History Characters / IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice

* TheDragon: The Undeceitful has one in the form of Vulk-Gon, the [[AndCallHimGeorge Hugger of Worlds]] -- a marauder warlord he hires to ransack the vestigial Supreme Kingdom of Humanity, in an effort to prevent the Emperor from returning to the game.

-->'''The Undeceitful:''' Do you know what's ''more'' annoying? [[TabletopGame/WarhammerTheEndTimes The End Times!]] You ever wonder what happens when you peer beyond the veil, planet-spawn? Galaxy-rending terror and destruction! I won't have it! Our galaxy is in a perfect equilibrium thanks to ''me!'' No unhinged researches, no extraneous discoveries, and ''no End Times!'' Just enough war to keep the necrophage rolling, and to keep you fleshbags in stock! There is ''no'' narrative to drive us to the brink, only sweet, beautiful ''setting!''\\

Kitten's empire, an egalitarian, xenophile, pacifist federation and pretty much [[OnlySaneMan the only ones who don't engage in constant war]].

* TheGoodKing: Kitten, by virtue of providing peace, protection and plenty to his subjects and haven to his embattled neighbors.

* {{Irony}}: The [=BCoGL=] is pretty close to the most optimistic possible interpretation of the Tau Empire. It's created and ruled by Kitten, who hates the Tau with a burning passion.

* NumberTwo: The leader of the Empire (aka Kitten) is served primarily by Sir Science (Santodes) and Kockstodes (Karstodes).

* PlanetOfHats: Corvus Corax runs the Artisan Troupe within the federation's borders.
* ScienceHero: Sir Science, the empire's lead scientist (aka Santodes).
* SoleSurvivor: The Coalition is the only empire to survive the Triple Crisis, which leads to Kitten winning the game by default once the final in-game year rolls around.

Big Emps's empire and his vassals, more or less recreating the Imperium as it was during the Great Crusade.

* TheRemnant: The empire shatters after the Emperor abandons the game, splitting between Boy's Bulbous Bempire, REJGIBHPWERUGIWEHB[[note]]Run by the Celestial Shaman Queen, who doesn't know what a computer is and was evidently key-smashing[[/note]] and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Rogus' Empire]], with the tattered remains of the Supreme Kingdom itself lingering without a player at the helm.
* RocksFallEveryoneDies: The Not-God King Supreme eventually gets fed up with the game and uses console commands to trigger the late-game crisis events early and simultaneously, plunging the galaxy into chaos.

* TheStarscream: Boy becomes this when he, with the help of the Undeceitful, tries to usurp the empire.
* StoneWall: Rogus' Empire predictably wears this trope as a hat, hyperfocused on defence and [[ProudMerchantRaceGuy managing trade lanes]]. When Boy rebels and strikes into the Kingdom's space, the Not-God King is flabberghasted that someone could have gotten through the "[[RockMonster literal]] brick wall" (it's implied that Boy [[CombatPragmatist held off on declaring war until after his fleets were past Rogus' territory]]).
* SuccessionCrisis: Of a kind. After Boy turns against his father and the Not-God King Supreme fucks off [[CallToAgriculture to harvest on a moon]], the Empire is split between his three heirs. Ironically, Boy, the most ambitious, gets the smallest portion of his father's empire.

* TheChessmaster: The Undeceitful manages to cause most of the crap that goes down in the galaxy by convincing the Coalition-led federation to supply him with tons of resources to solve their problems with the Space Crusaders.
* TheDragon: The Undeceitful has one in the form of Vulk-Gon, the [[AndCallHimGeorge Hugger of Worlds]] -- a marauder warlord he hires to ransack the fractured Kingdom of Humanity, in an effort to prevent the Not-God King Supreme from returning to the game.
* {{Necromancer}}: The Trust's military apparently consists entirely of undead, and at least part of the Undeceitful's motivation for instigating the ForeverWar is to ensure he never runs out of corpses to collect. According to Sir Science, by the time the game ends the Trust's armies include entire species of minor races rendered extinct by warfare.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When he meets Kitten, he calls himself "The Undeceitful" (along with '"The Trustworthy", aka "The Reliable", aka "The Very Nice Creature That Wants To Trade With You"') and shouts "YEEEES, I have NO ulterior motives" unprovoked.

