History Characters / TerrariaCalamity

* CanonCharacterAllAlong: In Calamity's lore, the Slime God would go on to create the Queen Slime, unwittingly becoming her core in the process .

--> '''A GOD DOES NOT FEAR DEATH!'''

** Exaggerated in the "get fixed boi" world seed, where her boss fight replaces the final fight against Calamitas, [[PhysicalGod with all the power]] [[BulletHell that intails.]]

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Runs on this trope. The Cloud, Sand & Brimstone Elementals and Anahita are [[CuteMonsterGirl Cute Monster Girls]] who focus on using ranged attacks and can be summonable minions. The Earth Elemental is a monstrous armored humanoid that likes to attack targets by ramming into them, and can't be summoned due to it lacking such an item. Fitting, since its Bestiary entry reveals that it's not actually a real Elemental, but an artificial simulacrum of one.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The first and currently only NPC added by the mod who does not have a preset name.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The only one of the pre-Hardmode bosses to have a leitmotif without a guitar in it.

** The lore items written from his perspective show that for all of his wrath, he can still feel pity and respect, as well as regret for his past actions.

* AmbigouslyEvil: Although he's regarded as a traitor by many and his actions kick-start both the end of the Draconic Era and almost all of the conflict in the present, it's not actually clear what his motivations are. Notably, since nobody knows exactly what happened on the day of Xeroc's ascension, it's left ambigous whether his consumption of Zeratros' soul was actually out of power-hungry malice, or if it was for some other reason yet unknown. The only current recount of his past comes from Yharim (who is heavily biased by his own admission), and although Yharon regards him as enough of a traitor to kick-start Yharim's crusade by telling him his story, Xeroc himself refers to Yharon as an old friend.

* ActuallyADoombot: As revealed if you try to attack him, the Draedon you see in his fight is just a remotely controlled robot body, and a disposable one if its worn, rusty appearance is to be trusted. His actual, likely far more advanced body is never seen, and it's unknown if he even ''has'' a real body or is just an AI.

* {{Foil}}: To Calamitas in both a thematic and gameplay sense. The latter is especially apparent, since they share a tier and can be fought interchangeably as the first boss based on the player's preferences.
** Calamitas fought for Yharim without much of a say in the matter and deeply regrets it, while Draedon gladly worked for Yharim out of personal interest and is uncaring of any harm he caused. While both of them survive their battles and gain respect for you, Calamitas joins you after her defeat while Draedon leaves without directly helping you.

The famed Brimstone Witch, taken in by Yharim and Permafrost at a young age because of her unfathomable inherited power. Burning with wrath against the Gods and flames that could burn away all things, Calamitas served as Yharim's ace in his crusade against the Gods, but eventually fled due to her increasingly tyrannical lord and the guilt of her countless atrocities. Now, although Yharim has no desire to punish her, she still lives in fear of the Godseeker's wrath. Summoned by sacrificing Ashes of Calamity (or using a Ceremonial Urn) at an Altar of the Accursed, she's meant to be fought alongside Draedon before taking on Yharim himself.\\

* {{Superboss}}: The Wyrm isn't required for progression, and at no point in the game does the game ever indicate that it's meant to be slain - in fact, it's not even considered a true boss outside of it having a health bar and Boss Zen, and it's possible to go through the whole game without ever encountering it. If you choose to fight it, its strength surpasses everything else before the actual FinalBoss, but it will drop an elusive weapon that is just as powerful.

Formerly a mortal monk sworn to the service of the Auric Dragons, they instead chose to betray the Light Dragon Zeratros in his time of great need, consuming his Auric soul before declaring themselves Xeroc, the First God. Emboldened by Xeroc's ascension, other beings started attempting to consume Auric souls to become Gods, leading to the genocide of the Dragons, the beginning of the Deific Era, and the origin of Yharim's crusade against the world and its usurpers, first and foremost being the Traitor Almighty. They also have an unspecified connection to the Boss Rush.\\

Slated to be the second and final Superboss, and therefore the strongest enemy in the entire mod.

* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Instead of helping the dying Zeratros or even easing his passing, Xeroc instead opted to kill him in cold blood and devour his soul to attain Godhood.
* PhysicalGod: They're the first of the Deific Era's Gods, and by devouring Zeratros and obtaining power over the Primordial Light, they're likely a God among Gods and the most powerful known being on the planet.

* MyNameIsQuestionMarks: Anahita's name at first, when stumbled upon in the Ocean as a dark silhouette with glrowing eyes, is three question marks. If the player approaches and damages her enough, she'll drop the disguise.

** The Aquatic Heart, which gives the player access to a SuperMode that grants them Anahita's powers and likeness. Its old name was the ''Siren’s Heart''.

