History Characters / HereComesTheNewBoss

* FreudianExcuse: Her adoptive mother regularly subjects her to a disgusting amount of ParentalNeglect, and while her adoptive father ''does'' sincerely love her, he's still normally pretty distant thanks to suffering from a severe form of clinical depression. Coupling that with her own anxiety over being a lesbian and understandable self-loathing regarding her crush on her adopted stepsister Victoria, Amy is an antisocial {{Jerkass}} more often than not.

* IncestantAdmirer: She's crushing ''hard'' on her older stepsister Victoria. While this version of Amy Dallon thankfully hasn't descended to the horrible depths of her canonical counterpart, she's still full of a lot of self-loathing over how (rightfully) gross her own desire is.

* NotBloodSiblings: She has a crush on her adopted stepsister, Glory Girl.

* BewareTheQuietOnes: He is frequently described as being a fairly quiet and meek man. In ''Hostile Takeover'', though, as soon as he hears his former best friend Alan Barnes trying to [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming victim-blame]] Taylor through InsaneTrollLogic in order to get his osn daughter off the hook, Danny ''breaks the man's nose '' and has to have three armored [=PRT=] agents hold him back to stop him from doing more.

* {{Biomanipulation}}:

* PowerIncontinence:

* BrokenPedestal:
** RebuiltPedestal:

* ForWantOfANail: Spitfire gets picked up and cared for by Elpis prior to her meeting and joining up with Faultline's Crew as she did in canon. This eventually snowballs into Spitfire joining the Wards.

* PlayingWithFire:

* WhatTheHellHero:

* ForWantOfANail: As Taylor didn't join the Undersiders in this story but ''did'' break the Merchants apart far earlier on, here Whirlygig joins the Undersiders instead of the Merchants.

* OneManArmy:

* ShrinkingViolet:

* DespairEventHorizon:
* DramaticIrony:

* HeroicBSOD:
* LockedOutOfTheLoop:

* BullyingADragon:
* EvilIsPetty:
* HateSink: Repeatedly shows herself to be an utterly loathsome excuse for a human being.
* OhCrap:

* ExtremeDoormat:
* HairTriggerTemper:

* TheLostLenore:
* PapaWolf:
* ParentsAsPeople:
* ParentalNeglect:

* CastFullOfGay: A not-insignificant portion of the Butcher’s Choir is at least somewhere on the [=LGBT+=] spectrum; Vladimir is gay, Needler is a lesbian, and Muramasa, Anchorage and Quarrel are all bisexual.

* TokenMinority: As implied by him briefly chatting in Spanish to the other members of the Choir during one of Taylor’s classes, he’s implied to be the Hispanic member of the Choir.

* TheLongGame: [[invoked]] WordOfGod mentions at one point that she was an expert at this and was quite content at plans that were slow-acting as long as the end reward was considered to be WorthIt. Suffice to say, she is one of the few Butchers that was willing to work with Taylor from the beginning as she thought she could corrupt her slowly over time after it became clear it was impossible to simply MindRape her as seen with the previous Butchers.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: His Tinker specialization is in clockwork and mechanical systems, which Taylor is able to expand into as many purposes as possible.

** Taylor usually pairs Stoneknapper's ability in conjunction with Tock Tick's Tinkertech, allowing her to Tinker without requiring as much expensive equipment as she would normally need. Both she and the rest of the Butchers are also mentioned/shown using his ability for glorified cleaning/maintenance in certain situations (like Taylor fixing up cracks in a wall leading into her secret lair).
** It's also mentioned that one of his hobbies was using his power to easily create elegant statues through molding stone and metal together.

* CatGirl:
* CombatSadomasochist:

* LikeBrotherAndSister: Hemorhaggia clearly had a major crush on Quarrel. While Quarrel ''is'' bisexual and [[HeterosexualLifePartners deeply cared for Alice as a close friend]], she was never able to truly return her affections and only saw her as basically a surrogate sister.

* TwoferTokenMinority: She's a bisexual Japanese-American woman.

A member of the independent Hero team New Wave. One of the only known capes to have a "healing" power in the world, making her immensely valuable and important. In reality, she's an immensely powerful biotinker, having complete control over any lifeform's biology as soon as she touches their skin.

* AdaptationalHeroism:

* CharacterDevelopment:

* FreudianExcuse:

* IncestantAdmirer:

* UnskilledButStrong:

* OriginalCharacter:

* YoungerThanTheyLook: He looks like an intimidating, adult-sized monster in his changer form. As such, Taylor is appropriately surprised when she learns that he's actually quite young, only ''just'' being above the age of becoming a Ward.

