History Characters / Terraria

* LizardFolk: [[WordOfGod Word of God]] has offhandedly said that the Witch Doctor is a lihzahrd, and the bestiary outright confirms it. Also, a quick comparison of the Lihzahrd and Witch Doctor sprites makes it clear by way of several shared features; a tail, green skin, and head frills, the last being partially obscured by the Witch Doctor's mask.

* TheScrappy: Invoked. He originally got hate from the beginning for appearing in every world, being unkillable, and subject to mass ArtificialStupidity, especially pertaining to doors and monsters. At this point he's somewhat become the Scrappy ''in-game'', with other [=NPCs=] occasionally making comments about how much they're annoyed with his antics. Which at least helps the player feel better about repeatedly killing the Guide to do battle with the Wall of Flesh. This is taken UpToEleven in the 1.4 update, where killing him will give you Good Luck for 4 minutes while killing any other NPC gives you Bad Luck.

* TeleportSpam: Sorcerers, and the Goblin Summoner takes this UpToEleven.

* NiceHat: Both Snowman Gangsta and Snow Balla wear bowler hats.
* SnowballFight: Snow Ballas attack the player with snowballs.

* KnifeNut: If forced into combat, he will defend himself with throwing knives.

* KnifeNut: Throws [[ShamuFu Frost Daggerfish]] to fight.

* InformedAbility: The Goblin Thief doesn’t do any stealing despite his title (unless it’s expert or higher, and even then it’s nothing exceptional), coming off more as a quick-footed KnifeNut than anything.

* KnifeNut: The aptly-named Mister Stabby is a snowman armed with a knife.

* HumanoidAbomination: An end game character is both much more durable than the average mortal and fully capable of wielding weapons and magics that are nearly cosmic in scope. They can have minions made of star matter, armor forged solar energy and other worldly metals, weapons that summon falling meteors with every swing, ect. Very little about how the player fights is at all human in the end and a battle involving a high tier player can look outright terrifying from an outside perspective. On a side-note, the more stranger dyes can also turn you into one visually as well, if you wish to complete the image.

* WasOnceAMan: The player starts out perfectly baseline mortal, although as time goes on and they start both gathering all sorts of energies and weaponry, they eventually become an [[HumanoidAbomination unnatural]] PhysicalGod.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Some interpretations. They will stop at nothing and commit some reprehensible actions to complete their goal, which is slaying the embodiment of evil.

* SkippableBoss: Like the King Slime, there's no particular need to fight the Queen Bee unless you want her loot.

* OpenEndedBossBattle: It (along with the Brain of Cthulhu) doesn't actually need to be defeated in order to progress the game: in addition to its main reward of Shadow Scales dropped upon death, each of its individual segments also have a chance of dropping a few, more than enough to collect the six required to forge the Nightmare Pickaxe, at which point you can flee the battle or die (on anything other than Hardcore) without having to worry about finishing the job.

* OpenEndedBossBattle: It (along with the Eater of Worlds) doesn't actually need to be defeated in order to progress the game: in addition to its main reward of Tissue Samples dropped upon death, every Creeper it spawns also has a chance of dropping a few, more than enough to collect the six required to forge the Deathbringer Pickaxe, at which point you can flee the battle or die (on anything other than Hardcore) without having to worry about finishing the job.

* {{Superboss}}: Like Duke Fishron, she is completely optional and not required to face the FinalBoss, and you likely have to go out of your way to summon her, although ''unlike'' Duke Fishron she can be accidentally summoned if you're supremely unlucky. And she demands respect, too - despite being able to be summoned right after Plantera, she's so incredibly difficult and unorthodox compared to ''every other boss in the game'' (arguably including the FinalBoss themselves) that gear obtained from the Moon events, or gear obtained after Golem or even Duke Fishron is ''heavily'' encouraged to be acquired first. Yet if you do kill her, she can drop some incredibly good gear for your troubles, which will make all of the remaining challenges in the game significantly easier.

* TimeLimitBoss: Like Skeletron and Skeletron Prime before her, once the sun comes up, the Empress's attacks will kill you instantly. If summoned during the day (likely by a player looking for her BraggingRightsReward), she will run away at dusk if somehow she and the player are both still alive by then.

