History Characters / WarframeGrineer

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

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Late on, he manages to get his hands on a Corinth Prime. A [[FreezeFrameBonus close examination of the scene where he acquires it]] reveals that he pulled the gun off of a downed Rhino.

* HavingABlast: Something that didn't change in her rework was her love of rocket launchers. Her own modified version of the Bombard's rocket launcher has been upgraded to a cluster missile battery, ans she will occasionally step out of the arena to summon orbital bombardments to deal with you.

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[[caption-width-right:350:The Witch and The Worm]]

!!Side bosses

[[folder:The Grustrag Three]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Are we sure these are the targets? They seem so inconsequential."]]

->''"The Grustrag Three. Arrogant. Sadistic. Unstable. They are perfect for this."''
-->-- '''Councilor Vay Hek'''

Vem Tabook, Shik Tal, and Leekter make up the Grustrag Three, a Grineer Death Squad created by Councilor Vay Hek to punish Tenno who support the Corpus in Invasion missions.

[[folder:The Twin Queens ('''Spoilers for The War Within''')]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Witch and The Worm]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Tricia Brioux (Elder), Jex Black (Worm)
->''"Hush, Worm. Let the beasts do their work."''
-->-- '''The Elder Queen'''
->''"Relax child, you won't feel a thing. Promise."''
-->-- '''The Worm Queen'''

The matriarchal rulers of the Grineer Empire. The Sisters hail from the distant past of the Orokin Era. Despite being shunned and reviled and nearly killed from birth for being identical twins (and thus similar to Grineer slaves, very offensive to Orokin sensibilities), they were reluctantly employed by the Orokin to fight against the growing Grineer slave rebellions. Eventually, impressed with the strength they had as a familial pair, more and more Grineer (who were ''"identical, but not brothers"'') swore fealty to them until, it is assumed, they had an army under their command, with which they began their empire.

