History Fanfic / TheWarcrafter

** [[spoiler: James Tagg still gets brought in to replace Emily Piggot, though in this case, it's more because of the serious disruption to the status quo in the wake of the Slaughterhouse Nine and Teeth being wiped out than anything else.]]
* InsultToRocks: Piggot remarks that labelling Director Tagg a "war hawk" would be incorrect, as that would imply the man had any military-esque competence whatsoever, as opposed to the frothing-at-the-mouth xenophobic bigot that he is.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:After being told she's being replaced with Tagg, Piggot decides to take a long vacation to a tropical island where she can enjoy her restored heath and two decades of youth to see if that myth about Cabana boys is true.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Glory Girl gets to use her powers at full for the first time in so long to destroy the Spree clones. Unfortunately, Bonesaw has modified Spree so that any clone left relatively intact can multiply itself after dying – resulting in even more clones spreading around Brockton Bay.]]

** Adrian tries to tell an E88 student Hawk that the Empire and ABB aren't so different, since the leaders of both sides are just using their mutual hatred to keep them under control. Hawk doesn't understand this until [[spoiler: he's dying after a fight with some Merchants]].

** Thomas Calvert [[spoiler:(alias Coil)]] suffers one in Chapter 23 when his criminal activities are exposed and he's subsequently arrested.

* PowersDoTheFighting: Jack Slash is quite dependant on his secondary power for fighting other Capes (as it works by connecting his Shard to those of other Capes), [[spoiler:meaning he is easily caught off guard when Hemlokk (who does not have a Shard) fights him.]]

** The Slaughterhouse Nine have only lasted as long as they have, because Cauldron has been manipulating events to keep them alive in the vague hopes that they'll be useful against Scion and the number of capes they have caused to Trigger. [[spoiler: In Chapter 27, most of them are killed during their attack on the Bay, with Burnscar/Butcher even asking why Jack is surprised when Flechette shoots and kills Shatterbird, pointing out that she was sniper-bait from Day One, and wondering why someone didn't use a surface-to-air missile on her ages ago.]]

** The Teeth were a large, powerful gang led by a nigh-unstoppable monster of a cape. With them gone the area, they ruled over has started to suffer instability.

** Jack Slash is only as dangerous as he is due to his Shard and how it interacts with others. Without them, he's a baseline human and relatively harmless. [[spoiler: None of the Warcrafted are vulnerable to said ability, and without the rest of the S9 to support him, he's easily taken down and killed by Hemlokk.]]

** [[spoiler: James Tagg still gets brought in to replace Emily Piggot, though in this case, it's more because of the serious disruption to the status quo in the wake of the Slaughterhouse Nine and Teeth being defeated than anything else.]]
* InsultToRocks: Piggot remarks that to call Director Tagg a "war hawk" would be incorrect, as that would imply the man had any military-esque competence whatsoever, as opposed to the frothing-at-the-mouth xenophobic bigot that he is.

* InsultToRocks: Piggot remarks that to call Director Tagg a "war hawk" would incorrectly imply that the man actually had military virtues, rather than the frothing-at-the-mouth xenophobic bigot that he is.

* InsultToRocks: Piggot remarks that to call James Tagg a "war hawk" would falsely imply the man actually possessing military virtues, rather than the frothing-at-the-mouth xenophobic bigot that he is.

* VillainTeamUp: [[spoiler: Thanks to Burnscar becoming the new Butcher, the Teeth and the Nine attack Brockton Bay together. It goes badly for them.]]

* VillainTeamUp: [[spoiler: Thanks to Burnscar becoming the new Butcher, the Teeth and the Nine attack Brockton Bay together.]]
* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: [[spoiler: When told that they've finally killed Jack Slash. Bonesaw angrily asks them if they want a cookie for doing something they should have done years ago.]]

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Mr. Chuckles]] ''massacres'' [[spoiler: the stray dogs Lok'Tara had taken in. '''''[[MuggingTheMonster Big]] [[http://www.rhjunior.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/MarkHarrisLoktaraFennekTruck.png mistake]].''''']]
* KnightInShiningArmor: The role [[spoiler:Greg]]/Vindicator attempts to portray. When preparing himself to go into one of Labyrinth's [[EldritchLocation Eldritch Locations]], he takes a moment first to thank her for what she is doing, knowing it is distressing to her.