* OfficialCouple: With Victoria Dallon a.k.a. Glory Girl.
* ShootingSuperman: When Butcher [=XV=] explosively teleports right in front of him and Vista after distracting Hookwolf, Gallant briefly panics and fires off a few of his "emotion lasers" at her. Thankfully, it's pretty ineffective since Taylor just deflects said lasers away by simply twirling the massive warhammer she brought in front of her.

* BatDeduction[=/=]SherlockScan:

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: He can shape the metal that comes from his body in any way he chooses, but sticks to a wolf form.

* BattleTrophy: After executing Hemorrhagia, he takes her shamrock keychain. The Elpis and the Butchers were not pleased.
* ImmortalLifeIsCheap: Since he can regenerate from any injury, Elpis has no qualms about taking off the kid gloves with him. After discovering that he killed Hemorrhagia, Elpis bifurcated him.

* AscendedExtra: A minor character in canon, a recurring enemy here.
* ComboPlatterPowers: He’s a grab-bag cape with two distinct powers.

* OriginalCharacter: Does not exist in canon.
* SuperSpit:

* OriginalCharacter: Does not exist in canon.

* FreudianExcuse: His general cruelty has its roots in the horrific “conditioning” (read: psychological and physical torture) he went through while a prisoner of the Yangban, and his failed "duel" with Leviathan has also made become an unambitious, misanthropic hedonist content with ruling the scraps of a dying city instead of actually trying to better himself or the world around him.

* HealingFactor: Possesses an incredibly powerful one, to the point where Lung initially doesn't seem to notice Taylor having used Vladimir's VampiricDraining to temporarily slow him down.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: While he is still seen as TheDreaded, Lung’s lack of ambition has also resulted in most people (most notably Kaiser) underestimating his strength and power.

!!Whirlygig

* FantasticRacism:

* ItsPersonal:

* BattleTrophy:

* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: How his ice powers usually manifest. Counts as ElemetalWeapon as well.

* DrugsAreBad:

* LovecraftianSuperpower:

* OriginalCharacter:

* DishingOutDirt:

* OriginalCharacter:

* ExtraOreDinary:

* SavageWolves:

* VoluntaryShapeshifting:

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[[folder:The Archer's Bridge Merchants]]
!!The Merchants In General

* AdaptationalBadass: The Merchants, who previously only had three capes to their name in canon, are much larger here and also formed much earlier on, providing them with (comparatively) more of a stable power base.
* ArchEnemy: To Elpis.
* ButtMonkey:
* DrugsAreBad:
* NonindicativeName: Archer's Bridge collapsed long before Taylor was even born, but they still call themselves the "Archer's Bridge Merchants".
* RunningGag: As the Butchers so love to note, ''all'' of their capes feature {{Atrocious Alias}}es.
* StarterVillain: They are the initial antagonist Elpis faces throughout the first few story arcs, and her defeat of them has caused her to become enough of a badass that she now poses a legitimate threat to the rest of Brockton Bay's criminal underworld.
!!Adam Mustain a.k.a. Skidmark
The leader of the Merchants. A Shaker with the ability to create invisible energy fields over an area that generate a "pushing effect", either decelerating or accelerating any object within.

* SpaceMaster: How his power works, allowing him to create special fields in an area that rapidly accelerate or decelerate any object within. He's surprisingly skilled and clever in this power's usage, letting him do things like in his escape from Elpis and Stormtiger's attack on his "pitfight" against Snowblind & Sinister, where he gives himself functional SuperSpeed via layering multiple layers of acceleration fields in front of him to effectively "skate" out of the area as fast as possible.
!!Sherrel Bailey a.k.a. Squealer
Skidmark's girlfriend, and the second-in-command of the Merchants. A powerful Tinker with a specialization in vehicles.

!!Mush

* BewareTheSillyOnes: As ridiculous -- and disgusting -- as his power is, he also gets multiple good hits in and gets dangerously close to actually killing Elpis during their fight.
* BodyHorror:
* CombatTentacles:
* ImprovisedWeapon:
* LovecraftianSuperpower:
* StarterVillain: He is the first major opponent Taylor fights as a cape.
!!Spitoon

* LethalJokeCharacter:
* OriginalCharacter:
* SuperSpit:
!!Mudslide

* DishingOutDirt:
* LethalJokeCharacter:
* OriginalCharacter:
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[[folder:The Azn Bad Boys]]
!!Kenta a.k.a. Lung
The infamous current leader of the Azn Bad Boys. Also known as the "Dragon of Kyushu", he's one of the most feared and powerful capes in the world, being an immensely skilled Brute and Blaster who has [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinesis]], an accelerated HealingFactor, and the ability to [[HulkingOut naturally transform into a larger, stronger and better armored form - complete with wings - the longer a current fight goes on]].

