History Characters / Wizard101

Medulla is a Cabal member and [[spoiler: the main villain of Empyrea part 1.]] He was tasked by Grandfather Spider to take [[spoiler: Mellori]] from Bat, as he was taking too long. He is able to see into people's minds and mind-control people as well; he [[spoiler: steals the Bat's plan to build an essence canon and tries to build one to use Mellori's essence to blast the Paradox Chains]]. After you and [[spoiler: the Bat]] defeat him, he is carried off by gloublins and his fate afterwards is unknown.

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[[folder:[[spoiler: the Bat]]]]

->''"Yes, I sabotaged the lava tubes and the steam vents, but I did it for good reason. My father wants to get his heart back. [[spoiler: I don't want him to.]]"''

The Bat is the third son of Spider and appears in Empyrea part 1. Initially starting as a villain, after you reach the Temple of Light, you learn he wishes to stop his father and save the Spiral. [[spoiler: This turns out to be true, however he is more extreme in his methods of doing so and ends up attempting to kill Mellori as she is the only one who can break Spider's chains.]]

* Adorkable: He surprisingly has shades of this; his lair is a good example, along with his various puns and jokes during Sepidious.

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!!Other Allies
[[folder:Grandmother Raven]]
!!Grandmother Raven/Lady Nightstar
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->''"I have long watched you as you made your way through the Spiral. Perhaps you have felt my presence before."''
->'''Magic School:''' Unknown
Grandmother Raven is the Narrator of the game and [[spoiler: one of the three Primordials]]. She is the sister of Bartleby and helped him put the Spiral back together after the First World was destroyed. [[spoiler: She is also responsible for locking Grandfather Spider away and took his heart to fuel the Spiral]].[[spoiler: As of Empyrea Part 1, she plans to end the Spiral due to Spider's shadows and chaos needed to keep it alive]].
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* ArchEnemy: [[spoiler: Grandfather Spider]]. For reasons unknown, she locked him away, and then took his heart to fuel the Spiral.
* [[spoiler: BitchInSheepsClothing]] Initially, in Wintertusk, she is very kind and helpful. [[spoiler: But, at the end of Empyrea Part 1, it's revealed she plans to end the Spiral and that no one other then herself and her daughter, Mellori, will live]].
* NeverMesswithGranny: Is powerful enough to [[spoiler: throw you out of the Astral Plane and lock away Grandfather Spider]].
* RuleOfThree: Is one of the three [[spoiler:Primordials, along with Grandfather Tree and Grandfather Spider]].

* ZeroPercentApprovalRate: Quite a few of the Cabalists will mention they don't really like Medulla after you defeat him and the only reason they followed him was due to mind-control. [[spoiler: the Bat even remarks that he seems like a terrible boss.]]

Grandmother Raven is [[spoiler: one of the three Primordials]] and is also the Narrator of the game. She is the sister of Bartleby and helped him put the Spiral back together after the First World was destroyed. [[spoiler: She is also responsible for locking Grandfather Spider away and took his heart to fuel the Spiral.]][[spoiler: As of Empyrea Part 1, she plans to end the Spiral due to Spider's shadows and chaos needed to keep it alive.]]

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* StoneWall: When fought in the Sands of Time, he has ''99,999'' health (he would have had 100k, but the [[UpToEleven game's engine can't handle that number.]]) Multiply that with resist to every school but Myth, and you get one hell of a tank. He's considered the most difficult main-quest boss so far.

* LargeHam: [[ThePrincessBride Inigo Montoya]] ''in unicorn form''. He's grandstanding, charismatic and loves to offer elaborate "advice" to practicing students.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted. You choose your wizard's first and last name from predetermined lists, which can lead to many wizards with the same name running around.

* PlayingWithFire: If your chosen school is Fire. In a more literal example, the Immolate spell involves ''burning yourself'', dealing high fire damage to your opponent if you manage to survive.
* GreenThumb: Life wizards. Some of their advanced spells, particularly heals, are more comparable to pure WhiteMagic.

* TheMedic: The Life school's playstyle revolves around healing. Death wizards also have shades of this, but can only heal themselves (by [[LifeDrain extracting health from their opponents]]).
* CompetitiveBalance: Although each school has a different specialization, they're designed to be generally equal in terms of power.
* DishingOutDirt: Sand-based magic fuels most of the Balance school's offensive spells. The Myth school's Earthquake spell is also a literal example.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Life wizards are exceptional healers, but have fun trying to deal any significant damage without high-tier gear, especially at early levels.
* {{Necromancer}}: Death wizards. It's even the formal title of their class.
* SummonMagic: Most offensive spells are based around this, although the summoned creatures disappear after they've attacked.
* TheMinionMaster: Myth wizards can summon a vast range of minions to assist them in battle, and the Monstrology activity lets you capture the essence of certain mobs to create summonable minion versions of them.
* DamageOverTime: Fire magic, for the most part, operates on this mechanic, with high-damage hit spells spread out over multiple rounds. Storm wizards deal comparably high damage, but it's all combined into larger single hits.
* JackOfAllStats: Balance wizards, which makes sense as the lore states that they [[AllYourPowersCombined draw power from all the other schools.]]