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Mr. Chuckles]] ''massacres'' [[spoiler: the stray dogs Lok'Tara had taken in. [[MuggingTheMonster Big]] [[http://www.rhjunior.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/MarkHarrisLoktaraFennekTruck.png mistake]].]]

* LogicBomb: [[spoiler: The Simurgh is dealing with one after her defeat, the mental strain of it even significantly slowing her healing processes and causing her to lose track of her pawns and manipulations back on Earth. Because the Entities are arrogant, and imagine themselves as the pinnacle of existence in a purely materialistic universe, where they can and have predicted any potential outcomes, their code flawless (with the narration noting how those readers actually familiar with programming can take this moment to laugh hysterically), she's effectively paralyzed due to her makers' shortsightedness. Basically, the "Prime Directives" that she and the other Endbringers live by have focused on prioritizing reporting threats to the Cycle to an Entity to destroy, preserving the knowledge gathered by the Shards in the Cycle, and obeying the orders of the Shard that accidentally ended up in Eidolon's control. The fact that the Entities ''never once'' anticipated a scenario where their empowered pawns could actually find a way to pose a genuine threat causes these goals to conflict, forcing the Simurgh to try and think of a way to "think outside of the box", so to speak, as she recovers from her pounding.]]
** [[spoiler:When Oni Lee (whose powers allow him to make clones of himself and teleport) kills The Butcher (whose killer gets all of the consciousnesses from previous Butchers in the back of their mind), suddenly all the members of the Butcher's collective spawn their own clones and kill each other. Then one of the clones kills the original Oni Lee, causing a loop and destroying the Butcher for good.]]
* LogicalWeakness: With his ability to adapt to anything that doesn't kill him, you would think Crawler does not have any weakness. He does: himself – or, rather, the acids and toxins his body is constantly producing, which he himself only resists because of his power. [[spoiler:So Lok'tara and Fennex pretty much force-feed him the Chuckles[=/=]Hatchet Face hybrid, nullifying his powers – and his own biology immediately begins to attack and kill him.]]
** [[spoiler:Bonesaw is quite the dangerous villain, what with her artificial organs, her DeadMansSwitch and her companions... but she's still a little girl with no fighting ability. In comes Hemlokk with her [[SetSwordsToStun Ghost Iron daggers]] when Bonesaw is alone and [[CurbStompBattle curbstomps her]] in ''seconds'', destroying said organs and then putting her in a freezer to kill any supervirus or bacteria that might come out of her.]]
** [[spoiler:Jack Slash can create and project blades and determine other Capes' insecurities thanks to his Shard interacting with others. Without those, however, he's a baseline human with little in the way of genuine fighting skill, and is especially outmatched by Hemlokk when she kills him.]]

** Lok'tara and Fennex tie [[spoiler: the Chuckles[=/=]Hatchet Face hybrid]] to the front of an ice cream truck and ram the [[spoiler: Spree clones]] that have spread around Brockton Bay. They finish the event off by [[spoiler: literally ramming said truck down Crawler's throat.]]

** [[spoiler: Chapter 30 ends with Jack Slash finally dying at Taylor's hands, while Bonesaw succumbs from her injuries. The latter is downplayed in that while her Bonesaw identity dies, Riley is reborn and given a chance by the Agents to redeem herself elsewhere, though the chances of her returning to the story are slim.]]

** The combined force of the Slaughterhouse Nine and the Teeth come to Brockton Bay in Chapter 26, expecting an easy fight and a one-sided slaughter. [[spoiler: By the end of Chapter 27, Jack Slash, Bonesaw, Burnscar/Butcher XV, and a smattering of {{Mooks}} are the only ones still alive; by Chapter 30, the last of them are wiped out or otherwise taken out of action.]]

* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: After dying, Riley/Bonesaw is taken by the Agents to what is heavily implied to be the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' world so she can start her life anew and atone for her sins.]]

** [[spoiler: Chapter 30 ends with Jack Slash finally dying at Taylor's hands, while Bonesaw finally dies from her injuries. The latter is subverted slightly in that while her Bonesaw identity dies, Riley is reborn and given a chance to redeem herself elsewhere, though the chances of her returning to the story are slim.]]

