History Characters / Ward

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* '''[[Characters/WardTeamBreakthrough Breakthrough]]'''

* '''[[Characters/WardTeamBreakthrough Team Breakthrough]]'''

* '''[[Characters/WardMercenaries Mercenaries]]'''

* '''[[Characters/WardOtherCharacters Other Characters]]'''

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!Others

[[folder:Gilpatrick]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Gilpatrick is committed to keeping order in the area, and is willing to grant reasonable requests from his subordinates. If and when he is forced to fire an employee, he is willing to help them find another job, provide emotional support, and even give them a temporary place to stay if they need it.
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[[folder:Jasper]]
* TheReliableOne: Victoria sees him as this, despite his frequent joking.
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[[folder:Dot]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: She can be very sweet (in an UglyCute kind of way) and even behave humanely. But, she is simultaneously very ''un''human in her thought processes. Her morality is strongly skewed by the drives 1) to survive (her own survival, her group's survival and her leader's survival all rate highly) and 2) to serve her idea of who Nilbog is.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Her reaction to Nilbog telling her that he won't come back to his creations is to start planning to steal a part of the Machine Army and let it infest the city.
* KillerRabbit: She's a tiny goblin with a box cutter who can and will kill anything in her path. She's also happy to drink human blood.
* MercyKill: Kills the superhero Burnish, who was dying of Machine Army-inflicted wounds.
* ThemeNaming: She's a child of Polka.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Nilbog, despite having never met him before the interlude.
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[[folder:Gary Nieves]]
* GenreBlind: Apparently Gary never realised that anyone who suddenly appears out of nowhere, offering a specific person a perfect solution to a problem they're struggling with probably has ulterior motives.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Interactions between capes and the unpowered aren't good, it's true, but there are better solutions than sabotaging plans that are guaranteed to make the world a better place so the capes won't get ahead.
* TroubledSympatheticBigot: He's an ordinary guy stuck trying to survive while capes and cape-related matters (Gold Morning, broken triggers and so on) wreak havoc around him.
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!Mercenary Team

[[folder:The Group as a Whole]]
* StarterVillain: They are the first villains that Victoria faces in Ward.

[[folder:Lord of Loss]]

Classification: Brute; Changer
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* AtrociousAlias: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] and [[AvertedTrope averted]]; a character notes that had he made any mistakes in his early career, his name would make him a joke. However, he instead succeeded and is considered [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast very intimidating]].
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Literature/{{Worm}} Lung]]. Both are starter villains to their respective protagonists. Both are [[{{Shapeshifting}} Changers]] and [[SuperStrength Brutes]]. Both become more powerful the longer they are in a fight.
* FriendlyEnemy: He runs Earth N, and when Team Breakthrough visit, he's very cordial and polite toward Victoria, not holding a grudge for how things at the community centre went down.
* LightningBruiser: His centaur form is very fast, can take a beating, and dishes out powerful strikes.
* MultiformBalance: Shifts between a centaur, a bird, and a tree; the bird form allows him to fly, while the centaur form is described as his combat form.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Normally appears as a man with a body made of ashen white strips.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: One of his main abilities.

[[folder:Kingdom Come]]

Classification: Master; Shaker
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* HighPressureBlood: Kingdom Come explodes in a shower of gore, releasing far more blood than should be humanly possible, and with enough force to damage nearby windows.
* MindVirus: KC can take control of anyone who gets some of his blood on them. Apparently this infection is permanent, or at least he can be prevented from releasing a host.
* PullingThemselvesTogether: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]]; while not directly seen in the text, surviving the use of his power [[RequiredSecondaryPowers requires]] the ability to reconstitute his body after exploding.
* ReligiousBruiser: Is very fond of Bible verses, and takes his name from Matthew 6:10. He also goes to church everyday and has a strict code of ethics when choosing which jobs to take.

[[folder:Blindside]]

Classification: Stranger
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* AmbiguousGender: Has an androgynous voice, and a power which prevents anyone from looking at them, making their gender [[{{Understatement}} difficult]] to deduce if they have one, to say the least.
* BatterUp: Uses a metal bat as a weapon.
* TheFaceless: Has a power which prevents anyone from looking at them. Word of God is that even Master minions like Taylor's bugs can't see them, and the power is apparently permanently active.
* TaughtByExperience: Notes that people tend to come up with the same few workarounds for their power, and has learned to avoid or counter them.
* NeckSnap: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]; as their power forces everyone around them to look away, Blindside could cause someone to snap their own neck by moving in such a way that the only way for them to remain unseen is for the victim's neck to rotate farther than is healthy. They do note however that it's more likely the victim would just close their eyes before snapping their neck.
* PowerIncontinence: Apparently, they can't turn their power ''off''.
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[[folder:Nursery]]

Classification: Shaker; Trump
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* BerserkButton: People who kill the children of others.
* BodyHorror: She is apparently [[spoiler:pregnant with a parahuman child who acts as the source of her powers. Said child is implied to be some form of stillborn.]]
* CreepyChild: Not her, but she apparently controls a small army of child-sized... [[NothingIsScarier somethings]].
* IronicNurseryTune: Her power [[spoiler:or rather, her unborn child's power]] can only be activated by humming a lullaby.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The jury's still out on whether she actually is [[spoiler:pregnant with a stillborn parahuman]], or whether she's just completely nuts.
* PowerNullifier: Her power creates an area of effect that nullifies other powers.
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[[folder:Snag]]
See his entry under Rain's Cluster.
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!Rain's Cluster

[[folder:The Group as a Whole]]

* ComboPlatterPowers: Comes with being a cluster trigger. The group's powers include a Mover power, an emotion power, a Blaster power, and a Tinker specialty in prosthetic limbs.
* DysfunctionJunction: Cluster triggers come in a mix of two basic flavours: [[{{Yandere}} messed-up]] and [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne really fucking screwed]]. This one has seemingly taken primarily the latter form of scrambled nuts on toast, specifically towards Rain at the moment. Were he to actually die on them, the odds are pretty good that somebody else within the cluster would become the next focus of hate.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Want to inflict one on Rain, but they also need him dead, so they'll just settle on making him suffer as much as possible along the way.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: While the 'bleed-through' effect is a known side effect of cluster triggers, it's not clear how much of the clusters personality changes are due to this and how much is due to A) Rain being forced to view the consequences of his actions from the victims perspective three out of every five days, and B) the rest of the cluster having the convenient excuse of the bleed-through effect for their more heinous actions.
* MentalFusion:
** They suffer from 'bleed-through', a condition where after triggering, they each received a bit of the others' personalities. This turned Rain into a better person, while the others all know that they've become more negative people- and they don't like it.
** Another way of looking at it is RequiredSecondaryPowers. To network your dreaming, abilities and cognitively processing even a little, you kind of need a Thinker ability of some description... somewhere. This likely has surprising effects; take Tattletale's grandiose mistakes when trying to read individuals involved in networked clusters, for instance. Or Mama Mathers' little difficulties when trying to maintain control of Rain. However, Teacher is one Master who ''might'' be more effective with clusters: he deals in networks, after all, and not just in installing hackable backdoors in individuals. Be afraid. Be especially afraid if he considers himself to be the Network King, but isn't actually.
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Instead of dreaming, the group will relive memories of each other's trigger event, and will then appear in a room where they can talk to each other and exchange "tokens" to shift their powers around for the day. It's been implied that this is not something that other clusters experience, and that it may have something to do with the unseen fifth member.
* TheScapegoat: They've made one out of Rain, holding him entirely responsible for the circumstances that caused them all to trigger. Rain was willingly involved, but he wasn't the one who thought it up or planned it. Had he not coincidentally become part of their cluster, they'd have no reason to target him specifically, rather than the Fallen as a whole.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Possibly deconstructed. Implied for the entire group save for Rain following their trigger event. They really want Rain dead due to his part in it, and are willing to do a lot of bad things in order to get to kill him slowly and very painfully. [[spoiler:In fact, they've slid so far down the Jerkass scale that when Rain begs them for help, asking them to save the Fallen children and other innocents if he allows them to kill him, many of whom are being controlled by powers, the group's response is essentially 'If their dying makes you suffer more, then ''good''.']] However the connection cuts both ways, and several were decent people beforehand. Rain wonders if its bleed-over from him that makes them so nasty, and Cradle thinks that Rain's personality 'infected' them. [[spoiler:Snag's narration in the dream after he dies implies that it was the not-so-random bleed-through caused by their agent/passenger that did it, though it could simply have been the shock of impending death affecting him.]]
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[[folder:Snag]]
!Jonathan Seiter
Classification: Mover; Shaker; Striker; Tinker/Prosthetic Limbs
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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:After he dies he's stuck being visible but mute inside their multi-trigger dream realm forever.]]
* ArtificialLimbs: Has a pair of mechanical arms that are so long they drag on the ground.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Rain kills him during the Shadow arc.]]
* CreepilyLongArms: His prosthetic arms are long enough to touch the ground when he stands up straight.
* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:He loses his hatred and calms down after dying, realizing that the way he went about revenge wasn't worth it.]]
* EmotionBomb: Can force his opponents to experience negative emotions.
* GadgeteerGenius: He can make prosthetic arms that let him balance from walls and windows, as well as channel his emotion power.
* NotQuiteFlight: His Mover power allows him to "fall" in any direction.
* SuperStrength: His prosthetic arms can force clean through inorganic matter, with a little help from his version of Rain's power.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Was heroic enough to try and protect a girl during a fire. Now wants to torture a teenager to death.
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[[folder:Love Lost]]
Classification: Mover; Shaker; Tinker/Prosthetic Limbs
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* EmotionBomb: She has an emotion-affecting roar.
* FangsAreEvil: Her mask has real fangs set into it.
* MeaningfulName: Refers to her dead daughter, who she wants revenge for.
* ParentsAsPeople: She wasn't the best parent, but she loved her daughter more than anything.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Loved her daughter more than anything and would have done anything for her. Now she [[spoiler:is content to let Fallen kids- some of whom are implied to be mind-controlled- die if it makes Rain suffer more.]]
* TheVoiceless: She can talk, but generally elects not to. Interlude 5.y implies that she doesn't talk because she spends her time screaming in pain/rage/grief.
* WallRun: Her Mover power lets her run on walls.
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[[folder:Cradle]]
Classification: Tinker/Prosthetic Limbs (hands)
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Was bullied at school.
* ArchEnemy: Rain is his, mostly because his being part of the cluster led to Cradle's personality changing outside of his control, along with the destruction of the life he was trying to make for himself. Cradle describes it as 'He took me from me'.
* BodyMotifs: Hands.
* BrilliantButLazy: Rain infers from Cradle's memories that he was viewed as this by his teachers and parents before triggering.
* HandBlast: Can create invisible lines/cables from his robot hands that deliver a powerful blow to anything they come into contact with.
* TheHermit: He dislikes spending time around others, to the point that Rain has dubbed him 'the recluse'.
* MeaningfulName: Refers to the combination of his robot arms and the cables he can make, akin to the game Cat's Cradle.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: His robot is literally nothing but giant mechanical arms and hands.
* PragmaticVillainy: In Pitch 6.5, he tries to convince Team Therapy to walk away instead of fighting, saying that [[spoiler:Rain dying would make things even for him killing Snag.]] The Team don't go for it.
* SuicideDare: He repeatedly tells Rain in Interlude 4.b to kill himself.
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[[folder:The fifth member]]
An unknown. The only clue to their existence is the fifth section of the mutual dream the others share, which is entirely dark.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: [[spoiler:Snag's dying thoughts imply that whatever is in the fifth section of the room is not a "who", but a "what", leaving it open that their extra-dimensional addition/ dynamo may not exactly be taking a ''back''seat in the cluster's affairs.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: All signs point to their being dead, possibly after they triggered.
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!Cedar Point/Hollow Point

! '''[[AC:The Alaskans]]'''
[[folder:The Group as a Whole]]
A group of villains who played a minor role in PRT Quest; they appear in the first interlude in Ward, helping to re-establish a basic code among the B-list villains.

* AntiHeroTeam: They're not evil, as such. The worst they've done (that we know of) is dealing drugs to teenagers.
* {{Polyamory}}: A pretty relaxed variant, Prancer and Velvet are in a long-term polyamorous relationship, and Velvet is occasionally sleeping with Moose.
* SuperPoweredMooks: As villains go, they were small fish in a smaller pond until Velvet and Prancer went to prison. After they got out, they've started looking to higher goals.
* TookALevelInJerkass: They went from dealing weed to teenagers (and not hurting anyone at all) to taking over a territory and using it to harbor supervillains, run drugs around the city, extort money from the poor and deal in guns.
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[[folder:Prancer]]

Classification: Breaker; Mover
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* AnimalMotifs: Stags, to complement Velvet.
* BadBoss: Not because he treats his people badly, but because he's a bad leader who can't control his own people.
* BiTheWay: Mentions in passing that he used to have sex with both boys and girls.
* DirtyOldMan: 'Old' is stretching it, but he admits and Moose agrees that a nearly thirty year old man having sex with barely-legal teenagers (and even the 'barely legal' part is questionable) is ''incredibly'' sketchy.
* FragileSpeedster: His Breaker state gives him impressive mobility, but he's lacking in offense and isn't any more durable than a normal person. He runs rings around the heroes for most of the battle with Advance Guard, but in the end Sveta only needs one good hit to take him to the pavement.
* LovableRogue: He and Velvet were small-time drug dealers in a small town who just happened to have powers.
* OfficialCouple: With Velvet. They're poly, but remain a devoted couple, and Prancer intends to marry her.
* OppositesAttract: With Velvet, though he says they're about as close to soulmates as they can get.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Had a variant of one when he was being sentenced to prison- he heard people talking about him (and talking to him, about him) and realized how much he'd fucked up and how bad he looked from the outside, and swore to be a better person for Velvet.
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[[folder:Velvet]]

Classification: Shaker
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* AnimalMotifs: Deer.
* BerserkButton: Berserk is pushing it, but she really does not like Prancer telling her that she needs to get rid of her truck.
* DishingOutDirt: A variant- she creates a pink dust that accumulates over time, and can move things that are covered in said dust.
* OneTrueLove: Prancer's.
* OppositesAttract: See above.
* OnlyICanMakeItGo: The only way to get her truck running is with her power.
* {{Polyamory}}: She's sleeping with Moose as well as Prancer.
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[[folder:Moose]]

Classification: Brute
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* AnimalMotifs: The moose.
* AtrociousAlias:
** In-universe, he is frequently laughed at for his name. The reason why, people's unfamiliarity with moose, is explained to him by [[HypocriticalHumor Prancer]].
** It might be more than that. He wears large gauntlets, which he says his name doesn't work without. His name is described as jokey. He gives his initials as "M.K." What would fit this? ''Moose Knuckle.''
* TheBigGuy: Bigger than both Velvet and Prancer, and is a Brute.
* FriendlyEnemy: Gets along quite well with Victoria.
* PragmaticVillainy: When he confronts Glory Girl, he flat out admits that if they fought, she'd win, so he sees no point in fighting her, especially since it'd call over other people who'd beat her, so he asks her to just leave. When she points out that this would mean she'd be running from him, he offers to let her knock him about a little first.
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[[folder:Braindead]]

Classification: Thinker
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* BlessedWithSuck: While using his power he's an invalid, and the more he uses it the longer he takes to recover.
* FaceHeelTurn: Apparently he was a hero before becoming a villain.
* TheOmniscient: He can select an area and know all sorts of information about what's in it. The smaller the area, the more he knows.
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[[folder:Birdbrain]]

Classification: Thinker
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* TopDownView: How her power works, giving her a birds' eye view of a large area.
* WhipItGood: She uses a whip in fights.
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! '''[[AC: Beast Of Burden's Faction]]'''

[[folder:Beast of Burden]]

Classification: Brute
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* BadBoss: A more typical example than Prancer. He demands absolute respect and treats his underlings like crap whenever they don't give it to him. It backfires majorly when [[spoiler:one insult too many drives Damsel off the edge and leads to her killing him]].
* TheBrute: Both personality- and power-wise. He's the biggest source of muscle among Prancer's subordinates, and is a cantankerous {{Jerkass}} of a person who has zero reservations about killing people who get in his way.
* BullyingADragon: [[spoiler:Mouthing off to Ashley gets him killed by her.]]
* FluffyTheTerrible: Many of the Hollow Point villains abbreviate his overly-long codename to "Bob".
* HonorBeforeReason: During the Fallen compound raid, he refuses the help of the heroes even after the battle with Valefor makes it clear that he and his minions don't have the firepower to survive on their own. Unfortunately for him, all that accomplishes is eroding what little respect said minions still have for him.
* LargeAndInCharge: He towers head and shoulders over most of the other Hollow Point villains, and is one of the town's major underbosses beneath Prancer.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: As Brutes go, he's not particularly high on the scale, but Hollow Point being the haven for B-list villains that it is, he's still powerful enough to be one of the major players.
* TinTyrant: Self proclaimed tyrant and wears heavy plate armour with large horns.
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[[folder: Nailbiter]]

Classification: Brute; Mover; Striker (?); Changer
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* TheDragon: Beast of Burden's primary enforcer.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Her main form of offense is using her powers to impale targets with her nails or teeth- between the mild SuperStrength she has and the sheer speed at which she can extend her limbs, getting hit is the functional equivalent of taking a bullet, and does about as much damage.
* NotQuiteFlight: Can't fly, but being able to stretch her legs gives her impressive vertical mobility.
* RubberMan: Her primary power consists of distorting her limbs to impossibly-long proportions while simultaneously making them thinner, to the point that they become practically invisible.
* ScaryTeeth: Sports rusty nails for teeth, per her codename. Jury's out on whether it's self-inflicted or some bizarre side-effect of her powers.
* SuperStrength: Victoria theorizes that she has some minor degree of this, which is the main reason why her attacks can inflict as much damage as they do.
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[[folder: Sidepiece]]

Classification: Blaster; Brute (?)
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* BlindingBangs: Her appearance in cape apparel includes a sweep of hair over one eye.
* DetachmentCombat: Can rip out her organs and detonate them with concussive force, essentially using them as improvised explosives.
* TheFakeCutie: Victoria notes her high-pitched voice and attempts to sound like a refined and cutesy teenager, despite being at least in her twenties and not at all conventionally attractive.
* HealingFactor: Any organ she rips out regenerates at an almost instantaneous pace.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Talks a big game and gives off a haughty air despite being one of the weakest villains of an organization that is already entirely B-list to begin with.
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%%! '''Kitchen Sink'''

%%! '''Hookline'''

! '''[[AC: Bitter Pill's Faction]]'''

[[folder: Bitter Pill]]

Classification: Tinker (Biochemistry)
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* GadgeteerGenius: She's described as a Tinker of some stripe, though her exact abilities have yet to be more than vaguely hinted at.
* SuperSerum: Part of her Tinker power involves creating these, granting Brute abilities to those who ingest them. During the battle with Advance Guard, Victoria sees her accompanied by a group of dosed-up {{Mooks}} protecting her like an honor guard.
* ShoutOut: Her name might be one to ''Literature/{{Twig}}'', another web serial by the same author that featured an arc called Bitter Pill.
* TruthSerum: One of the things she can make with her power. Keeping secrets among the residents of Hollow Point is nearly impossible thanks to her presence.
* WomenAreWiser: From what little the readers have seen of her, she seems much more level-headed than most of Hollow Point's leadership.
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!The Fallen
An Endbringer-worshipping cult, the Fallen have swelled in numbers and power in the aftermath of Gold Morning, becoming one of the largest groups of parahumans in the multiverse. Most of ''Ward'''s focus has been on the Mathers clan, though the Crowley clan has also come into focus, somewhat.