* {{Superboss}}: He's one of the only three Hardmode bosses that doesn't need to be beaten in order to fight [[spoiler:the Moon Lord]], and you need to go somewhat out of your way in order to summon him. He's also much tougher than most of the other Hardmode bosses despite being able to be potentially summoned before any of them, but his drops will make the rest of the game a lot easier.

* DynamicEntry: Appears with a screen-obscuring flash of light and a deafening roar.

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* StatusEffects: Its stingers can inflict the "Poisoned" debuff on enemies.

* StatusEffects: It's fireballs inflict the "On fire!" Debuff on enemies.

* StatusEffects: Inflicts the "Venom"[[note]]A stronger version of "Poisoned"[[/note]] debuff on enemies.

* StatusEffects: On Expert, any CollisionDamage with the eyeballs or the Brain can cause the Confused, Poison, Bleeding, Darkness, Broken Armor, or Weak status effects.

* StatusEffects: Can poison you with her stingers.

* StatusEffects: Moon Bite is of the Decover type, preventing LifeDrain effects from working on him.

* StatusEffects: Darkness (reduced light vision) and poison. The lava slime originally counted for fire since they turned into lava when killed before a patch removed that trait, until it was added in again as an Expert Mode trait.

* StatusEffects: Cursed (unable to use items) from the flying cursed skulls, broken armor (halved defense for 5 minutes) from armored/heavy skeletons, and fire from skeleton archers.

* StatusEffects: Corrupt Slimes and Dark Mummies inflict Darkness, Clingers inflict Cursed Inferno (water cannot put it out), Corruptors inflict Weakness (reduced stats) and Cursed Hammers inflict Cursed (cannot use any weapons or consumables).

* StatusEffects: Ichor Stickers inflict Ichor ([[DamageIncreasingDebuff lowers defense considerably]]), while the Floaty Gross inflicts Weakness.

* StatusEffects: Pixies inflict slowness (along with the gastropod) and silence, enchanted swords inflict cursed, light mummies inflict confusion.

* StatusEffects: Several of them. Lightning Bugs can reduce your damage while Wither Beasts can reduce your defense. Ogres throw you a snot ball that slows you while Betsy is able to burn you.

* StatusEffects: Tesla Turrets and Gigazappers can inflict the Electrified debuff, which acts like poison but deals even greater damage if the player moves. Brain Scramblers inflict the Confused debuff that reverses your controls.

* StatusEffects: Can cause you to get chilled or even frozen.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: The player character can have any hair color, and the random character generator will happily give you blue, pink, or any color of hair.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is grass green and done up in a long, curling braid.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is magenta.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has pink hair.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has light silver-blue hair. Made more obvious in the "Deceiver of Fools" achievement image.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: He has green hair, justified as it is likely part of his clown costume.

Given the loads of {{Non Player Character}}s, monsters, and bosses. It's no doubt that there's a character list for this game.

* OptionalBoss: One of three bosses that aren't needed to progress the game.

* OptionalBoss: She is completely optional and not required for progress, and like Duke Fishron, you likely have to go out of your way to summon her - although ''unlike'' Duke Fishron she can be accidentally summoned if you're unlucky. And she demands respect, too - despite being able to be summoned right after Plantera, she's so incredibly difficult and unorthodox compared to ''every other boss in the game'' that gear obtained from the Moon events, or gear obtained after Golem or even ''Duke Fishron'' is ''heavily'' encouraged to be acquired first. Yet if you do kill her, she can drop some incredibly good gear for your troubles, which will ease the fights against the final challenges of the game.

* LightningBruiser: Extremely fast, extremely painful, and sports at least 50000 health, more than most of the other bosses.

* {{Superboss}}: He's one of the only three Hardmode bosses that doesn't need to be beaten in order to fight [[spoiler:the Moon Lord]], and you need to go somewhat out of your way in order to summon him. He's also much tougher than most other Hardmode bosses, but his drops will make the rest of the game a lot easier.