* BewareTheSillyOnes: As snarky and light-hearted as he likes to come across, he's still a dangerous parahuman.

** Additionally, his power only allows him to continue to control metal so long as it's (indirectly) connected to him. During his "friendly spar" with Brandish in the Boat Graveyard, when Brandish is able to cut off one of the huge fists he creates to punch her with, it quickly falls apart into inert scrap metal.

** Finally, he's ultimately limited to the metal (in)directly connected to himself, meaning that if he gets separated from his metal over the course of a fight, he'll only be able to continue the fight with whatever metal he personally has left.

* MusclesAreMeaningless: Taylor describes as a fairly short and wiry young man without much in the way of athleticism. However, he still has SuperStrength thanks to his armor being the method in which he can support and manipulate huge loads.

* ImmuneToBullet: Effectively, at least, though armor-piercing rounds are still mentioned to be a potential threat to him.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: How, to everyone outside of Taylor and the other Butchers, Quarrel's death came across, being in the middle of an intense firefight with the Teeth against the [=PRT=] before a Biblical swarm of insects emerges out of essentially ''nowhere'' and brutally suffocates her to death.

* FightsLikeANormal: Subverted; Her power is only effective when used in conjunction with a melee or ranged weapon, so prior to her becoming the Butcher, she was often forced to fight in a manner more befitting an EliteMook than anything else. However, her power manifesting as ImprobableAimingSkills allows her to use said weapons in ''incredibly'' unorthodox ways that firmly showcase her being a parahuman, such as firing a shotgun behind her and ''still'' managing to hit the enemy right in front of her.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While Quarrel arguably takes it to unfair levels of spite since Taylor was right in the midst of her Trigger Event when it happened, the point still stands that Taylor ''is'' responsible for Quarrel's death and it's more than understandable why she'd be so angry with her.

* LikeBrotherAndSister:: Hemorhaggia among the Teeth clearly had a crush on Quarrel. While Quarrel ''is'' bisexual and [[HeterosexualLifePartners deeply cared for Alice as a close friend]], she was never ever able to truly return her affections and only saw her as basically a surrogate sister.

* NotQuiteFlight:

* YoungerThanTheyLook:
!!Spitfire

!!Gallant a.k.a. Dean Stansfield

* DarkSecret:
* HeroicSacrifice: Subverted in Hostile Takeover, where he prepared to get into a fistfight with Hookwolf to buy enough time for Vista to get rescued even though he almost certainly would not have survived. Thankfully, it is subverted when Taylor as Butcher [=XV=] pulls a BigDamnHeroes moment and saves both their asses.
* NiceGuy:

!!Vista a.k.a. Missy Byron

* MundaneUtility:

* SpaceMaster:

* BewareTheSillyOnes:

* ContrivedCoincidence:
* ExtraOreDinary:

* OriginalCharacter:

* IncompatibleOrientation: Hemorhaggia among the Teeth clearly had a crush on Quarrel, who while [[HeterosexualLifePartners deeply caring for Alice as a close friend]], wasn't ever able to truly return her affections.

* SecondSuperIdentity: With such a wide assortment of powers, and with Elpis' features entirely hidden by her PoweredArmor, Taylor is sometimes able to pass herself off as a different hero entirely, such as an unnamed glass manipulator, or a generic newbie cape in black. This becomes epecially relevant when she's investigating Coil covertly, not wanting him to know that Elpis is coming for him.

* {{Southies}}: He plays with the general archetype, as while he ''is'' a ruthless Irish-American criminal hailing from Boston, it's never directly stated ''where'' in Boston he comes from, and he's also far more of a pseudo-intellectual GeniusBruiser (compared to how South Boston criminals are typically portrayed as DumbMuscle thugs in popular culture).

