History Characters / WardOthers

An immensely powerful Master parahuman who is largely responsible for stopping Golden Morning. Her actual identity was Taylor Hebert, known first as Skitter and then as Weaver, who submitted herself to modification by Panacea and Bonesaw to increase her power. For her tropes in ''Worm'', see [[Characters/WormUndersiders here]].

* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Taken UpToEleven. It has hundreds or even thousands of arms, and uses them to fight off around fifteen people at once, while also tinkering to build more devastating weapons and defenses.

* LogicalWeakness: Her ability to be able to see whatever possible steps are necessary in achieving any goal makes her one of, if not ''the,'' strongest Thinkers in existence, but if she doesn't have any goal in mind, or simply doesn't use her power, it's possible to cut off her options and subdue her. [[spoiler:As was the case when she got captured by Teacher.]] It also can't help her if her goal is truly impossible based on the conditions around her at the time she asks the question and the particulars of the end state she is looking for. For example, [[spoiler:when she is freed in Teacher's base, the situation has deteriorated to the point that the three things her rescuers want from her--eliminate Teacher, save the maximum number of heroes, and save the maximum number of all human lives--are now impossible to all achieve at the same time. Contessa is thus forced to present three options, each of which maximizes one of the goals at the expense of all or some of the others.]]

A young girl who foresaw the end of world, and in general can forsee the probability of any future event with ludicrous precision. Her whereabouts were unknown at the start of the story. For tropes pertaining to her appearance in ''Worm'' see [[Characters/WormBrocktonBayGangs here]].

* {{Seer}}: She is capable of predicting the probability of certain events happening in the future.

* NotSoDifferent: Armstrong has a special ability for finding similarities between himself and parahumans, explaining why he's able to get along so well with many of them. For example, he is able to connect Cryptid's discomfort with his normal human form to his own dissatisfaction with his physique.

* MorallySuperiorCopy: [[spoiler:The fifth Harbinger clone proves to have a sense of morality that the original and his fellow clones lack.]]

* SociopathicHero: Like the original, they're now on the side of the utilitarian greater good, but they have absolutely no morals or conscience themselves. In fact, they are even ''more'' sociopathic than the original, since their personalities were based on his exaggerated reputation.

* WhiteSheep: [[spoiler: The fifth and last Harbinger Clone becomes this in relationship to his brothers and even his "father;" developing a conscience which leads him to protect Sveta, as well as aid Case 53s in general out of remorse and guilt over what the original Number Man did to them. He eventually becomes the 4th member of the Major Malfunctions, who rename themselves to the Majors, as between their greater experience and the firepower that the 5th Harbinger brings they are now very capable of taking on serious threats.]]

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: When talking about what she did, Glory Girl refers to her mass mastering of capes as 'controversial'. Implying that, at least Victoria believes while what Khepri did was undeniably horrible for those who were affected by it, it's ultimately what stopped Scion.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: When talking about what she did, Glory Girl refers to her mass mastering of capes as 'controversial'. Implying that, at least Victoria believes what Khepri did was undeniably horrible for those who were affected by it, it's ultimately what stopped Scion.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: When talking about what she did, Glory Girl refers to her mass mastering of capes as 'controversial'. Implying that, at least Victoria believes what Khepri did was undeniably horrible for those who were effected by it, it's ultimately what stopped Scion.

* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:Gets turned into a Titan due to being in close proximity to another cape's broken second trigger. She then becomes a spring board for reality to break further that causes even more random capes to turn into Titans.]]

* WhiteSheep: [[spoiler: The fifth and last Harbinger Clone becomes this in relationship to his brothers and even his "father;" developing a conscience which leads him to protecting Sveta, as well as wishing to aide Case 53s in general out of remorse and guilt over what the original Number Man did to them. He eventually becomes the 4th member of the Major Malfunctions, who rename themselves to the Majors, as between their greater experience and the firepower that the 5th Harbinger brings they are now very capable of taking on serious threats.]]

[[folder: Egg]]

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Not Egg himself, but his power. At first glance, there doesn't appear to be more to it than well... being an egg. His skin is eggshell, he bleeds yolk, and while he can regenerate fairly quickly, that doesn't mean much when he breaks so easily in the first place. It turns out that his body acts as a portal to a bunch of "godbirds", gigantic creatures vaguely shaped like egg laying animals that can go toe to toe with [[spoiler: ''Titans'']] when fully unleashed.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Gary is not a particularly nice person, but he scrupulously avoids the use of violence, which is not the case for many other anti-parahuman extremists, [[spoiler: some of who even plant a car bomb with the goal of killing the Mayor.]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After the crisis where she [[spoiler:attempted to murder Reiley, and her return to society from the alternate earth she was trapped on]], she realizes that she needed to step back and take time to take care of herself as she had been helping improve others' mental health at the expense of her own. This leads her to drop several patients, including [[spoiler: Victoria]].

