History Characters / ArkhamHorror

* NunsNRosaries: One of her starting items is a Cross.

* NonStandardGameOver: When the Followers deck runs out, the corresponding Ancient One replaces the Unknown, and the current Doom gets compared to their Doom track; if it exceeds it, the game ends and investigators lose, otherwise the standard rules applies.

* SkippableBoss: Baring some specific scenarios and leagues, Ancient Ones are ''never'' mandatory to face in battle; it's quite possible to win long before they awakes.
* SpecialAttack: Almost every Ancient One has three "Sinister plots"; the only ones who never got them are Azathoth (whose entire schtick that there's [[RockFallsEveryoneDies no last battle]]) and Daoloth (who never received them due to being limited print bonus Ancient One, created long before mechanic was introduced). In most cases, it's either even more damaging attacks, some additional penalty for investigators, or some defensive/self-healing options. Sinister plots are only useable with optional "Epic Battle" cards, which are used to enhance the last battle by making each turn less repetitive.
* StalkedByTheBell: Each Ancient One has a Doom threshold. When the current Doom reaches it, the Ancient One immediately awakens, forcing you to face it in battle in order to win (which is not guaranteed at all).

* SpecialAttack: Each Ancient One (except for [[RockFallsEveryoneDies Azathoth]] and Daoloth) has three "Sinister plots"; in most cases, it's either even more damaging attacks, some additional penalty for investigators, or some defensive/self-healing options. Sinister plots are only useable with optional "Epic Battle" cards.

** It becomes [[AvertedTrope averted]] during one of its Sinister plots, allowing each investigator to attack it with (-3) battle rating... but they [[BrownNoteBeing must roll a dice and lose that much Sanity]].

* DevourTheDragon: Rhan-Tegoth [[VampiricDraining likes to eat his cultists]]. Each cultist he consumes brings his awakening closer.
* MakeMeWannaShout: One of his [[SpecialAttack Sinister plots]] is to use a high-pitched scream; this slightly damages the Sanity of all investigators, which may pose a threat for already weak investigators or dedicated spell-casters.

* ToServeMan: Rhan-Thegoth is worshipped by weird cult which believe that they must awaken him... by sacrificing themselves to him. For this reason, instead of spawning, any Cultists would instantly die, increasing both Doom and Terror level. Then a replacement must be drawn.

** Each time he consumes a Cultist, it raises Doom and Terror level by 1.

** One of his [[SpecialAttack Sinister plots]] is to draw 10 random monsters and heal 1 Doom token for each Cultist.
* {{Wendigo}}: Rhan-Thegoth favours Gnoph-Keh, who greatly resemble stereotypic Wendigo. Under his guidance, they receives the trait "Nightmarish 1".

** Their main form of attack is to grab your hand with a tentacles, then kill you off on the next attack.

** They can use their tentacles to straight-up smash things; in another Sinister plot, each investigator who fails a Speed check [[OneHitPolykill dies instantly]].

* BossArenaUrgency: Daoloth attacks by drawing Mythos cards. If the card instructs to open a gate in a sealed location, the seal is removed; if it's not sealed, the first player dies. If it does not instruct to open a gate at all, Daoloth instead heals 1 Doom token. It's not hard to guess that the fewer seals you have, the higher chances for somebody to die.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Daoloth was introduced way before Epic Battles were invented, and thus, lacks his own Sinister plots.
* OneHitKill: Barring some luck with card drawing or attack prevention, he kills one player per turn.

* GirlsAreReallyScaredOfHorrorMovies: Inverted. She's a ''huge'' fan of horror stories, with Creator/EdgarAllanPoe and ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' being name-dropped in her backstory. But the Necronomicon is too much even for her.

* EvidenceScavengerHunt: His Personal Story involves him searching for answers on what really happened with his former cellmate [[ManOnFire Brad]]. If he manages to obtain enough information (by collecting clues), he passes; if there are too few clues on the board, he loses the trail and fails.

%%* GoodScarsEvilScars: One under his eye.

* ManOnFire: His motivation to come to Arkham was when his cellmate, Brad, spontaneously combusted one night.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: His stats can't be reduced (including Stamina and Sanity). When they should be reduced, he instead heals 1 Stamina or 1 Sanity. But he starts with reduced maximum Sanity (only 4 instead of the expected 5). He can trade his Stamina and Sanity to another investigators the same way he can trade items.

* GenderMisdirection: Downplayed, but mentioned in her backstory. The monks who were sent to take her to the monastery were briefly surprised to find out she was a girl, but they took her in and trained her regardless.

* {{Expy}}: Franchise/IndianaJones, as an [[http://www.yog-sothoth.com/threads/357-Indiana-Jones-DVDs-released-today?p=3136&viewfull=1#post3136 insanely reckless goofball]]. His story in ''Arkham Horror'' also evokes a plot [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade involving his father...]]

* NominalHero: His motivation to fight is to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge avenge his fallen friend, Fast Louie Farrell]]. It just so happens what whatever killed Louie is also related to the current BigBad.

* SmokingIsCool: Has a cigarette ([[CigarChomper or possibly cigar]]) firmly wedged in his mouth on his character portrait.

* TookALevelInBadass: If he passes his Personal Story, his Sanity will raise to 4, and he will heal 1 Sanity each time he beats monsters in combat.

