History Characters / WarframeGrineer

* BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: The Wolf of Saturn Six is a violent fugitive known for his ferocity and strength rather than cunning intellect, so it is fitting that his WeaponOfChoice would be a large hammer.

* DropTheHammer: His Wolf's Sledge.

* BenevolentBoss: He wants the Tenno not so he can make them a weapon, but to reverse the clone degredation among his Grineer minions. Indeed, he truly cares for his men, who he refers to as his sons, and unlike [[WeHaveReserves most of the other Grineer bosses]], is legitimately upset when the Tenno cuts them down. It's also stated that he blessed Executioner Nok to leave military service to spend his days as an executioner in Rathuum.

* CreateYourOwnHero: It's through his actions and attaching the Ascaris to the player character that he is defeated in short-term afterwards, before the player gets to run loose on ths rest of the Grineer.

* ShootTheShaggyDog: His quest to help repair the damaged genes of his troops ends in failure with his first death and following Void corruption, but his method of using Tenno blood would have ended in failure as well due to their imcompatible biologies. [[spoiler:The Warframes are made of a particular tamed strain of Infestation, and the Operators themselves were far out of his reach at the time.]]

* VillainExitStageLeft: When the Operator returns to the Queens' throne chamber and emerges from their frame, the Worm immediately turns tail and flees.

[[folder:Councillor Vay Hek]]

* InfallibleBabble: As Corrupted Vor. If you progress through the game's quest you will realise that he's surprisingly aware and on point about some of the twists in the game's lore. [[spoiler:Such as the Tenno being led by an impostor who is a stranger to the Void.]]

* ActualPacifist: What they would've been if not for the Infested attacking their ships.

* ForcedTransformation: Letting a defector run out of health does not kill them, instead they [[BodyHorror immediately transform]] into a hostile Infested Charger.[[PlayerPunch You can easily tell these chargers from the rest as they are coloured white, the colour of the Kavor armour.]]
* InTheBlood: Their pacifistic tendencies are explained by a genetic anomaly that is usually curbed out during the cloning process.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Kahl not afraid to ask armor-piercing question in Veilbreaker introductory mission.

* KillItWithFire: Has napalm grenades as a secondary weapon option, which do a pretty good job melting Sentients. Napalm grenades are not standard kit for Lancers, but ''are'' for Napalms, implying that he's normally an Arson Eximus (the only Eximus type shared between the two unit classes).

[[folder:The Twin Queens]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:No tears were shed when the Elder Queen is left powerless before the very child whose body she tried to possess and is either [[CruelMercy left to rot]], [[TheDogBitesBack silenced by Teshin]] who's freed from the Queen's control that he endured for so long, or killed by the Operator themselves.]]

* BigBadDuumvirate: They terrorize or rule over the entire system and have ordered the complete extermination of all Tenno. [[spoiler:After the Elder's death in ''The War Within'', the Worm has become the sole ruler of the Grineer.]]

* BodySurf: [[spoiler:How they managed to survive from the Orokin Era, and what they plan to do to the Tenno Operator]].
* BornAgainImmortality: [[spoiler:Unless the VillainousBreakdown of the Elder Queen said anything otherwise.]]

* CuteMonsterGirl: [[spoiler:The Worm Queen both in her design and her child-like demeanor. She's essentially an [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot antsy teenage cyborg]] book[[{{Pun}} worm]] clone. Kind of [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], though, as apart from her girlish voice she's not actually very cute- in fact she's [[BodyHorror pretty damn ugly]], [[{{Jerkass}} both in and out]].]]

* EvilMakesYouUgly: [[spoiler:Due to their habit of {{Body Surf}}ing, they currently reside in Grineer-made clone bodies, with all the ugliness that would imply. The younger one's face looks less than a face and more like a lump of flesh molded into the likeness of one, with glowing yellow lights plugged in where the eyes should be. Even worse, their lower bodies resemble snake or worm-like fleshy tails.]]