** Nemean's FeelNoPain power, when coupled with Needler's HealingFactor, allows Taylor to now eat extremely hot foods without any worry of long-term damage since Needler's power will repair anything she does to her body and Nemean's FeelNoPain power lets her enjoy the food without feeling pain from whatever burns she gives herself due to how absurdly hot she makes her meal. At one point, Taylor is mentioned as using a ''blowtorch'' to melt cheese onto some toast, and is completely unaffected.
** Finally, her being TheSleepless gives Taylor more time to patrol and prepare/fix/repair her Tinker equipment as part of her career as a hero... and also grants Taylor extra time to study for tests and finish her homework.

* NoodleIncident: A more dramatic case than most, but her entire life prior to her waking up as a Case [=53=] serves as this. She might have the occasional flashes of memory or bits of intuition, but otherwise she has absolutely no idea what her previous life was like.

* MundaneUtility: At one point, Taylor uses his AbsurdlySharpBlade powers in conjunction with Needler's HealingFactor and Nemean's FeelNoPain power to painlessly give herself multiple facial piercings overnight in order to disguise herself at a meeting (as her healing power can remove the holes as soon as she takes the piercings out).

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: She suffered quite possibly the single most hideous death of all of the Butchers -- being suffocated to death by a massive swarm of invertebrates forcing themselves down her airways.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: How, to everyone outside of Taylor and the other Butchers, death came across, being in the middle of an intense firefight with the Teeth against the [=PRT=] before a Biblical swarm of insects emerges out of essentially ''nowhere'' and brutally suffocates Quarrel to death.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: For all of her raging {{Jerkass}}ery to Taylor, Quarrel did have sincere friends among the Teeth, most notably Hemorhaggia (a.k.a. Alice). When Alabaster [[KickTheDog mocks Alice's death by taking her keychain as a trophy]], Taylor finds herself filled with Quarrel's righteous outrage to such a level that she administers a ''brutal'' NoHoldsBaredBeatdown to him.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: What her power functionally is.

* ItsPersonal: She despises Taylor for killing her, and loathes the Empire [=Eighty-Eight=] for both being Neo-Nazis when she's a Japanese-American woman and killing her friend Alice.
* {{Jerkass}}: Thanks to Taylor having recently killed her, Quarrel takes virtually every opportunity to be needlessly cruel and mean-spirited towards her, to the point where both her and Butcher are probably the most regularly "silenced" of the Butchers whenever Taylor is getting fed up with their dickish behavior.

** Relatedly, she curtly undercuts Taylor's internal ThouShallNotKill speech to herself by noting that on the literal first day Taylor got her powers, the first action she did was kill Quarrel. Taylor finds herself unable to come up with

* UnstoppableRage: She starts ''screaming'' and practically frothing at the mouth when she spots Alice's keychain in Alabaster's hands.

* ComboPlatterPowers: Whenever the Butcher mantle is passed on from one parahuman to another, they gain weaker versions of that parahuman's power. Some powers prove surprisingly compatible with others.

* DysfunctionJunction: Given [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor the nature of parahuman powers]] and [[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening how they get them]], every member of the Choir has a variety of issues. Oddly, this is also what gives Taylor a small foundation of emotional support… at least provided the collective aren't being a bunch of assholes.

* EnemyMine: In some cases, the Butchers will put aside any differences they have in favor of killing a common enemy.

* MindHive: Each inheritor of the Butcher's mantle, in addition to the powers of their predecessors, also gets to have all their consciousnesses living in her head. If the inheritor is a duly promoted member of the Teeth, the voices will work together. If not, as was the case with Flinch, the voices will reject their host and drive them mad until the Teeth can reclaim their property. ...Or at least that ''was'' the case until Taylor inherited the Butcher's mantle and set them down her own path.

* AdaptationalSexuality: In canon, Taylor is (more or less) straight. Here, thanks to having all of the previous Butchers in her head, Taylor is more or less pansexual.

* ExtremeDoormat: Was reduced to this by the Trio during her time at Winslow, but her time spent both at Arcadia and with the Butchers have done wonders in reversing this.

* FreudianExcuse: The horrific psychological abuse and torture she suffered through at the hands of the Trio combined with virtually every authority figure she had during that time period falling into a serious case of AdultsAreUseless are the main reasons for Taylor's caustic cynicism and near-pathological distrust of authority figures.

* PlausibleDeniability: Taylor had her heroic cape identity "Elpis" be identified as a Tinker with an unclear specialization at least in part to so she can still use some of the Butcher's various powers in public in ways that can be either {{Hand Wave}}d as just Tinkertech and won't out her as the Butcher, or just evidence of her having already been an experienced cape (further throwing people off the trail of her really being the Butcher).

