History Characters / Helldivers

* BigBrotherIsWatchingYou: Dialogue from the Privates on the Super Destroyer bridge reveals that houses on Super Earth are installed with an "Anti-BurglarySsystem" (read:[[SinisterSurveillance surveillance cameras]]) which help to prevent crime at the cost of personal privacy, which the Privates insist they didn't really need anyway and are perfectly fine with giving up.

* TakingYouWithMe: Their corpses are capable of delivering OneHitKill due to how fast they move. Shriekers have a nasty tendency to get kills from beyond the grave by ragdolling into Helldivers they're targeting. When facing an incoming Shrieker, be sure to dive out of the way of its corpse or side step then shoot the Shrieker as it passes by.

* TakingYouWithMe: Their corpses are capable of delivering OneHitKill due to how fast they move. Shriekers have a nasty tendency to get kills from beyond the grave by ragdolling into Helldivers they're targeting. When facing an incoming Shrieker, be sure to dive out of the way of its corpse or side step then shoot the Shrieker as it passes by.

The slow, enormous, and distinctively bloated Bile and Nursing Spewers are notorious for producing and stockpiling highly toxic and corrosive bile, which they use to defend themselves and their hives by vomiting at opponents within range. At higher difficulties, some are also capable of lofting bile over considerable distance like massive, disgusting biological artillery pieces.

The largest and deadliest members of the Terminid Bile caste identified to date. These monstrosities tower over the battlefield, capable of both blasting unfortunate Helldivers with their deadly bile and skewering them with their massive legs while absorbing massive amounts of punishment from all but the heaviest of weapons. Bile Titans are high-level threats to any team of Helldivers to be treated with great caution, and they should be taken down with extreme prejudice if engaging them is unavoidable.

* HostileTerraforming: Planets under particularly heavy Terminid infestations will have a thick fog of orange spore particles filling up the ground and even the lower atmosphere, obscuring the vision of vision of Helldivers on the ground until the local spore trees are taken out while also presumably making the environment ideal for Terminid life.

* AndMissionControlRejoiced: Completing a mission in ''II'' and successfully extracting earns your Helldivers a suitably bombastic congratulatory message from your Democracy Officer as the Pelican lifts off.

* MixAndMatchCritters: Hive Lords look and act like a cross between a [[CreepyCentipedes myriapod]] and a SandWorm while sporting the distinctive mouth of a Lamprey and the antennas and wide mandibles similar to the Bobbit Worm, an aquatic ambush predator.

* MixAndMatchCritters: Hive Lords look and act like a cross between a [[CreepyCentipedes myriapod]] and a SandWorm.

* EnemyMine: An InUniverse conspiracy theory has the Super Earth high command openly consider the possibility that the [[AnimalisticAbomination Terminids]] are, somehow, colluding with the Automatons through inter-galactic communications to provide them their new technologies that caught Helldivers by surprise. Note the lack of technology that Terminids employ, and the sheer distance between the Bug and Bot fronts.

* EyelessFace: Barring the Bile Titan and possibly Bile Spitters, if those aren't green sacs of bile at eye level, Terminids do not have eyes, or at least any visible enough to be useful for tunneling creatures.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Super Earth [[PretextForWar launching a pre-emptive strike against them in the First Galactic War due to their supposed stockpiling of WMDs]] is very obviously meant to draw a parallel between the ''casus belli'' cited as the reasoning behind the United States' invasion of Iraq in the TurnOfTheMillennium. Considering that in real life the claim that there were [=WMDs=] in Iraq was completely ''wrong'', it also lends credence to the idea that Super Earth just wanted to give itself any justification, no matter how flimsy, to wage war on the Illuminate.

* BulletHell: Especially compared to the other two Enemy Masters, the Great Eye relies less on area-of-effect attacks and wide bullet spreads and instead simply perpetually covers its entire arena in status-inflicting projectiles, which are luckily still [[DestructibleProjectiles destructible]].

* WaveMotionGun: From time to time, it will turn slightly to the side of a targeted Helldiver and then fire a powerful beam that it will sweep form one side ot the other. The beam can OneHitKill if it makes contact with a Helldiver, or any adds.

* ArmCannon: The Siege Mech can spawn with one of two different guns on its right arm; either a deadly [[GatlingGood gatling gun]] or [[GrenadeSpam a powerful rapid-fire grenade launcher]].
* FinalExamBoss: When examined as the sum of its parts, the Siege Mech is an amalgam of almost every ranged Cyborg unit; it has the heavy flamer of an Immolator, either the gatling gun of a Hulk or the grenade launcher of a Squadleader Soldier, and the deadly crushing treads of an IFV. You'll need to use everything you've so far learned about fighting the Cyborgs in order to defeat it.

* GatlingGood: One of its two {{Arm Cannon}}s is a huge minigun, and one of its primary attacks is to spray bullets in a direction with it.

* FinalExamBoss: When examines as the sum of its parts, the Siege Mech is an amalgam of almost every ranged Cyborg unit; it has the heavy flamer of an Immolator, either the gatling gun of a Hulk or the grenade launcher of a Squadleader Soldier, and the deadly crushing treads of an IFV. You'll need to use everything you've so far learned about fighting the Cyborgs in order to defeat it.

** Their entire motivation for attacking Super Earth and their citizens is because after losing the First Galactic War, their creators the Cyborgs were turned into slaves and are forced by Super Earth to mine their own planet for minerals. One of the Cyborgs decoded messages says that their offsprings, the Automatons, will not suffer the same fate as they did. But the Automatons wouldn't do anything about the situation of their creators and have been amassing power in the galactic fringe to liberate the Cyborgs from the oppression they suffer in Cyberstan.