* AbusivePrecursors: They are Orokin, and the Elder Queen repeatedly mentions that she had some sort of hand in the creation of the Tenno and the Warframes.
* ActionGirl: They were both proficient fighters in their Orokin bodies, but have long taken a backseat to things.
* AssholeVictim: 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.
* BadBoss: To an incredible degree. With the way they (judging from younger queen's [[CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker gleefuly sadistic video addresses]] you can see aboard the Kuva Fortress) run things it's impossible to imagine anyone following them without being genetically hardwired to do so, as it is the case with the Grineer.
* BigBadDuumvirate: They terrorize or rule over the entire system and have ordered the complete extermination of all Tenno. After the Elder's death in ''The War Within'', the Worm has become the sole ruler of the Grineer.
* BigBadEnsemble: Nearly all conflicts involving the Grineer trace back to them, but the Queens are still in competition with the other faction leaders.
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: The Elder's eyes have black schlerae, like most female Grineer.
* {{Cyborg}}: The younger-looking twin appears to be augmented to the point that [[BodyHorror her face]] actually resembles one of the Grineer masks.
* TheCaligula: The Worm Queen, especially when you interrupt her kuva-gathering. She orders any of her loyal soldiers left alive to report for immediate execution if they fail to stop you. "Capricious little shit" is the best description of her personality.
* CoolCrown: The Elder Queen wears a large black and red crown, with a long braid-like tip aiming to the sky. The Worm wears a pair of small braids that resemble GirlishPigtails.
* TheDividual: None of the Grineer have ever mentioned the two queens apart.
* DirtyCoward: The Worm Queen does pretty much nothing to help ''her own empire'' in The New War after [[spoiler: Narmer takes over the Origin System]] and seemingly just goes into hiding the whole time. This becomes one of the reasons why Kahl completely defects afterwards.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: 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.
* EvilOverlord: They are the unquestioned rulers of the Grineer, all of whom are genetically hardwired to obey them, and they preside over the pillaging and brutal fascist oppression of much of the Origin System.
* FairytaleMotifs: Witches. The Kuva Fortress' two music tracks are titled ''The Witches' Lair'' and ''Red Broth''. 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.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Both of them have shades of this. The Worm Queen's meek demeanor is only a paper-thin coverup for her sadistic tendencies, and the Elder Queen has moments where she talks down to the Tenno in a sneering tone throughout the "The War Within" questline
* GalacticConqueror: They desire to "liberate" and "unify" the scattered colonies dotting the Origin System into their empire.
* TheGhost:
** Prior to The War Within, they had almost no direct presence in the game, with only two speaking lines demoting Vor to captain, no concept art whatsoever, and little involvement in the plot.
** They are this in-universe too, as during the War Within quest the Lotus is actually surprised to learn that Teshin is taking the Grineer Queens seriously, as she had thought they were merely Grineer propaganda and didn't actually exist due to how neither of them have even appeared in person for anything, even diplomatic talks or transmissions.
* GirlishPigtails: The younger queen has these, made out of implanted cables.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: 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: 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. However, they've since been forced to resort to using [[CloneDegeneration genetically-degraded Grineer clone bodies]]. "The War Within" centers around the Elder Queen, who's reaching the end of her 'Continuity', attempting to seize the Operator's body as her own.
* GreaterScopeVillain: While all the Grineer ultimately serve them, they rarely involve themselves with their underlings' actions. As of The War Within, they start to become more active.
* ImAHumanitarian: The Worm Queen apparently has an appetite for the flesh of other Grineer. Most of the lines heard over the Kuva Fortress intercom mention that she has unproductive workers ground into meat.
* InformedAttribute: Apparently, these two were so proficient enough at fighting Grineer as a pair that they earned the respect and loyalty of the Grineer ''before'' they were genetically modified to have UndyingLoyalty, but they seem to be entirely NonActionBigBad when we see them proper. Justified in a sense, as they are now stuck to using degenerating Grineer bodies rather than their original Orokin bodies.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: 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.
* ImAHumanitarian: In addition to general cannibalism Grineer can resort to, the Worm Queen herself will make occasional comments about eating Grineer that fail her.
* IShallTauntYou: In contrast to her frustration and focus on her Kuva Guardians, The Worm remains confident and dismissive during her transmissions of conjunction survival.
* KilledMidSentence: If killed, the Elder Queen's scream is cut off by the deathblow.
-->'''Elder Queen:'''Nooo, NO! '''YAAA-!'''
* KilledOffForReal: [[MultipleEndings Regardless of your choices]], the Elder Queen bites it at the end of The War Within questline, either beheaded by Teshin, void-blasted by the Operator, or succumbing to her already failing health after being robbed of her opportunity to pull a GrandTheftMe.
* LastOfHerKind: Subverted. The Queens were thought to be the last remaining [[AbusivePrecursors living Orokin]] in the present setting, despite their current bodies being of Grineer origin. Then [[spoiler:Ballas]] showed up.
* LotusEaterMachine: 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: 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 unlock the full potential of Transference and break their guard.
* {{Necromancer}}: The Worm Queen is the inventor of the process that created Kuva Liches.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain:
** Several. Not only did the Elder Queen ordering the search of a new body allow the Tenno rise up to fend off the Grineer expansion, she engineered her efforts of bringing the Tenno to her into her own self-destruction.
** Beginning the search for the Tenno only made [[BigGood the Lotus]] forcibly [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant awaken them from cryogenic sleep]].
** Afterwards the recently demoted Vor is given only a small force, rather than the expected army, which is weak enough to not only allow the awakened Tenno to escape, but strengthen them rather than exterminate them.
** By "The War Within", 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: 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.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Regardless of how vile they truly are, the fact that they were able to inspire an entire race to pledge loyalty because of how proficient they were at working together was really an impressive feat.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Currently known only as The Elder Queen and The Worm.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: They take a very hands-off management style to their empire, to the point where Lotus doubts they exist as more than a propaganda point of Grineer Command. In the lore, apart from demoting Admiral Vor to Captain and reprimanding Councilor Vay Hek for his failure to destroy the Tenno Relays, the Queens don't have much of a presence before The War Within. Subverted post Update 23, as the Worm Queen starts actively recruiting candidates for Kuva Liches.
* PsychopathicManchild: Despite being untold centuries old, the Worm has the voice and mannerisms of a bratty teenager.
* TooKinkyToTorture: In a twist, she accuses the Tenno of being this, claiming she'd put a collar on them, only to catch herself and state that they'd probably like her doing that.
* UncertainDoom: The Witch Queen is undoubtedly killed by Teshin or the Operator, or left to die from her sickness, but the Worm Queen seems certain she can revive her sister, which is why she keeps attempting to harvest Kuva. Whether or not the Witch Queen will ever be revived or kept dead for the foreseeable future is unknown.
* UniversallyBelovedLeader: ''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.
* TheUnreveal: We never see what the Queens looked like initially.
* UnseenNoMore: "The War Within" changes a few things for the Queens beyond the Elder Queen's [[UncertainDoom possible end]], now that the player knows that the Queens are real rather than propaganda, and the Worm Queen will occasionally transmit orders to her Kuva Guardians, comment on her Kuva Liches or during Conjunction Survival on Lua.
* VillainExitStageLeft: When the Operator returns to the Queens' throne chamber and emerges from their frame, the Worm immediately turns tail and flees, ensuring her survival.
* VillainousBreakdown: The Elder Queen loses all composure in her final moments. The Worm gets very pissed when a Kuva Siphon is destroyed.
* WasOnceAMan: More specifically, they were once [[TomatoInTheMirror Orokin]] twins, whose consciousnesses were inserted to Grineer bodies several times.
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[[folder:Dr. Tengus]]
A Grineer scientist who has a tendency for getting involved in [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments of questionable ethics]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You are the Queen-chosen, soldier. Greatness awaits you. Greatness... or perhaps death."'']]

