History Characters / HereComesTheNewBoss

* EmbarassingNickname: She's been mockingly called "Miss Piggy" behind her back by some of the Wards.

* DirtyCop: His true identity is as [=PRT=] Consultant Thomas Calvert.

* LogicalWeakness: As his armor is made out of hardened earth and stone, it can be softened and made weaker with sufficient water. Spitfire quickly realizes this when she's able to soften Mudslide by spraying his chest with her fire-hoses.

* TheDreaded: There are two types of people in Brockton Bay -- those who have a healthy fear of Lung, and those who are dead. The Choir considers him an ideal inheritor because of his powers, so Taylor decides to avoid confronting him to the best of her abilities at present. Chapter 6.6 reminds readers why he's one of the most dangerous capes in Brockton Bay as Taylor fights for dear life against him, despite having back-up from Gargoyle and Battery.

* 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.

* InvoluntaryShapeshifting:
* LargeAndInCharge: Lung is well over six feet tall even before he transforms, and he's the leader of the ABB.
* MadeOfIron: Even putting aside his HealingFactor, the man is built like a battle tank and is ''incredibly'' hard to permanently injure/impair.

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* BloodKnight: What, their name didn't give it away? The Butcher is easily one of the most violent capes on the east coast, and love a good scrap.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Even if she's (at least initially) a real {{Jerkass}} to Taylor, she still shows contempt and distaste for [[ManipulativeBastard Madison's]] attempts to get into trouble at Arcadia, both out of fear for Madison making Taylor finally snap & go on a rampage and also out of disgust for Madison's bullying.

* TheRunaway: She ran away from home when she was younger and has lived on the street ever since.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In a rather ironic twist when contrasted with canon, Taylor becomes a hero instead of a villain despite having 14 serial killers in her head giving advice. She's on reasonably good terms with the PRT and New Wave, and Armsmaster respects her.
* AdaptationalSexuality: In canon, Taylor is (more or less) straight. Here, thanks in large part to having all of the previous Butchers in her head, Taylor is more or less pansexual. (With 14 spectators to her every action, however, she's uncomfortable even on the toilet, let alone in a romantic relationship.)

* FreudianExcuse: The horrific psychological abuse 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.

** She's a [[FightsLikeANormal master of silat]]? She just had training in it before she became a cape!

* TheStoic: Not only has the traumatic bullying campaign against her already severely deadened Taylor's general emotional state, but Taylor can help herself concentrate and better focus through temporarily "silencing" (her own phrasing is "shoving them into the dark") the voices of the Butcher's Choir, deadening her emotions and making her think in a more logical pattern. And as with canon, she can offload her emotional reactions into her insect swarm to prevent her from showing any emotion; a specific example is shown in the first chapter, where she's able to stop herself from shouting at a teacher through pushing her rage into her swarm, resulting in a pair of cockroaches in the school basement suddenly circling around one another.

* NeverLiveItDown: [[invoked]] InUniverse, the other members of the Choir will never really let go of how boneheaded Vladimir was in never even bothering to see if he ''could'' use animal blood instead of just human blood for his SuperSpeed.

* MundaneUtility:

* EatingTheEyeCandy: He royally embarrasses Taylor when he lecherously tries to how well-endowed [[SensualSpandex Velocity]] is when she is meeting with him under the guise of Elpis.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He honours his mother every year by praying at her grave.

* HeCleansUpNicely: An amusing variant; During a meeting with the rest of the Protectorate and Elpis, some of the Butchers immediately get bored and [[DistractedByTheSexy start fantasizing about how handsome Armsmaster would look]] out of his PoweredArmor, causing Elpis to silence them both out of irritation for distracting her and revulsion due to Armsmaster having been one of her favorite heroes when she was younger.
* NotSoAboveItAll: During Hostile Takeover, Emily Piggot notes with quiet amusement that she can see [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Armsmaster’s lips twitch]] in an [[TheUnsmile Unsmile]] when the higher-ups at the ENE Protectorate are looking at footage of Butcher [=XV=] and see some pictures of her having scrawled juvenile drawings on the faces of five of Coil’s mercenaries.

* HealingHands: How she chooses to have her biotinker abilities manifest.