!!DER Space Elfs
The empire of Eldrad Ulthran, and a tertiary power unaligned with the rest.
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* IncomingHam: Upon first contact with Kitten, he suddenly announces himself as "Eldad, Long Wizard of the Space Elfs", and launches into a long-winded parody of the usual Eldar portents of fate and prophecy. It's enough to get some shocked giggling out of Kitten, before he requests Eldrad to be muted for ruining his immersion.
-->'''Eldad:''' HEAR MY WORDS, FEE-LOIN!!\\
'''Kitten:''' Oh-ho, ''shit!''
* SpaceElves: His empire is outright called Space Elfs (sic), and he roleplays them as [[SelfDeprecation a parody]] of the Eldar race.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Trades barbs with the Not-God King Supreme upon first contact, lambasting his empire for their warlike ways before dropping kayfabe and criticizing the Emperor directly.
-->'''Eldad:''' Your rampant disregard for the balance of power will be your undoing. Reverse your march, lest you damn us all to [[MultipleEndings one of three]] most grim-dark fates!\\
'''Not-God King Supreme:''' Ugh, shut it! You're the ''absolute worst!'' You're not being clever, your portents of doom suck, and I'm ''sick'' of your garbage.\\
'''Eldad:''' Oh-hoh-hoh-hoh, ''wow!'' [[HaHaHaNo No.]] ''You'' are doing ''exactly'' what everyone here is sick of. Your empire is just a heap of "ha ha funny scream heresy crusade oppress and KILL". You are literally just creating the ''worst'' empire in the galaxy. Have you not actually realized this?\\
'''Not-God King Supreme:''' [[ShutUpKirk I have!]] [[DystopiaIsHard And actually being able to control it is part of the power fantasy.]]

* {{Irony}}: The [=BCoGL=] is pretty close to (an idealized/optimistic version of) the Tau Empire. It's created and ruled by Kitten, who hates them with a burning passion.

* NumberTwo: Wamuudes is part of the Supreme Kingdom from the very beginning, but judging from his comm screen (which is the same as Santodes/Sir Science) he appears to only be a minor character within Emperor's main faction rather than participating in the game himself (though a tiny one-star empire called [[ContinuityNod "The Sovereign Quivering Isles"]] can be seen on the Trust's southwestern border).

* NoSell: They manage to do this to ''three end-game crises at once'', the most powerful of which spawned directly at their border!

** [[Characters/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDeviceTheEmperor The Emperor]]

The galactic empires created in-universe for Special 7 when the characters decide to play VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}.

The galactic empires created in-universe for Special 7.

* AllForNothing: The Undeceitful's attempts to forestall the Endgame Crises fails spectacularly when the Not-God King Supreme triggers all of them at once via console commands. The implied game mechanics also suggest that even if that hadn't happened, the attempts still would ultimately have failed. [[note]]By ''Stellaris''' rules, he ''could'' stop the [[HyperSpaceIsAScaryPlace Extradimensional Invaders]] or [[RobotWar the Contingency]] from occurring by knocking out anyone using certain technologies, but the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Prethoryn Scourge]] is weighted to become more likely to fire the more years pass.[[/note]]

* BigBad: Of Special 7. Boy's balliterative betrayal and the subsequent stagnation of the galaxy happen due to his machinations.

* TheFederation: Kitten peacefully units several other player empires in a federation early in the game, contrasted with the God King Supreme [[TheEmpire whose allies are subordinate vassals]].

* AbsoluteXenophobe: Downplayed, compared to the real Imperium of Man, in that certain alien races are shown to be accepted as vassals (Prime Mineral Rogus's lithoids and Boy's molluscoids). However, first contact with new empires is anything but peaceful.

* EvilCounterpart: On Stellaris's Ethos spectrum, they are the polar opposite of the Bellyscratch Coalition -- militarist, authoritarian and xenophobic. In addition, the Not-God King Supreme's allies are his empire's vassals, as opposed to Kitten running a federation of independent states.
* HistoryRepeats: The Not-God King Supreme promotes Boy to "warmeister" and carelessly delegates responsibility to him, so he can mess around back in the core systems. This results in Boy being manipulated by the Undeceitful and starting a bloody civil war. In the end, the Not-God King Supreme confronts Boy aboard the latter's capital ship, and they destroy each other. Rogal Dorn is quick to complain about his TraumaButton being pushed in the aftermath.

* TheRemnant: The empire quickly shatters, turned into Boy's Bulbous Bempire, REJGIBHPWERUGIWEHB [[note]]Run by the Celestial Shaman Queen, who doesn't know what a computer is and was evidently key-smashing[[/note]] and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Rogus' Empire]].