[[folder:The Group as a Whole]]
* AbductionIsLove: The Mathers clan is known for kidnapping and brainwashing children and capes with the intention of forcing them to marry into the clan.
* ArrangedMarriage: Many members of the Fallen have their marriages arranged, though higher-ranking or well-favored members can choose their own spouse.
* ColorMotif: High-ranking members of the Mathers clan wear white.
* CozyCatastrophe: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]; they lack many pre-Gold Morning amenities, but have enough food and shelter (complete with (poor) plumbing) that they can afford to throw frequent parties. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] this is their primary recruiting strategy.
* KissingCousins: Occasionally, as a result of the arranged marriages.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Minorities, the LGBT community, and Case 53's are some of their primary targets, which is a big reason why Rain is reluctant to open up about his past.
* ReligionOfEvil: As noted above, they worship the Endbringers. The leaders also cultivate an intense hatred for anyone outside the cult as a means to maintain their unity.
* WhiteSheep: The [=McVeays=] were murderous fanatics, the Mathers are kidnappers and zealots, and the Crowleys... run around being unpredictable assholes who mostly aren't believers, though they're still willing to fight when necessary.
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[[folder:Mama Mathers]]
Head of the Mathers branch of the fallen.

Classification: Thinker, Master
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* BrownNote: The basis of her power, essentially- anybody who sees, hears, or is otherwise made aware of her presence has a copy of Mama Mathers placed inside their mind, which allows her to see their surroundings and interact with them in various ways whenever they think of her, including speaking or writing her name. How long the effect lasts depends on the degree of exposure- it can vary from mere minutes to a span of weeks, depending.
* TheDreaded: Rain nearly works himself into a panic attack just thinking of talking to her, and ''everyone'' in the Fallen is ''terrified'' of provoking her wrath.
* EvilMatriarch: She is apparently the mother of Valefor (at the very least), insists that others call her 'Mama,' and is a cult leader.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Even the other leaders of the Fallen get nervous simply from being in the same building as her.
* LightIsNotGood: Dresses in [[WomanInWhite white]] and worships the Simurgh, an angelic-appearing monster. She's also a ruthless and brutal cult leader partially responsible for dozens if not hundreds of deaths.
* LoopholeAbuse: Her powers are scarily effective, potent and extremely hard to ignore. But, there are ways around what she does. Either 1) have a sensorium that includes a primary aspect which is [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth too alien for her to wrap her head around]] thus ensuring she either drops you like a hot potato or ignores your encrypted input, 2) be a decently-empowered Stranger or Master capable of bolstering yourself against her influence using your own (and not drop your guard) and/or 3) be able to partition off your thoughts about her using cognitive tricks and double-think. Easy, right?
* MindRape: Can induce this in subjects of her powers. Victoria (and by extension, the reader) gets to see it firsthand when the heroes try to interrogate a captured Fallen cape under Mama's thrall for information. It's... disturbing, to say the least.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: Thanks to her powers, attempts to surveil her location tend to go poorly. As in, "screaming and strapped to a hospital bed so you can't claw your own eyes out" levels of poorly.
* SensoryOverload: How the offensive use of her power seems to work- she can manipulate the sense that others used to detect her, so those that hear her can be deafened, those that saw her see only horror, and use of enhanced senses only increases the damage she can do. Victoria catches a glimpse of her from a distance and only has to deal with visual static in the corners of her vision, while Chris looks at her up close and gets his vision overwhelmed by horror.
* SinisterSurveillance: Her thinker ability allows her to know when others think of her, and to see them and their surroundings for a short time afterwards.
* TheSleepless: She's speculated to be a Noctis cape, one who doesn't need to sleep. She's also immune to tranquillisers.
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[[folder:Valefor]]
!Elijah Mathers
A high ranking member of the Mathers clan and Mama Mather's biological son.

For tropes applying to his appearance in Worm, see [[Characters/WormOthers here]]
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* AdaptiveAbility: Originally his power worked via sight, but after Skitter blinded him it changed so that it worked using his voice.
* {{Brainwashed}}: In a rather uncommon case of this trope, he brainwashed ''himself'', to enjoy being part of the Fallen and to be loyal. [[spoiler: ''Again'' as of Interlude 8.y, where Teacher puts him under thrall while also removing his self-inflicted loyalty to Mama Mathers.]]
* ButtMonkey: After Skitter blinded him, his power adapted to only need his voice. So Victoria destroys his jaw.
* CompellingVoice: After being [[EyeScream blinded]] by Skitter in Worm, his power changed to work with only his voice.
* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler: Teacher retrieves him after he's seriously wounded with the intent of recruiting him.]]
* {{Jawbreaker}}: In a variant, has his entire jaw torn off by Victoria to depower him mid-fight.
* MindRape: Given enough time to talk, he can layer on enough commands and compulsions to make someone unflinchingly loyal.
* ProphetEyes: He has cataracts after his eyes were [[EyeScream filled with maggots]].
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[[folder:Seir]]
!Tim Frazier

Classification: Master; Mover
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* AnimalMotifs: Horses. He named himself after a demon who appears riding a winged horse, and wears a horse mask.
* TheCorrupter: Responsible for the events that led up to Rain's trigger, though [[TookALevelInKindness the aftermath]] muddies this somewhat.
* DoppelgangerAttack: His power creates countless short-lived copies of himself that mindlessly destroy anything near them, and he can swap locations with them at will.
* JerkAss: Treated Rain like shit because Seir had problems with his family, and sexually harassed Erin. He also took one of the people the Fallen kidnapped as a 'wife', and is implied to have raped and abused her.
* LivingShadow: His decoys take on this appearance.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: Sports a horse mask in his cape identity, and is one of the most brutal and loathsome members of an organization that really isn't lacking for people who fit those adjectives.
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[[folder:Erin]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: She lives with the Fallen, but isn't one of them and doesn't subscribe to their beliefs.
* DespairEventHorizon: Hits hers after [[spoiler:being told by the Fallen leadership that they're marrying her to Rain. Erin tries to reconcile herself with the belief that she and Rain can make a new life where they pay lip service to the Fallen and are mostly left alone; instead, Rain rejects her, saying that he can't be Fallen anymore, and leaves her to whatever fate the leadership will give her.]]
* OnlyFriend: She and Rain are each other's sole friends amongst the Fallen.
* PrecisionFStrike: In Interlude 5.d:
--> '''Rain''': I'd die for you. But I can't be Fallen.
--> '''Erin''': Then fucking die, Rain.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Because being young, female and attractive almost guarantees that she'll be married off to a much older senior member of the Fallen whether she likes it or not. [[spoiler:In the end, despite being sexually harassed by Seir, she's told that she's being offered to Rain.]]
* WhiteSheep: After moving in with the Fallen, she was the only member of her family who didn't wind up subscribing to their beliefs.
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[[folder:Lachlan]]
* {{Brainwashed}}: He was brainwashed by Valefor into becoming a member of the Fallen.
* NiceGuy: He's a genuinely nice person, for one of the Fallen. He's become their 'poster boy' as a result.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Speedrunners]]
* BattleBoomerang: Last Minute uses his power to reverse the flow of time for inanimate objects in conjunction with tinker-made boomerangs.
* BulletTime: Final Hour can invoke a "slowing down" effect that resembles this.
* FalseFriend: To the Hollow Point villains. They're actually part of the Fallen.
* GangOfHats: Nearly all of them have some kind of time power. In Interlude 5.y, it's revealed that their theme is time because they represent Khonsu.
* HammerspaceHideaway: End of Days can shunt away his targets into a pitch-black pocket universe for a short period.
* SpeedBlitz: Secondhand's power allows him to move quickly enough that it approaches TimeStandsStill from his [=POV=].

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Black Goat]]
!William (Black Goat, formerly Scapegoat)

A former Ward and then Protectorate member who ended up joining the Fallen in the chaos after Golden Morning. For his tropes in ''Worm'', see [[Characters/WormSponsoredHeroes here]].

Classification: Striker
----
* BlessedWithSuck: His powers heal others but inflict the injuries on himself until he can offload them on someone else.
* DealWithTheDevil: He forms one with Teacher. Teacher will give him the mental fortitude needed to keep his focus on his stored injuries to prevent himself from taking their full effect, and in return he'll offload the mental thrall that comes with Teacher's gifts to other targets.
* FaceHeelTurn: He was a hero in ''Worm'', but when he shows up in ''Ward'' he's become a member of the Fallen.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: His power can transfer much more than just physical injuries. Parasites, mental illnesses, and even power related effects are all fair game. However, he was limited before because he had to experience himself whatever he wanted to transfer first. The death of Scion made him more aware of the extra-dimensional implications of his power, and with a small tune-up from Teacher, he can now keep injuries and other things away from him more easily while in the middle of transferring them.
* InTheBack: Gets shot in the back when he tried to help Gambol. It doesn't kill him, but it isn't exactly pleasant.
[[/folder]]

!Misc. Villains

[[folder:Tattletale]]
The leader of the Undersiders, a major criminal organization that runs much of new Brockton from behind the scenes. For tropes applying to her appearance in Worm, see [[Characters/WormUndersiders here]].

Classification: Thinker
----
* ArcVillain: Shaping up to be one for the first few arcs.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Is on the receiving end for once. When asked if she regrets her role in Amy's fall, she doesn't deny it, but tries to deflect the issue, showing that she was genuinely rattled.
* GreaterScopeVillain: She isn't personally working against the protagonists, but she is hiring out her power and advice to the people that are.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** Even leaving aside her well intentioned extremist tendencies, she DOES regret her role in Amy's fall, even if she doesn't want to admit it.
** Similarly, as soon as she realises exactly how badly screwed-up Rain's cluster actually is, she comes over very, very sheepish for trying to use him (and them) the way she did. She genuinely bodged that one up, and is therefore trying to kind of make amends, even though she won't quite fully admit how epically she messed up.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In Pitch 6.8, she goes into detail about how each member of Team Therapy has either done something terrible, or is someone terrible.
* YouAreInCommandNow: She's now the leader of the Undersiders following Taylor's disappearance at the end of ''Worm'', and is clearly struggling to keep the team together in the latter's absence.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:March]]
* AliceAllusion: To the March Hare.
* AnimalMotifs: Rabbits/hares, hence the name.
* ArchEnemy: Foil/Flechette is hers, possibly because of Kiss/Kill. Foil considers her a persistent menace, and apparently March once kidnapped Parian.
* AscendedExtra: March was mentioned in one line of ''Worm'' and only got a name through WordOfGod.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: She's amassed a team of surviving members of cluster-triggers, including herself.
* YouAreAlreadyDead: Her version of Foil's power seems to take this form, leaving marks on things she cuts that then detonate.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Monokeros]]
!Kathlee Rosenthal

Classification: Master; Trump
----
* AxeCrazy: Monokeros is ''batshit'' insane.
* CanonImmigrant: She's one of the villains from the Weaverdice Helena campaign.
* EvilIsPetty: Tells Ashley that Kenzie doesn't deserve to be one of her victims because of her facial scar, and monologues about how nobody wants the person with visible scars/blemishes.
* MeaningfulRename: She used to be a hero under the name Unicorn. After people started uncovering her crimes, she renamed herself Monokeros, which is Greek for 'unicorn'.
* SerialKiller: Of children, especially young heroes and celebrities.
* SmugSnake: Tells Ashley that she doesn't 'want' Kenzie because of her scar, because the scar makes Kenzie unworthy, and brags about how she keeps the children she killed 'alive' by relishing the memories of killing them.
* WouldHurtAChild: Tortured numerous children to death, believing she was taking their beauty and youth for herself.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Goddess]]

Classification: Master; Trump; Brute; Mover; Striker
----
* AscendedExtra: She was pulled into the battle against Scion by Khepri, but otherwise didn't appear in ''Worm''.
* BigBad: She's shaping up to be a major enemy in ''Ward''.
* ColorMotifs: Blue.
* ComboPlatterPowers: She's a cluster-trigger who subsumed the shards of the rest of her cluster. Tattletale specifies that she has a total of six powers, including:
** [[MindOverMatter A form of telekinesis]] that lets her fly and use SuperStrength.
** A presence-based Master power that lets her [[CharmPerson influence people.]]
** A touch-based Trump power that lets her [[AdaptiveAbility tune abilities and defences.]]
** A power battery she can tap to make her [[SuperStrength stronger]] for [[HourOfPower limited amounts of time.]]
** Alongside two more currently unknown abilities.
* EvilOverlord: Of Earth Shin, having control over all of its parahumans.
* TheDreaded: By capes, due to her sheer strength and ability to control others.
* FishOutOfWater: Years before ''Worm'' started, after Goddess first got powers, Cauldron moved her to Earth Shin before she could become a problem on Earth Bet.
* HiveMind: Every parahuman on Earth Shin was one of her lieutenants.
* IHaveManyNames: Goddess, the Woman In Blue, the Blue Empress...
[[/folder]]

%%Teacher

!Others

[[folder:Gilpatrick]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Gilpatrick is committed to keeping order in the area, and is willing to grant reasonable requests from his subordinates. If and when he is forced to fire an employee, he is willing to help them find another job, provide emotional support, and even give them a temporary place to stay if they need it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jasper]]
* TheReliableOne: Victoria sees him as this, despite his frequent joking.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dot]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: She can be very sweet (in an UglyCute kind of way) and even behave humanely. But, she is simultaneously very ''un''human in her thought processes. Her morality is strongly skewed by the drives 1) to survive (her own survival, her group's survival and her leader's survival all rate highly) and 2) to serve her idea of who Nilbog is.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Her reaction to Nilbog telling her that he won't come back to his creations is to start planning to steal a part of the Machine Army and let it infest the city.
* KillerRabbit: She's a tiny goblin with a box cutter who can and will kill anything in her path. She's also happy to drink human blood.
* MercyKill: Kills the superhero Burnish, who was dying of Machine Army-inflicted wounds.
* ThemeNaming: She's a child of Polka.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Nilbog, despite having never met him before the interlude.
[[/folder]]

[[foldercontrol]]

!Norfair Neighborhood Heroes

[[folder:Fume Hood]]

Classification: Blaster

* TheAtoner: Wishes to make up for her past as a villain.
* HeelFaceTurn: Fume Hood was originally a petty criminal, but decided to become a hero at the start of ''Ward''.
* InTheHood: As noted by her name.
* PoisonousPerson: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]; her power allows her to create poison, but only when she wants to, and it takes the form of orbs she controls.
* ThemeNaming: All her names as a villain had something to do with apples.

[[folder:Crystalclear]]

Classification: Thinker; Blaster

* AuraVision: One aspect of his powers; every object he looks at has a white aura around it. In the case of humans, these auras are distorted based on the emotions the person is feeling.
* BodyHorror: He has two modes of sight: normal and his crystal vision. In order to change modes, he has to either grow crystals inside his head, piercing his eyes (though they don't harm him) to use his crystal vision, or, to see normally, he has to pull the crystals in his eyes out of his head. One of them is a ''foot long''.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was abducted as a child and told that he had been taken from his family by relatives for his own safety. This turned out to be a lie, but by the time the police caught up to them, his 'relatives' were having him run drugs for them, implicating him in their crimes.
* FailedASpotCheck: One consequence of his thinker powers is that, while he can see in ways others cannot, he also frequently misses things that would be obvious to regular humans and non-Thinker capes. The biggest aspect of this is that while he's using his crystal vision he's colorblind and can't see faces.
* GemstoneAssault: Can throw crystals that pass through obstacles, home in on their targets, and explode.
* {{Seers}}: Crystalclear's power allows him to see a short time into the past and future.
* SuperSenses: He can see through walls.

[[folder:Tempera]]

Classification: Shaker

* ArtAttacker: Tempera constantly generates paint, which she can control and harden for combat.
* {{Tomboy}}: Wears her hair shorter than most men, and likes to help with construction projects.

[[folder:Longscratch]]

Classification: Mover

* BareYourMidriff: Wears a short shirt, showing off a muscular abdomen.
* {{Teleportation}}: Can reappear at the ends of the furrows his claws produce.
* WolverineClaws: Wears a buckler with three protruding blades on each hand.

!Advance Guard

[[folder:The Group as a Whole]]
* LeeroyJenkins: The group enters Hollow Point and picks a fight with the villains there with no research or advanced preparation, motivated by nothing but hearsay. Naturally, things rapidly devolve.

[[folder:Shortcut]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Is shown to be blunt, dismissive, and assumes the worst of others. He really has it out for Victoria for exceptionally petty reasons.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Spright]]
* ChivalrousPervert: Begins flirting with Victoria practically on sight, and makes no effort to hide his interest in sex, but respects her choice to turn him down.
* PowerCopying: Can sense the powers of people nearby and copy them voluntarily.
[[/folder]]

%%! '''Tandem'''

!The Attendant

* ReligiousBruiser: Not the original membership, but the group contain now contains a few after absorbing another team, The Shepherds.

%%! '''Whorl'''

[[folder:Moonsong]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Was a member of the hero team Reach with Tristan and Byron. She loathes Tristan to the point that in Glare 3.6, she almost starts a fight with powers, and openly accuses Tristan of having killed an old teammate deliberately.
* GravityMaster: Can combine zero-g and enhanced gravity to throw opponents off their game.

!Foresight
%%! '''Countenance'''

%%! '''Anelace'''

%%! '''Effervescent'''

%%! '''Relay'''

[[folder:Crystalclear]]
See his entry under Norfair Neighborhood Heroes.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ratcatcher]]

Classification: Thinker, Master (possibly)

* AnimalMotifs: Rats.
* TheBeastmaster: Appears to have some sort of power over rats.
* FunetikAksent: She has a heavy lisp, implied to be caused by some sort of facial deformity.
* SuperSenses: She can pick up small, hidden objects.

%%! '''Big Picture''' (temporary)

!The Major Malfunctions

[[folder:The Group as a Whole]]

* DamnedByFaintPraise: They've been a team for six years... and never actually fought any villains or criminals.
* DontSplitUsUp: The reason they didn't join the PRT- they were afraid that they'd be split up.
* JumpedAtTheCall: They're incredibly eager to help out Team Breakthrough.
* KidHero: They're all in their teens, and triggered as pre-teens.
* TragicDropout: They all dropped out of school to become heroes.
* TrueCompanions: They're the only real family they have.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Caryatid]]

Classification: Breaker

* DarkAndTroubledPast: She lost her brother when young, and her family got split up.
* SuperMode: Hers is indestructible with enhanced awareness when still, and she doesn't need to eat while in that mode.

[[folder:Withdrawal]]

Classification: Tinker
----

* ColorMotifs: Pink. Part of his weaponry is a giant syringe full of an unknown pink fluid, and he has glowing pink eyes.
* PoweredArmor: His costume is a variant that Victoria refers to as an agility frame.