* WhipItGood: Starts off with a Whip as a starting item.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: ''Nothing'' can stop Akachi from sealing the Gates. Even the "Nothing can Help You Now" effect, which normally disables sealing, fails to stop her. And when she does that, she has to pay 1 less Clue for that.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: When closing a Gate, he can choose which symbol it has for the purpose of swiping monster from the board. He can't make it have Moon symbol, though.

* CripplingOverspecialisation: All his abilities are related to aquatic locations. While Innsmouth has fair share of such, not all of them are aquatic -- and even less such locations in Arkham.

One of the investigators specialising in more efficient usage of clues.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Whenever he draws the Unique Item(s), he draws one card more and discards one, those having more freedom to pick more useful ones. If he passes his Personal Story, it gets upgraded to also give him free clues, if he fails it, he would need to ''spend'' clues to use it instead.

* {{Cult}}: Abhoth is the only Ancient One to [[AvertedTrope explicitly have none]] (at least amongst humans). When playing against him, you must remove all Cultists from the game.

* HolyIsNotSafe: When playing against him, any investigator carrying an Elder Sign or in the same location as a seal takes a -1 penalty to any skill checks.

Bonus Ancient One for attenders of ''Arkham Night 2010''

Special "Ancient One" used only in the ''Third Spanish League''. Its unique idea is that investigators ''don't know'' whom they're dealing with, until they either investigates the local cults to find the real culprit, or the Ancient One awakens. It supports all standard Ancient Ones, excluding Daoloth.

* {{Wendigo}}: Ithaqua is often associates with wendigos, and the description of his worshippers implies that this is the case behind his Cultists' toughness.

* {{Cult}}: Nyarlathothep has countless worshippers all around the world. So many of them, in fact, you literally have no chance to wipe them all out: [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration all Cultists under his guidance have the Endless trait.

* BlobMonster: Not himself, but his servants, Formless Spawns. Under his leadership, they receive a bonus to toughness, and becomes Hunters.

* ThePlague: Tsathoggua's Power. In gameplay terms, it disables the special ability for any location besides Arkham Asylum, St. Mary's Hospital, Train Station, or any of the three shops in Arkham (though random encounters at those locations are not disabled). This also overwrites any Urban mythos cards.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Many of his worshippers have the infamous "Innsmouth look" (the sign of Deep One heritage), which makes them so ugly, they become dangerous to investigators' Sanity. When playing against ''Arkham Night'' version, they also becomes "aquatic", which gives them better mobility between any locations which have access to ocean.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Many of his worshippers have the infamous "Innsmouth look", which makes them so ugly, they become dangerous to investigators' Sanity.

* TookALevelInBadass: His ''Arkham Nights'' version.

* DynamicDifficulty: His battle rating depends on the current Terror level at the start of the battle, and thus may range from (0) to (-10).

* TookALevelInBadass: His ''Arkham Nights'' version.

* TookALevelInBadass: His ''Arkham Night'' version.

* HotScientist: A wispy build, but makes a lab coat look sexy.

* AnAxeToGrind: He starts out with one.

* The Medic: He move to Arkham from Boston, hoping to work at St. Mary's Hospital. It's also his main role in the team.

* KingMook: The [[SandWorm biggest Chtonian]] over there. Under his guidance, they would cause damage to investigators on moving more often.

* LuckBasedMission: When she attacks, you must roll as many dice as the amount of Focus you have, [[RandomNumberGod and if you roll no success, you die]].

* LuckBasedMission: Her attacks depends on a dice roll, and forces each investigator to sacrifice X Stamina, Sanity, and/or clues, where X is the roll's result. Depending on dice rolls, she will either kill you outright in few turns, or be weaker than some lesser monsters.

* LuckBasedMission: In this case, the actual Luck stat is involved. One of his [[SpecialAttack Sinister plots]] is to force each investigator to [[RandomNumberGod pass a Luck check, or be devoured]].

* LuckBasedMission: Survival of the first player during Nyogtha's attack is only determined by one dice roll. You fail, you die, that's it.

** The "Followers" cards represent the currently suspected Ancient One, and effects they provides to certain monsters. Those cards get discarded each time a new Process mythos card enters play; if they were "investigated" (the way to accomplish this is unique to each card), there's no ill effect, otherwise, there will be some sort of penalty, depending on the card discarded. Once the last card gets reached, The Unknown gets replaced by the corresponding Ancient One; wether the game continues or ends here and now, may vary depending on which Ancient One turns out to be the final one.
** Instead of having one static Power, The Unknown has special "Lethargy" deck, which ''does not'' copy the Powers of any standard Ancient One. New "Lethargy" card enters play on increase of Terror level; the last card stays in play permanently.

* WouldHurtAChild: Fail his Personal Story and he gets to be witness to this, seeing the little girl he wanted to save led away in handcuffs while the cruel loan shark from the local gang who'd been chasing her just watches (with the implication that he did something to get the kid in trouble with the law), and the kid's mom (who was previously showed to be [[IllGirl really ill]], while her dad is [[ParentalAbandonment already dead]]) is nowhere in sight.

* GoMadFromTheRevalation: Downplayed. Once she finished recreating the landscape of Carcosa in her work, she was obsessed with it.

[[folder: ''Arkham Horror: The Card Game]]