* TheRemnant: The empire quickly shatters, turned into Boy's Bulbous Bempire, REJGIBHPWERUGIWEHB and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Rogus' Empire]].

* SuccessionCrisis: Of a kind. After Boy turns against his father and the Not-God King Supreme fucks of [[CallToAgriculture to harvest on a moon]], the Empire is split between his three heirs. Ironically, Boy, the most ambitious, gets the smallest portion of his father's empire.

-->Salutations, other species! I am known as "the Trustworthy", AKA "the Reliable", AKA "the Undecieving", AKA "the Very Nice Creature That Wants To Trade With You"!

* TheDragon: The Undeceitful has one in the form of Vulk-Gon, the [[AndCallHimGeorge Hugger of Worlds]]) -- a marauder warlord he hires to ransack the fractured Kingdom of Humanity, in an effort to prevent the Not-God King Supreme from returning to the game.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When he meets Kitten, he calls himself "The Undecietful" (along with "The Trustworthy", aka "The Reliable", aka "The Very Nice Creature That Wants To Trade With You") and shouts "YEEEES, I have NO ulterior motives" unprovoked.

* {{Irony}}: The [=BCoGL=] is pretty close to (an idealized/optimistic version of) the T'au Empire. It's created and ruled by Kitten, who hates them with a burning passion.

* FauxAffablyEvil: In Special 7, he speaks with superficial politeness, but when he gets called out on his actions, he begins raving. Later, after the Crises wrecked his species, and Eldad calls him out, his speech is full of venom.

One of the most mysterious traitors of the Fallen Angels, a man who has eluded the Dark Angels for millenia and avoided capture ever since. He is currently plotting... something that involves a planet of ancient tech, the Mechanicus, and a free ride on the Dark Angels' ship. The goals for this is currently unknown.

* LongGame: He's been planning ''something'' for millennia while on the run from the Dark Angels, to the point where their leaders seemingly don't remember what he looks like. [[spoiler:Whatever it is, it seems to have something to do with the Dark Angels' natural-found paranoia, as he leaves behind a book titled "The Secrets of The Dark Angel Chapter" for the Fabricator-General. When the Fabricator-General causes the Dark Angels to seriously reconsider that their trigger-happy cover-ups does more harm then good for their image, they immediately fall back to their old ways once they spot the same book Cypher threw at the Fabricator-General, leading to Asmodai to attack him, [[InsaneTrollLogic believing him to be working with the Fallen]]]].

* ThrowTheDogABone: One of the less effective (and thus, rarely used) Tyranid units gets to kill a couple of Guardsmen during the BEHEMOTH finale, which makes it feel rather validated as a result.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: When these guys show up, there are very little laughs to be found. Even the daemons of Chaos are treated as a lesser horror in comparison to the Tyranids.

An extremely dangerous breed of Tyranid first encounter at the Battle of Macragge, leading their innovation which nearly destroyed the Ultramarines.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Commands Tyranid forces and is able enough a fighter to [[CurbStompBattle easily best]] even accomplished veteran Space Marines like Marneus Calgar.

* TheHeavy: When the Tyranids' HiveMind need to get shit done and its regular forces are not enough, it fields the Swarmlord to lead them and fight on the battlefield.
* ItCanThink: Invokes this on other Tyranids by its presence, who go from mindless beasts to capable of tactics like [[FakingTheDead faking death]]. The Swarmlord also proves smart enough to use StraightForTheCommander and FlawExploitation (singling out Calgar, knowing [[HonorBeforeReason he's too prideful to deny fighting it one-on-one rather than using all his available forces to kill it]]).
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Has four limbs wielding four massive swords [[AbsurdlySharpBlade able to effortlessly cut through Space Marine armor]] at blinding speed.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: The Swarmlord at Macragge had only a single appearance in the series proper, defeating Marneus Calgar in a throwaway gag. BEHEMOTH reveals that defeat led Calgar to do whatever made the Ultramarines the ParodySue-level {{Comically Invincible Hero}}es they are at present, enabling the abduction and redemption of Magnus the Red and thus the Emperor's plan to reform the Imperium that is the driving force of the series.

The C'Tan known as the Deceiver, one of the most powerful among them all and definitely the most clever. Even in his weakened form he continues to plot and scheme behind the scenes, but it's become clear to him that current events call for drastic measures.