* ItsPersonal:
* {{Jerkass}}: He's easily the worst among the Butchers, with him constantly making cruel remarks at Taylor's expense while also encouraging her to embrace villainy.

* ScaryBlackMan: He is coded as black, and is a violent & murderous gang leader who takes pleasure from the joy of the suffering of others.
* SuperStrength:

* BizarreAlienSenses: One of his main powers allows him to see the circulatory systems of lifeforms, which manifests as said target having their blood vessels outlined in glowing lines of red and gold.

* VampiricDraining:
* VeinOVision: Can see the circulatory systems of other lifeforms, which the Butchers seem to refer to as "blood-sight".

* MundaneUtility: Taylor offhandedly mentions at one point that the HealingFactor she gets from Needler lets her exercise and train for far longer periods than she would normally be able to without either growing fatigued or injuring herself.

* MundaneUtility: Taylor usually pairs Stoneknapper's ability in conjunction with Tock Tick's Tinkertech, allowing her to Tinker without requiring as much expensive equipment as she would normally need. Both she and the rest of the Butchers are also mentioned/shown using his ability for glorified cleaning/maintenance in certain situations (like Taylor fixing up cracks in a wall leading into her secret lair).

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: His power of being a master strategist is almost as mundane as they come... and yet it's probably the one power that's saved Taylor's bacon more than any other.
* HiddenDepths: Can play the guitar.

* NoodleIncident:

* TheComicallySerious: His unflappably stoic demeanor is occasionally PlayedForLaughs, particularly when the other Butchers get audibly exasperated at his whole demeanor.

* NotSoAboveItAll: There isn't much that can make Muramasa drop his WarriorMonk schtick… but whenever he does, he almost immediately shows himself to be just as immature and petty as the rest of the Butchers.

* AlwaysAccurateAttack:
* CherryTapping:
* DroppedABridgeOnHim:
* ImprobableAimingSkills:
* ItsPersonal:
* {{Jerkass}}:
* JerkassHasAPoint:

* SpaceMaster:

* HorrifyingTheHorror: All of them are '''terrified''' of fighting the Simurgh, since even outside of her being [[TheDreaded one of]] [[{{Kaiju}} the Endbringers]], her MindRape abilities could potentially turn the effectively immortal Butcher construct into a permanent [[DisasterDominoes "Simurgh time bomb"]]. One of the Butchers even outright tells Taylor that they shouldn't be in the same ''hemisphere'' as the Simurgh whenever possible.

* NoAnimosityInTheAfterlife: While it still heavily varies on the specific cases, most of the previous Butchers eventually learn how to better tolerate the current Butcher and vice versa, even if it's in regards to two Butchers who previously hated one another. A specific example can be seen with Muramasa and Quarrel, who previously loathed the ground the other walked upon while they feuded over rulership of the Teeth... but after Muramasa was killed and Quarrel was added to the Choir, Quarrel was able to access Muramasa's memories and the two have since developed a comparatively lighthearted OddFriendship[=/=]SitcomArchNemesis-style relationship.

* TheDreaded: The Butcher has been the stuff of nightmares for most capes. Armed with a plethora of abilities, each of them powerful enough to kill the previous Butcher; invariably driven insane by all the voices; and if you somehow kill him/her, you still lose, because you're the next host, and your power just got added to the collective to make your own rampage even deadlier than the previous ones. Panacea realizes that Elpis is Butcher and immediately freaks out.

* DysfunctionJunction: Given the nature of parahuman powers and how they get them, every member of the Choir has a variety of issues. Oddly, this is also what gives Taylor a small foundation of emotional support, providing the collective aren't being a bunch of assholes.

* ToxicFriendInfluence: Outside of Flinch, most of the Chorus try to have Taylor become more ruthless. Unlike with previous inheritors, however, they don't have nearly as much influence over her as they would like since she can silence the rowdy, more toxic voices.

** An air cannon that can launch pressurized air, explosive grenades, small pepper spray bombs, expandable nets made of nylon & spider silk, and special slugs that are equivalent to rubber bullets.

* {{Sadist}}:
* ScaryBlackMan:

* SuperSpeed:

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: His power of being able to instinctively sense when, where and how an enemy is about to attack him may not be flashy, but is all but stated to have been one of the main reasons for why each of the Butchers have been able to last for as long as they have.

* SuperStrength:

* ButchLesbian:

* TheLongGame:

* DeathOfAThousandCuts: She used this method to kill Needler and take the Butcher's Mantle, using her explosive TeleportSpam ability to repeatedly appear and disappear after inflicting debilitating burns and bone-breaking force that eventually overwhelmed her HealingFactor.