[[folder:Finale]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: Despite being aged around sixteen, she's mentally around ten or eleven. This could be because of her power, or for another reason.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Mentally, not physically.
* ExplosionPropulsion: She has the ability to create a chain effect of explosions that throw people around.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Her power allows her to generate sonic orbs with concussive detonations.
* StepfordSmiler: She ordinarily acts very cheerful, but becomes very self-deprecating at the prospect of being thrust into the limelight. She also becomes very upset at the thought of having done something wrong, even if it's minor.

[[/folder]]

!Mercenary Team

* StarterVillain: They are the first villains that Victoria faces in Ward.

[[folder:Lord of Loss]]

Classification: Brute; Changer

* AtrociousAlias: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] and [[AvertedTrope averted]]; a character notes that had he made any mistakes in his early career, his name would make him a joke. However, he instead succeeded and is considered [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast very intimidating]].
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Literature/{{Worm}} Lung]]. Both are starter villains to their respective protagonists. Both are [[{{Shapeshifting}} Changers]] and [[SuperStrength Brutes]]. Both become more powerful the longer they are in a fight.
* FriendlyEnemy: He runs Earth N, and when Team Breakthrough visit, he's very cordial and polite toward Victoria, not holding a grudge for how things at the community centre went down.
* LightningBruiser: His centaur form is very fast, can take a beating, and dishes out powerful strikes.
* MultiformBalance: Shifts between a centaur, a bird, and a tree; the bird form allows him to fly, while the centaur form is described as his combat form.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Normally appears as a man with a body made of ashen white strips.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: One of his main abilities.

[[folder:Kingdom Come]]

Classification: Master; Shaker

* HighPressureBlood: Kingdom Come explodes in a shower of gore, releasing far more blood than should be humanly possible, and with enough force to damage nearby windows.
* MindVirus: KC can take control of anyone who gets some of his blood on them. Apparently this infection is permanent, or at least he can be prevented from releasing a host.
* PullingThemselvesTogether: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]]; while not directly seen in the text, surviving the use of his power [[RequiredSecondaryPowers requires]] the ability to reconstitute his body after exploding.
* ReligiousBruiser: Is very fond of Bible verses, and takes his name from Matthew 6:10. He also goes to church everyday and has a strict code of ethics when choosing which jobs to take.

[[folder:Blindside]]

Classification: Stranger

* AmbiguousGender: Has an androgynous voice, and a power which prevents anyone from looking at them, making their gender [[{{Understatement}} difficult]] to deduce if they have one, to say the least.
* BatterUp: Uses a metal bat as a weapon.
* TheFaceless: Has a power which prevents anyone from looking at them. Word of God is that even Master minions like Taylor's bugs can't see them, and the power is apparently permanently active.
* TaughtByExperience: Notes that people tend to come up with the same few workarounds for their power, and has learned to avoid or counter them.
* NeckSnap: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]; as their power forces everyone around them to look away, Blindside could cause someone to snap their own neck by moving in such a way that the only way for them to remain unseen is for the victim's neck to rotate farther than is healthy. They do note however that it's more likely the victim would just close their eyes before snapping their neck.
* PowerIncontinence: Apparently, they can't turn their power ''off''.

[[folder:Nursery]]

Classification: Shaker; Trump

* BerserkButton: People who kill the children of others.
* BodyHorror: She is apparently [[spoiler:pregnant with a parahuman child who acts as the source of her powers. Said child is implied to be some form of stillborn.]]
* CreepyChild: Not her, but she apparently controls a small army of child-sized... [[NothingIsScarier somethings]].
* IronicNurseryTune: Her power [[spoiler:or rather, her unborn child's power]] can only be activated by humming a lullaby.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The jury's still out on whether she actually is [[spoiler:pregnant with a stillborn parahuman]], or whether she's just completely nuts.
* PowerNullifier: Her power creates an area of effect that nullifies other powers.

[[folder:Snag]]
See his entry under Rain's Cluster.

!Rain's Cluster

[[folder:The Group as a Whole]]

* ComboPlatterPowers: Comes with being a cluster trigger. The group's powers include a Mover power, an emotion power, a Blaster power, and a Tinker specialty in prosthetic limbs.
* DysfunctionJunction: Cluster triggers come in a mix of two basic flavours: [[{{Yandere}} messed-up]] and [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne really fucking screwed]]. This one has seemingly taken primarily the latter form of scrambled nuts on toast, specifically towards Rain at the moment. Were he to actually die on them, the odds are pretty good that somebody else within the cluster would become the next focus of hate.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Want to inflict one on Rain, but they also need him dead, so they'll just settle on making him suffer as much as possible along the way.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: While the 'bleed-through' effect is a known side effect of cluster triggers, it's not clear how much of the clusters personality changes are due to this and how much is due to A) Rain being forced to view the consequences of his actions from the victims perspective three out of every five days, and B) the rest of the cluster having the convenient excuse of the bleed-through effect for their more heinous actions.
* MentalFusion:
** They suffer from 'bleed-through', a condition where after triggering, they each received a bit of the others' personalities. This turned Rain into a better person, while the others all know that they've become more negative people- and they don't like it.
** Another way of looking at it is RequiredSecondaryPowers. To network your dreaming, abilities and cognitively processing even a little, you kind of need a Thinker ability of some description... somewhere. This likely has surprising effects; take Tattletale's grandiose mistakes when trying to read individuals involved in networked clusters, for instance. Or Mama Mathers' little difficulties when trying to maintain control of Rain. However, Teacher is one Master who ''might'' be more effective with clusters: he deals in networks, after all, and not just in installing hackable backdoors in individuals. Be afraid. Be especially afraid if he considers himself to be the Network King, but isn't actually.
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Instead of dreaming, the group will relive memories of each other's trigger event, and will then appear in a room where they can talk to each other and exchange "tokens" to shift their powers around for the day. It's been implied that this is not something that other clusters experience, and that it may have something to do with the unseen fifth member.
* TheScapegoat: They've made one out of Rain, holding him entirely responsible for the circumstances that caused them all to trigger. Rain was willingly involved, but he wasn't the one who thought it up or planned it. Had he not coincidentally become part of their cluster, they'd have no reason to target him specifically, rather than the Fallen as a whole.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Possibly deconstructed. Implied for the entire group save for Rain following their trigger event. They really want Rain dead due to his part in it, and are willing to do a lot of bad things in order to get to kill him slowly and very painfully. [[spoiler:In fact, they've slid so far down the Jerkass scale that when Rain begs them for help, asking them to save the Fallen children and other innocents if he allows them to kill him, many of whom are being controlled by powers, the group's response is essentially 'If their dying makes you suffer more, then ''good''.']] However the connection cuts both ways, and several were decent people beforehand. Rain wonders if its bleed-over from him that makes them so nasty, and Cradle thinks that Rain's personality 'infected' them. [[spoiler:Snag's narration in the dream after he dies implies that it was the not-so-random bleed-through caused by their agent/passenger that did it, though it could simply have been the shock of impending death affecting him.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Snag]]
!Jonathan Seiter
Classification: Mover; Shaker; Striker; Tinker/Prosthetic Limbs

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:After he dies he's stuck being visible but mute inside their multi-trigger dream realm forever.]]
* ArtificialLimbs: Has a pair of mechanical arms that are so long they drag on the ground.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Rain kills him during the Shadow arc.]]
* CreepilyLongArms: His prosthetic arms are long enough to touch the ground when he stands up straight.
* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:He loses his hatred and calms down after dying, realizing that the way he went about revenge wasn't worth it.]]
* EmotionBomb: Can force his opponents to experience negative emotions.
* GadgeteerGenius: He can make prosthetic arms that let him balance from walls and windows, as well as channel his emotion power.
* NotQuiteFlight: His Mover power allows him to "fall" in any direction.
* SuperStrength: His prosthetic arms can force clean through inorganic matter, with a little help from his version of Rain's power.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Was heroic enough to try and protect a girl during a fire. Now wants to torture a teenager to death.

[[folder:Love Lost]]
Classification: Mover; Shaker; Tinker/Prosthetic Limbs

* EmotionBomb: She has an emotion-affecting roar.
* FangsAreEvil: Her mask has real fangs set into it.
* MeaningfulName: Refers to her dead daughter, who she wants revenge for.
* ParentsAsPeople: She wasn't the best parent, but she loved her daughter more than anything.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Loved her daughter more than anything and would have done anything for her. Now she [[spoiler:is content to let Fallen kids- some of whom are implied to be mind-controlled- die if it makes Rain suffer more.]]
* TheVoiceless: She can talk, but generally elects not to. Interlude 5.y implies that she doesn't talk because she spends her time screaming in pain/rage/grief.
* WallRun: Her Mover power lets her run on walls.

[[folder:Cradle]]
Classification: Tinker/Prosthetic Limbs (hands)

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Was bullied at school.
* ArchEnemy: Rain is his, mostly because his being part of the cluster led to Cradle's personality changing outside of his control, along with the destruction of the life he was trying to make for himself. Cradle describes it as 'He took me from me'.
* BodyMotifs: Hands.
* BrilliantButLazy: Rain infers from Cradle's memories that he was viewed as this by his teachers and parents before triggering.
* HandBlast: Can create invisible lines/cables from his robot hands that deliver a powerful blow to anything they come into contact with.
* TheHermit: He dislikes spending time around others, to the point that Rain has dubbed him 'the recluse'.
* MeaningfulName: Refers to the combination of his robot arms and the cables he can make, akin to the game Cat's Cradle.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: His robot is literally nothing but giant mechanical arms and hands.
* PragmaticVillainy: In Pitch 6.5, he tries to convince Team Therapy to walk away instead of fighting, saying that [[spoiler:Rain dying would make things even for him killing Snag.]] The Team don't go for it.
* SuicideDare: He repeatedly tells Rain in Interlude 4.b to kill himself.

[[folder:The fifth member]]
An unknown. The only clue to their existence is the fifth section of the mutual dream the others share, which is entirely dark.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: [[spoiler:Snag's dying thoughts imply that whatever is in the fifth section of the room is not a "who", but a "what", leaving it open that their extra-dimensional addition/ dynamo may not exactly be taking a ''back''seat in the cluster's affairs.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: All signs point to their being dead, possibly after they triggered.
[[/folder]]

!Cedar Point/Hollow Point

! '''[[AC:The Alaskans]]'''

A group of villains who played a minor role in PRT Quest; they appear in the first interlude in Ward, helping to re-establish a basic code among the B-list villains.

* AntiHeroTeam: They're not evil, as such. The worst they've done (that we know of) is dealing drugs to teenagers.
* {{Polyamory}}: A pretty relaxed variant, Prancer and Velvet are in a long-term polyamorous relationship, and Velvet is occasionally sleeping with Moose.
* SuperPoweredMooks: As villains go, they were small fish in a smaller pond until Velvet and Prancer went to prison. After they got out, they've started looking to higher goals.
* TookALevelInJerkass: They went from dealing weed to teenagers (and not hurting anyone at all) to taking over a territory and using it to harbor supervillains, run drugs around the city, extort money from the poor and deal in guns.

[[folder:Prancer]]

Classification: Breaker; Mover

* AnimalMotifs: Stags, to complement Velvet.
* BadBoss: Not because he treats his people badly, but because he's a bad leader who can't control his own people.
* BiTheWay: Mentions in passing that he used to have sex with both boys and girls.
* DirtyOldMan: 'Old' is stretching it, but he admits and Moose agrees that a nearly thirty year old man having sex with barely-legal teenagers (and even the 'barely legal' part is questionable) is ''incredibly'' sketchy.
* FragileSpeedster: His Breaker state gives him impressive mobility, but he's lacking in offense and isn't any more durable than a normal person. He runs rings around the heroes for most of the battle with Advance Guard, but in the end Sveta only needs one good hit to take him to the pavement.
* LovableRogue: He and Velvet were small-time drug dealers in a small town who just happened to have powers.
* OfficialCouple: With Velvet. They're poly, but remain a devoted couple, and Prancer intends to marry her.
* OppositesAttract: With Velvet, though he says they're about as close to soulmates as they can get.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Had a variant of one when he was being sentenced to prison- he heard people talking about him (and talking to him, about him) and realized how much he'd fucked up and how bad he looked from the outside, and swore to be a better person for Velvet.

[[folder:Velvet]]

Classification: Shaker

* AnimalMotifs: Deer.
* BerserkButton: Berserk is pushing it, but she really does not like Prancer telling her that she needs to get rid of her truck.
* DishingOutDirt: A variant- she creates a pink dust that accumulates over time, and can move things that are covered in said dust.
* OneTrueLove: Prancer's.
* OppositesAttract: See above.
* OnlyICanMakeItGo: The only way to get her truck running is with her power.
* {{Polyamory}}: She's sleeping with Moose as well as Prancer.

[[folder:Moose]]

Classification: Brute

* AnimalMotifs: The moose.
* AtrociousAlias:
** In-universe, he is frequently laughed at for his name. The reason why, people's unfamiliarity with moose, is explained to him by [[HypocriticalHumor Prancer]].
** It might be more than that. He wears large gauntlets, which he says his name doesn't work without. His name is described as jokey. He gives his initials as "M.K." What would fit this? ''Moose Knuckle.''
* TheBigGuy: Bigger than both Velvet and Prancer, and is a Brute.
* FriendlyEnemy: Gets along quite well with Victoria.
* PragmaticVillainy: When he confronts Glory Girl, he flat out admits that if they fought, she'd win, so he sees no point in fighting her, especially since it'd call over other people who'd beat her, so he asks her to just leave. When she points out that this would mean she'd be running from him, he offers to let her knock him about a little first.

[[folder:Braindead]]

Classification: Thinker
----
* BlessedWithSuck: While using his power he's an invalid, and the more he uses it the longer he takes to recover.
* FaceHeelTurn: Apparently he was a hero before becoming a villain.
* TheOmniscient: He can select an area and know all sorts of information about what's in it. The smaller the area, the more he knows.

[[folder:Birdbrain]]

Classification: Thinker
----
* TopDownView: How her power works, giving her a birds' eye view of a large area.
* WhipItGood: She uses a whip in fights.

! '''[[AC: Beast Of Burden's Faction]]'''

[[folder:Beast of Burden]]

Classification: Brute

* BadBoss: A more typical example than Prancer. He demands absolute respect and treats his underlings like crap whenever they don't give it to him. It backfires majorly when [[spoiler:one insult too many drives Damsel off the edge and leads to her killing him]].
* TheBrute: Both personality- and power-wise. He's the biggest source of muscle among Prancer's subordinates, and is a cantankerous {{Jerkass}} of a person who has zero reservations about killing people who get in his way.
* BullyingADragon: [[spoiler:Mouthing off to Ashley gets him killed by her.]]
* FluffyTheTerrible: Many of the Hollow Point villains abbreviate his overly-long codename to "Bob".
* HonorBeforeReason: During the Fallen compound raid, he refuses the help of the heroes even after the battle with Valefor makes it clear that he and his minions don't have the firepower to survive on their own. Unfortunately for him, all that accomplishes is eroding what little respect said minions still have for him.
* LargeAndInCharge: He towers head and shoulders over most of the other Hollow Point villains, and is one of the town's major underbosses beneath Prancer.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: As Brutes go, he's not particularly high on the scale, but Hollow Point being the haven for B-list villains that it is, he's still powerful enough to be one of the major players.
* TinTyrant: Self proclaimed tyrant and wears heavy plate armour with large horns.

[[folder: Nailbiter]]

Classification: Brute; Mover; Striker (?); Changer

* TheDragon: Beast of Burden's primary enforcer.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Her main form of offense is using her powers to impale targets with her nails or teeth- between the mild SuperStrength she has and the sheer speed at which she can extend her limbs, getting hit is the functional equivalent of taking a bullet, and does about as much damage.
* NotQuiteFlight: Can't fly, but being able to stretch her legs gives her impressive vertical mobility.
* RubberMan: Her primary power consists of distorting her limbs to impossibly-long proportions while simultaneously making them thinner, to the point that they become practically invisible.
* ScaryTeeth: Sports rusty nails for teeth, per her codename. Jury's out on whether it's self-inflicted or some bizarre side-effect of her powers.
* SuperStrength: Victoria theorizes that she has some minor degree of this, which is the main reason why her attacks can inflict as much damage as they do.

[[folder: Sidepiece]]

Classification: Blaster; Brute (?)

* BlindingBangs: Her appearance in cape apparel includes a sweep of hair over one eye.
* DetachmentCombat: Can rip out her organs and detonate them with concussive force, essentially using them as improvised explosives.
* TheFakeCutie: Victoria notes her high-pitched voice and attempts to sound like a refined and cutesy teenager, despite being at least in her twenties and not at all conventionally attractive.
* HealingFactor: Any organ she rips out regenerates at an almost instantaneous pace.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Talks a big game and gives off a haughty air despite being one of the weakest villains of an organization that is already entirely B-list to begin with.

%%! '''Kitchen Sink'''

%%! '''Hookline'''

! '''[[AC: Bitter Pill's Faction]]'''

[[folder: Bitter Pill]]

Classification: Tinker (Biochemistry)
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* GadgeteerGenius: She's described as a Tinker of some stripe, though her exact abilities have yet to be more than vaguely hinted at.
* SuperSerum: Part of her Tinker power involves creating these, granting Brute abilities to those who ingest them. During the battle with Advance Guard, Victoria sees her accompanied by a group of dosed-up {{Mooks}} protecting her like an honor guard.
* ShoutOut: Her name might be one to ''Literature/{{Twig}}'', another web serial by the same author that featured an arc called Bitter Pill.
* TruthSerum: One of the things she can make with her power. Keeping secrets among the residents of Hollow Point is nearly impossible thanks to her presence.
* WomenAreWiser: From what little the readers have seen of her, she seems much more level-headed than most of Hollow Point's leadership.
[[/folder]]

!The Fallen
An Endbringer-worshipping cult, the Fallen have swelled in numbers and power in the aftermath of Gold Morning, becoming one of the largest groups of parahumans in the multiverse. Most of ''Ward'''s focus has been on the Mathers clan, though the Crowley clan has also come into focus, somewhat.

[[folder:The Group as a Whole]]
* AbductionIsLove: The Mathers clan is known for kidnapping and brainwashing children and capes with the intention of forcing them to marry into the clan.
* ArrangedMarriage: Many members of the Fallen have their marriages arranged, though higher-ranking or well-favored members can choose their own spouse.
* ColorMotif: High-ranking members of the Mathers clan wear white.
* CozyCatastrophe: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]; they lack many pre-Gold Morning amenities, but have enough food and shelter (complete with (poor) plumbing) that they can afford to throw frequent parties. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] this is their primary recruiting strategy.
* KissingCousins: Occasionally, as a result of the arranged marriages.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Minorities, the LGBT community, and Case 53's are some of their primary targets, which is a big reason why Rain is reluctant to open up about his past.
* ReligionOfEvil: As noted above, they worship the Endbringers. The leaders also cultivate an intense hatred for anyone outside the cult as a means to maintain their unity.
* WhiteSheep: The [=McVeays=] were murderous fanatics, the Mathers are kidnappers and zealots, and the Crowleys... run around being unpredictable assholes who mostly aren't believers, though they're still willing to fight when necessary.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mama Mathers]]
Head of the Mathers branch of the fallen.