* PowerIncontinence: Self-inflicted variant. Amy purposefully 'sandbags' the full extent of her powers because she is genuinely terrified of her own capabilities.
* RaisedByRival:

* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Most of her interaction with Taylor in the diner consists more of them trading sarcastic barbs with one another than actually discussing her being the current Butcher.

A Changer with the ability to transform himself into living stone.

* MadeOfIron:

* OurGargoylesRock:

* EveryoneHasStandards: As desperate for food and shelter as she was while a homeless runaway, even ''she'' wasn't willing to join the Empire [=Eighty-Eight=] for the sake of a warm meal. In fact, her Trigger Event is the result of her trying to escape from a soup kitchen after she realized that it was actually an [=E88=] recruitment drive.

* TheRunaway:

* SpaceMaster: She's quite possibly one of the most powerful Shapers in history, being able to easily warp space around her to her will. The only real weakness she has is that she finds it incredibly difficult to manipulate locations with living things present, and with it becoming increasingly hard the more living things are in the surrounding area.

* LogicalWeakness: While her Thinker power is incredibly formidable (to the point where she can semi-credibly claim to be a psychic who can read people's minds), its accuracy is heavily dependent on what available information she has. If Lisa doesn't have enough info to make a sufficiently workable analysis, she can get answers that are completely off (basically akin to "garbage in, garbage out" situations seen with computer algorithms).

!! Alec a.k.a. Regent

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After Coil manages to escape from his prison transport and sends someone to burn down the Undersiders’ hideout, Alec chooses to skip town entirely rather than risk being targeted by his old boss again.

* BigBadWannabe:

* TheSociopath:

* WouldHurtAChild:

* LogicalWeakness: Her power lets her affect the inner ear of her enemies to disorient them, however as shown in her rematch against Elpis, anyone can get around her sound waves by plugging their ears or sound proofing their helmet.

* ButtMonkey:

* PapaWolf: When Taylor talks to Danny over the phone during her sleepover with her Arcadia friends and she hesitantly notes that maybe she should have accepted Madison's half-assed and definitely not genuine apology for bullying her, Danny immediately interjects and angrily tells her that she should ''never'' feel obligated to accept apologies from un-repentant people who have treated her horribly and he will always be on her side defending & supporting her however he can.

A member of the independent Hero team New Wave. Panancea is a Striker and Thinker who is one of the only known capes to have a "healing" power in the world (with her power being dependent on her maintaining skin-to-skin contact with her "patient"), 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.

* {{Biomanipulation}}: While being a "healer" is her basic application, this is the full extent of Amy's power since she's in fact a bio-tinker. In addition to regrowing lost limbs and organs, she can alter or change the makeup of any flesh she touches.

* DepartmentOfChildDisservices:

* 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 (with the exception that it apparently involved the CruelAndUnusualDeath of a police officer in some fashion).

* ParentalSubstitute: Thanks in large part to Danny Hebert still being semi-disposed of from Annette's death, Flinch helps provide a parental role in Taylor's life.

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

* CasualDangerDialogue: Since they're voices inside someone's head, they engage in this while their host battles whoever their up against.
* CharacterDevelopment: Taylor becoming their latest host inflicts this upon them. While they may grumble about her desire to become a hero and use their powers for the betterment of Brockton Bay, that her powers can suppress them and allow them to converse without needing to scream over each other allows them to slowly soften up and offer genuine advice.

An infamous parahuman villain and the leader of the notorious crime gang "The Teeth". Even putting aside the numerous crimes each Butcher has performed, what makes them particularly interesting (and terrifying) is that they're effectively the only known cape to possess CompleteImmortality - as soon as the current Butcher is killed, whichever cape killed them takes up the mantle and gains access to all of the previous Butchers' powers... but with the caveat that they also gain access to all of the ''consciousnesses'' of all the previous Butchers. Unless the new Butcher is seen as "acceptable" (as in, a member of the Teeth), this manifests in the poor bastard being driven insane until they're either broken into a MeatPuppet or become a FullyEmbracedFiend, continuing the ViciousCycle onward.\\\

* MindOverMatter:

* DualWielding: She skillfully uses two kamas as her WeaponOfChoice.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent:

* PowerGivesYouWings:
* ScaledUp:

* TheFriendThatNobodyLikes: The Travelers aren’t really fond of him and barely tolerate him. [[spoiler: This intensifies in the aftermath of their mall heist when Perdition pulls out a gun and threatens hostages, then shoots Grue after being allowing them to escape.]]