* KillOneOthersGetStronger: Depending on which Slime God you take down first, the others get unique boosts.
** Killing the Crimulan Slime God first will massively increase the physical attack rate of the other.
** Killing the Ebonian Slime God first will double the defense of the other.
** Killing both large slimes before the Core will let the core enter its second phase much earlier.

Once a peaceful filter-feeder ocean worm, which was forced to become an aggressive predator to survive after the ocean kingdom Ilmeris was incinerated by Yharim's war. It's the first ''Calamity''-exclusive boss available when you start the game, and has to be fought in the Desert.

* AIIsACrapshoot: The first thing it did after its creation was turn on its creators and slay them. Perhaps making it's only motivation "mindless destruction" wasn't such a good idea...

* FluffyTheTerrible: Often referred to by it's community-given name, Doggo.

* VillainousBreakdown: It's not as evident, but the Devourer seems to mostly speak with a snarky or mocking tone for the entirety of the fight...except when it's at critical health, which it will hike up it's aggression and announces an enraged, denying cry of:

* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: The only thing on his face that's usually always visible. Except they're teeth.

* CallBack: The letters in their model names correspond to the Souls that their original variants dropped.

* KillerRobot: Unlike many of Draedon's other projects, which often had other intended functions besides combat, the Exo Mechs were designed specifically and solely for destruction.

* UpgradedBoss: ''Much'' more powerful versions of the Mech Trio, created after Draedon perfected their designs. However, their battle plays out completely differently in comparison to their weaker versions.

* SuperPrototype: Artemis was the last of the Exo Mechs to be made and only went through a single revision as opposed to the 3-9 of the other models, but is still capable of matching its brethren. By the time Draedon made Artemis, he had refined his craft so much that he simply didn't need any more iteration.

** Calamitas fought for Yharim without much of a say in the matter, while Draedon gladly worked for Yharim out of personal interest. While both of them survive their battles and gain respect for you, Calamitas joins you after her defeat while Draedon leaves without directly helping you.
** Calamitas is an extraordinarily powerful mage and necromancer who fights exclusively with her own arcane mastery, while Draedon is an engineer and blacksmith who exclusively uses his advanced technology.

** The more emotional Calamitas has a fire motif and powers described as unrestrained and furious, while the eerily logical Draedon has a lightning motif and is renowned for his perfectionism and precision.

* PollutedWasteland: Draedon's old homeworld, a lifeless planet choked by pollution and only inhabited by mechanical automata.

* UltimateBlacksmith: Is more than capable of forging the most powerful weapons in the Calamity Mod. He has forged armor made of cosmic metal, has an entire line of weapons of his design, and helped create Yharim's PoweredArmor as well. Aside from this, he's responsible for the Draedon's Forge, which is even more powerful than the cultists' Ancient Manipulator from the vanilla game and is required to make the strongest items in the game. And that isn't even getting into his work on the Exo Mechs and their components, which include prisms that can generate seemingly infinite energy and material that is somehow mechanical and organic at the same time.

* CallBack: Its Bestiary mentions that its armor was modified from the Devourer's, which was responsible for much of its strength by massively reducing any damage except its weak points. Thanatos' improved version serves the same purpose, with the weak points changed to its open vents instead of the head and tail..
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Any segments that are vulnerable will turn bright red to signify that you should target them.

* SuperToughness: With its vents closed, it's ''completely'' indestructible. Even a weapon that deals hundreds of thousands of damage per hit will fail to even dent it. Of course, when Thanatos is defeated, [[GameplayAndStorySegregation its armor will still be torn to pieces as it explodes]].

* GlassCannon: Its attacks hit hard and its Dark Energy swarms can rack up a ton of damage, but it has very low HP compared to other post-Moon Lord bosses, with health comparable to a late Hardmode boss. It circumvents this by turning invincible whenever a new horde of Dark Energy is summoned.

* VoidBetweenTheWorlds: It is a ''living version of this.'' It was created on accident by virtue of the fact the Devourer of Gods didn't instantly master its dimension jumping and ripped a hole into reality.

* NoSell: Its head and tail in phase 1 reduce all damage to 0 and 1 respectively, instead of using standard damage reduction - which means that the damage will still be negligible even if you use something from another mod that can deal ''several million'' damage.

* CallBack: Its Bestiary mentions that its armor was modified from the Devourer's, which was responsible for much of its strength by massively reducing any damage except to its head and tail. Thanatos' improved version instead ''completely'' nullifies damage on ''any part of its body'' that isn't open to vent.

* LogicalWeakness: Thanatos' armor is impenetrable and its vast arsenal of laser weaponry is extremely powerful, but it also generates so much internal heat as a result that it has to periodically cool itself off, giving itself a weak spot. If it ''didn't'' vent the heat, though, it would more likely than not destroy itself from the strain of merely firing its own weaponry. Its Bestiary entry mentions that Draedon managed to turn this into a ''strength'' by weaponizing its vented heat to incinerate foes, although it thankfully doesn't do this in-game.