Classification: Thinker, Master

* BrownNote: The basis of her power, essentially- anybody who sees, hears, or is otherwise made aware of her presence has a copy of Mama Mathers placed inside their mind, which allows her to see their surroundings and interact with them in various ways whenever they think of her, including speaking or writing her name. How long the effect lasts depends on the degree of exposure- it can vary from mere minutes to a span of weeks, depending.
* TheDreaded: Rain nearly works himself into a panic attack just thinking of talking to her, and ''everyone'' in the Fallen is ''terrified'' of provoking her wrath.
* EvilMatriarch: She is apparently the mother of Valefor (at the very least), insists that others call her 'Mama,' and is a cult leader.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Even the other leaders of the Fallen get nervous simply from being in the same building as her.
* LightIsNotGood: Dresses in [[WomanInWhite white]] and worships the Simurgh, an angelic-appearing monster. She's also a ruthless and brutal cult leader partially responsible for dozens if not hundreds of deaths.
* LoopholeAbuse: Her powers are scarily effective, potent and extremely hard to ignore. But, there are ways around what she does. Either 1) have a sensorium that includes a primary aspect which is [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth too alien for her to wrap her head around]] thus ensuring she either drops you like a hot potato or ignores your encrypted input, 2) be a decently-empowered Stranger or Master capable of bolstering yourself against her influence using your own (and not drop your guard) and/or 3) be able to partition off your thoughts about her using cognitive tricks and double-think. Easy, right?
* MindRape: Can induce this in subjects of her powers. Victoria (and by extension, the reader) gets to see it firsthand when the heroes try to interrogate a captured Fallen cape under Mama's thrall for information. It's... disturbing, to say the least.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: Thanks to her powers, attempts to surveil her location tend to go poorly. As in, "screaming and strapped to a hospital bed so you can't claw your own eyes out" levels of poorly.
* SensoryOverload: How the offensive use of her power seems to work- she can manipulate the sense that others used to detect her, so those that hear her can be deafened, those that saw her see only horror, and use of enhanced senses only increases the damage she can do. Victoria catches a glimpse of her from a distance and only has to deal with visual static in the corners of her vision, while Chris looks at her up close and gets his vision overwhelmed by horror.
* SinisterSurveillance: Her thinker ability allows her to know when others think of her, and to see them and their surroundings for a short time afterwards.
* TheSleepless: She's speculated to be a Noctis cape, one who doesn't need to sleep. She's also immune to tranquillisers.

[[folder:Valefor]]
!Elijah Mathers
A high ranking member of the Mathers clan and Mama Mather's biological son.

For tropes applying to his appearance in Worm, see [[Characters/WormOthers here]]
----
* AdaptiveAbility: Originally his power worked via sight, but after Skitter blinded him it changed so that it worked using his voice.
* {{Brainwashed}}: In a rather uncommon case of this trope, he brainwashed ''himself'', to enjoy being part of the Fallen and to be loyal. [[spoiler: ''Again'' as of Interlude 8.y, where Teacher puts him under thrall while also removing his self-inflicted loyalty to Mama Mathers.]]
* ButtMonkey: After Skitter blinded him, his power adapted to only need his voice. So Victoria destroys his jaw.
* CompellingVoice: After being [[EyeScream blinded]] by Skitter in Worm, his power changed to work with only his voice.
* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler: Teacher retrieves him after he's seriously wounded with the intent of recruiting him.]]
* {{Jawbreaker}}: In a variant, has his entire jaw torn off by Victoria to depower him mid-fight.
* MindRape: Given enough time to talk, he can layer on enough commands and compulsions to make someone unflinchingly loyal.
* ProphetEyes: He has cataracts after his eyes were [[EyeScream filled with maggots]].

[[folder:Seir]]
!Tim Frazier

Classification: Master; Mover
----
* AnimalMotifs: Horses. He named himself after a demon who appears riding a winged horse, and wears a horse mask.
* TheCorrupter: Responsible for the events that led up to Rain's trigger, though [[TookALevelInKindness the aftermath]] muddies this somewhat.
* DoppelgangerAttack: His power creates countless short-lived copies of himself that mindlessly destroy anything near them, and he can swap locations with them at will.
* JerkAss: Treated Rain like shit because Seir had problems with his family, and sexually harassed Erin. He also took one of the people the Fallen kidnapped as a 'wife', and is implied to have raped and abused her.
* LivingShadow: His decoys take on this appearance.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: Sports a horse mask in his cape identity, and is one of the most brutal and loathsome members of an organization that really isn't lacking for people who fit those adjectives.

[[folder:Erin]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: She lives with the Fallen, but isn't one of them and doesn't subscribe to their beliefs.
* DespairEventHorizon: Hits hers after [[spoiler:being told by the Fallen leadership that they're marrying her to Rain. Erin tries to reconcile herself with the belief that she and Rain can make a new life where they pay lip service to the Fallen and are mostly left alone; instead, Rain rejects her, saying that he can't be Fallen anymore, and leaves her to whatever fate the leadership will give her.]]
* OnlyFriend: She and Rain are each other's sole friends amongst the Fallen.
* PrecisionFStrike: In Interlude 5.d:
--> '''Rain''': I'd die for you. But I can't be Fallen.
--> '''Erin''': Then fucking die, Rain.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Because being young, female and attractive almost guarantees that she'll be married off to a much older senior member of the Fallen whether she likes it or not. [[spoiler:In the end, despite being sexually harassed by Seir, she's told that she's being offered to Rain.]]
* WhiteSheep: After moving in with the Fallen, she was the only member of her family who didn't wind up subscribing to their beliefs.

[[folder:Lachlan]]
* {{Brainwashed}}: He was brainwashed by Valefor into becoming a member of the Fallen.
* NiceGuy: He's a genuinely nice person, for one of the Fallen. He's become their 'poster boy' as a result.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Speedrunners]]
* BattleBoomerang: Last Minute uses his power to reverse the flow of time for inanimate objects in conjunction with tinker-made boomerangs.
* BulletTime: Final Hour can invoke a "slowing down" effect that resembles this.
* FalseFriend: To the Hollow Point villains. They're actually part of the Fallen.
* GangOfHats: Nearly all of them have some kind of time power. In Interlude 5.y, it's revealed that their theme is time because they represent Khonsu.
* HammerspaceHideaway: End of Days can shunt away his targets into a pitch-black pocket universe for a short period.
* SpeedBlitz: Secondhand's power allows him to move quickly enough that it approaches TimeStandsStill from his [=POV=].

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Black Goat]]
!William (Black Goat, formerly Scapegoat)

A former Ward and then Protectorate member who ended up joining the Fallen in the chaos after Golden Morning. For his tropes in ''Worm'', see [[Characters/WormSponsoredHeroes here]].

Classification: Striker
----
* BlessedWithSuck: His powers heal others but inflict the injuries on himself until he can offload them on someone else.
* DealWithTheDevil: He forms one with Teacher. Teacher will give him the mental fortitude needed to keep his focus on his stored injuries to prevent himself from taking their full effect, and in return he'll offload the mental thrall that comes with Teacher's gifts to other targets.
* FaceHeelTurn: He was a hero in ''Worm'', but when he shows up in ''Ward'' he's become a member of the Fallen.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: His power can transfer much more than just physical injuries. Parasites, mental illnesses, and even power related effects are all fair game. However, he was limited before because he had to experience himself whatever he wanted to transfer first. The death of Scion made him more aware of the extra-dimensional implications of his power, and with a small tune-up from Teacher, he can now keep injuries and other things away from him more easily while in the middle of transferring them.
* InTheBack: Gets shot in the back when he tried to help Gambol. It doesn't kill him, but it isn't exactly pleasant.
[[/folder]]

!Misc. Villains

[[folder:Tattletale]]
The leader of the Undersiders, a major criminal organization that runs much of new Brockton from behind the scenes. For tropes applying to her appearance in Worm, see [[Characters/WormUndersiders here]].

Classification: Thinker
----
* ArcVillain: Shaping up to be one for the first few arcs.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Is on the receiving end for once. When asked if she regrets her role in Amy's fall, she doesn't deny it, but tries to deflect the issue, showing that she was genuinely rattled.
* GreaterScopeVillain: She isn't personally working against the protagonists, but she is hiring out her power and advice to the people that are.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** Even leaving aside her well intentioned extremist tendencies, she DOES regret her role in Amy's fall, even if she doesn't want to admit it.
** Similarly, as soon as she realises exactly how badly screwed-up Rain's cluster actually is, she comes over very, very sheepish for trying to use him (and them) the way she did. She genuinely bodged that one up, and is therefore trying to kind of make amends, even though she won't quite fully admit how epically she messed up.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In Pitch 6.8, she goes into detail about how each member of Team Therapy has either done something terrible, or is someone terrible.
* YouAreInCommandNow: She's now the leader of the Undersiders following Taylor's disappearance at the end of ''Worm'', and is clearly struggling to keep the team together in the latter's absence.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:March]]
* AliceAllusion: To the March Hare.
* AnimalMotifs: Rabbits/hares, hence the name.
* ArchEnemy: Foil/Flechette is hers, possibly because of Kiss/Kill. Foil considers her a persistent menace, and apparently March once kidnapped Parian.
* AscendedExtra: March was mentioned in one line of ''Worm'' and only got a name through WordOfGod.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: She's amassed a team of surviving members of cluster-triggers, including herself.
* YouAreAlreadyDead: Her version of Foil's power seems to take this form, leaving marks on things she cuts that then detonate.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Monokeros]]
!Kathlee Rosenthal

Classification: Master; Trump
----
* AxeCrazy: Monokeros is ''batshit'' insane.
* CanonImmigrant: She's one of the villains from the Weaverdice Helena campaign.
* EvilIsPetty: Tells Ashley that Kenzie doesn't deserve to be one of her victims because of her facial scar, and monologues about how nobody wants the person with visible scars/blemishes.
* MeaningfulRename: She used to be a hero under the name Unicorn. After people started uncovering her crimes, she renamed herself Monokeros, which is Greek for 'unicorn'.
* SerialKiller: Of children, especially young heroes and celebrities.
* SmugSnake: Tells Ashley that she doesn't 'want' Kenzie because of her scar, because the scar makes Kenzie unworthy, and brags about how she keeps the children she killed 'alive' by relishing the memories of killing them.
* WouldHurtAChild: Tortured numerous children to death, believing she was taking their beauty and youth for herself.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Goddess]]

Classification: Master; Trump; Brute; Mover; Striker
----
* AscendedExtra: She was pulled into the battle against Scion by Khepri, but otherwise didn't appear in ''Worm''.
* BigBad: She's shaping up to be a major enemy in ''Ward''.
* ColorMotifs: Blue.
* ComboPlatterPowers: She's a cluster-trigger who subsumed the shards of the rest of her cluster. Tattletale specifies that she has a total of six powers, including:
** [[MindOverMatter A form of telekinesis]] that lets her fly and use SuperStrength.
** A presence-based Master power that lets her [[CharmPerson influence people.]]
** A touch-based Trump power that lets her [[AdaptiveAbility tune abilities and defences.]]
** A power battery she can tap to make her [[SuperStrength stronger]] for [[HourOfPower limited amounts of time.]]
** Alongside two more currently unknown abilities.
* EvilOverlord: Of Earth Shin, having control over all of its parahumans.
* TheDreaded: By capes, due to her sheer strength and ability to control others.
* FishOutOfWater: Years before ''Worm'' started, after Goddess first got powers, Cauldron moved her to Earth Shin before she could become a problem on Earth Bet.
* HiveMind: Every parahuman on Earth Shin was one of her lieutenants.
* IHaveManyNames: Goddess, the Woman In Blue, the Blue Empress...
[[/folder]]

%%Teacher

!Others

[[folder:Gilpatrick]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Gilpatrick is committed to keeping order in the area, and is willing to grant reasonable requests from his subordinates. If and when he is forced to fire an employee, he is willing to help them find another job, provide emotional support, and even give them a temporary place to stay if they need it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jasper]]
* TheReliableOne: Victoria sees him as this, despite his frequent joking.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dot]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: She can be very sweet (in an UglyCute kind of way) and even behave humanely. But, she is simultaneously very ''un''human in her thought processes. Her morality is strongly skewed by the drives 1) to survive (her own survival, her group's survival and her leader's survival all rate highly) and 2) to serve her idea of who Nilbog is.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Her reaction to Nilbog telling her that he won't come back to his creations is to start planning to steal a part of the Machine Army and let it infest the city.
* KillerRabbit: She's a tiny goblin with a box cutter who can and will kill anything in her path. She's also happy to drink human blood.
* MercyKill: Kills the superhero Burnish, who was dying of Machine Army-inflicted wounds.
* ThemeNaming: She's a child of Polka.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Nilbog, despite having never met him before the interlude.
[[/folder]]

! Team Breakthrough

A miscellaneous group of young capes who were brought together in group therapy sessions by Jessica Yamada, and intend to form a hero team. At the urging of Ms. Yamada, Victoria decides to mentor them and show them the ropes.

[[folder:The Group As A Whole]]
* BlessedWithSuck: Almost everybody in the group has abilities that can read as awesome on paper... until you see how badly burned each of them has been by aspects of their own power. Even by the typical cape standard of all abilities having surprisingly sucky downsides, these guys win prizes by making other capes feel distinctly uncomfortable to be around them.
* EasyLogistics: Averted. They all live around the city, but the city is so big that it takes hours for them all to get together.
* LoopholeAbuse: Team Breakthrough have had to put a lot of work into thinking and acting around each of their own psychological quirks. This makes them quite unpredictable when it comes to mind control or other master- or stranger-whammy effects, since regular practice in metacognitive evaluation, checks and balances pays off in getting around outside orders or perceptual weirdness, too.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: They range from three former heroes (Capricorn, Kenzie, and Victoria) to one accidental mass-murderer (Sveta), [[spoiler:a member of the Fallen]] (Rain), and an intended villain (Ashley). They also include a Case 53 (Sveta), a case 70 (Capricorn), a clone (Ashley) as well as [[spoiler:a semi-official, honorary Case 53 (Victoria) -- her two-year dose of extreme BodyHorror and MindRape, plus their residual effects, earn her the spot, even though Cauldron were not directly involved]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Antares]]
!Victoria Dallon
!!!'''PHO: Point_Me_@_The_Sky'''
[[quoteright:307:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/victoria_4.png]]

The main protagonist, the former Glory Girl of New Wave. She officially adopts the name Antares in Torch 7.8, spending most of the story beforehand without a name after discarding Glory Girl.

For tropes pertaining to her ''Worm'' appearance, see [[Characters/WormSponsoredHeroes here.]]

Classification: Mover; Shaker; Brute

* AchillesHeel: Her forcefield can't take more than one hit without shorting out. [[spoiler:Such as when she gets shot during Pitch 6.1.]]
* AmbiguouslyHuman: She sees herself as this, [[spoiler:thanks to Amy using all the animals she could find to make Victoria's blob self and not removing all the foreign DNA when she restored Victoria to her original body]].
* AscendedExtra: To an extent. She had a chapter from her perspective, but she went from being a strictly supporting character in ''Worm'' who vanished halfway through to being the protagonist of the sequel.
* BerserkButton: Being subjected to mind control. [[spoiler:Which winds up helping her: when [[CompellingVoice Valefor]] orders her to not use her powers and serve him, she gets so mad she loses control of the wretch, which promptly knocks him aside, disrupting his ability to maintain his orders.]]
* BodyHorror: Although she's physically fine now, she still suffers from mental health issues from the aftermath. [[spoiler:Her power altering so that her forcefield is still shaped like her deformed self has '''not''' been helping, and neither does knowing that she has animal DNA floating around her body.]]
* BrokenAce: Even with her mental issues making her hold back in fights, she still effortlessly wins most of the time.
* TheCape: In a dramatic shift from her SmugSuper attitude in ''Worm'', she's intentionally strived to become a lot closer to this ideal.
* CharacterDevelopment: Is far less arrogant and impulsive than she was in ''Worm''.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Victoria has three distinct powers: her flight, her forcefield, and her emotion aura. Unlike most other capes with multiple powers, this isn't because she's a multitrigger but a result of her being a second-generation parahuman born to cape parents.
* DiscardAndDraw: Her fighting style has changed from ''Worm'', partially reflecting her character development. For instance, her control over her [[EmotionBomb aura]] has grown due to it being one of the few ways she could communicate in the asylum. Her forcefield has also been altered by her body dysmorphia. While it always conformed to her body shape, it changed to match her deformed body, and it didn't change back when she did.
* EmotionBomb: Her emotion aura used to variably induce fear or awe depending on the person it was affecting. Since her time in the asylum, it seems to be permanently stuck in the "fear" function for reasons Victoria has yet to figure out. Kenzie, for reasons equally unknown, is the only person who still gets the "awe" effect.
* FlyingBrick: Maintains the powers she had in ''Worm'', though she's somewhat out of practice when it comes to flying after being paralyzed for two years. Her forcefield has also improved in its adaptability, range and application so she can even cover other people with it... at a price.
* TheFashionista: Spends a not-insignificant part of her narration thinking about the need for a good costume, and frequently analyzes and critiques the fashion choices of friends, enemies, and anyone else who happens to catch her attention.
* GeniusBruiser: She was always implied to be this, but in ''Ward'' she's been trying a lot harder to focus on thinking through her actions and the consequences, which combines with her near encyclopedic knowledge of capes to help emphasize the 'genius' aspect of this a lot more.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Her flight gives her a Thinker 1 classification by virtue of giving her a birds-eye view. Despite the fact that the classification of 1 means it's so minor it wouldn't even be reported on, she considers it one of her best tools for how it lets her coordinate with her teammates and keep an eye on foes.
* HurtingHero: She's simultaneously a more fragile and more heroic person than she was previously, both due to her experiences in the asylum.
* InSeriesNickname: Refers to her distorted forcefield as 'the wretch'.
* LoopholeAbuse: When mastered by [[spoiler:Valefor]] and given a compulsion to "help" him, she decides to do just that. By flying him away from the fighting and dropping him on a roof where he would be safe. Safely out of earshot of anyone he could compel and unable to climb down without assistance, that is.
* MartialPacifist: Prefers the term "warrior monk", but she's trying to be this, and always makes the effort to inflict as little damage as possible (both physical and collateral) whenever she's pulled into a fight.
* PowerIncontinence: Her forcefield changed to match her body when she was mutated and didn't change back. As a result, it acts like a phantom limb with actual substance, clawing at and crushing everything it can get its many hands--and mouths--on.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Any time she and Tattletale are communicating. Victoria openly loathes her, though she's willing to be civil, while Tattletale condescends to and patronizes her nonstop.
* ThatManIsDead: As far as she's concerned, Glory Girl died with Brockton Bay in the previous story.
* TraumaButton: Panacea. Victoria shies away from even thinking about her, changes the topic as soon as possible when she's mentioned, and nearly has a full-blown freak out [[spoiler:when her mom tricks her into attending a barbecue Amy is also attending.]] It gets to the point that in Shade 4.4, Victoria comments that a girl with freckles looks like "someone else", not even willing/able to say "she looks like Amy".
* TheUnfavorite: How she perceives her relationship with her mother in ''Ward'', as an ironic mirror of their positions in ''Worm''. She muses that it feels like her mother only has enough love and caring in her for one daughter at a time, and by the time of ''Ward'', it's been switched to Amy.
* WeaksauceWeakness: In fitting with the theme of ''Ward'', hers is due to a mental disorder. Her deformed forcefield means she's adapted her fighting style to work without it as much as possible, making her weaker and more vulnerable.