->'''Voiced by:''' Kol Crosbie

->'''Voiced by:''' James Atkins

->'''Voiced by:''' Kol Crosbie

->'''Voiced by:''' Cassandra Wladyslava

->'''Voiced by:''' Lucas Schuneman

->'''Voiced by:''' Tricia Brioux (Elder), Jex Black (Worm)

!!Main Bosses

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[[caption-width-right:300:"The first Grineer who brings me the head of a Tenno will be permitted... TO WEAR ITS SKULL AS A HELMET!"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:When a wolf finds its pack... they hunt.]]

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-> '''Voiced by:''' Adam Bennett

[[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/WarframeVoid Void]] | [[Characters/WarframeOthers Others]]]]-]

According to the codex entries, the Grineer were originally created as miners and workers who eagerly served the Orokin. However, when the Orokin first fought the Infested and later the Sentients, the Grineer were repurposed as soldiers in pure desperation, with the modifications that made them able to fight as soldiers leading to them rebelling. When the Tenno finally defeated the Sentients and turned on the Orokin, the Grineer gained their freedom and became one of the dominant powers in the Origin System in the ensuing power vacuum.

A brutally militarized race of warriors, the imperialistic Grineer depend on 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.

* BerserkButton: Disloyalty and treason are this for him. He despises and denounces the Grustrag Three for their history of teamkilling, and he goes out of his way to track down and kill Kavor Grineer soldiers who have defected from him.

* FriendlyEnemy: At the end of the Gradivus Dilemma, siding with the Grineer makes Sargas welcome you with a friendly message and a [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter powerful shotgun pistol]] that you would gladly use to kill him and his army.

* DropTheHammer: He uses the Brokk version of the Fragor hammer.

* DropTheHammer: Sprag uses a big hammer.
--> "''Make them all flat. FLAT FLAT FLAT.''"

* DropTheHammer: Some Kuva Liches spawn with the unique hammer known as the Kuva Shildeg, though given that it's a big spike on a stick, it deals more Puncture damage than Impact.

One of the three biggest factions in ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'', and the first enemy faction that the Tenno will encounter.

* InformedAttribute: Apparently, these two were so proficient enough at fighting Grineer as a pair that they earned the respect and loyalty of the Grineer, but they seem to be entirely NonActionBigBads when we see them proper. Justified in a sense, as they are not stuck to using degenerating Grineer bodies rather than their original Orokin bodies.

