would have to pay. Kwap was forced into indentured servitude on threat of being made permanently flightless. He trained as a greenie security specialist in Newland, often being forced to work against the guerilla fighters there as TheMole. The information he gathered from inside the greenie society in Newland, however, proves invaluable and lifesaving once he joins Harrell.

* GeniusBruiser: Kwap ultiamtely becomes this. He still lacks talons and is very lightly built, but he more than makes up for it with intelligence and sheer badassery, even when facing far better armed and faster Tropica griffins, and by making use of the environment as a weapon. Fire ants play a prominent role as a ChekhovsGun.

* KeepingTheEnemyClose: Harrell has his way of dealing with the threat of future invasion by humans - keep the "monsters" captured from human!Earth to study and learn from, even the human BigBad. Harrell thinks they should all be killed immediately. Kwap wins.

* TheBrute: Isn't particularly bright, but is single-minded about her mission. She's also big - based off an African Black Eagle, so she easily can overpower and kill little Prairie and Forest griffins. Then she meets ''[[CurbStompBattle Harrell]]''.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Kwap uses his flamboyance and ladykiller looks to hide a ''very'' dark past. Far before he was born his people were conquered and their land stolen; wishing a better life than an aboriginal jungle-dweller with no civilized niceties at all, he signed up to be educated by the greenies - and lied to about the price he would have to pay. Kwap was forced into indentured servitude on threat of being made permanently flightless. He trained as a greenie security specialist in Newland, often being forced to work against the guerilla fighters there as TheMole. The information he gathered from inside the greenie society in Newland, however, proves invaluable and lifesaving once he joins Harrell.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Cheer's reward for her good deeds is to end up completely embroiled in the Kaerling conspiracy, which costs her chick, her hanz and ultimately she herself their lives.

* ForgivenButNotForgotten: In the end, Harrell meets up with the few survivors of Ranger Cheer's family and [[AintTooProudToBeg begs their forgiveness.]] They grant it, Cheer's surviving apprentice acknowledging the SadisticChoice he had to make, but cannot forget that they were betrayed by him.

* [[BritishStuffiness Dancer Stuffiness]]: Kwap adheres to extremely strict social codes and etiquette. When Harrell asks him to demonstrate the famous dance, he huffily states that it is done ''only'' on the mating site and ''only'' for potential mates. Is extremely uncomfortable with being touched by anyone he doesn't know (save females during Flight Festival). It even takes a true life-and-death emergency to get him to use his CharlesAtlasSuperpower, because it's based off a call during the mating dance. He ''finally'' starts to crack at the end, when he touches a human as a way of sealing a deal, and makes a very broad exception for his [[FireForgedFriends Fire Forged Friend]] Tirrsill.

* ClusterFBomb: Censored by the fact it's in [[ForeignCussWord Dancer dialect]], but Kwap leaves zero doubt what he's screaming at Harrell after Harrell suggests [[DeadpanSnarker that Kwap spend more time with Ranger Nightmare.]]

* OhCrap: Has a great OhCrap moment when she realizes that Tirrsill broke her out of the lab - in order to take her to Kwap.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Kwap uses his flamboyance and ladykiller looks to hide a ''very'' dark past. He watched his people enslaved, mutilated, and DrivenToSuicide by the greenies after they end up on the losing end of the greenie-griffin wars; he escaped that fate by joining with them to train as a greenie security specialist in Newland, often being forced to work against other griffins as TheMole. The information he gathered from inside the greenie society, however, proves invaluable and lifesaving once he joins Harrell.

* ClusterFBomb: Censored by the fact it's in [[ForeignCussWord Dancer dialect]], but Kwap leaves zero doubt what he's screaming at Harrell after Harrell suggests [[DeadpanSnarker that Kwap spend more time with Ranger Nightmare.]]

* AtomicFBomb: Censored by the fact it's in [[ForeignCussWord Dancer dialect]], but Kwap leaves zero doubt what he's screaming at Harrell after Harrell suggests [[DeadpanSnarker that Kwap spend more time with Ranger Nightmare.]]

* NonIdleRich: As griffins go, she's quite wealthy, having a virtual mansion-roost in prime real estate. This makes her not one jot less dedicated to her job, and her connections in Defiance help Harrell and Kwap on numerous occasions.

* NonPromotion: A positive example. She's promoted to field general for the War Flock as a sort of final exam to joining the officer corps of the Rangers in Defiance.

* ScyllaAndCharybdis: When Kwap returns home, he gives Vaniss two choices: Close the gate ''immediately'' and doom all the griffins on human!Earth to slow death, or bust in with the War Flock to rescue them, and risk the bioweapon getting loose and destroying her world. She ultimately has Kwap put it to a vote, and it's unanimous - invade human!Earth, recover the captives, and kill the bioweapon preemptively by destroying the lab.

* ScyllaAndCharybdis: When Kwap returns home, he gives Vaniss two choices: Close the gate ''immediately'' and doom all the griffins on human!Earth to slow death, or bust in with the War Flock to rescue them, and risk the bioweapon getting loose and destroying her world. She ultimately chooses the latter, with some justification: It gives her the chance to destroy the lab and bioweapon as well, not just rescue the captives. But Scylla takes her due...

* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: The griffins captives he experiments on never learn his name - they only know him as 'the white Alpha' and he's the only one the griffins normally see that wears it - the vet techs all wear green. (The ''lab techs'' also wear white, and it's those that the griffins primarily target during the RoaringRampageOfRescue).

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He's such an unrepentant monster that he's even willing to do the same to greenies as he does to the griffins; one such greenie, tortured into madness, HeelFaceTurns and ultimately undoes both his and Whitehead's plans. He himself is pinned down and ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by one of his own captives, Winter White-Tail, whom he shot and left for dead...only to find out the hard way that she was NotQuiteDead after all. Vaniss leaves him pinned on the floor - but sets the building on fire behind her.

* ColdBloodedTorture: Quite frequently inflicts this on his griffin captives to keep them in line, particularly during the Poop Wars.

* InformedAbility: She's supposed to be Whitehead's best griffin fighter, but she honed her talons on Rangers that either were crushed into submission by Whitehead, were much smaller than her or were very young; when she meets a ''real'' fighter, she's quite promptly stomped. Other Tropica Griffin fighters of Whitehead's are actually much better fighters - and a much more lethal threat.

* InformedAbility: She's supposed to be Whitehead's best griffin fighter, but she honed her talons on Rangers that either were crushed into submission by Whitehead, were much smaller than her or were very young; when she meets a ''real'' fighter, she's quite promptly stomped.