* WaveMotionGun: Can fire a Phantasmal Deathray from his ThirdEye. It sweeps around from one side of the screen to the other and does a great amount of damage and penetrates solid blocks. When an eye is detached, it can use a similar but weaker laser.

** Prior to the Journey's End update, the Martian Saucer had no attacks which could pass through blocks. A simple box thick enough to block splash damage from the missiles renders it harmless, provided you leave a hole for something to shoot through or something that shoots through blocks.

* BossInMookClothing: The Headless Horseman is halfway between the mooks and the bosses, boasting a huge health pool (more than Mothron and slightly less than Mourning Wood), extremely high contact damage, and [[ContractualBossImmunity immunity to all debuffs]]. It's still counted as a normal enemy.

* {{Superboss}}: Both minibosses, as the Pumpkin Moon is not at all required for beating the final boss and both of the minibosses are exceptionally difficult. Unlike the Goblin Summoner, Flying Dutchman, Mothron, or Martian Saucer, fighting the Pumpkin Moon's bosses is ''entirely'' by player choice, so they won't even fight them with bad luck regarding invasions.

* {{Superboss}}: All three of the bosses, as the Frost Moon is not required for beating the final boss, and all of them are exceptionally difficult.

* MetalSlime: A non-enemy version. He only spawns rarely in the Cavern layer, and unlike most other [=NPCs=], his presence is not shown by an announcement nor can he be detected by a Lifeform Analyzer. Furthermore, some of his items are only available at very specific times, meaning that you'll need to get very lucky at the right time to get, say, a Magic Lantern.

* BonusBoss: She is completely optional and not required for progress, and like Duke Fishron, you likely have to go out of your way to summon her - although ''unlike'' Duke Fishron she can be accidentally summoned if you're unlucky. And she demands respect, too - despite being able to be summoned right after Plantera, she's so incredibly difficult and unorthodox compared to ''every other boss in the game'' that gear obtained from the Moon events, or gear obtained after Golem or even ''Duke Fishron'' is ''heavily'' encouraged to be acquired first. Yet if you do kill her, she can drop some incredibly good gear for your troubles, which will ease the fights against the final challenges of the game.

* LightningBruiser: She has 70,000 HP at minimum which can go up to 124,950 on Master - significantly more than her fellow BonusBoss Duke Fishron, who has 50,000 to 76,500 HP respectively. She also flies around the air quickly, and hits extremely hard with both projectiles and contact damage.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: One of his lines implies that he died by being caught by underground spiders, and they [[EatenAlive feasted on him until there was nothing left except bones]]. Oh, and [[AndIMustScream he remembers it completely]].
* DemBones: He's a skeleton, albeit a friendly one.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Appears to be based on a blue and yellow Chinese Dragon without legs, and it attacks enemies by flying through them instead of using some kind of BreathWeapon. It also gets longer as the player summons it more.

* BoringButPractical: The Cells are just balls of light that float around and shoot smaller balls of light at things. However, their ranged attacks are very fast and track targets, they teleport into attack range instantly, and their attacks cause a very powerful DoT effect. They might not look like much compared to the Dragon, but are easily its equal.

[[caption-width-right:194:"The mutant terror of the sea"]]

* LightningBruiser: Extremely fast, extremely painful, and sports 50000 health, more than most other bosses.

* {{Superboss}}: He's one the only Hardmode bosses that doesn't need to be beaten in order to fight [[spoiler:the Moon Lord]], and you need to go somewhat out of your way in order to summon him. He's also much tougher than most other Hardmode bosses, but his drops will make the rest of the game a lot easier.

* AirborneMook: Vampires can transform into bats to fly into you, while Mothron is capable of flight all the time.

** Fritz: [[TheIgor Igor]]

* BattleshipRaid: In order to defeat the Martian Saucer, the player must first destroy all of its missile launchers and laser turrets, before they can attack the main core.

* AllPeriodsArePMS: She's one of the ''only two'' female NPCs that averts this during the Blood Moon.

* AllPeriodsArePMS: She's one of the''only two'' female NPCs that averts this during the Blood Moon.

* CastingAShadow: He primarily uses shadow magic to defend himself

* AllPeriodsArePMS: She's the ''only'' female NPC that averts this during the Blood Moon.