[[folder:Capricorn]]
!Tristan & Byron Vera
!!!'''PHO: Capricorn'''
Identical twins who have been in the superhero business since before Golden Morning. Tristan and Byron are one of the very rare examples of a "Case 70", when two parahumans (generally twins) end up SharingABody due to accidents related to their trigger event. Both were members of a team called Reach, which split apart after some unknown event and left behind some nasty grudges between its former team members.

Their powers revolve around matter creation- Tristan creates stone while Byron creates water, with the substances created changing to match the associated element of whichever brother is currently in control of the body. Each brother also has a secondary power related to his element; Tristan has improved strength and durability while Byron has greater resistance to extremes of temperature.

Classification: Brute; Shaker

!!!Both
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: PlayedWith. They're identical twins and very closely resemble one another (to the point that Tristan paints his hair to visually distinguish himself, which Byron also used to do), but couldn't be more different personality-wise.
* AndIMustScream: A variant: whichever twin isn't in control is always present, watching whatever the twin in control is doing, but cannot physically do anything until his turn comes around.
* AnimalMotifs: Tristan has rams, Byron has fish.
* BodyHorror: An inter-dimensional, timeshare, body-swap form of both physical and mental horror rooted in too much shared DNA in too small a space for two parties... and, too little experience of humans for the third, yes.
* ColorMotifs: Byron has blue (the colour of his armour, the colour of his power and the colour he used to paint his hair), while Tristan has orange.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: They were a member of the superhero team Reach, but wound up leaving before Gold Morning. Their chapter of ''Glow-worm'' shows that Reach had a very troubled dynamic: Tristan and Moonsong bitterly hate each other, and Moonsong gave Tristan's friend Furcate a hard time; meanwhile, Byron and Moonsong appear to be friendly to each other. Tristan says in Torch 7.3 that he tried juggling so many things that he eventually cracked under the pressure, did some impulsive things, became a villain without realizing it, and lost his friends, team, and family in the process.
* DifferentAsNightAndDay: Tristan is more extroverted and confident, while Byron is introverted and less energetic. The contrast makes it hard on Byron, because since they're stuck sharing a body, he has to spend time sorting out Tristan's mistakes.
* DiscardAndDraw: Apparently their powers changed to match the name after they took on the name Capricorn.
* ImmuneToMindControl: Yes-no: played with. You can mind control whoever is physical at the time you do it, but the one in time-out will 1) definitely be aware of that and will 2) actively work to shake the other out of it and/or undo whatever you controlled him to do as soon as it's safe to go physical themselves. And, no master-stranger type has yet worked out how (or that they even need) to hit ''both'' of them at the same time.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Tristan and Rain have developed this. [[spoiler:Despite Tristan being gay and Rain previously having been part of the homophobic Fallen cults.]] Byron isn't quite as close, but he's still right behind Tristan and Erin for Rain's closest friend.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Tristan has mild SuperStrength to lift his stone creations easier, while Byron is resistant to extreme temperatures, presumably to avoid getting hypothermia from his water. They both have access to their own halves of a form of either HammerSpace or a PocketDimension. It certainly helps with their quick-complete-changeover-thing to have a way to store their specific equipment, accessories, accoutrements and ''stuff'' for it to be almost instantly available, but it may have other uses. [[FridgeHorror Just don't think too long about who/what organizes who gets what and how in the dimensional shenanigans. Including biology: it's mucked it up at least once.]]
* SharingABody: He/they are a case 70- twins who triggered while touching each other, [[TwoSiblingsInOne which forced their bodies to merge.]] Each twin gets control of the body for two hours at a time, and rather than personalities shifting, the entire body (including clothes) shifts to become the original twin's body.
* SuperStrength: Both possess low-tier super-strength, which is helpful when handling Tristan's rock constructs.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Tristan paints his magenta [[IdenticalTwinIDTag so people can tell him from Byron]]. Byron used to paint his blue, but now just leaves it black.

!!Tristan
* BadassGay: He's a superhero who's also canonically gay.
* DishingOutDirt: Tristan creates things out of rock.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Tristan, due to a combination of lack of proper teaching and being stuck in battle mentality, so he impulsively brakes when he thinks he sees something.
* GratuitousSpanish: Tristan occasionally drops Spanish words/phrases.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Tristan is this towards Weld, going so far as to claim he's the latter's biggest fan. Unfortunately for him, he tries to make this claim in front of Sveta, who is Weld's ''girlfriend''.
* TheLeader: Tristan often assumes the role for the group.
* NoodleIncident: Tristan did ''something'' during their time in Reach that caused the junior half of Reach to crash and burn, as Tattletale put it. Moonsong accused him of having killed or attempted to kill a teammate, and he was arrested by her and Tribute for an unknown reason. It's implied that at least part of this involved taking primary control over his shared body and leaving Byron trapped in the backseat.
* StraightGay: Tristan has some [[CampGay camp]] attributes, such as dyeing his hair and his massive fanboy crush on Weld, but generally defaults to this.

!!Byron
* GuestStarPartyMember: Byron isn't officially a part of the group- he's repeatedly made it clear that he thinks the whole idea is terrible and that it can only end badly, though he's on friendly terms with them- but he helps out during fights.
* MakingASplash: Byron has water powers.
* OnlySaneMan: Often mixed up for TheReliableOne by others, but just because Byron isn't inclined to act out doesn't mean he can't -- or doesn't. The more introverted Byron is, however, often left carrying the can of extroverted mistakes that Tristan caused, but which he then can't face dealing with. The problem is... by the time Byron gets stuck with it, it's also undeniably also his can, as well. Whether he feels capable of dealing with it or not. Or if he even wants to. This causes friction for both.
* TheQuietOne: Fairly introverted, which isn't helped by his infrequent interactions with the others.

[[folder:Swansong]]
!Ashley Stillions
!!!'''PHO: Mangled_Wings'''
Damsel of Distress was a minor villain who can disintegrate localized matter, and was eventually inducted into the Slaughterhouse Nine before getting killed by Defiant. Ashley is [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope not that character]]; rather, she's one of the ''clones'' of Damsel of Distress created by Bonesaw who managed to survive the fallout of the Nine's defeat. She's decided to give fighting crime a try for a change, but is very vocal that she intends to return to villainy the second the whole "team" thing doesn't pan out.

Classification: Blaster; Mover

* AmbiguousDisorder: It's pretty clear that she has some sort of personality disorder, but it's never explicitly stated what it is exactly. That said, her general behaviour, as well as the side effects of her medication, indicate that she likely has bipolar disorder.
* AscendedExtra: Was a minor antagonist in ''Worm'' that died without accomplishing much.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Invoked by Ashley during Eclipse X.8, when she tells Jack Slash that even if she agreed to join the Slaughterhouse Nine, Bonesaw might easily make her into a living weapon with no control over her life. [[spoiler:Which was exactly what happened- they 'fixed' her power but took away her hands, and took her voice as well.]]
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Inverted; as the antiheroic Swansong, Kenzie makes Ashley contacts that invert the normal effects of her power, giving her blank white eyes that become pure black when she uses her powers.
* BrokenBird: Since before Ashley Stillions triggered, she was a broken little girl from a very broken home. Triggering didn't help. And, the less said about Jack sticking his oar in [[spoiler:plus the multiple deaths and collective memory/identity issues]], the better.
* BrutalHonesty: Ashley ''never'' holds back any opinion that enters her head. At all. It's very good for throwing overconfident villains off their game, but it doesn't exactly win her a lot of friends.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When she and Bonesaw confronted Blasto in ''Worm'', Blasto didn't recognize her, even after they met during the Boston Games and Ashley [[spoiler:killed his kaiju]]. She didn't take it well.
* CatchPhrase: During the Eclipse arc, her narration often talks about how she has either bad days, or days when she dreads the bad days. At the end of the arc, she says that now she has good days, and bad days she can manage because she knows there are good days coming.
* CharacterDevelopment: Whether it's because of her being a clone or whether Bonesaw cloned [=DoD=] after she operated on her, Ashley is remarkably more stable than the original [=DoD=]. However, it's revealed that she identifies more as Damsel of Distress than as Ashley Stillions, because she has connected less with her memories before she got powers and more with her memories of being a villain and killing people. Early in the book she was convinced she was going to be a villain again and the team will be gone before long; after the Fallen raid she is one of the members most committed to keeping the team together.
* ClonesArePeopleToo: She's a clone of the original [=DoD=], and is treated in-story like anyone else.
* DefrostingIceQueen: For all her aloofness and disdain for people, she enjoys Kenzie's company, and in Shade 4.4, is visibly happy at a fan's excited responses to getting sent a photo of Victoria, Ashley and Tristan.
* TheDogBitesBack:
** Does not respond well to mistreatment. [[spoiler:Shown when she kills Beast of Burden for hitting her and ordering her to stop pissing him off despite her not doing anything objectionable.]]
** It's revealed that back in ''Worm'', [[spoiler:the Slaughterhouse Nine's attack on Accord's HQ, which forced him to Brockton Bay, happened because Damsel was gunning for him as retribution for humiliating her at the Boston Games]].
* EyeColourChange: When Ashley uses her powers her eyes and hair are bleached white and it takes several seconds for her irises to reappear.
* FatalFlaw: Pride. Damsel was too proud to allow herself to do things like cut her losses, or accept that she wasn't considered a major player. It almost always worked to her detriment. Current Ashley is actively trying to avoid acting ''too'' stereotypically (and predictably) thanks to her pride it, but is still pretty proud.
* GameBreaker: Minus the original Damsel's awful control issues, Ashley quickly makes it clear why Jack took an interest. Ashley simply breezes around the Manton Effect (and could conceivably warp the Siberian). Meaning that even characters like Weld need to apply caution when interacting with her. [[spoiler:When your shard is basically in charge of the entity-collective's planets-destroying propulsion system, using it on anything less would, naturally, come with acute feather-light control difficulties in everyday settings, yes.]] The downside: she could kill herself and/or her teammates with her own power (directly, she's immune; indirectly, she can still get squashed into a pancake by e.g. unattended rubble, suction-related upsets caused by sudden vacuums and/or get recoil-related mishaps with her blasts), should she lose control.
* GhostMemory: Ashley has the memories of the original Damsel, the Damsel clones Bonesaw killed before her, and people who the original Damsel knew, like Edict and Licit. However, Bonesaw did not intentionally give her most of those memories (nor did she have access to Edict and Licit's memories), leaving the question of where Ashley got those memories from unsolved.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: The original Damsel was just about to give up on villainy, when the Slaughterhouse Nine got her.
* HeelFaceTurn: Whether it's the team's influence or her own maturation, Ashley has become a much nicer person as the story progresses. [[spoiler:She even turns herself in for killing Beast of Burden, and doesn't have a problem with going to prison for it.]]
* HopeSpot: After the original Damsel triggered, she killed her abusive father. For a second, it looked as though she and her mother could escape their old lives and build something better... and then her powers killed her mother by accident.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: At the end of the day, Damsel of Distress was a very, very minor villain, who despite her power simply didn't have what it took to accomplish anything significant. Even when she did accomplish things, her personality got in her own way.
* TheInfiltration: Goes undercover as a villain in Hollow Point.
* MoralityPet: Kenzie. In Shade 4.4, Ashley flips her shit at Houndstooth, telling him that Kenzie is human and deserves to be treated with respect, and in Beacon 8.7, she threatens Monokeros for using her power on Kenzie.
* MundaneUtility: Her power annihilates matter, but the Manton effect protects her own body from it. This means that she can use her power on herself to instantly destroy all grime and give herself an impromptu bath. We see the original Damsel do this in Eclipse X.2.
* ParentalSubstitute: She's become something like a kind older sister to Kenzie, who adores her. She's more than happy with this.
* PretenderDiss: Was unceremoniously ejected from the meeting of the major players during the Boston Games, after she tried to muscle her way into being treated as an equal.
* PowerIncontinence: {{Downplayed}}, especially compared to the original Damsel, who could barely control her powers at times. Ashley has much more finesse and confidence in using her abilities, though she still gets "sparky" from time to time, according to Kenzie.
* ProstheticLimbReveal: She has prosthetic hands.
* PunnyName: Comes with the cape turf. In her case, she's truly neither the pale Damsel of Distress nor Ashley Stillons and has yet to differentiate herself. Yet, she still kind of ''is'' a messed-up coda appended the life of the messed-up woman who was. Who can insta-kill most things, by-the-by. Yeah: Swansong.
* RecoilBoost: Ashley's space warping/matter destroying blasts create a strong recoil which she can use to dodge attacks and move around with. [[spoiler:It's the lowest setting of the whole propulsion-engine-shard-thing, basically.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: When she triggered, she killed her parents by accident.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Both in the way she acts (cold, threatening, insulting) and in her motivations, having openly declared herself on PHO to be a villain. In Flare 2.6, she told the group that she would only stay with them until they crashed and burned, and only so she could learn before going back to being a villain. In Glare 3.3, she outright states that she could annihilate the whole team.
* TranquilFury: When she ''really'' gets mad, it's a quiet, cold, no-holds-barred, hit-em-where-it-hurts kind of anger. Victoria comments that Ashley barely resembles her normal self when in this state. It's been shown when [[spoiler:she finally snaps on Beast of Burden and kills him by blowing a hole in his chest with her power, all without raising her voice or batting an eye]].

[[folder:Precipice]]
!Rain Frazier
!!!'''PHO: of5'''
A close friend of the Capricorn twins, Rain is a cagey teen with a lot of secrets, many stemming from the fact that he's a member of a multi-trigger (a trigger event involving multiple people in which all involved get portions of each other's powers) and has reason to be afraid of his cluster-mates, all of whom are gunning to kill him. He has a grab-bag of powers which shift day-by-day, but [[MasterOfNone most of them are pretty weak]]. He spends the first part of ''Ward'' without a cape name, picking 'Precipice' as a temporary name in Beacon 8.6.

Classification: Blaster; Shaker; Mover; Tinker (Prosthetic Limbs)
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: [[spoiler:He was raised as a member of the Fallen, but after he triggered, they turned against him for a couple of reasons- first, because the bleed-through turned him into a nicer person who didn't believe in their ideology, and second because while he has powers, they're considered to be inferior and useless for the Fallen's cause.]]
* TheAtoner: For what he did as part of the Fallen. It leads him to turn himself in for his crimes, and does everything possible to make it clear that he wants to go to jail for what he did.
* BlessedWithSuck: He may have gotten multiple powers, but all of them have very serious drawbacks.
** His blaster power can cut absolutely anything in half, but affects the very first solid object that it encounters; in the case of most people, that's just their clothes. If it does hit skin, it doesn't have a non-lethal setting; any body part hit will be split in half if pushed hard enough. So realistically, it either does nothing, or is ''instantly fatal'', with no in-between.
** His mover power lets him cancel his momentum, but locks him in place for about a second and has a recharge time.
** His emotion power is so weak that people barely even notice when it is used on them.
** His tinker arms are very easy to break.
* BunglingInventor: He's a Tinker who can make prosthetic hands and arms, but they're really not very good.
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:During the Pitch arc, Cradle and Operator Red slice him up very badly, though he lives and recovers.]]
* CombatPragmatist: When it comes to fighting his cluster-mates, he's willing to forego the usual restrictions on powered combat and do what it takes to survive.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Due to being part of a cluster-trigger/being a grab-bag cape he has multiple powers, but [[MasterOfNone the crappy versions of all of them]], or so he claims. They include:
** Shooting white "lines" of energy that can cleanly bisect anything they touch (including people and animals) if enough force is applied. His personal power.
** Completely stopping his own momentum at will, which is a subset of Snag's Mover power.
** Inducing (extremely weak) feelings of doubt and guilt, which is drawn from Love Lost.
** Low-level Tinker abilities specialized in prosthetic limbs, as a weaker version of Cradle's powers.
** May or may not possess an unknown fifth power connected to the (supposedly) deceased fifth cluster mate.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Was adopted into the Fallen: a homophobic cult that does arranged marriages, carries out violent acts, worshipped the Endbringers, and took advantage of people on Golden Morning. As a child, his adopted parents sold him to another family. He was a henchman when the Fallen started a fire that killed numerous people, leading him to trigger in the same cluster as several others who were inside the building.]]
* DavidVersusGoliath: He's part of a cluster-trigger, and the other members have teamed up and are coming after him, though he says it's not a Kiss/Kill[[note]]Capes that are part of the same cluster-trigger tend to either deeply bond with one another, whether platonically or romantically, or feel all-consuming hatred for each other.[[/note]] type of situation.
* EmotionBomb: He can induce feelings of guilt and doubt, but the feelings are so tepid that one can actually not notice that he's inducing them.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: His crush on Erin is very clear to see, but people [[spoiler:outside the Fallen]] don't bring it up directly.
* HeelFaceTurn: Had one after triggering. He used to be a standard, card-carrying member of [[spoiler:the Fallen]], but after triggering, he found himself rethinking his entire beliefs.
* ImportantHaircut: Cut his hair sometime between the end of Pitch and the start of Torch.
* InSeriesNickname: Jay calls him 'Rain man'.
* {{Irony}}: He frequently wishes that Erin would see him as more than a friend. [[spoiler:He gets the chance to marry her, but turns it down, because she was forced into it by the Fallen.]]
* LethalHarmlessPowers: His Blaster power lets him make 'lines' he can throw, and anything they hit can, if the right amount of force is applied, be split in two around the line. But it bypasses the Manton effect, meaning that he can potentially split ''people'' in half, and he doesn't have to be the one applying the force, so it's possible for him to make someone kill themselves by throwing a punch.
** He can make prosthetic arms, but they are too weak to be of any use, and break easily. However, he eventually figures out how to build blades into them, so if they break while he is grappling with someone, his opponent will be impaled.
** In addition: note how he pretty much covers all broad categories of power types. However "minor" any one power may seem on any given day, the odds are good it could prove synergistic with ''somebody else'' in any team he works in. The Fallen have focused on how weak his Master, Thinker and Tinker powers are in isolation, without noticing that he is, in effect, a Swiss Army force multiplier or sabotager.
* LoopholeAbuse: Sure, he's been extensively hit by Mother Mathers' mind control. But, he worked around that to engage with outsiders on a regular basis ''and'' teamed up to get help. How? By carefully not thinking about her at all... or only doing so in the most tangential ways he could. Although not ideal, he worked around her better than most.
* PowerUp: [[spoiler:After killing Snag, he got most of Snag's tokens, making his Mover power stronger, though it's unclear exactly how the power has improved.]]
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: He has them instead of normal dreams, wherein he lives the memories of the others in his multi-trigger, and later psychically connects with and can talk to them.
* ReformedButRejected: After triggering, he became a much better person, entirely regretting his previous actions. His cluster, however, don't care about his changed opinions, and want only to inflict the nastiest death on him that they can.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: It's never directly highlighted (mainly because it's both very abstract to describe and incredibly difficult for Rain to talk about at all), but his entire cluster must have some Thinker ability to pull off the shared-yet-compartmentalized, network-style dreamspace; in much the same way their personalities and powers are shared-yet-compartmentalized, it's likely other processes are networked between them all, too. Which might help explain why Mama Mathers got a little surprise when trying to control Rain, beyond his fairly abysmal Master ability. His emotion ability's self-buffering effect when used on himself + cognitive therapy training + inter-dimensionally networked brain = a headache for other Master/Thinker types.
* UnfortunateNames: As he himself says, he's heard all the jokes. It's taken further when his full name is revealed: [[spoiler:Rain O'Fire Frazier]].