* BigBad: Of Special 7. Boy's balliterative betrayal and the subsequent stagnation of the galaxy happens due to his machinations.

* TheCorrupter: In ''Special 7: Space Game Pain'', he convinces Boy to betray and declare war on the Emperor, giving him tons of resources (donated by Kitten's federation) to build a massive fleet and a planet-craker for the purpose.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: His strategy of stagnating the game to hold off the End Times crisis events in ''Space Game Pains'' was doomed on multiple levels. First of all because Boy had already used Jump Drive tech, which is one of the triggers, secondly because the game is set up so the BugWar crisis fires by default if the others aren't triggered instead of having a trigger of its own, and ''third'' by ensuring the game was such a stalemate the "Not-God King Supreme" got so pissed off at the endless bickering that he used admin powers to spawn ''three'' separate crises at once to screw everyone over. By depressing everyone's economies all he did was make them less able to deal with it.

* FauxAffablyEvil: In Special 7, he speaks with superficial politeness, but when he gets called out on his actions, he begins raving. Later, after Crises wrecked his species, and Eldad calls him out, his speech is full of venom.

* PragmaticVillainy: He wants to prevent destruction for the galaxy, but not for altruistic reasons.

* StatusQuoIsGod: Actively enforces this in the ''Stellaris'' special, where he keeps the galaxy stagnant to prevent any player from getting to a point to trigger the [[FinalBoss endgame crisis]]. Also delivers an [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall almost fourth-wall breaking speech]] on why it is better to do this and keep the setting open for many potential stories rather than risk advancing (and eventually ending) it.

** In ''Space Game Pains'', he spends the entire ''Stellaris'' match manipulating and sabotaging the other players, crippling the galactic economy, and otherwise making sure the game becomes stagnant; all to stave off the late-game and prevent anyone from triggering the [[FinalBoss crisis scenarios]].

Kitten's empire, an egalitarian, xenophile, pacifist empire and pretty much [[OnlySaneMan the only ones who don't engage in constant war]].

* EvilCounterpart: On Stellaris's Ethos spectrum, they are the polar opposite of the Bellyscratch Coalition: Militarist, Authoritarian and xenophobic. In addition, the Not-God King Supreme's allies are his empire's vassals, as opposed to Kitten running a federation of independent states.

[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial The Undeceitful's]] Empire. While one of the largest empires in the game, the Undeceitful seems content to just help out his allies. Surely this kindly and trustworthy fellow has no ulterior motive whatsoever.

* AllForNothing: The Undeceitful's attempts to forestall the Endgame Crises fails spectacularly when the Not-God King Supreme triggers all of them at once via console commands. The implied game mechanics also suggest that even if that hadn't happened, the attempts still would ultimately have failed. [[note]]By ''Stellaris''' rules, he ''could'' stop the [[HyperSpaceIsAScaryPlace Extradimensional Invaders]] or [[RobotWar the Contingency]] from occuring by knocking out anyone using certain technologies, but the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Prethoryn Scourge]] is weighted to become more likely to fire the more years pass.[[/note]]

* TheDragon: The Undeceitful has one in the form of Vulk-Gon, the [[AndCallHimGeorge Hugger of Worlds]]): A marauder warlord he hires to ransack the fractured Kingdom of Humanity, in an effort to prevent the Not-God King Supreme from returning to the game.

* ObviouslyEvil: No duh, he does not strike a trustworthy figure. Despite his insistence.

While many a character comes from the canon of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', the series gives them a... ''unique'' spin at times. Every spoiler up to episode 25 (the last episode before the podcasts and spinoffs start) is left unmarked.

!!Cypher, Lord of The Fallen.
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cypher.png]]

One of the most mysterious traitors of the Fallen Angels, a man who has eluded the Dark Angels for millenia and avoided capture ever since. He is currently plotting...something that involves a planet of ancient tech, The Mechanicus and a free ride onto the Dark Angels ship. The goals for this is currently unknown.

* InTheHood: As with most members of The Fallen, he's sinister with that hood of his.
* LongGame: He's been planning ''something'' for millennia while on the run from the Dark Angels, to the point where their leaders seemingly don't remember what he looks like. [[spoiler:What ever it is, it seems to have something to do with the Dark Angels's natural-found paranoia, as he leaves behind a book titled "The Secrets of The Dark Angel Chapter" for the Fabricator-General. When the Fabricator-General causes the Dark Angels to seriously reconsider that their trigger-happy cover ups does more harm then good for their image, they immediately fall back to their old ways once they spot the same book Cypher threw at the Fabricator-General, leading to Asmodai to attack the Fabricator-General, [[InsaneTrollLogic believing him to be working with the Fallen.]]]]