* FairytaleMotifs: Witches. The Kuva Fortress' two music tracks are titled ''The Witches' Lair'' and ''Red Broth'' and [[spoiler:The War Within echoes a classical fairytale within ''Warframe'''s bizarre setting: An evil witch (the Elder Queen), motivated by vanity and greed, lures an unsuspecting child (the Tenno) into her lair (the Fortress). Magical potions (Kuva) are involved, and the child must pass a coming-of-age trial with the help of an elderly mentor (Teshin) in order to overcome adversity]].

* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:The older queen serves as the final opponent for The War Within.]]

* {{God Save Us From The Queen}}s: They are ''anything but'' reasonable, seeing as how the main strategy they employ is to throw Grineer soldiers at their problems until they go away, and one of the pastimes they enjoy is [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame their "hunts"]], where their prisoners are hounded by Grineer Draks for their entertainment.
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:How they, and in turn [[AbusivePrecursors the Orokin]], managed to live for so long. They subvert and crush the will of children and steal their bodies for themselves after their current one grows old. The War Within centers around the Older Queen, who's reaching the end of her 'Continuity', attempting to seize the Operator's body as her own.]]

* ImAHumanitarian: The Worm Queen apparently has this appetite, seeing how a majority of her dialogue lines contain references and mentions of this.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:The elder Queen loses her power over Teshin and either is killed on the spot or suffers a FateWorseThanDeath, either by Teshin or Your Tenno, both of which she tried to manipulate.]]
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:If killed, the Elder Queen's scream is cut off by the deathblow.]]
-->'''Elder Queen:'''[[spoiler: Nooo, NO! '''YAAA-!''']]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Maybe. [[MultipleEndings Regardless of your choices,]], the Elder Queen bites it at the end of The War Within questline whether you spare her or not because of her already failing health, once robbed of her opportunity to pull a GrandTheftMe. After the quest, the Worm's attempts to gather more Kuva seem to be for the purpose of healing or resurrecting her.]]
** [[spoiler:There's two ways the Elder dies: Either by a Void Blast to the chest, or by being beheaded with Teshin's Nikana.]]
** [[spoiler:It might have stuck after all, since, as of ''The Old Blood'', she's still dead, and the Kuva that the Worm was gathering turned out to be for creating Kuva Liches instead of resurrecting her sister.]]

* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:The Kuva Scepter, used to dig into a victim's psyche and plague them with grief to the point their persona is eaten from the inside. If successful, the user can forcefully insert themselves into the mindless victim in question.]]
* MindRape: [[spoiler:Like the Orokin, in order to transfer over to a new body, they have to do this to the inhabitant of their next vessel in order to be able to take control of their body.]]
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Like [[BloodKnight Councilor Vay Hek]], but up a notch. All Grineer uniforms associated to them are RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver and order in their facilities are gray-colored and heavily totalitarian with scanners, mines, turrets and bunkers up on every brim. The Twin Queens are also effectively protected by the PraetorianGuard that are immune to any sort of damage until you [[spoiler:unlock the full potential of Transference and break their guard.]]

** Several. Not only did the [[spoiler:Elder Queen ordering the search of a new body]] allow the Tenno rise up to fend off the Grineer expansion, [[spoiler:she engineered her efforts of bringing the Tenno to her into her own self-destruction.]]

** By ''The War Within'', [[spoiler:the LotusEaterMachine that was meant to ruin the Tenno from within became a key to the PowerLimiter that was sealing off the full range of the Tenno's void powers since the Orokin era.]]
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:At the climax of The War Within, if you allow Teshin to finish off the Elder Queen [[MyMasterRightOrWrong after forcing him to work for her]], Teshin will slice her head right off in one quick motion before she can escape.]]

* VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler:When the Operator returns to the Queens' throne chamber and emerges from their frame, the Worm immediately turns tail and flees.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:The Elder Queen loses all composure in her final moments.]] Worm gets very pissed when a Kuva Siphon is destroyed.

A brutally militarized race of warriors, the imperialistic Grineer depend on [[CloningBlues cloning]] for reproduction, and so are slowly dying out due to {{clone degeneration}} so severe that they [[{{Cyborg}} need extensive cybernetics to even function]]. Motivated by a fascist ideology centered around their own supremacy and loyalty to their Twin Queens, they are determined to destroy the Tenno, the only ones with any hope to stop them.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: Unlike the Sisters of Pavros, who do not allow male members, Kuva Liches can be either gender. That being said, and given the largely matriarchal nature of Grineer society, most of the Liches you'll encounter will very likely be female.

