History Characters / Ward

! '''[[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.

Classification: Tinker

%%! '''Birdbrain'''

%%! '''Braindead'''

%%! '''Kitchen Sink'''

%%! '''Hookline'''

* {{Brainwashed}}: In a rather uncommon case of this trope, he brainwashed ''himself'', to enjoy being part of the Fallen and to be loyal.

!Misc. Villains

[[folder:Tattletale]]
For tropes applying to her appearance in Worm, see [[Characters/WormUndersiders here]].

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* EvilOverlord: Of Earth Shin.

* ActionSurvivor: Manages to protect a tech-less Kenzie from four of Love Lost's goons without any weapons, powers or training.

!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

* 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.

* GoshDangItToHeck: Sveta almost never swears, instead opting for terms like dummy or lamebrain.

* 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.

!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
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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''.

[[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.
* 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)
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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.

[[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.

! '''[[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.

[[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.

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

[[folder: Bitter Pill]]

Classification: Tinker
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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.
* 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]]

%%! '''Birdbrain'''

%%! '''Braindead'''

%%! '''Kitchen Sink'''

%%! '''Hookline'''

!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
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.
* 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.
* {{Jawbreaker}}: In a variant, has his entire jaw torn off by Victoria to depower him mid-fight.
* 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: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]]

!Misc. Villains

[[folder:Tattletale]]
For tropes applying to her appearance in Worm, see [[Characters/WormUndersiders here]].

* 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: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.

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

[[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.

* 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 gets 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 and patronises her nonstop.

* 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 organises who gets what and how in the dimensional shenanigans. Including biology: it's mucked it up at least once.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Tristan paints his magenta so people can tell him from Byron. Byron used to paint his blue, but now just leaves it black.

* TheQuietOne: Fairly inverted, which isn't helped by his infrequent interactions with the others.

* 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.

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When she and Bonesaw confronted Blasto in ''Worm'', Blasto didn't recognise her, even after they met during the Boston Games and Ashley [[spoiler:killed his kaiju]]. She didn't take it well.

* BlessedWithSuck: He may have gotten multiple powers, but all of them have very serious drawback.

* PowerNullifier: Immune to emotion-altering effects by virtue of its fear leaving no room for any other emotions.

* PowerNullifier: As its body and mind are largely separate, mind control doesn't quite work against it.

!!!'''PHO:''' Cap

* PowerNullifier: As its body and mind are largely separate, mind control doesn't quote work against it.

* PowerNullifer: As its body and mind are largely separate, mind control doesn't quote work against it.

* NoSell: Immune to emotion-altering effects by virtue of its fear leaving no room for any other emotions.

* NoSell: As its body and mind are largely separate, mind control doesn't quote work against it.

Classification: Shaker

* NoSell: Her power creates an area of effect that nullifies other powers.

* {{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 to young for that kind of interest, the nature of his power and its effect on him makes it entirely possible that he's right.

* MarionetteMovement: Usually moves slowly and deliberately but when incited moves in quick, jerky motions.

* TheSpeechless: Lacks a mouth and has no other method of vocalization. Better off than most of Chris's form though, as it still has the coordination and necessary appendages to scratch words in the dirt.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyways: 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.

** 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.

!!!Tristan

!!!Byron

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Has m

* MalevolentMaskedMan: "Man" is severely overselling how human it is to look at, but its face is

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* BadassGay: Tristan, being a superhero who's also canonically gay. Byron is an {{aversion}}; while his exact sexual orientation is unclear, he's definitely attracted to women.

* 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.

* 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.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Tristan and Rain have developed this. [[spoiler:Despite Tristan being gay and Rain previously having been part of the homophobic Fallen cults.]]
* 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 organises 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.
* StraightGay: Tristan has some [[CampGay camp]] attributes, such as dyeing his hair and his massive fanboy crush on Weld, but generally defaults to this.
* SuperStrength: Both possess low-tier super-strength, which is helpful when handling Tristan's rock constructs.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Tristan paints his magenta so people can tell him from Byron. Byron used to paint his blue, but now just leaves it black.

* 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 short time after he reverts back to his normal human form.

[[/folder]]

[[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)

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Is shown to be blunt, dismissive, and assumes the worst of others.

%%[[folder:Gary Nieves]]
%%* TroubledSympatheticBigot
%%* JerkassHasAPoint
%%[[/folder]]

* TheCape: In a dramatic shift from her SmugSuper attitude in ''Worm'', she's intentionally strived become a lot closer to this ideal.

* 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 gets its many hands on.

* TheUnfavorite: How she perceives her relationship with her mother in ''Ward'', as an ironic mirror of their positions in ''Worm''.

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.

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 created by Bonesaw and 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.

* 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.]]
** At least one of his forms (Mad Anxiety) is a definite case of this trope, a six-feet-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.