* {{Troll}}: Calls the Fabricator-General "today's prank victim," [[spoiler: and throws a book at him that prevents the Dark Angels from having a HeelRealization, and seemingly kill him out of their usual paranoia.]]

An insectoid Xeno race from beyond the galaxy who has one single goal in mind for the countless planets they have come across: To devour everything in sight and to adapt and evolve in every possible way.

* KnightOfCerebus: The BEHEMOTH spinoff is DarkerAndEdgier thanks to them being it's {{Big Bad}}s.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: When these guys show up, there are very little laughs to be found. Even the daemons are treated as a lesser horror in comparison to these guys.

* TheComicallySerious: What little comedy they offer comes from such serious-played threats confronting the absurdity of the rest of the series characters.
* TheHeavy: When the Tyranids HiveMind need to get shit done and its regular forces are not enough it fields these to lead them and fight.
* ItCanThink: Invokes this on other Tyrandis by its presence, who go from mindless beasts to capable of tactics like [[FakingTheDead faking death]]. The Swarmlord also proves smart enough to use StraightForTheCommander and FlawExploitation (singling out Calgar knowing [[HonorBeforeReason he's too prideful to deny fighting it one-on-one rather than use all available forces to kill it]]).

* SmallRoleBigImpact: The Swarmlord at Macragge had only a single appearance in the series proper defeating Marneus Calgar in a throwaway gag. BEHEMOTH reveal that led Calgar to do whatever made the Ultramarines the ParodySue-level {{Comically Invincible Hero}}es they are at present, enabling the abduction and redemption of Magnus the Red and thus the Emperor's plan to reform the Imperium that is the driving force of the series.

* AnimationBump: He's a lot more animated than most other characters, with his model (especially the tendrils on his back) bouncing, twisting, distorting with his movements. It fits well with his nature as an EldritchAbomination.
* BigBad: Of Special 7. Boy's balliterative's betrayal and subsequent stagnation of the galaxy happens due to his machinations.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: His strategy of stagnating the game to hold off the End Times crisis events in ''Space Game Pains'' was doomed on multiple levels. First of all because Boy had already used Jump Drive tech which is one of the triggers, second because the game is set up so the BugWar crisis fires by default if the others aren't triggered instead of having a trigger of its own, and ''third'' by ensuring the game was such a stalemate the "Not-God King Supreme" got so pissed off at the endless bickering that he used admin powers to spawn ''three'' separate crises at once to screw everyone over. By depressing everyone's economies all he did was make them less able to deal with it.

* {{Troll}}: Perhaps the biggest in the galaxy. He's screwed over his fellow C'Tan before and had a mighty good laugh about it, and even when speaking with his subordinates he's not above jerking them around.

The galactic empires created in-universe for special 7.

* BoringButPractical: Their strategies of equal rights, peaceful trade with neighbors and conserving military power instead of indulging in pointless wars ultimately leaves them the last empire standing. Rogal Dorn declares the trope almost verbatim, [[SoreLoser as a bitter insult]], and everyone else agrees.

* TheGoodKing: Kitten, by virtue of providing peace, protection and plenty to his subjects and haven to his embattled neighbours.
* {{Irony}}: The [=BCoGL=] is pretty close to (an idealized/optimistic version of) the T'au Empire. It's created and ruled by Kitten, who hates them with a burning passion.

* SoleSurvivor: The Coalition is the only empire to survive the Tripe Crisis, which leads to Kitten winning the game by default once the final in-game year rolls around.

Big Emps' empire and his vassals, more or less recreating the Imperium as it was during the Great Crusade.

* AbsoluteXenophobe: Downplayed, compared to the real Imperium of Man, in that certain alien races are shown to be accepted as vassals (Prime Mineral Rogus' lithoids and Boy's molluscoids). However, first contact with new empires is anything but peaceful.

* EvilCounterpart: On Stellaris' Ethos spectrum, they are the polar opposite of the Bellyscratch Coalition: Militarist, Authoritarian and xenophobic. In addition, the Not-God King Supreme's allies are his empire's vassals, as opposed to Kitten running a federation of independent states.
* HistoryRepeats: The Not-God King Supreme promotes Boy to "warmeister" and carelessly delegates responsibility to him, so he can mess around back in the core systems. This results in Boy being manipulated by the Undeceitful and starting a bloody civil war. In the end, the Not-God King Supreme confronts Boy aboard the latter's capital ship, and they destroy each-other. Rogal Dorn is quick to complain about his TraumaButton being pushed in the aftermath.

