History Characters / GrrlPowerAntagonists

* PragmaticVillainy: Twofold. First, he never attempts to kill anyone but Maxima, because [[spoiler:he knows that people can't be violent if they're dead]], and [[spoiler:he doesn't want to cut off his power supply]]. Second, he only attempts to kill Maxima because he believes that she's the only one who stands a chance of stopping him.

--->'''Cthillia''': "[[http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2634 Here drink this, Cooter]], it'll [[BlatantLies give you super strength]]." You're such a dick, Sciona.

--->'''Sciona''': We'll be invading Earth after all, [[YouCantGoHomeAgain but now as refugees]]. Guess we can still take it over though. Eventually.

* SuperStrength: Enough to go toe to toe with Hiro.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler: Due to Vehemence's aggro aura it's hard to say how much of what she did was of her own volition.]]

* FatalFlaw: As she mentions below, hubris is something akin to this for her. [[spoiler: Though it may have been Vehemence's aura of influence that clouded her judgment]].

* {{Irony}}: Despite her dismissal of normal humans, she gets incapacitated three times by ordinary humans in the fight. Once by Math, once when Peggy snipes her, and once when she finds the claymore Peggy set up to guard her position.

* TheBusCameBack: Returned in the alien tourist arc.

* AdaptiveAbility: His power, in a nutshell, is the ability to adapt to deal with the powers of whoever he's currently facing off against. There are three downsides - one is that he has to be able to ''see'' what he's dealing with. Two is that he can't adapt to a power that isn't being used in direct offense to him. Three is that there's a limit to how many adaptations he can have at once; he's vulnerable to a massive team-up.

* {{Expy}}: of Taskmaster. He has the skull mask and hooded cape. He even has a similar power. Taskmaster can instantly copy another character's skills fighting style and Death Toll can instantly empower himself with the perfect counter power for any individual.
* TheGadfly[=/=]YouFightLikeACow: His grandiloquent, obnoxious manner, goading and insulting his opponents at every opportunity, and his extra-flashy costume may simply be designed to provoke opponents into attacking him as much as possible, so they don't realize that he can't do anything unless they do. If so, he arguably manages to overdo it.

Aka "Ted." A duplicator who works for the Ascenders.

* ExactWords: The conditions of her hiring in her contract mean Brüt cannot simply fire her for going power mad and endangering him, despite him being her "boss." She can ''only'' be fired by a majority of board members of the LLC. She apparently snuck this in with legalese without any of the "board members" noticing. Furthermore, even with a majority vote from the board, she ''still'' can't be fired without the approval of the manager, [[spoiler:who is Hench Wench herself, making her all but impossible to really fire.]]
** Similarly, her power explicitly only works for super''villains'', not heroes.

--> '''Arianna''': So god damned satisfying. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything (Lights a cigar.)]]

* VillainExitStageLeft: Attempted, deconstructed, and subverted. As she's being arrested by Arc Swat, she boasts that she's sub-contracted to a friend with portals and attempts to jump through one, right in front of Maxima. To no one's shock but her own, Maxima grabs her by the neck before she gets into the portal, and when the portal closes, she's still in custody.
-->'''Maxima''': "I have super-speed, moron."

* WeaksauceWeakness: Subverted. Brüt tries to fire her to strip her of her powers, but she specifically worded the contract so a majority of the "board" has to fire her, and then her firing needs to be approved by the manager. Brüt didn't even know if they'd ''made'' a board, so she's nigh impossible to fire unless someone really good at contract law or at least loopholes shows up. [[spoiler:She's defeated when Arianna out-legals her by suspending her contract on ethical grounds until such a time it can be reviewed by the New York secretary of state]].

[[folder: Aranea]]

A six-armed demonhunting vigilante who kidnaps Tamatha and attempts to interrogate her to learn more about the Twilight Council.

* AnimalMotifs: Spiders, obviously

* WouldHurtAChild: Seems perfectly willing to kidnap and interrogate Tamatha, a barely-adolescent succubus.

[[folder: Cthillia]]

* DeadlyGaze: Appears to induce heart attacks through eye contact. Given her power-set and [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-531-the-gangs-all-here/ her comments about being extremely ugly]], and scaled skin, it's entirely possible she is [[spoiler: a gorgon]].
** [[spoiler:Is eventually revealed to be a type of [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1086-befuddle-a-beholder/ humanoid beholder]] with at least six eye stalks on her head, with each eye having a different color and power.]]

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: When the Council Group arrives at the vault, Ingsol notes that he thought Wyrmil was nigh-impossible to kill. That, combined with his description as worm-like (worms can regenerate under some conditions) combined with a good chunk of his body being gone, Sydney noticing what seems to be a trail out of the vault, hints that he's still alive]].
** [[spoiler: A later strip reveals that he's fused with the also NotQuiteDead Cooter Jones]].

* GoodWingsEvilWings: Bone wings variant. We have yet to learn if he's truly evil enough to deserve them. Conversation with Dabbler has established that he's both capble of shapeshifting magic and a drama queen.

[[folder: The Ascenders]]

[[folder: Calamarians]]

[[folder: The Fell]]

[[folder: Lapha]]

* DemonicPossession: Downplayed. Her true form is the flame-eye thing floating at her brow, and she can transfer it from body to body. However, she only truly "possesses" the body if it's an EmptyShell. When she jumps into a body with a prior occupant, she has to share. This is a problem when she posesses [[spoiler:Sydney, since somehow the orbs still know which conciousness is Sydney's and only obey her, not Lapha, so Sydney can keep them away from her hands]]. Also, she can influence [[spoiler:Sydney]]'s body, but can't fully control it, meaning that [[spoiler:she's not able to keep Sydney from eating, which ends up being how she's removed from Sydney]].

* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1243-firebreak/ After jumping out]] of [[spoiler:Sydney's]] body without another body to survive in, Lapha quickly realizes the situation she's in but only gives a quick and simple [=FU=] to the universe that gave her a poor start in life as she starts to fade away, before [[spoiler:Dabbler saves her by moving her consciousness into another vessal]].
--> '''Lapha''': "Fuck you, universe. You were not worth... the price... of admission."

[[folder: Garamm]]