* PlayingWithFire:
* SuperStrength:

* ItsPersonal: While he's initially a bit hesitant, he then becomes quite vocal in encouraging Taylor to take the fight to the Empire (only requesting her to try and not hurt Purity, who he seems to be aware of being mostly TrappedInVillainy).

* SerialKiller:
* SuperStrength:

* GeniusBruiser:

* InsufferableGenius:

* NotSoAboveItAll:
* SmugSnake:
* TheSpock:
* TheStrategist:

* AnchorsAway: Anchorage apparently took her pre-Butcher cape name from her use of an actual stolen anchor as a signature weapon.

* SuperStrength:

* FriendToAllChildren:

* MamaBear:

* SuperToughness:

* EatingTheEyeCandy:

* ForeignCultureFetish: In a sense, at least. While he's technically an American citizen, he's of Japanese descent, and is almost fanatically obsessed with the culture of his parents' homeland of Japan.

* NotSoAboveItAll:

* TwoferTokenMinority: He’s a bisexual Japanese-American man.

* CastFullOfGay: A not-insignificant portion of the Butcher’s Choir is at least somewhere on the [=LGBT+=] spectrum; Vladimir is gay, Needler is a lesbian, Muramasa, Anchorage and Quarrel are all bisexual, and Dirty Rotter is heavily implied to be pansexual.
* CastOfSnowflakes: All of the Butchers are described as having very unique visual designs and racial/ethnic backgrounds. Looking just at them without taking into account their various outfits, both Butcher and Anchorage are African-American, Vladimir, Dirty Rotter, Tock Tick, Tactical, Stoneknapper, Bearskin and Taylor are all white, Flinch is heavily implied to be of Hispanic descent, Muramasa and Quarrel are both Japanese-American, Needler is Southeast Asian-American (specifically Indonesian), Firecracker’s ethnicity is never stated, and Nemean is a [[HumanoidAbomination Case-53]].

** She's got a localized form of near-omniscience thanks to [[TheMinionMaster her insect swarm]] and is also [[SpiderSense nearly psychic in being able to see an enemy's incoming attack]] (thanks to her own power and Flinch respectively)? Her armor has special cameras installed that make her incredibly observant along with granting her SuperReflexes!

* WillfullyWeak: Most of Taylor's more devastating and/or powerful abilities -- {{Agony Beam}}s, blood-fueled SuperSpeed, [[PlayingWithFire explosion-related]] TeleportSpam, [[MakeThemRot rotting touch]], [[MindOverMatter localized matter alteration]], spreading {{Hate Plague}}s, [[SpaceMaster touch-based mass manipulation]], and [[TheMinionMaster widespread arthropod control]] -- are also {{Cover Blowing Superpower}}s that would instantly out her as the current Butcher. As such, she has to either not use them at all or hide them as really being part of her "fake" identity as a heroic Tinker.

* HealingFactor: Has a not-insignificant one, with it apparently being strong enough that Tactical was able to regrow ''both of his legs'' after they were severed.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Both her mastery of silat and HealingFactor are fairly mundane in comparison to some of the other Butchers' powers and skills, but they're invaluable to Taylor in that they help her non-lethally take out her opponents (and avoid taking damage in the first place) as a Hero while also quickly recovering from any injuries..

* MadArtist:

* MundaneUtility: Taylor usually pairs Stoneknapper's ability in conjunction with Tock Tick's Tinkertech, allowing her to Tinker without requiring as much expensive equipment as she would normally need.

* NoodleIncident: It's been mentioned that he's responsible for "the Cheesegrater Incident", but the exact details of said incident have never been conveyed to the reader.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: During her time as the leader of the Teeth, most of the people she led attacks on were {{Dirty Cop}}s and openly racist villains.
* PayEvilUntoEvil:

* CynicismCatalyst: His PyrrhicVictory against Leviathan - in which he barely survived their duel and had his home of Kyushu was sunk to the bottom of the Pacific - caused Lung to become a bitter cynic who essentially gives up on any greater ambition for himself and has written off humanity itself in the long run.