* BonusBoss: He's one the only Hardmode bosses that doesn't need to be beaten in order to fight [[spoiler:the Moon Lord]], and you need to go somewhat out of your way in order to summon him. He's also quite the DifficultySpike compared to the other Hardmode bosses, but his drops will make the rest of the game a lot easier.

* {{Superboss}}: He's one the only Hardmode bosses that doesn't need to be beaten in order to fight [[spoiler:the Moon Lord]], and you need to go somewhat out of your way in order to summon him. He's also quite the DifficultySpike compared to the other Hardmode bosses, but his drops will make the rest of the game a lot easier.

* LightningBruiser: She has 1.4x the health of Duke Fishron, flies around the air quickly, and hits extremely hard with both projectiles and contact damage.

* {{Superboss}}: She is completely optional and not required for progress, and like Duke Fishron, you likely have to go out of your way to summon her - although ''unlike'' Duke Fishron she can be accidentally summoned if you're unlucky. And she demands respect, too - despite being able to be summoned right after Plantera, she's so incredibly difficult and unorthodox compared to ''every other boss in the game'' that gear obtained from the Moon events, or gear obtained after Golem or even ''Duke Fishron'' is ''heavily'' encouraged to be acquired first. Yet if you do kill her, she can drop some incredibly good gear for your troubles.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Fighting her in the day causes her attacks to deal at least 10,000 damage to you. You have maximum 500 HP.

* SequentialBoss: The Martian Saucer requires you to destroy its two turrets and two missile launchers, before the main body becomes vulnerable to damage and constantly uses its laser attack.

* WaveMotionGun: The Martian Saucer has one of these. It can also drop the Charged Blaster Cannon which can be charged to fire this.

* BonusBoss: It isn’t required for progression and, prior to 1.3, had fairly out of the way spawning requirements. However 1.3 [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] this by having it more likely to spawn naturally as the end boss of the Slime Rain event and making its summoning item cheaper along with giving it more useful drops, though it’s still not required for progression.

* SkippableBoss: It's entirely possible to never fight this boss. The triggering events are avoidable and it isn't tied to game progression.

* BonusBoss: One of three bosses that aren't needed to progress the game.

* KingMook: Well, Queen Mook at any rate.

* BonusBoss: She is completely optional and not required for progress, and like Duke Fishron, you likely have to go out of your way to summon her - although ''unlike'' Duke Fishron she can be accidentally summoned if you're unlucky. And she demands respect, too - despite being able to be summoned right after Plantera, she's so incredibly difficult and unorthodox compared to ''every other boss in the game'' that gear obtained from the Moon events, or gear obtained after Golem or even ''Duke Fishron'' is ''heavily'' encouraged to be acquired first. Yet if you do kill her, she can drop some incredibly good gear for your troubles.

* BonusBoss: He's one the only Hardmode bosses that doesn't need to be beaten in order to fight [[spoiler:the Moon Lord]], and you need to go somewhat out of your way in order to summon him. He's also quite the DifficultySpike compared to the other Hardmode bosses, but his drops will make the rest of the game a lot easier.

* AWizardDidIt: According to his Bestiary entry, he's the reason why Torches in the game never die out over time.
* BonusBoss: Surviving the Torch God's challenge is completely optional and gives an item that helps with luck.

* BonusBoss: Both minibosses, as the Pumpkin Moon is not at all required for beating the final boss and both of the minibosses are exceptionally difficult. Unlike the Goblin Summoner, Flying Dutchman, Mothron, or Martian Saucer, fighting the Pumpkin Moon's bosses is ''entirely'' by player choice, so they won't even fight them with bad luck regarding invasions.

* BonusBoss: All three of the bosses, as the Frost Moon is not required for beating the final boss, and all of them are exceptionally difficult.

The player character starts off with nothing but a bottom tier shortsword, pickaxe, and axe. (If you bought the Collector's Edition, you also gewall t a carrot which you can use to summon a pet bunny.) Over the course of the game they will explore the world, build a home, find treasures, defeat ever more challenging foes, and eventually, plunge the world into a battle between the ancient spirits of light and dark.