* RageQuit: After Boy blows up his homeworld and ruins his aspirations of galactic conquest, the Emperor disconnects from the game and leaves his empire to balkanize. When his attempt to rejoin the game is prevented by the Undeceitful sending Marauders to destroy what remains of the Supreme Kingdom, the Emperor not only quits again but [[RocksFallEveryoneDies uses console commands to completely derail the campaign out of spite.]]

* HordeOfAlienLocusts: Possibly the biggest one ever seen in fiction, due to how their full swarm is ''at least ten times bigger than the whole damn galaxy!''

* BoringButPractical: Their strategies of equal rights, peaceful trade with neighbors and conserving military power instead of indulging in pointless wars ultimately leaves them the last empire standing.
* CurbStompBattle: Thanks to their utterly ''enormous'' home fleets, they manage to stay more or less on top of invasions from even the Unbidden.

* NaiveNewcomer: They're kind and outgoing, welcoming any outsiders into their empire, which serves them poorly in a galaxy where the mightiest empires enjoy [[AbsoluteXenophobe killing aliens for kicks]]. [[spoiler:Miraculously, they make it work and come out on top]].

* NoSell: They manage to do this to [[spoiler:''three end-game crises at once'', the most powerful of which spawned directly at their border!]]
* OnlySaneMan: As Kitten puts it, they're the only ones who don't engage in war every five minutes, resulting in them having the largest army in the endgame.

!!The Not-God King Supreme's Empire

Big Emps' empire, more or less the Imperium during the Great Crusade, flaws and all.

* EvilCounterpart: On Stellaris' Ethos spectrum, they are the polar opposite of the Bellyscratch Coalition: Militarist, Authoritarian and xenophobic. In addition, the Not-God King Supreme's allies are his empire's vassals, as opposed to Kitten's federation of independant states.

* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler:The Not-God King Supreme decides to trigger the Endgame crises early. ''All of them''.]]

* AllForNothing: The Undeceitful's attempts to [[spoiler:forestall the Endgame Crises fails spectacularly when the Not-God King Supreme triggers all of them at once via console commands.]] The implied game mechanics also suggest that even if that hadn't happened, the attempts ''still'' would ultimately have failed -- [[spoiler:by Stellaris' events, he ''could'' stop the Extradimensional Invaders or the Contigency from being the Crisis that happens by knocking out anyone using certain technologies, but the Prethoryon Scourge is simply weighted to become more likely to fire the more years pass.]]

* {{Necromancer}}: The Trust's army appear to consist entirely of undead, and at least part of the Undeceitful's motivation for instigating the ForeverWar is to ensure he never runs out of corpses to collect. According to Sir Science, by the time the game ends the Trust's armies include entire species of minor races rendered extinct by warfare.

* EvilCounterpart: On Stellaris' Ethos spectrum, they are the polar opposite of the Bellyscratch Coalition: Militarist, Authoritarian and xenophobic.

* HistoryRepeats: The Not-God King Supreme admits that it's a power fantasy of his real life, except that he's in control this time. He quickly proves that he hasn't learned a thing since the Horus Heresy.

* TheStarscream: Boy becomes this when he, manipulated by the Undeceitful, tries to usurp the empire.

* AllForNothing: The Undeceitful's attempts to [[spoiler:forestall the Endgame Crises fails spectacularly when the Not-God King Supreme triggers ''all of them''.]] The implied game mechanics also suggest that even if that hadn't happened, the attempts ''still'' would ultimately have failed -- [[spoiler:by Stellaris' events, he ''could'' stop the Extradimensional Invaders or the Contigency from being the Crisis that happens by knocking out anyone using certain technologies, but the Prethoryon Scourge is simply weighted to become more likely to fire the more years pass.]]
* TheChessmaster: The Undeceitful manages to cause most of the crap that goes down in the galaxy by manipulating Boy's ambitions.
* {{Necromancer}}: The Trust's army appear to consist entirely of undead.

* AllForNothing: The Undeceitful's attempts to [[spoiler:forestall the Endgame Crises fails spectacularly when the Not-God King Supreme triggers ''all of them''.]]