* SwapTeleportation:

* BatmanGrabsAGun:
* TheFriendThatNobodyLikes: The Travelers aren’t really fond of him and barely tolerate him.
* SoreLoser:

* AbnormalAmmo:

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!Other Characters
[[folder:Rogue Parahumans]]
!!Tarquin a.k.a. Konnigit a.k.a. Ironclad

A wandering vigilante in Brockton Bay that Taylor runs across under her "Elpis" cape identity, and who she quickly takes under her wing. He's a very powerful Brute/Changer/Striker, having the ability to create a powerful suit of armor around himself [[ExtraOreDinary constructed out of the metal surrounding him]] and which he can easily manipulate to his will. In reality, he's Tarquin, one of Taylor's new friends she made after switching over from Winslow to Arcadia.

* GreenEyedMonster: Due to her lusting after Victoria, Amy hates Dean (Victoria's current boyfriend) with a passion and is deeply jealous of him. Dean is implied to be aware of this to some degree, but is understandably wary on his exactly to approach this and get Amy the therapy she needs.

* TheDreaded: For decades 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, [[HeadsIWinTailsYouLose 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. As such, when Panacea realizes that Elpis is the Butcher she immediately freaks out.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: As unhinged and murderous as they are, the Butchers all have someone dear to them, be it a lover, sibling, or parent.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Former Butchers end up as voices inside the head of the current host. Their only sensory input is from the host, and they have no ability to affect the outside world.

*** Firecracker, Stoneknapper, Bearskin, Vladimir, Quarrel and Anchorage’s villainy mostly manifests through a clear hedonism, impatience with following rules, and near-pathological hatred of authority figures.

* PsychopathicManchild: As per WordOfGod, the Butchers do not mentally age past their deaths, resulting in many of them still be highly emotional {{Jerkass}}es still hung up with their own traumas even years after becoming part of the Choir. Furthermore, thanks to the vast majority of them being hedonistic villains, the Butchers generally act like immature, murderous brats that Taylor has to regularly lasso into helping her through acting as the collective’s TeamMom.
* SenseFreak: The Butchers share sensations with their host and one way to appease them is by supplying them with foods or music they enjoy. This is helped by Nemean giving Taylor an enhanced sense of taste, making even a single piece of chocolate that much better. On the other hand, whatever pain Taylor feels is reflected to the Butchers. Nemean gawks at how painful the aftermath of a four-way battle between the Teeth, Empire, and Merchants was.

* TookALevelInKindness: Downplayed for the more violent Butchers. They're still nuts, but they've at least started to treat Taylor more kindly as she proves herself.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Outside of those who claimed the mantle willingly and joined the Teeth of their own volition, the capes who killed the Butcher, accidentally or otherwise, have all been driven insane by their predecessors.

* CharacterTics: Talks with a very prominent stammer. As part of his CharacterDevelopment, he starts to speak less and less with his stammer as he grows more confidence.

* 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]], since at least [[EvenEvilHasStandards the Butchers have that standard]].

* PoweredArmor: He is one of the most powerful known Tinkers among the Protectorate, and this primarily manifests in his advanced suit of hyper-advanced technological armor that makes him NighInvulnerable while enhancing his physical abilities beyond normal human limits. Taylor even mentions that she and Tock Tick took explicit inspiration from Armsmaster’s suit when designing her own costume because of how impressed they were by it.

A member of the independent Hero team New Wave. Panancea is a Striker who is one of the only known capes to have a "healing" power in the world (with her power being dependent on her maintaining skin-to-skin contact with her "patient"), 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.

* DeadlyDoctor:

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When Amy heals up Elpis, she sees the changes the latter underwent due to her Trigger Event, and notes that had Elpis appeared earlier people would have mistaken her for the Butcher, what with the HealingFactor, and the tough skin, and the extra photoreceptors, and extra row of teeth, in combination with being a Tinker... and she then realizes all of a sudden that she's enclosed in a room with the latest incarnation of the country's biggest SerialKiller.