* FatalFlaw: [[SevenDeadlySins Sloth and Wrath]]. Lung is dangerous enough to become one of the most feared capes in the world and could potentially do a lot of good with his power… but his general misanthropy and lack of ambition have made him devolve into being a still-feared but ultimately pathetic crime boss. Ultimately, when given the opportunity Lung is just an awful little human trafficker and drug dealer who is downright happy to live in his mediocrity.
* FreudianExcuse: His general cruelty has its roots in the horrific “conditioning” (read: psychological and physical torture) he went through while a prisoner of the Yangban, and his failed “duel” with Leviathan has also made become an unambitious, misanthropic hedonist content with ruling the scraps of a dying city instead of actually trying to better himself.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Rotting off someone's genitals would normally be considered a horrifying and cruel fate... were it not happening to Lung, someone who [[GoodThingYouCanHeal not only can easily heal from this type of injury and come out no worse for wear]], but who is also both someone who is willing to kill ''teenagers'' for crossing him and has his gang regularly kidnap women off the street to force them into {{Sex Slave}}ry.

** A collapsible double-bladed axe fitted with the same vibratory blade technology seen in her shirt swords.

* AgonyBeam:

** A collapsible double-bladed ace fitted with the same vibratory blade technology seen in her shirt swords.

** Taylor inherits the Taylor's Mantle in this fanfic via the same method she canonically killed [[spoiler:Alexandria]] - Namely, suffocating them to death through a ZergRush of countless insects, arachnids and arthropods being forced down their airways.

** An air cannon that can launch pressurized air, explosive grenades, small pepper spray bombs, and special slugs that are equivalent to rubber bullets.

* CantHaveSexEver[=/=]CelibateHero: Though not for lack of desire; Taylor still gets attracted to people, but she's not willing to even ''contemplate'' how inevitably {{Squick}}y it would be to try and get intimate with someone when she has the Butchers [[MomentKiller loudly jeering and excitedly making perverted comments whenever an attractive person steps into Taylor's line of sight]].

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: More than anything else, Taylor Anne Hebert is someone who ''desperately'' needs and wants others to help her rebuild her mental health and regain a sense of self-worth. She gets help in this goal both through her new friends at Arcadia, Spitfire, Ironclad, Glory Girl and Panacea. In fact, the Butchers' Chorus even start helping her in this goal following some hefty CharacterDevelopment, to the point where Taylor has difficulties in ''not'' describing her relationship with some of the Butchers as a twisted form of OddFriendship to Amy.

* LonersAreFreaks: She's an incredibly insecure woman who isn't all there mentally, and thanks to the torment visited upon her by the Trio at Winslow, greatly struggles in making friends and being social with others. Thankfully, the new friends she's been making at Arcadia are greatly aiding her in reaching out of her shell.
* MadeOfIron: Even putting aside the advanced suit of Tinkertech armor she creates, it's ''incredibly'' difficult to keep Taylor down thanks to her SuperToughness, HealingFactor, and HeroicWillpower.

** During a coffee meeting with Amy, Taylor briefly laments how her insect control is now a CoverBlowingSuperpower, and how much of a shame it is that she couldn't use it more openly [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower in various inventive ways]] (i.e., forming patterns out of insects to best direct her allies, creating traps out of webbing, having insects chitter to mimic certain sounds to freak out opponents and alert her allies, etc.). Virtually all of the potential ideas Taylor suggests are actual applications she had for her power during the canon events of ''Worm''.

** She can see people through walls thanks to Vladimir's VeinOVision? She's got an [=X-ray vision=] option on her helmet's [=HUD=]!

** Both of her swords are {{Absurdly Sharp Blade}}s (thanks to Muramasa)? She's using swords made with Tinkertech!

* MoralityKitchenSink:

* PsychopathicManchild:

* BizarreAlienSenses: One of his main powers allows him to see the circulatory systems of lifeforms, which manifests as said target having their blood vessels outlines in glowing lines of red and gold.

* TokenMinority: As implied by him briefly chatting in Spanish to the other members of the Choir during one of Taylor’s classes, he’s implied to be the only Latino and/or Hispanic member of the Choir.

* BadassDecay: An InUniverse variation occurs with the previous Butcher's powers when the new Butcher takes up the mantle; the previous Butcher's powers become "weaker" in some fashion, being less effective than they used to be whenever the new Butcher tries to use them. According to WordOfGod, this makes Taylor ''incredibly'' important in terms that if someone else were to kill her and take up the Butcher's Mantle, they would lose Taylor's ability to temporarily calm the various Butchers' voices and the Butcher's Choir would go insane again.

* CompleteImmortality: With how the Butcher's power works, the only way the Butcher will well and truly die is if they're ''very'' far away from a viable host or if there are no other parahumans left for it to pass on to.