[[folder:Cryptid]]
!Chris Elman
!!!'''PHO:''' Curious_Cephalopod[[labelnote:*]] As well as 31 others that he cycles through depending on his most recent form[[/labelnote]]
The team's [[TheQuietOne least talkative member]], an orphan of unknown origins with dynamic shapeshifting powers that have permanent ramifications on both his appearance and personality. He's snarky and insulting even at the best of times, but seems to be firmly on the side of the good guys. He spends the first part of ''Ward'' without a cape name, finally picking Cryptid in Torch 7.8.

Classification: Changer; Breaker(?)

* AccidentalMurder: Apparently he's killed someone by accident before, though we don't know the details.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "Or did your sister handle you when she tightened the screws?" to Victoria.
* {{Asexuality}}: He mentions that he doesn't think he'll ever be interested in a romantic or sexual relationship. While this could be in part because he's still too young for that kind of interest, the nature of his power and its effect on him makes it entirely possible that he's right.
* BerserkButton: People invading his privacy and/or overstepping the boundaries, even if they had a good reason (aka Victoria showing up to the orphanage in Torch 7.7 to give him a message because she couldn't email him and he wasn't answering his phone).
* BigEater: He's constantly chowing down on something and always has extra snacks stockpiled in his backpack. {{Justified}}, since he tends to spend a lot of time roaming around and doesn't seem to frequently eat proper meals.
* BlessedWithSuck:
** His power is very versatile and has a lot of uses, but Chris believes (possibly because of prior experiences) that one day he'll transform and physically fall apart. This is made worse by the fact that he ''has'' to transform in order to have the emotions associated with each form.
** In Arc 7 we get a more direct look at this problem. [[spoiler:He transforms a single time more than his stated daily limit in Arc 6, and sure enough, he loses teeth as a result (and gets dry socket). The fact that he knew his limit in advance indicates that he isn't merely guessing.]]
* BodyHorror:
** The more we learn about him, the more obvious it is that he's physically breaking down. [[spoiler:And while his power is at least partially to blame, it's implied that most of this is a result of someone else's power on him.]] Additionally, most of the forms he transforms into are pretty horrifying.
** At least one of his forms (Mad Anxiety) is a definite case of this trope, a six-foot-tall screaming face with legs like a spider. Another, 'Multifaceted Interest', apparently has a large number of eyes. Some of his others are merely ''mildly'' horrid or just downright uncanny because of the bits that are physiologically icky.
** He can be hit by body horror as a result of overuse of his powers or strain. As in "teeth falling out" or "patches of skin flacking off". Just looking like hungover, death-warmed-up-on-a-defrost-setting for a few days is the optimistic outcome; he's understandably wary of the possible outcome of ''really'' pushing his limits.
** Apparently he's gone to the bathroom in the morning and left blood and meat in the bowl, woken up with a variety of fluids staining his bed, and has had at least one instance where his pancreas apparently tore itself in half.
** His 'Brooding Anger' form comes with over a thousand half-human half-grub ''creatures'' inside of him, and he can give birth to them and unleash them on his enemies. ''Not'' giving birth to them and changing back leaves him with a slurry of their parts stuck in his guts.
* BrutalHonesty: Not unlike Ashley, he tends to always speak his mind with little-to-no reservation or consideration for how it might hurt other people.
* ControlFreak: When it comes to his life and his boundaries. He flips out at Victoria coming to the orphanage without asking him, even though she couldn't contact him and had a legitimate reason to go there, and becomes incandescent upon finding out that Victoria was talking to one of the orphanage staff because he doesn't know what was said and can't control the results of the conversation.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He's an orphan who lives in an orphanage where people are mostly afraid of him, and has apparently killed people by accident.
* DeadpanSnarker: Snarky one-liners seem to be his primary method of interacting with pretty much anybody. This is actually a point of contention in his therapy sessions with Dr. Yamada, who thinks he spends too much focus on how clever a put-down might be and not on the fact that it's actually, you know, a put-down. It's so pronounced, that when his teammates experience a gap where some acid remark would usually be, they know he's either taken off or gone silent for some other notable reason that may need looking in to.
* DisabilityImmunity: His power-inflicted emotional disability makes him mostly immune to Mama Mathers' attacks- sure, she can control his senses, but she can't control how he reacts to what she shows him, so he's able to report on the "anti-Thinker countermeasure" with only a minimum of freaking out at his vision suddenly turning into a trypophobic nightmare.
* EmotionlessGirl: ZigZagged; he normally does not feel emotions at all, but each of his transformations brings a single strong feeling with it, and this feeling lingers for a time after he reverts back to his normal human form.
* InSeriesNickname: Tattletale calls him "Creepy Kid", which Victoria adopts as her name for him in her phone.
* InvisibilityCloak: Kenzie made a cloaking device for his that he uses to hide while untransformed or changing.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's extremely sarcastic, emotionally insensitive, and tends to get on the nerves of everyone around him without even trying. This doesn't change the fact that he is, essentially, a good person who wants to become a superhero so he can help other people.
* MagicPants: {{Averted}}. It's very easy for his shapeshifting to shred his outfits, so he tends to bring clothes in different sizes to fit his various forms, and has to be careful that he doesn't end up naked when he shifts back to normal.
* MultiformBalance: An emotional version. Chris has to vary his forms in order to keep his emotions balanced, as focusing on one over the others can skew his mentality to a dangerous degree.
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:Gives the team his emergency medications to stop Rain from bleeding out, saying that he likes Rain more than the rest of them.]]
* TheQuietOne: Tends to speak his mind the least out of everyone in the group. When he does speak up, it's typically to make a sarcastic comment or question the logic of somebody's latest plan.
* ThemeNaming: All of his forms have two-part names that relate to the emotion they're based on.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Kenzie.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: His power. He has a variety of forms he shifts into, but he can't shift all the way back, leaving him with changes (usually mental or sense-related) that he has to live with.

!!!Wan Indulgence
A potbellied ogre with thick limbs and a small head.

* BoisterousBruiser: As it's derived from a variety of joy, Chris is in a pretty good mood while in this form.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Capable of eating nearly any inanimate material and regurgitating them as more useful constructions.
* SuperSpit: One of the potential products he can make what he's eaten into, simply compressing it into a blob or a cloud of loose material to spit out.
* SuperStrength: Enough to break stone with his bear hands and tear down trees.
* TinyHeadedBehemoth: Not quite gigantic, but bigger than a normal person and with a smaller than proportionate head.

!!!Mad Anxiety
A distended face skittering on insectoid legs.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: Not a giant bug, but similar in basic shape with how the main part of the face forms a thorax and abdomen while the chin and lower face form a "head."
* CowardlyLion: Literally defined by its fear, but Chris still uses it against the Cedar Point villains.
* EmotionBomb: When it shrieks in mortal terror, everyone who hears it is gripped by the same fear. And it screams a ''lot''.
* NoSell: Immune to emotion-altering effects by virtue of its fear leaving no room for any other emotions.
* TheSpeechless: Capable of vocalization though its screams, but doesn't seem to be able to speak.
* VolumetricMouth: The upper and lower jaws aren't exactly connected by cheeks, jawbones, or other connective tissues, which causes it to gape wide and look even more unnerving.
* WallCrawl: Capable of skittering right up walls, which helps stay one step ahead of anything that may be chasing it.

!!!Dark Introspection
A "conch shell" shaped body formed from scaled flesh, feathers, and eyes with four long legs.

* ExtraEyes: Has eyes of various sizes all over the spiral of its body.
* HellishPupils: The pupil of the main eye, which is itself the size of a human head, looks rather like an inkblot skull.
* NoSell: As its body and mind are largely separate, mind control doesn't quite work against it.
* PeoplePuppets: A weird example where he's puppeteering himself. Chris doesn't have direct control over his body in this form, essentially giving it commands and sitting back while it acts like an autonomous drone.
* TheSpeechless: No mouth to communicate with, just eyes to watch.

!!!Keen Vigilance
An armored creature with incredible senses and a variety of blades.

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Has a number of retractable blades on the hands, arms, shoulders, and various other points.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: They're used to see but they're not much like normal eyes. For starters, they're essentially amorphous, allowing them to extend and stretch out of this sockets.
* MightyGlacier: Heavily armored with bony plates, but rather slow.
* SuperSenses: One of the main benefits of this form.

!!!Strained Peace
A gaunt and bearded humanoid with a cloak of skin.

* {{Fingore}}: Minor, but it has raw nail beds where there should be fingernails.
* FragileSpeedster: Quick and durable but lacks stamina or strength.
* InTheHood: Made of skin, but still.
* MarionetteMotion: Usually moves slowly and deliberately but when incited moves in quick, jerky motions.
* PrimalStance: Perpetually forced into a crouch by the weight of the skin cloak on a gaunt body with unusual joints and muscular structure.
* TheSpeechless: Lacks a mouth and has no other method of vocalization. Better off than most of Chris's forms though, as it still has the coordination and necessary appendages to scratch words in the dirt.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Lacks any special abilities or real combat potential, though it provides a good choice for when Chris needs to change but doesn't want hostilities.

!!!Brooding Anger
A masked tardigrade-like creature with transparent skin revealing the brood within.

* GenderBender: Chris apparently considers the form female.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: "Man" is severely overselling how human it is to look at, but its face is an armored mask faintly resembling Chris's. Applies to the young as well, which have deformed skulls with mask-like faces bearing the occasional similarity to their parent.
* MookMaker: The form can "birth" over a thousand creatures resembling a cross between a human and a grub.
* NothingIsScarier: We never get to see the brood unleashed, largely due to everyone's disgust and fear at the mere ''idea'' of letting them out.
* PunnyName: "Brooding" refers both to the type of anger and the horde of young it can unleash.
* TheSpeechless: Another form that can't talk.
* WolverineClaws: The limbs bristle with claws and gnarled, spiked lumps of armor. Also applies to the young, which have razor sharp fingers.

[[folder:Lookout]]
!Kanzi "Kenzie" Martin
!!!'''PHO: Heart_Shaped_Pupil'''
TheBabyOfTheBunch, a former Wards member by the name of Optics (with a lot of bad experiences related to that time period) who had been affiliated with the Protectorate since before she was a teenager. She's a surveillance-counter surveillance Tinker whose specialty lies in cameras, electronics, hacking, and larger permanent emplacements, and struggles with a lot of angst over the expectations other people have of her due to her powers. She picked 'Looksee' as her new cape name initially, before changing it to Lookout in Torch 7.8.

Classification: Tinker (Surveillance, Counter-surveillance)

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Her mother in particular is revealed in Interlude 7.x to have once slammed Kenzie into her plate so hard that it scarred her cheek, and previously grabbed her so hard she left bruises. Both parents were emotionally and verbally abusive.]]
* AgeAppropriateAngst: She wants to be helpful and actually wants to help her teammates (both the Wards and the chatroom group), but she's so young that people want to keep her to the sidelines, which she hates.
* AllLovingHero: A surprisingly dark case: Kenzie loves everyone and wants them to love her back, but this has led to her accidentally getting teachers and instructors sacked and investigated for possible molestation/child abuse (in one case, she doctored a bunch of photos to make them look like she and her older instructor were BFF-close because she was lonely, and when some other kids found them, they turned the photos in, leading to the investigation), and she's also thrown herself at the kind of people who prey on the vulnerable. She also refuses to say anything bad about people she wants to like her, even when they're standing right there, saying bad/insulting things about her. She actually threatened to go to war with Ashley because Ashley was insulting Houndstooth ''for having insulted Kenzie''.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: She's been treated as a pariah for reasons ranging from her age, to her powers, and to her race (she's black).
* AmbiguousDisorder: Kenzie's trouble with understanding things like boundaries and friendships, as well as her intense desire to make people like her and understand how human behaviour works has been described as resembling either some form of autism, or some kind of personality disorder.
* BlessedWithSuck: Triggered at nine, has a power so important that people have tried to kidnap her for it, and she's only eleven. She was on a Wards team at ''ten''.
* BlindedByTheLight: She built a flash 'gun' that fires very bright light into her opponents' faces.
* CharacterTics: Whenever Kenzie smiles, she's explicitly ''not'' happy.
* CheerfulChild: She's very upbeat and friendly most of the time.
* CreepyChild: By accident- being able to plant cameras on people with a touch tends to make people think of her that way.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Was abused by her birth parents, triggered at nine, was on a Wards team at ten, and spent the time in-between frantically trying to make friends and failing. She's internalised her failures to the point that she's lost hair and made herself sick, has made her old Wards teammates run scared of her, had one classmate's family move away because of her (and two others considered it), at least one teacher was being investigated, and has been in multiple institutions (including one that was either the same as, or very like the one Victoria and Sveta were in) and placed with several sets of foster parents, some of whom she drove away by trying to get close to them and screwing it up without realising.
* EyeScream: She has cameras that need to be implanted into people's eyes, though doing so doesn't hurt them.
* GadgeteerGenius: A Tinker who specializes in cameras and in making computers, cameras, and terminals that are too big to conveniently move around.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: She made three chatrooms full of bots to have someone to talk to, and practically begs one of her old Ward teammates not to walk away from her. In Flare 2.6, she told the group that there have only been three times in her life when people actually wanted her around, and one of those instances was behind her trigger event.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: She clings onto people (Sveta, Ashley, Victoria) and does everything she can to make them like her. And she'll do things like pull two consecutive all-nighters and spend hours scanning footage to try to make people like and approve of her, making it a miracle that she never ran into a villain who showed her affection to get her on their side... though apparently once she nearly offered herself as a substitute daughter for a woman who'd lost hers (and who she later suspected of having killed her daughter).
* InsistentTerminology: Because her Tinker focus is on surveillance and cameras in particular, she's able to work better when she conceptualizes almost everything she makes as a camera, to the point where she insists that her audio-recording devices are "sound cameras."
* NoSocialSkills: For all her cuteness and affection, she doesn't quite get how things like friendships and relationships work. She's managed to turn friends, classmates and teammates away from her without realising why, and has spent nights trying to find the magical button to press that will make people like her. Houndstooth says that at nine, she had no brakes, boundaries or emotional defences.
* PlayfulHacker: Hacking is one of her power's sub-specializations. She's good enough to create multiple chatrooms full of realistic AI bots and crack PHO's normally ironclad identity security to track down her former teammates.
* PrecisionFStrike: "I'm sorry my parents are such ''fucking'' embarrassments", to Victoria in Torch 7.10.
* ProjectedMan: She can project a perfect copy of herself onto a battlefield, and it worked so well that nobody realised that she wasn't there until the camera got broken.
* ScarsAreForever: [[spoiler:Has an inch deep scar on her face as a result of her mother's abuse, which she normally hides using her Tinker tech.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: For Natalie and her co-worker Tony, though Natalie demands that she not attempt to set them up.
* StepfordSmiler: Her power-set makes it all too tempting to hide the hot mess of issues she has under a veneer of chipper acceptability. She can sustain her masks for a while, especially as she has rarely stayed in any one place for long, but has been creeping others out ''for years''. She reveals in Interlude 7.x that she only smiles when she's ''not'' happy, because it makes whatever's happening go better, and doesn't smile when she's happy.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour:
** [[spoiler:She once did something sexual to one of her foster fathers because she wanted to show him she loved him, having googled how to show someone she loved them and not understood things like appropriate behaviour and boundaries.]]
** Regarding her biological parents, [[spoiler:she tracked them down and they were forced to take her in, but they really didn't like it, and have been trying to kill and abuse her. She's been recording all the times they've tried to kill or abuse her as further blackmail material, because she wants them to be better parents.]]

[[folder:Tress]]
!Sveta Karelia
!!!'''PHO: Kraken_In_A_Jar'''
A Case 53 whose body is a mass of super-strong tentacles that [[PowerIncontinence she can't completely control]]. Used to work with the Irregulars prior to the team's collapse. Having grown to the point where she no longer has to be worried about endangering everyone around her, she's making an effort to branch out and be her own person by becoming a superhero in her own right. Was formerly known as Garrotte, before adopting the name Tress in Torch 7.8.

For tropes applying to her appearance in Worm, see her folder under [[Characters/WormOthers Miscellaneous Heroes and Rogues.]]

Classification: Brute

* AscendedExtra: She didn't have it as bad as Victoria and Ashley, being a relatively important character for decent stretches of ''Worm'''s second half, but is slated to be a protagonist here.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Any way you slice it, Sveta is a joy to be around. Just... don't endanger her, those she cares about or those she has decided to protect. It will not go well. Many have earned the dismemberment they got.
* CharacterDevelopment: She's visibly more comfortable with her body and at peace with being stuck as a Case 53, and is even able to smile at a joke Kenzie makes about how her hugs are lethal.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: At least at the beginning of ''Ward''- she has a body, a boyfriend she loves, friends who understand and don't judge her, and she can make all the art she wants now.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Sveta almost never swears, instead opting for terms like dummy or lamebrain. When she does swear, it's most often due to an issue relating to her body control problems.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Victoria. The two get each other like no one else has.
* IconicOutfit: Sveta's body looks almost normal, but she paints every inch of it, making it very distinctive.
* OfficialCouple: With Weld.
* RelationshipUpgrade: She started dating Weld sometime before the story began.
* TeamMom: Tends to play this role for the group, being one of the least confrontational members. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in Shade 4.5, to her embarrassment.
* TookALevelInBadass: She's in considerably better control of her tendrils nowadays than she ever was in ''Worm'', though still isn't totally confident about being able to cut loose without seriously hurting anybody. She's also taken a few levels personality-wise, having emotionally matured and gained a lot of confidence over the TimeSkip.
* TranquilFury:
** She becomes noticeably angry when discussing the Fallen's treatment of Case 53s, but still remains in control of herself.
** She's ''livid'' with Tattletale in Pitch 6.8, but again remains in control of herself.

[[folder:Natalie]]
!Natalie
A young nascent lawyer hired to help guide and protect team Breakthrough in the legal goings on of the parahuman world, and by extension helps plan their operations and crime fighting. As of Interlude 7.x she is also one of the people acting as an impromptu guardian for Kenzie.

* ActionSurvivor: Manages to protect a tech-less Kenzie from four of Love Lost's goons without any weapons, powers, or training.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Interlude 8.x is told from her perspective.
* IgnoredExpert: Victoria and the other members of Breakthrough often play fast and loose with the legal guidelines Natalie sets up, much to her dismay.
* LustfulMelt: Her internal reaction to her co-worker Tony asking her on a date.
* MissionControl: Being a non-parahuman, non-combative member of the team, Natalie serves partially as this. Helping to plan the teams actions and advising them on legal matters.
* TheTeamNormal: The only member of Breakthrough without any powers.