[[folder: Director Armstrong]]

[[folder: Eric]]

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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only appears in one chapter, in which he is killed off. His attack on Fume Hood and threatening of the Major Malfunctions malfunctions causes Fume to unconsciously use her most lethal power on him and a bunch of bystanders, causing her to have broken second trigger, leading to the fabric of reality finally cracking and the birth of the Titans.

[[folder: Anguished Heart]]

* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Killed by a car bomb planted by an anti-parahuman extremist at the same time as the raid on Teacher's base. Dinah claims was orchestrated by Contessa as part of a Path, as Contessa ordered one of the Harbingers to tell him and Jeanne not to participate in the raid, resulting in him being killed by the bomb that he otherwise would have noticed.]]

The surviving clones of Harbinger that were created for the Slaughterhouse 9000. They've fallen in with their older brother and the original Harbinger, now known as the Number Man, as part of Cauldron's successor organization.

* LikeBrotherAndSister: The remaining Damsel clones and them kind of rub along even while being snippy. Heck, Black and Swan translate their deliberate evasions, omissions and oblique observations for others like tattling sisters just happy to shove spanners in their brothers' various trolling attempts. Yet, they coordinate with minimal cues, as well.

* WhiteSheep: [[spoiler: The fifth and last Harbinger Clone becomes this in relationship to his brothers and even his "father;" developing a conscious which leads him to protecting Sveta, as well as wishing to aide Case 53s in general out of remorse and guilt over what the original did to them.]]

** Victoria herself takes to calling it "the Fragile One", a reference to how its forcefield can only take one hit before collapsing.

* OutOfCharacterMoment: The years of stress from treating mentally unstable, potentially violent, superpowered individuals while often ignoring her own needs and feelings eventually gets to her and [[spoiler:while trapped in another dimension with only a superpowered former mass-murderer and a few others for company, scraping to survive, she snaps and attempts to strangle Reiley (formerly Bonesaw).]]

* EmotionControl: Obviously. It's not just a random old shard that can control emotions though, it's also partially responsible for trigger events. Infrared 19.b ends with it casually incapacitating all the unpowered people in the Dream Room, and possibly giving Gilpatrick a trigger event.

* MyGreatestFailure: When he was 25, he was giving advice and looking after a teenage cape called Lucky Break. Despite his efforts to lead him down a good path, LB entered a relationship with an older supervillain, and a few months later, he was found in a barrel filled with concrete at the bottom of a lake.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: A highly competent therapist and very caring individual, Jessica easily fits this role for the whole of Breakthrough. In more than half of them she's the only adult and authority figure that actually cares about them and their mental health. It's because of this and their own issues that [[spoiler:after her fate is left unknown at the end of Arc 5 Vicky doesn't know what the team would do without her. This also leaves her trying to pick up the heavy sack that is being the responsible and independent adult of the group with very mixed results.]] In general, however, she also seems to be this to all of her patients as well.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:The building she was working in vanished amid a storm of portals during a terror attack by the Fallen. Her fate was unclear for several arcs. She's later confirmed to be alive during Valkyrie's interlude, alongside Riley and Nilbog, and a few arcs after that re-joined the story as an active side character.]]

Victoria's shard. A young bud created out of cast-off remains of other, older shards, too young and undefined to even have its own identity.

* SelfDeprecation: it doesn't seem to have a high opinion of itself, considering itself to be young, weak, and isolated. It attributes Victoria's successes not to the power it's granting her, but to her own ingenuity in using that power.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Eric's criticisms of Victoria and her tendency to ignore mandated oversight have merit (and reflect the opinions of lots of the Wardens brass) but ring rather hollow coming from power-tripping intern.

-->She was out there in the thick of it. His boss. His partner in some ways.

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!!!'''Debut:''' Interlude 17.y
A violent anti-parahuman that ends up triggering the second apocalypse.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only appears in one chapter, in which he killed off. His attack on Fume Hood and threatening of the Major Malfunctions malfunctions cause Fume to unconsciously use her most lethal power on him and a bunch of bystanders, causing her to have broken second trigger, leading to the fabric of reality finally cracking and the birth of the Titans.

The leader of the Patrol Block group Victoria worked at.