[[folder: The Kavor]]

* StealthBasedMission: Has to avoid Sentient searchlights while searching for a bomb.

[[center: [-[[Characters/{{Warframe}} Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/WarframeTenno Tenno]] ([[Characters/WarframeTennoWarframesAToM Warframes A-M]], [[Characters/WarframeTennoWarframesNToZ Warframes N-Z]]) | '''Grineer''' | [[Characters/WarframeCorpus Corpus]] | [[Characters/WarframeInfested Infested]] | [[Characters/WarframeSyndicates Syndicates]] | [[Characters/WarframeOrokin Orokin]] | [[Characters/WarframeColonies Colonies]] | [[Characters/WarframeSentients Sentients]] | [[Characters/WarframeOthers Others]]]]-]

* StarterVillain: He's the villain of the tutorial questline that teaches you the basics, though he makes appearances later on. He shares this position with Dominus Thrax as of "The Duviri Paradox", since new players now have the option to choose either quest as their introduction to ''Warframe''.

* KilledMidSentence: He has a rather long (and [[MemeticMutation memetic]]) speech he recites whenever he spawns in a Void mission. It is very likely someone with a powerful gun will kill him nigh-instantly. He still keeps talking long after his death, with [[AscendedGlitch a couple of lines added on to the end with him remarking that death does not faze him]]. It is played straight in the Undercroft, as his speech gets cut off if he dies.

* KilledMidSentence: He has a rather long (and [[MemeticMutation memetic) speech he recites whenever he spawns in a Void mission. It is very likely someone with a powerful gun will kill him nigh-instantly. He still keeps talking long after his death, with [[AscendedGlitch a couple of lines added on to the end with him remarking that death does not faze him]]. It is played straight in the Undercroft, as his speech gets cut off if he dies.

* RecurringBoss: Fought four times over the course of the game; first in the tutorial, again on Mercury and Ceres, and finally [[spoiler: in the Void, as Corrupted Vor.]]

* {{Hundred Percent Adoration Rating}}: ''All'' Grineer love their "Kweens". The whole empire got started when they began to serve them out of sheer admiration. By the timeline of the game, apart for a few genetically-defective specimens all Grineer are unflinchingly loyal to them, to the extent that those who are not (like Clem and the defectors of the Steel Meridian) are not actually considered Grineer at all.

* StarterVillain: He's the villain of the tutorial questline that teaches you the basics, though he makes appearances later on.

* CatchPhrase: "Kahl not afraid." And it's no understatement: he is utterly fearless in undertaking his missions. He doesn't quail when confronted with hordes of Sentients that have single handedly wiped out entire Grineer platoons--he just hunkers down and starts tearing into them with his assault rifle, grenades, and machete. [[spoiler:Daughter initially assumes that the reason he went rogue from the Queens was that he had developed a fear of death, only to be completely shut down when he responds that he was tired of him and his brothers being ''used'' by their Queens, only able to quietly note that what he developed was ''dignity'']].

* GeniusBruiser: A subversion. Kahl has a basic understanding of science, but has nowhere near the knowledge of someone like Daughter. Where he fits this trope is in regard to his ''emotional'' knowledge. Kahl not only shows a surprising depth of character, he’s also very good at understanding the motivations of other characters. In his conversations with Daughter, he’s able to shoot out [[ArmorPiercingQuestion armor-piercing questions]] and [[ArmorPiercingResponse responses]] almost as fast as his Grakata.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's much more resilient and powerful than any of his soldiers, and significantly smarter. And if the ''Ghouls'' comics are any indication, Vor made it out alive from an Orokin Derelict filled with Infested and Corrupted ''all alone'' after the portal he came through was closed.

* NoPronunciationGuide: Applies to both parts of his name: Tyl is pronounced either "Till" or "Tile" and Regor is pronounced either "Reh-gor" or "Ray-gor".