!Norfair Neighborhood Heroes

[[folder:Fume Hood]]

Classification: Blaster
----
* TheAtoner: Wishes to make up for her past as a villain.
* HeelFaceTurn: Fume Hood was originally a petty criminal, but decided to become a hero at the start of ''Ward''.
* InTheHood: As noted by her name.
* PoisonousPerson: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]; her power allows her to create poison, but only when she wants to, and it takes the form of orbs she controls.
* ThemeNaming: All her names as a villain had something to do with apples.

[[folder:Crystalclear]]

Classification: Thinker; Blaster

* AuraVision: One aspect of his powers; every object he looks at has a white aura around it. In the case of humans, these auras are distorted based on the emotions the person is feeling.
* BodyHorror: He has two modes of sight: normal and his crystal vision. In order to change modes, he has to either grow crystals inside his head, piercing his eyes (though they don't harm him) to use his crystal vision, or, to see normally, he has to pull the crystals in his eyes out of his head. One of them is a ''foot long''.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was abducted as a child and told that he had been taken from his family by relatives for his own safety. This turned out to be a lie, but by the time the police caught up to them, his 'relatives' were having him run drugs for them, implicating him in their crimes.
* FailedASpotCheck: One consequence of his thinker powers is that, while he can see in ways others cannot, he also frequently misses things that would be obvious to regular humans and non-Thinker capes. The biggest aspect of this is that while he's using his crystal vision he's colorblind and can't see faces.
* GemstoneAssault: Can throw crystals that pass through obstacles, home in on their targets, and explode.
* {{Seers}}: Crystalclear's power allows him to see a short time into the past and future.
* SuperSenses: He can see through walls.

[[folder:Tempera]]

* ArtAttacker: Tempera constantly generates paint, which she can control and harden for combat.
* {{Tomboy}}: Wears her hair shorter than most men, and likes to help with construction projects.

[[folder:Longscratch]]

Classification: Mover

* BareYourMidriff: Wears a short shirt, showing off a muscular abdomen.
* {{Teleportation}}: Can reappear at the ends of the furrows his claws produce.
* WolverineClaws: Wears a buckler with three protruding blades on each hand.

!Advance Guard

[[folder:The Group as a Whole]]
* LeeroyJenkins: The group enters Hollow Point and picks a fight with the villains there with no research or advanced preparation, motivated by nothing but hearsay. Naturally, things rapidly devolve.

[[folder:Shortcut]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Is shown to be blunt, dismissive, and assumes the worst of others. He really has it out for Victoria for exceptionally petty reasons.

[[folder:Spright]]
* ChivalrousPervert: Begins flirting with Victoria practically on sight, and makes no effort to hide his interest in sex, but respects her choice to turn him down.
* PowerCopying: Can sense the powers of people nearby and copy them voluntarily.

%%! '''Tandem'''

!The Attendant

[[folder:The Group as a Whole]]
* ReligiousBruiser: Not the original membership, but the group contain now contains a few after absorbing another team, The Shepherds.

%%! '''Whorl'''

[[folder:Moonsong]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Was a member of the hero team Reach with Tristan and Byron. She loathes Tristan to the point that in Glare 3.6, she almost starts a fight with powers, and openly accuses Tristan of having killed an old teammate deliberately.
* GravityMaster: Can combine zero-g and enhanced gravity to throw opponents off their game.

!Foresight
%%! '''Countenance'''

%%! '''Anelace'''

%%! '''Effervescent'''

%%! '''Relay'''

[[folder:Crystalclear]]
See his entry under Norfair Neighborhood Heroes.

[[folder:Ratcatcher]]

Classification: Thinker, Master (possibly)

* AnimalMotifs: Rats.
* TheBeastmaster: Appears to have some sort of power over rats.
* FunetikAksent: She has a heavy lisp, implied to be caused by some sort of facial deformity.
* SuperSenses: She can pick up small, hidden objects.

%%! '''Big Picture''' (temporary)

!The Major Malfunctions

[[folder:The Group as a Whole]]

* DamnedByFaintPraise: They've been a team for six years... and never actually fought any villains or criminals.
* DontSplitUsUp: The reason they didn't join the PRT- they were afraid that they'd be split up.
* JumpedAtTheCall: They're incredibly eager to help out Team Breakthrough.
* KidHero: They're all in their teens, and triggered as pre-teens.
* TragicDropout: They all dropped out of school to become heroes.
* TrueCompanions: They're the only real family they have.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Caryatid]]

Classification: Breaker

* DarkAndTroubledPast: She lost her brother when young, and her family got split up.
* SuperMode: Hers is indestructible with enhanced awareness when still, and she doesn't need to eat while in that mode.

[[folder:Withdrawal]]

Classification: Tinker

* ColorMotifs: Pink. Part of his weaponry is a giant syringe full of an unknown pink fluid, and he has glowing pink eyes.
* PoweredArmor: His costume is a variant that Victoria refers to as an agility frame.

[[folder:Finale]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: Despite being aged around sixteen, she's mentally around ten or eleven. This could be because of her power, or for another reason.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Mentally, not physically.
* ExplosionPropulsion: She has the ability to create a chain effect of explosions that throw people around.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Her power allows her to generate sonic orbs with concussive detonations.
* StepfordSmiler: She ordinarily acts very cheerful, but becomes very self-deprecating at the prospect of being thrust into the limelight. She also becomes very upset at the thought of having done something wrong, even if it's minor.

!Mercenary Team

[[folder:The Group as a Whole]]
* StarterVillain: They are the first villains that Victoria faces in Ward.

[[folder:Lord of Loss]]

Classification: Brute; Changer

* AtrociousAlias: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] and [[AvertedTrope averted]]; a character notes that had he made any mistakes in his early career, his name would make him a joke. However, he instead succeeded and is considered [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast very intimidating]].
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Literature/{{Worm}} Lung]]. Both are starter villains to their respective protagonists. Both are [[{{Shapeshifting}} Changers]] and [[SuperStrength Brutes]]. Both become more powerful the longer they are in a fight.
* FriendlyEnemy: He runs Earth N, and when Team Breakthrough visit, he's very cordial and polite toward Victoria, not holding a grudge for how things at the community centre went down.
* LightningBruiser: His centaur form is very fast, can take a beating, and dishes out powerful strikes.
* MultiformBalance: Shifts between a centaur, a bird, and a tree; the bird form allows him to fly, while the centaur form is described as his combat form.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Normally appears as a man with a body made of ashen white strips.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: One of his main abilities.

[[folder:Kingdom Come]]

Classification: Master; Shaker

* HighPressureBlood: Kingdom Come explodes in a shower of gore, releasing far more blood than should be humanly possible, and with enough force to damage nearby windows.
* MindVirus: KC can take control of anyone who gets some of his blood on them. Apparently this infection is permanent, or at least he can be prevented from releasing a host.
* PullingThemselvesTogether: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]]; while not directly seen in the text, surviving the use of his power [[RequiredSecondaryPowers requires]] the ability to reconstitute his body after exploding.
* ReligiousBruiser: Is very fond of Bible verses, and takes his name from Matthew 6:10. He also goes to church everyday and has a strict code of ethics when choosing which jobs to take.

[[folder:Blindside]]

Classification: Stranger

* AmbiguousGender: Has an androgynous voice, and a power which prevents anyone from looking at them, making their gender [[{{Understatement}} difficult]] to deduce if they have one, to say the least.
* BatterUp: Uses a metal bat as a weapon.
* TheFaceless: Has a power which prevents anyone from looking at them. Word of God is that even Master minions like Taylor's bugs can't see them, and the power is apparently permanently active.
* TaughtByExperience: Notes that people tend to come up with the same few workarounds for their power, and has learned to avoid or counter them.
* NeckSnap: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]; as their power forces everyone around them to look away, Blindside could cause someone to snap their own neck by moving in such a way that the only way for them to remain unseen is for the victim's neck to rotate farther than is healthy. They do note however that it's more likely the victim would just close their eyes before snapping their neck.
* PowerIncontinence: Apparently, they can't turn their power ''off''.

[[folder:Nursery]]

Classification: Shaker; Trump

* BerserkButton: People who kill the children of others.
* BodyHorror: She is apparently [[spoiler:pregnant with a parahuman child who acts as the source of her powers. Said child is implied to be some form of stillborn.]]
* CreepyChild: Not her, but she apparently controls a small army of child-sized... [[NothingIsScarier somethings]].
* IronicNurseryTune: Her power [[spoiler:or rather, her unborn child's power]] can only be activated by humming a lullaby.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The jury's still out on whether she actually is [[spoiler:pregnant with a stillborn parahuman]], or whether she's just completely nuts.
* PowerNullifier: Her power creates an area of effect that nullifies other powers.

[[folder:Snag]]
See his entry under Rain's Cluster.

!Rain's Cluster

[[folder:The Group as a Whole]]

* ComboPlatterPowers: Comes with being a cluster trigger. The group's powers include a Mover power, an emotion power, a Blaster power, and a Tinker specialty in prosthetic limbs.
* DysfunctionJunction: Cluster triggers come in a mix of two basic flavours: [[{{Yandere}} messed-up]] and [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne really fucking screwed]]. This one has seemingly taken primarily the latter form of scrambled nuts on toast, specifically towards Rain at the moment. Were he to actually die on them, the odds are pretty good that somebody else within the cluster would become the next focus of hate.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Want to inflict one on Rain, but they also need him dead, so they'll just settle on making him suffer as much as possible along the way.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: While the 'bleed-through' effect is a known side effect of cluster triggers, it's not clear how much of the clusters personality changes are due to this and how much is due to A) Rain being forced to view the consequences of his actions from the victims perspective three out of every five days, and B) the rest of the cluster having the convenient excuse of the bleed-through effect for their more heinous actions.
* MentalFusion:
** They suffer from 'bleed-through', a condition where after triggering, they each received a bit of the others' personalities. This turned Rain into a better person, while the others all know that they've become more negative people- and they don't like it.
** Another way of looking at it is RequiredSecondaryPowers. To network your dreaming, abilities and cognitively processing even a little, you kind of need a Thinker ability of some description... somewhere. This likely has surprising effects; take Tattletale's grandiose mistakes when trying to read individuals involved in networked clusters, for instance. Or Mama Mathers' little difficulties when trying to maintain control of Rain. However, Teacher is one Master who ''might'' be more effective with clusters: he deals in networks, after all, and not just in installing hackable backdoors in individuals. Be afraid. Be especially afraid if he considers himself to be the Network King, but isn't actually.
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Instead of dreaming, the group will relive memories of each other's trigger event, and will then appear in a room where they can talk to each other and exchange "tokens" to shift their powers around for the day. It's been implied that this is not something that other clusters experience, and that it may have something to do with the unseen fifth member.
* TheScapegoat: They've made one out of Rain, holding him entirely responsible for the circumstances that caused them all to trigger. Rain was willingly involved, but he wasn't the one who thought it up or planned it. Had he not coincidentally become part of their cluster, they'd have no reason to target him specifically, rather than the Fallen as a whole.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Possibly deconstructed. Implied for the entire group save for Rain following their trigger event. They really want Rain dead due to his part in it, and are willing to do a lot of bad things in order to get to kill him slowly and very painfully. [[spoiler:In fact, they've slid so far down the Jerkass scale that when Rain begs them for help, asking them to save the Fallen children and other innocents if he allows them to kill him, many of whom are being controlled by powers, the group's response is essentially 'If their dying makes you suffer more, then ''good''.']] However the connection cuts both ways, and several were decent people beforehand. Rain wonders if its bleed-over from him that makes them so nasty, and Cradle thinks that Rain's personality 'infected' them. [[spoiler:Snag's narration in the dream after he dies implies that it was the not-so-random bleed-through caused by their agent/passenger that did it, though it could simply have been the shock of impending death affecting him.]]

[[folder:Snag]]
!Jonathan Seiter
Classification: Mover; Shaker; Striker; Tinker/Prosthetic Limbs
----
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:After he dies he's stuck being visible but mute inside their multi-trigger dream realm forever.]]
* ArtificialLimbs: Has a pair of mechanical arms that are so long they drag on the ground.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Rain kills him during the Shadow arc.]]
* CreepilyLongArms: His prosthetic arms are long enough to touch the ground when he stands up straight.
* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:He loses his hatred and calms down after dying, realizing that the way he went about revenge wasn't worth it.]]
* EmotionBomb: Can force his opponents to experience negative emotions.
* GadgeteerGenius: He can make prosthetic arms that let him balance from walls and windows, as well as channel his emotion power.
* NotQuiteFlight: His Mover power allows him to "fall" in any direction.
* SuperStrength: His prosthetic arms can force clean through inorganic matter, with a little help from his version of Rain's power.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Was heroic enough to try and protect a girl during a fire. Now wants to torture a teenager to death.

[[folder:Love Lost]]
Classification: Mover; Shaker; Tinker/Prosthetic Limbs
----
* EmotionBomb: She has an emotion-affecting roar.
* FangsAreEvil: Her mask has real fangs set into it.
* MeaningfulName: Refers to her dead daughter, who she wants revenge for.
* ParentsAsPeople: She wasn't the best parent, but she loved her daughter more than anything.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Loved her daughter more than anything and would have done anything for her. Now she [[spoiler:is content to let Fallen kids- some of whom are implied to be mind-controlled- die if it makes Rain suffer more.]]
* TheVoiceless: She can talk, but generally elects not to. Interlude 5.y implies that she doesn't talk because she spends her time screaming in pain/rage/grief.
* WallRun: Her Mover power lets her run on walls.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cradle]]
Classification: Tinker/Prosthetic Limbs (hands)
----
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Was bullied at school.
* ArchEnemy: Rain is his, mostly because his being part of the cluster led to Cradle's personality changing outside of his control, along with the destruction of the life he was trying to make for himself. Cradle describes it as 'He took me from me'.
* BodyMotifs: Hands.
* BrilliantButLazy: Rain infers from Cradle's memories that he was viewed as this by his teachers and parents before triggering.
* HandBlast: Can create invisible lines/cables from his robot hands that deliver a powerful blow to anything they come into contact with.
* TheHermit: He dislikes spending time around others, to the point that Rain has dubbed him 'the recluse'.
* MeaningfulName: Refers to the combination of his robot arms and the cables he can make, akin to the game Cat's Cradle.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: His robot is literally nothing but giant mechanical arms and hands.
* PragmaticVillainy: In Pitch 6.5, he tries to convince Team Therapy to walk away instead of fighting, saying that [[spoiler:Rain dying would make things even for him killing Snag.]] The Team don't go for it.
* SuicideDare: He repeatedly tells Rain in Interlude 4.b to kill himself.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The fifth member]]
An unknown. The only clue to their existence is the fifth section of the mutual dream the others share, which is entirely dark.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: [[spoiler:Snag's dying thoughts imply that whatever is in the fifth section of the room is not a "who", but a "what", leaving it open that their extra-dimensional addition/ dynamo may not exactly be taking a ''back''seat in the cluster's affairs.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: All signs point to their being dead, possibly after they triggered.
[[/folder]]

!Cedar Point/Hollow Point

! '''[[AC:The Alaskans]]'''
[[folder:The Group as a Whole]]
A group of villains who played a minor role in PRT Quest; they appear in the first interlude in Ward, helping to re-establish a basic code among the B-list villains.

* AntiHeroTeam: They're not evil, as such. The worst they've done (that we know of) is dealing drugs to teenagers.
* {{Polyamory}}: A pretty relaxed variant, Prancer and Velvet are in a long-term polyamorous relationship, and Velvet is occasionally sleeping with Moose.
* SuperPoweredMooks: As villains go, they were small fish in a smaller pond until Velvet and Prancer went to prison. After they got out, they've started looking to higher goals.
* TookALevelInJerkass: They went from dealing weed to teenagers (and not hurting anyone at all) to taking over a territory and using it to harbor supervillains, run drugs around the city, extort money from the poor and deal in guns.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Prancer]]

Classification: Breaker; Mover
----
* AnimalMotifs: Stags, to complement Velvet.
* BadBoss: Not because he treats his people badly, but because he's a bad leader who can't control his own people.
* BiTheWay: Mentions in passing that he used to have sex with both boys and girls.
* DirtyOldMan: 'Old' is stretching it, but he admits and Moose agrees that a nearly thirty year old man having sex with barely-legal teenagers (and even the 'barely legal' part is questionable) is ''incredibly'' sketchy.
* FragileSpeedster: His Breaker state gives him impressive mobility, but he's lacking in offense and isn't any more durable than a normal person. He runs rings around the heroes for most of the battle with Advance Guard, but in the end Sveta only needs one good hit to take him to the pavement.
* LovableRogue: He and Velvet were small-time drug dealers in a small town who just happened to have powers.
* OfficialCouple: With Velvet. They're poly, but remain a devoted couple, and Prancer intends to marry her.
* OppositesAttract: With Velvet, though he says they're about as close to soulmates as they can get.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Had a variant of one when he was being sentenced to prison- he heard people talking about him (and talking to him, about him) and realized how much he'd fucked up and how bad he looked from the outside, and swore to be a better person for Velvet.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Velvet]]

Classification: Shaker
----
* AnimalMotifs: Deer.
* BerserkButton: Berserk is pushing it, but she really does not like Prancer telling her that she needs to get rid of her truck.
* DishingOutDirt: A variant- she creates a pink dust that accumulates over time, and can move things that are covered in said dust.
* OneTrueLove: Prancer's.
* OppositesAttract: See above.
* OnlyICanMakeItGo: The only way to get her truck running is with her power.
* {{Polyamory}}: She's sleeping with Moose as well as Prancer.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Moose]]

Classification: Brute
----
* AnimalMotifs: The moose.
* AtrociousAlias:
** In-universe, he is frequently laughed at for his name. The reason why, people's unfamiliarity with moose, is explained to him by [[HypocriticalHumor Prancer]].
** It might be more than that. He wears large gauntlets, which he says his name doesn't work without. His name is described as jokey. He gives his initials as "M.K." What would fit this? ''Moose Knuckle.''
* TheBigGuy: Bigger than both Velvet and Prancer, and is a Brute.
* FriendlyEnemy: Gets along quite well with Victoria.
* PragmaticVillainy: When he confronts Glory Girl, he flat out admits that if they fought, she'd win, so he sees no point in fighting her, especially since it'd call over other people who'd beat her, so he asks her to just leave. When she points out that this would mean she'd be running from him, he offers to let her knock him about a little first.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Braindead]]

Classification: Thinker
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* BlessedWithSuck: While using his power he's an invalid, and the more he uses it the longer he takes to recover.
* FaceHeelTurn: Apparently he was a hero before becoming a villain.
* TheOmniscient: He can select an area and know all sorts of information about what's in it. The smaller the area, the more he knows.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Birdbrain]]

Classification: Thinker
----
* TopDownView: How her power works, giving her a birds' eye view of a large area.
* WhipItGood: She uses a whip in fights.
[[/folder]]

! '''[[AC: Beast Of Burden's Faction]]'''

[[folder:Beast of Burden]]