* 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 minimum age of becoming a Ward.

* FireBreathingWeapon:
* MakingASplash:

* SuperSpit:
* TookALevelInBadass:

* AlienGeometries: Basically her power, with her being able to warp space around her to accomplish bizarre events that would normally go against Euclidian geometry. As an example, during ''Hostile Takeover'' it's mentioned that after Butcher [=XV=] throws Hookwolf off of the roof Vista & Gallant are hiding on top of, Vista warps the space in front of the building so that any shrapnel released by explosives on the street will instead only hit the surrounding buildings and not her & Gallant.

* LogicalWeakness: While her Thinker power is incredibly formidable (to the point where she can semi-credibly claim to be a psychic who can read people's minds), its accuracy is heavily dependent on what available information she has. If Lisa doesn't have enough info to make a sufficiently workable analysis, she can get answers that are completely off (think basically like "garbage in, garbage out" situations seen with computer algorithms).

* ArmorIsUseless: Completely averted. He gets shot ''twice'' by [[spoiler:Perdition]] and suffers relatively minor injuries ''because'' he was protected by armor.

* MeaningfulRename:

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After Coil manages to escape from his prison transport and sends someone to burn down the Undersiders’ hideout, Alec chooses to skip town rather than risk being targeted by his old boss again.

!!The Undersiders in General

** This changes after they join Taylor after they assist her and the heroes take down Coil.

* DemotedToExtra: Lisa and the rest of the Undersiders are among the main rotating cast of characters in canon ''Worm''. Here, thanks to Taylor starting out as a hero and staying that way, she and the other Undersiders have far less narrative significance within the greater story.

* 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.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After Coil manages to escape from his prison transport and sends someone to burn down the Undersider’s hideout, Alec chooses to skip town rather than risk being targeted by his old boss again.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:

* BullyingADragon: She had the bright idea of resuming her bullying campaign in Arcadia, totally unaware that Taylor is Butcher XV. Her efforts are lukewarm and stymied by the fact that the staff faculty is less tolerant and apathetic than Winslow's and Taylor ignores her for the most part...until she tries to pass off her bullying as a "joke". If not for Amy, Madison would be a bloody smear on the wall.

*** Tactical and Needler, both experts at playing TheLongGame, are (similar to Muramasa) are ruthless followers of PragmaticVillainy.
*** Firecracket, Stoneknapper, Bearskin, Vladimir, Quarrel and Anchorage’s villainy mostly manifests through a clear hedonism, impatience with following rules, and near-pathological hatred of authority figures.

* LethalJokeCharacter:

* LethalJokeCharacter:

!!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]].

* PayEvilUntoEvil: 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.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:

* ShapeshifterWeapon: He gradually learns how to alter his metal armor to create tools in combat, such as forming viciously sharp claws at the end of his "hands" to slice through , extending spikes and blades out of his "arms" to cut capes trying to directly tackle him, thickening his "feet" so he can stomp something into mulch, etc.

* GreaterScopeVillain: In a sense, as he's the first Butcher, and without him, the Butcher's Choir wouldn't have been created in the first place.

* CharacterDevelopment: Taylor becoming their latest host inflicts this. While they may grumble about her desire to become a hero and use their powers for the betterment of Brockton Bay, that her powers can suppress them and allow them to converse without needing to scream over each other allows them to slowly soften up and offer genuine advice.

* MistakenForGay: Taylor's attempts to avoid looking at other teenage girls in the gym showers so she won't be technically providing the Butcher's Chorus with the equivalent of underage pornography is misinterpreted by her friends (while at a sleepover) as her being a lesbian and being afraid of being caught EatingTheEyeCandy & then being ForcedOutOfTheCloset.

* PoweredArmor: Taylor makes use of Tock Tick's Tinker abilities to make herself an advanced suit of protective armor with all sorts of hidden gadgets. Not only is it endlessly useful in its own right, and conceals her face much better than a mask, it also provides a cover story for her SuperStrength and SuperToughness.