* DeathSeeker: A rare non-suicidal case; the Butcher's Chorus loves to get into fights with powerful capes and are shown to even be usually looking forward to dying to {{Worthy Opponent}}s since they're excited on getting to enjoy the new Butcher's power ''by proxy''. However, if there's a risk of them dying in some fashion to a cape with a "lame" power (such as Mush of the Archer's Bridge Merchants) they will either try to fight for their lives or mockingly threaten the current bearer of the Butcher's mantle that they will ''never'' let them hear the end of this when they join the rest of the Choir proper.

* ExtremeOmnisexual: Whatever their original preference, each new Butcher tends to shift towards this due to personality bleedover from the Chorus, which represents a mix of both genders, several orientations, and little regard for self-control. It's even outright lampshaded by Anchorage in the second chapter of the story, when [[VillainsOutShopping the various Butchers are all arguing over what club Taylor should sign up for]]:

The second bearer of the Butcher's mantle. A Striker, Breaker/Mover and Thinker combo cape who naturally possesses the ability to siphon blood with a touch, which he uses to fuel a "speedster state" (at the cost of making him "hungrier" for more blood). He also naturally possesses the ability to see circulatory systems through walls.\\

* CharacterTics: Talks with a very prominent stammer.

Quarrel joined the Teeth as a sniper of sorts, and worked alongside Muramasa before he became Butcher XIII. Despite both being Japanese, the two hated each other because of their differing attitude- Quarrel found him pretentious, while Muramasa thought she wasn't being respectful enough to their 'honoured heritage' (yes he actually said that). After some time under XIII's leadership, Quarrel challenged him for leadership, using her range advantage and her knowledge that ''bullet''proof is not the same as ''arrow''proof to fill him with arrows until he finally collapsed. Ironically, she got along much better with Muramasa after accessing his memories, She took parts of his armour for her new costume, and wore his skull along with the two others. After a fight in Brockton left the other gangs licking their wounds, she made the decision to attempt to expand back into the Bay, with unfortunate results. Hates Taylor almost as much as Butcher himself.

* TheLostLenore: A platonic case with Hemorhaggia/Alice.

* FatalFlaw: As in canon, Taylor suffers from a severe lack of self-worth, relentless paranoia and a serious ControlFreak nature.
* FreudianExcuse: The horrific psychological torture she suffered through at the hands of the Trio combined with virtually every authority figure she had during that time period falling into a serious case of AdultsAreUseless are the main reasons for Taylor's caustic cynicism and near-pathological distrust of authority figures.

* DirtyOldMan: He's a relentlessly hedonistic and crude man who is describing as being as lecherous and slimy as he is now as he was as a teenager.

* TheHedonist: If there's a vice, Dirty Rotter has either indulged in it to the extreme or wants to do so as soon as possible. ...The only exception, though, [[WouldNotHurtAChild is anything involving kids]], as least [[EvenEvilHasStandards the Butchers at least have that standard]].

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!Villains
[[folder:The Teeth]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Undersiders]]
!!Lisa Wilbourn a.k.a. Tattletale

* BatDeduction[=/=]SherlockScan:
* OhCrap: She's appropriately terrified when she learns that Taylor is really the Butcher.
* SecretKeeper: She quickly decides to keep Taylor's true identity secret, largely in part since Taylor has saved the Undersiders' lives twice at this point -- first from Lung, and then from Hookwolf.
* TheStarscream: She works to undermine Coil, and is one of the primary reasons for why he's eventually captured by the Protectorate.
!!Whirlygig

* BlowYouAway: One of the ways she can manifest her power is through basically creating a ''cyclone'' of telekinetic force centered around herself.
* ForWantOfANail: As Taylor didn't join the Undersiders in this story but ''did'' break the Merchants apart far earlier on, here Whirlygig joins the Undersiders instead of the Merchants.
* MeaningfulName: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirligig Whirligigs]] are objects that spin and whirl, such as pinwheels. Whirlygig's power works in having objects telekinetically spin around her.
* MindOverMatter: She can make objects rotate around her in a counter-clockwise pattern.

[[folder:Coil's Organization]]
!!Thomas Calvert a.k.a. Coil
A mysterious supervillain who is behind the Undersiders and is slowly orchestrating a takeover of Brockton Bay. Tattletale eventually reveals that he's one of the most powerful Thinkers in history, having the ability to perceive himself in two parallel realities simultaneously where he can make different decisions in each, and choose which of the two realities to carry out for whichever one works out better for him.