* FailsafeFailure: [[spoiler:Part of springing the trap on Coil involves springing his own paranoid safety measures on him. For example, taking advantage of his self-destruct flares on his computers and filing cabinets to destroy his more dangerous files (with Lisa {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing how he never considered that someone ELSE might use them against him), and using his habit of security drills for his mercs to put his hidden base on lockdown, keeping him from contacting his men or vice versa.]]

* AntiClimaxBoss: A very deliberate InUniverse example with [[spoiler: Jack Slash. Hemlokk doesn't even allow him the ''opportunity'' to [[BreakingSpeech talk]] or fight back, just wipes out his spider-bot "guards" in seconds, paralyzes his lungs and jaw with her Ghost Iron blades while delivering a short TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, then kills him. As the narration notes, she's fully aware by now of the apocalyptic harm he'll cause if he's allowed to live and spew his nihilistic lies, so she ''has'' to take him down hard and fast]].

** Bakuda's bombs are still implanted into the heads of helpless civilians. [[spoiler: Only this time, it's Bonesaw doing the implanting.]]

** Jack Slash has the secondary power of instinctively knowing what other Capes are doing and what makes them tick (due to the connection between his Shard and others), which is why Capes have a hard time fighting him. [[spoiler:When Hemlokk (whose powers do not come from a Shard), Jack is unable to predict what she is going to do, giving her the opening to kill him.]]

* AntiClimaxBoss: A very deliberate InUniverse example with [[spoiler: Jack Slash. Hemlokk doesn't even allow him the ''opportunity'' to [[BreakingSpeech talk]] or fight back, just wipes out his spider-bot "guards" in seconds, paralyzes his lungs and jaw with her Ghost Iron blades while delivering a short TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, then kills him]].

* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler: Jack Slash. Hemlokk doesn't even allow him the ''opportunity'' to [[BreakingSpeech talk]] or fight back, just wipes out his spider-bot "guards" in seconds, paralyzes his lungs and jaw with her Ghost Iron blades while delivering a short TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, then kills him.]]

* RefugeInAudacity: [[spoiler: When Jack Slash calls Piggot and demands to be allowed to send his message, she distracts him by constantly hanging up on him, then telling him that anything he says is a meaningless lie.]]

** Jack Slash is only as dangerous as he is due to his Shard and how it interacts with others. Without them, he's a baseline human and relatively harmless. [[None of the Warcrafted are vulnerable to said ability, and without the rest of the S9 to support him, he's easily taken down and killed by Hemlokk.]]

* RefugeInAudacity: [[spoiler: When Jack Slash calls Piggot and demands to be allowed to send his message, she distracts him by constantly hanging up on him, then telling him that anything he says is meaningless.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: While not explicitly stated, it is implied Mouse Protector is still alive, as the cape Bonesaw merges with Hatchet Face is Chuckles.]]

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Mr. Chuckles]] ''masssacres'' [[spoiler: the stray dogs Lok'Tara had taken in. [[MuggingTheMonster big]] [[http://www.rhjunior.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/MarkHarrisLoktaraFennekTruck.png mistake]].]]

** [[spoiler: As of yet, while he has been exposed as Coil and arrested, Thomas Calvert has yet to meet his canon fate.]]

** [[spoiler:Jack Slash is confronted with the fact that the Slaughterhouse Nine aren't as invulnerable as he believed, with more than half of them dying within a few hours of arriving to Brockton Bay and the last of them close to follow.]]

** [[spoiler: Chapter 30 ends with Jack Slash finally dying at Taylor's hands, while Bonesaw finally dies from her injuries.]]

** The combined force of the Slaughterhouse Nine and the Teeth come to Brockton Bay in Chapter 26, expecting an easy fight and a one-sided slaughter. [[spoiler: By the end of Chapter 27, Jack Slash, Bonesaw, Burnscar/Butcher XV, and a smattering of {{Mooks}} are the only ones still alive; by Chapter 29, only Jack Slash is left.]]

* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll:
** Contessa. Besides Adrian and the blind spots he's caused, even Doctor Mother eventually starts to suspect, after consulting with other Thinkers and mundane mathematicians, that her Shard has been essentially faking it the whole time, giving her just enough parlor tricks to convince everyone of its omniscience.
** Adrian uses the fact that Contessa's power can't read him, to the point that it makes her forget about him as soon as he leaves her line of sight, as an example of how Scion is this.