* ImAHumanitarian: In addition to general cannibalism Grineer can resort to, the Worm Queen herself will make comments about eating Grineer that fail her occasionally.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Story wise, after he wakes up the Sentients and indirectly sets up The New War, Tyl Regor is never heard from again. While he ''does'' get new voice lines in events, and ended up playing the role of antagonist in Mirror Defense missions years later in the game's life cycle, he's yet to be heard of during during or after the New War.

-->'''Councilor Vay Hek:''' ''[after seeing [[spoiler:an Eidolon Teralyst]]]''It's beautiful. It's so beautiful... ''[{{beat}}]'' [[SuddenlyShouting KILL IT.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Tenno SKOOM!]]

* CloneDegeneration: As copies of copies of copies, mass-produced on an industrial scale, many are born so deformed that it'd be impossible for them to survive without cybernetics, and have a lifespan of only a few decades, becoming more decrepit with age. As a result, the oldest Grineer are [[BodyHorror barely recognizable as human]]. Councillor Vay Hek, to use an example, has visibly flaking, dead-looking skin, and looks [[http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131220040434/warframe/images/8/82/VayHekPortrait.png downright grotesque]]. This is not helped by them making clones out of already-made Grineer, which exacerbates the problems further and further. This is especially evident with the new intro shown at Tennocon 2019, where the original Grineer under the Orokin make an appearance... and don't look that different from a normal human.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: They take a very hands-off management style to their empire, to the point where Lotus doubts they exist as more than a propaganda point of Grineer Command. In the lore, apart from demoting Admiral Vor to Captain and reprimanding Councillor Vay Hek for his failure to destroy the Tenno Relays, the Queens don't have much of a presence before The War Within. Subverted post Update 23, as the Worm Queen starts actively recruiting candidates for Kuva Liches.

* HumongousMecha: The final stage of his boss battle has him ditch his smaller, drone-like body in favor of putting himself in a gigantic and agile mech. Ironically, this actually makes him ''more'' vulnerable than before thanks to this new body not having invulnerable armor like his other body.

* BloodKnight: A clear token among councilors, which is usually a boring job, whose personality is basically a mirror-reflection of the same villain stereotype since UsefulNotes/WorldWarII , [[ScreamingWarrior lavishes a lot of screaming]] while [[CripplingTheCompetition killing out other parties]] to prove his [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Grineer]]-ness for his queens.

* SuddenlyVoiced: As of the Cicero event, though his boss fight taunts are still SpeakingSimlish.

* EvilMakesYouUgly: The original grineer who were forced to fight by the Orokin, as seen in the "Awakening" Cinematic, aren't too bad on the eyes. The modern ones, by contrast, look repulsive due to CloneDegeneration, and their focus on conquering everybody else in the system hasn't made them popular with people who might be willing to ''fix'' said degeneration.

* BerserkButton: Disloyalty and treason are this for him. He despises and denounces the Grustrag Three for their history of teamkilling, and he goes out of his way to track down and kill Kavor grineer soldiers who have defected from him.

* ArtEvolution: Initially, the sisters were just uniquely colored female grineer. Their rework gave them unique armor designs and weapons (Ven'kra uses a Vulkar sniper rifle while Sprag uses a Manticore hammer). Additionally, their character models have been redesigned, with Sprag looking more degraded than Ven'kra.

* OldSoldier: Executioner Nok, who lived long enough for his grineer degenerative afflictions to make him unfit for regular duty. Rathuum is a form of retirement for him.

* RealMenWearPink: Kahl is a tough-as-nails grineer trooper who has a floof he likes to play with (recovering it is a possible challenge for one of his missions). And even more literally, using his customisation you can have Kahl go into battle in a pastel pink suit of armour.

* WeakButSkilled: Even more than the Tenno, Kahl has a measly 1000 health, a very limited arsenal, a few grenades and a veilbreaker, but he pulls off feats that no one would expect a grineer to ever do.