Classification: Brute
----
* BadBoss: A more typical example than Prancer. He demands absolute respect and treats his underlings like crap whenever they don't give it to him. It backfires majorly when [[spoiler:one insult too many drives Damsel off the edge and leads to her killing him]].
* TheBrute: Both personality- and power-wise. He's the biggest source of muscle among Prancer's subordinates, and is a cantankerous {{Jerkass}} of a person who has zero reservations about killing people who get in his way.
* BullyingADragon: [[spoiler:Mouthing off to Ashley gets him killed by her.]]
* FluffyTheTerrible: Many of the Hollow Point villains abbreviate his overly-long codename to "Bob".
* HonorBeforeReason: During the Fallen compound raid, he refuses the help of the heroes even after the battle with Valefor makes it clear that he and his minions don't have the firepower to survive on their own. Unfortunately for him, all that accomplishes is eroding what little respect said minions still have for him.
* LargeAndInCharge: He towers head and shoulders over most of the other Hollow Point villains, and is one of the town's major underbosses beneath Prancer.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: As Brutes go, he's not particularly high on the scale, but Hollow Point being the haven for B-list villains that it is, he's still powerful enough to be one of the major players.
* TinTyrant: Self proclaimed tyrant and wears heavy plate armour with large horns.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Nailbiter]]

Classification: Brute; Mover; Striker (?); Changer
----
* TheDragon: Beast of Burden's primary enforcer.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Her main form of offense is using her powers to impale targets with her nails or teeth- between the mild SuperStrength she has and the sheer speed at which she can extend her limbs, getting hit is the functional equivalent of taking a bullet, and does about as much damage.
* NotQuiteFlight: Can't fly, but being able to stretch her legs gives her impressive vertical mobility.
* RubberMan: Her primary power consists of distorting her limbs to impossibly-long proportions while simultaneously making them thinner, to the point that they become practically invisible.
* ScaryTeeth: Sports rusty nails for teeth, per her codename. Jury's out on whether it's self-inflicted or some bizarre side-effect of her powers.
* SuperStrength: Victoria theorizes that she has some minor degree of this, which is the main reason why her attacks can inflict as much damage as they do.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Sidepiece]]

Classification: Blaster; Brute (?)
----
* BlindingBangs: Her appearance in cape apparel includes a sweep of hair over one eye.
* DetachmentCombat: Can rip out her organs and detonate them with concussive force, essentially using them as improvised explosives.
* TheFakeCutie: Victoria notes her high-pitched voice and attempts to sound like a refined and cutesy teenager, despite being at least in her twenties and not at all conventionally attractive.
* HealingFactor: Any organ she rips out regenerates at an almost instantaneous pace.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Talks a big game and gives off a haughty air despite being one of the weakest villains of an organization that is already entirely B-list to begin with.
[[/folder]]

%%! '''Kitchen Sink'''

%%! '''Hookline'''

! '''[[AC: Bitter Pill's Faction]]'''

[[folder: Bitter Pill]]

Classification: Tinker (Biochemistry)
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* GadgeteerGenius: She's described as a Tinker of some stripe, though her exact abilities have yet to be more than vaguely hinted at.
* SuperSerum: Part of her Tinker power involves creating these, granting Brute abilities to those who ingest them. During the battle with Advance Guard, Victoria sees her accompanied by a group of dosed-up {{Mooks}} protecting her like an honor guard.
* ShoutOut: Her name might be one to ''Literature/{{Twig}}'', another web serial by the same author that featured an arc called Bitter Pill.
* TruthSerum: One of the things she can make with her power. Keeping secrets among the residents of Hollow Point is nearly impossible thanks to her presence.
* WomenAreWiser: From what little the readers have seen of her, she seems much more level-headed than most of Hollow Point's leadership.
[[/folder]]

!The Fallen
An Endbringer-worshipping cult, the Fallen have swelled in numbers and power in the aftermath of Gold Morning, becoming one of the largest groups of parahumans in the multiverse. Most of ''Ward'''s focus has been on the Mathers clan, though the Crowley clan has also come into focus, somewhat.

[[folder:The Group as a Whole]]
* AbductionIsLove: The Mathers clan is known for kidnapping and brainwashing children and capes with the intention of forcing them to marry into the clan.
* ArrangedMarriage: Many members of the Fallen have their marriages arranged, though higher-ranking or well-favored members can choose their own spouse.
* ColorMotif: High-ranking members of the Mathers clan wear white.
* CozyCatastrophe: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]; they lack many pre-Gold Morning amenities, but have enough food and shelter (complete with (poor) plumbing) that they can afford to throw frequent parties. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] this is their primary recruiting strategy.
* KissingCousins: Occasionally, as a result of the arranged marriages.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Minorities, the LGBT community, and Case 53's are some of their primary targets, which is a big reason why Rain is reluctant to open up about his past.
* ReligionOfEvil: As noted above, they worship the Endbringers. The leaders also cultivate an intense hatred for anyone outside the cult as a means to maintain their unity.
* WhiteSheep: The [=McVeays=] were murderous fanatics, the Mathers are kidnappers and zealots, and the Crowleys... run around being unpredictable assholes who mostly aren't believers, though they're still willing to fight when necessary.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mama Mathers]]
Head of the Mathers branch of the fallen.

Classification: Thinker, Master
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* BrownNote: The basis of her power, essentially- anybody who sees, hears, or is otherwise made aware of her presence has a copy of Mama Mathers placed inside their mind, which allows her to see their surroundings and interact with them in various ways whenever they think of her, including speaking or writing her name. How long the effect lasts depends on the degree of exposure- it can vary from mere minutes to a span of weeks, depending.
* TheDreaded: Rain nearly works himself into a panic attack just thinking of talking to her, and ''everyone'' in the Fallen is ''terrified'' of provoking her wrath.
* EvilMatriarch: She is apparently the mother of Valefor (at the very least), insists that others call her 'Mama,' and is a cult leader.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Even the other leaders of the Fallen get nervous simply from being in the same building as her.
* LightIsNotGood: Dresses in [[WomanInWhite white]] and worships the Simurgh, an angelic-appearing monster. She's also a ruthless and brutal cult leader partially responsible for dozens if not hundreds of deaths.
* LoopholeAbuse: Her powers are scarily effective, potent and extremely hard to ignore. But, there are ways around what she does. Either 1) have a sensorium that includes a primary aspect which is [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth too alien for her to wrap her head around]] thus ensuring she either drops you like a hot potato or ignores your encrypted input, 2) be a decently-empowered Stranger or Master capable of bolstering yourself against her influence using your own (and not drop your guard) and/or 3) be able to partition off your thoughts about her using cognitive tricks and double-think. Easy, right?
* MindRape: Can induce this in subjects of her powers. Victoria (and by extension, the reader) gets to see it firsthand when the heroes try to interrogate a captured Fallen cape under Mama's thrall for information. It's... disturbing, to say the least.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: Thanks to her powers, attempts to surveil her location tend to go poorly. As in, "screaming and strapped to a hospital bed so you can't claw your own eyes out" levels of poorly.
* SensoryOverload: How the offensive use of her power seems to work- she can manipulate the sense that others used to detect her, so those that hear her can be deafened, those that saw her see only horror, and use of enhanced senses only increases the damage she can do. Victoria catches a glimpse of her from a distance and only has to deal with visual static in the corners of her vision, while Chris looks at her up close and gets his vision overwhelmed by horror.
* SinisterSurveillance: Her thinker ability allows her to know when others think of her, and to see them and their surroundings for a short time afterwards.
* TheSleepless: She's speculated to be a Noctis cape, one who doesn't need to sleep. She's also immune to tranquillisers.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Valefor]]
!Elijah Mathers
A high ranking member of the Mathers clan and Mama Mather's biological son.

For tropes applying to his appearance in Worm, see [[Characters/WormOthers here]]
----
* AdaptiveAbility: Originally his power worked via sight, but after Skitter blinded him it changed so that it worked using his voice.
* {{Brainwashed}}: In a rather uncommon case of this trope, he brainwashed ''himself'', to enjoy being part of the Fallen and to be loyal. [[spoiler: ''Again'' as of Interlude 8.y, where Teacher puts him under thrall while also removing his self-inflicted loyalty to Mama Mathers.]]
* ButtMonkey: After Skitter blinded him, his power adapted to only need his voice. So Victoria destroys his jaw.
* CompellingVoice: After being [[EyeScream blinded]] by Skitter in Worm, his power changed to work with only his voice.
* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler: Teacher retrieves him after he's seriously wounded with the intent of recruiting him.]]
* {{Jawbreaker}}: In a variant, has his entire jaw torn off by Victoria to depower him mid-fight.
* MindRape: Given enough time to talk, he can layer on enough commands and compulsions to make someone unflinchingly loyal.
* ProphetEyes: He has cataracts after his eyes were [[EyeScream filled with maggots]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Seir]]
!Tim Frazier

Classification: Master; Mover
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* AnimalMotifs: Horses. He named himself after a demon who appears riding a winged horse, and wears a horse mask.
* TheCorrupter: Responsible for the events that led up to Rain's trigger, though [[TookALevelInKindness the aftermath]] muddies this somewhat.
* DoppelgangerAttack: His power creates countless short-lived copies of himself that mindlessly destroy anything near them, and he can swap locations with them at will.
* JerkAss: Treated Rain like shit because Seir had problems with his family, and sexually harassed Erin. He also took one of the people the Fallen kidnapped as a 'wife', and is implied to have raped and abused her.
* LivingShadow: His decoys take on this appearance.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: Sports a horse mask in his cape identity, and is one of the most brutal and loathsome members of an organization that really isn't lacking for people who fit those adjectives.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Erin]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: She lives with the Fallen, but isn't one of them and doesn't subscribe to their beliefs.
* DespairEventHorizon: Hits hers after [[spoiler:being told by the Fallen leadership that they're marrying her to Rain. Erin tries to reconcile herself with the belief that she and Rain can make a new life where they pay lip service to the Fallen and are mostly left alone; instead, Rain rejects her, saying that he can't be Fallen anymore, and leaves her to whatever fate the leadership will give her.]]
* OnlyFriend: She and Rain are each other's sole friends amongst the Fallen.
* PrecisionFStrike: In Interlude 5.d:
--> '''Rain''': I'd die for you. But I can't be Fallen.
--> '''Erin''': Then fucking die, Rain.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Because being young, female and attractive almost guarantees that she'll be married off to a much older senior member of the Fallen whether she likes it or not. [[spoiler:In the end, despite being sexually harassed by Seir, she's told that she's being offered to Rain.]]
* WhiteSheep: After moving in with the Fallen, she was the only member of her family who didn't wind up subscribing to their beliefs.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lachlan]]
* {{Brainwashed}}: He was brainwashed by Valefor into becoming a member of the Fallen.
* NiceGuy: He's a genuinely nice person, for one of the Fallen. He's become their 'poster boy' as a result.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Speedrunners]]
* BattleBoomerang: Last Minute uses his power to reverse the flow of time for inanimate objects in conjunction with tinker-made boomerangs.
* BulletTime: Final Hour can invoke a "slowing down" effect that resembles this.
* FalseFriend: To the Hollow Point villains. They're actually part of the Fallen.
* GangOfHats: Nearly all of them have some kind of time power. In Interlude 5.y, it's revealed that their theme is time because they represent Khonsu.
* HammerspaceHideaway: End of Days can shunt away his targets into a pitch-black pocket universe for a short period.
* SpeedBlitz: Secondhand's power allows him to move quickly enough that it approaches TimeStandsStill from his [=POV=].

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Black Goat]]
!William (Black Goat, formerly Scapegoat)

A former Ward and then Protectorate member who ended up joining the Fallen in the chaos after Golden Morning. For his tropes in ''Worm'', see [[Characters/WormSponsoredHeroes here]].

Classification: Striker
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* BlessedWithSuck: His powers heal others but inflict the injuries on himself until he can offload them on someone else.
* DealWithTheDevil: He forms one with Teacher. Teacher will give him the mental fortitude needed to keep his focus on his stored injuries to prevent himself from taking their full effect, and in return he'll offload the mental thrall that comes with Teacher's gifts to other targets.
* FaceHeelTurn: He was a hero in ''Worm'', but when he shows up in ''Ward'' he's become a member of the Fallen.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: His power can transfer much more than just physical injuries. Parasites, mental illnesses, and even power related effects are all fair game. However, he was limited before because he had to experience himself whatever he wanted to transfer first. The death of Scion made him more aware of the extra-dimensional implications of his power, and with a small tune-up from Teacher, he can now keep injuries and other things away from him more easily while in the middle of transferring them.
* InTheBack: Gets shot in the back when he tried to help Gambol. It doesn't kill him, but it isn't exactly pleasant.
[[/folder]]

!Misc. Villains

[[folder:Tattletale]]
The leader of the Undersiders, a major criminal organization that runs much of new Brockton from behind the scenes. For tropes applying to her appearance in Worm, see [[Characters/WormUndersiders here]].

Classification: Thinker
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* ArcVillain: Shaping up to be one for the first few arcs.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Is on the receiving end for once. When asked if she regrets her role in Amy's fall, she doesn't deny it, but tries to deflect the issue, showing that she was genuinely rattled.
* GreaterScopeVillain: She isn't personally working against the protagonists, but she is hiring out her power and advice to the people that are.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** Even leaving aside her well intentioned extremist tendencies, she DOES regret her role in Amy's fall, even if she doesn't want to admit it.
** Similarly, as soon as she realises exactly how badly screwed-up Rain's cluster actually is, she comes over very, very sheepish for trying to use him (and them) the way she did. She genuinely bodged that one up, and is therefore trying to kind of make amends, even though she won't quite fully admit how epically she messed up.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In Pitch 6.8, she goes into detail about how each member of Team Therapy has either done something terrible, or is someone terrible.
* YouAreInCommandNow: She's now the leader of the Undersiders following Taylor's disappearance at the end of ''Worm'', and is clearly struggling to keep the team together in the latter's absence.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:March]]
* AliceAllusion: To the March Hare.
* AnimalMotifs: Rabbits/hares, hence the name.
* ArchEnemy: Foil/Flechette is hers, possibly because of Kiss/Kill. Foil considers her a persistent menace, and apparently March once kidnapped Parian.
* AscendedExtra: March was mentioned in one line of ''Worm'' and only got a name through WordOfGod.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: She's amassed a team of surviving members of cluster-triggers, including herself.
* YouAreAlreadyDead: Her version of Foil's power seems to take this form, leaving marks on things she cuts that then detonate.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Monokeros]]
!Kathlee Rosenthal

Classification: Master; Trump
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* AxeCrazy: Monokeros is ''batshit'' insane.
* CanonImmigrant: She's one of the villains from the Weaverdice Helena campaign.
* EvilIsPetty: Tells Ashley that Kenzie doesn't deserve to be one of her victims because of her facial scar, and monologues about how nobody wants the person with visible scars/blemishes.
* MeaningfulRename: She used to be a hero under the name Unicorn. After people started uncovering her crimes, she renamed herself Monokeros, which is Greek for 'unicorn'.
* SerialKiller: Of children, especially young heroes and celebrities.
* SmugSnake: Tells Ashley that she doesn't 'want' Kenzie because of her scar, because the scar makes Kenzie unworthy, and brags about how she keeps the children she killed 'alive' by relishing the memories of killing them.
* WouldHurtAChild: Tortured numerous children to death, believing she was taking their beauty and youth for herself.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Goddess]]

Classification: Master; Trump; Brute; Mover; Striker
----
* AscendedExtra: She was pulled into the battle against Scion by Khepri, but otherwise didn't appear in ''Worm''.
* BigBad: She's shaping up to be a major enemy in ''Ward''.
* ColorMotifs: Blue.
* ComboPlatterPowers: She's a cluster-trigger who subsumed the shards of the rest of her cluster. Tattletale specifies that she has a total of six powers, including:
** [[MindOverMatter A form of telekinesis]] that lets her fly and use SuperStrength.
** A presence-based Master power that lets her [[CharmPerson influence people.]]
** A touch-based Trump power that lets her [[AdaptiveAbility tune abilities and defences.]]
** A power battery she can tap to make her [[SuperStrength stronger]] for [[HourOfPower limited amounts of time.]]
** Alongside two more currently unknown abilities.
* EvilOverlord: Of Earth Shin, having control over all of its parahumans.
* TheDreaded: By capes, due to her sheer strength and ability to control others.
* FishOutOfWater: Years before ''Worm'' started, after Goddess first got powers, Cauldron moved her to Earth Shin before she could become a problem on Earth Bet.
* HiveMind: Every parahuman on Earth Shin was one of her lieutenants.
* IHaveManyNames: Goddess, the Woman In Blue, the Blue Empress...
[[/folder]]

%%Teacher

!Others

[[folder:Gilpatrick]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Gilpatrick is committed to keeping order in the area, and is willing to grant reasonable requests from his subordinates. If and when he is forced to fire an employee, he is willing to help them find another job, provide emotional support, and even give them a temporary place to stay if they need it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jasper]]
* TheReliableOne: Victoria sees him as this, despite his frequent joking.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dot]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: She can be very sweet (in an UglyCute kind of way) and even behave humanely. But, she is simultaneously very ''un''human in her thought processes. Her morality is strongly skewed by the drives 1) to survive (her own survival, her group's survival and her leader's survival all rate highly) and 2) to serve her idea of who Nilbog is.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Her reaction to Nilbog telling her that he won't come back to his creations is to start planning to steal a part of the Machine Army and let it infest the city.
* KillerRabbit: She's a tiny goblin with a box cutter who can and will kill anything in her path. She's also happy to drink human blood.
* MercyKill: Kills the superhero Burnish, who was dying of Machine Army-inflicted wounds.
* ThemeNaming: She's a child of Polka.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Nilbog, despite having never met him before the interlude.
[[/folder]]

* StepfordSmiler: She ordinarily acts very cheerful, but becomes very self-deprecating at the prospect of being thrust into the limelight.

** His blaster power can be stopped by a layer of clothes, and if it does hit skin, doesn't have a non-lethal setting.

** Shooting white "lines" of energy that can cleanly bisect anything they touch if enough force is applied. His personal power.

* DysfunctionJunction: Cluster triggers come in a mix of two basic flavours: [[{{Yandere}} messed-up]] and [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne really fucking screwed]]. This one has seemingly taken primarily the latter form of scrambled nuts on toast towards Rain.

* Body Horror: An inter-dimensional, timeshare, body-swap form of both physical and mental horror rooted in too much shared DNA in too small a space for two parties... and, too little experience of humans for the third, yes.

* OnlySaneMan: Often mixed up for TheReliableOne by others. The more introverted Byron is often left carrying the can of mistakes that the extroverted hijinks Tristan caused, but which he can't face dealing with. The problem is... by the time Byron gets stuck with it, it's also undeniably also his can, whether he feels capable of dealing with it or not. Or if he even wants to. This causes friction for both.

** MindOverMatter:: A form of telekinesis that lets her fly and use super-strength.
** CharmPerson / MoreThanMindControl: A presence-based Master power that lets her influence people.
** AdaptiveAbility: A touch-based Trump power that lets her tune abilities and defences.
** SuperStrength: A power battery she can tap to make her stronger for [[HourOfPower limited amounts of time.]]

** CharmPerson/MoreThanMindControl: A presence-based Master power that lets her influence people.

* ComboPlatterPowers: She's a cluster-trigger who subsumed the shards of the rest of her cluster. Her powers include a form of telekinesis that lets her fly and use super-strength, a presence-based Master power that lets her influence people, a touch-based Trump power that lets her tune abilities and defences, and a power battery she can tap to make her stronger for limited amounts of time.