* {{Expy}}: Bears similarity to another [[HarryPotter magical headmaster]], as well as the famed wizard [[KingArthur Merlin]] of Arthurian legend.
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Shares a bond with Grandfather Tree, one of the three Primordials that shaped the Spiral from the shattered fragments of the First World.
* BigGood: Of Wizard City, and later of the entire game [[spoiler: as head of the Council of Light.]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: In a flashback dungeon, we see her as a newly-accepted Ravenwood student of the Ice school. ''She's a Fire Elf.'' [[spoiler:It's later revealed that she was manipulated by the Maestro into choosing the Ice school, and the Wizard convinces her to switch to the Fire school.]]

* CoolOldLady: Professor at the Spiral's greatest school of magic and [[spoiler:a member of the Council of Light, along with Merle Ambrose.]] She also casually mentions hailing from [[LevelAte a world full of candy]].
* AllLovingHero: Makes cookies and knits robes for her students, and even sympathizes with the Gobblers trying to consume Colossus Boulevard.

* NiceHat: Always seen wearing his trademark purple top hat. The player can obtain the hat as a rare item drop from the Professor's Hoard pack.

* {{Expy}}: Especially in the early quest lines, his personality is very clearly based on that of [[HarryPotter Severus Snape]].
* BigGood: Of the world of Dragonspyre-- he assists the Wizard from the Basilica in their efforts to bypass the ruined city's defenses and apprehend Malistaire.
* BaldOfAwesome: After Ambrose, Morganthe and Malistaire, he's the most powerful wizard alive. He's completely bald. [[spoiler:In one of the flashback dungeons, he's revealed to have once had a [[FunnyAfro large "afro" hairstyle.]]]]
* BeefGate: The player must duel Cyrus to prove their readiness to face his brother Malistaire in the fortress world of Dragonspyre. If the player doesn't know what they're doing or is severely underleveled, [[ThatOneBoss it can take a few tries.]]

* MagicalAsian: Although not truly Asian [[PettingZooPeople (or human at all)]], her Asian voice actress, tendency to assign students to meditation/tests of focus, and homeworld of Feudal Japan-inspired Mooshu qualify her for this trope.
* HippieTeacher: Prefers to share her knowledge of Life magic with her students through meditation and contemplation, in accordance with the traditions of her home world of Mooshu.

* TheIgor: To Malistaire, before his descent into madness. As the interim Death Professor, he begins to grow out of this role over the course of the Death training quests, eventually becoming a powerful Necromancer in his own right.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Spent his early life as a domestic slave to his [[WickedStepmother "aunts"]] in Darkmoor, then began his teaching career as an assistant to the notoriously overbearing Malistaire Drake. It's no wonder he's uneasy as an independent instructor.

* BadassInCharge: As well as being a renowned magical duelist, he's also the leader of the Wizard City Guard. It's later revealed that he's [[spoiler:a member of the Council of Light]].
* TheAnnouncer: His primary responsibility is to teach students to use their magic in a combat environment, but he also enjoys emceeing PvP battles and tournaments. [[LargeHamAnnouncer Passionately.]]
* {{Flynning}}: In the Dueling Diego minigame, the player controls Diego as he flashily sword-fights several pirate-themed enemies.

* FaceOfAThug: Looks perpetually irritated, but is in reality extremely helpful and dedicated to the students under his care.

* DrivenToMadness: What began as a quest to restore his wife to life descended into a quest for forbidden knowledge that corrupted Malistaire's heart and soul, causing him to abandon his morals in pursuit of greater power. When he's brought back from the Afterlife by Morganthe, he loses his mind ''again'', becoming an undead creature of pure hatred.
* BerserkButton: Absolutely ''loses it'' when he thinks Cyrus is using Sylvia's memory to manipulate him.
* OmnicidalManiac: Is willing to allow the Dragon Titan to obliterate the Spiral just to see Sylvia restored to life.

* TokenHuman: The Umbra Legion consists almost entirely of Khrysalis Arachnids, but its leader is a human sorceress from Avalon.

* MsFanservice: Not bad-looking for a centuries-old sorceress. Becomes FanDisservice at the end of Khrysalis, [[spoiler:when she transcends her mortal form to become a giant spider Shadow Goddess.]]
* OutGambitted: Right up until Khrysalis, the Wizard is always unable to keep up with her plans. Taken UpToEleven in Azteca, where she [[spoiler:actually manages to bring down Xibalba and destroy the entire world, right after the player finishes the ''long'' process of preventing that exact scenario]].
* ArchEnemy: To Merle Ambrose, her mentor in Avalon, headmaster in Ravenwood and nemesis as [[spoiler:leader of the Council of Light]]. While Merle wants to preserve the Spiral's structure and protect its worlds, Morganthe considers the system flawed, seeking to remake it in her own image.
* OneWingedAngel: The Morganthe boss fight in the Shadow Palace is against ''five versions of herself at once''. [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers There are only four duel slots on the mob side of a duelling circle.]]

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Falls into the Void between the Worlds through a rift in the fabric of reality after becoming overwhelmed by the raw power of the Primordials' Song of Creation.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: Of the ''entire Spiral'', spanning both Wizard101 and its sister game Pirate101.

* AffablyEvil: States several times that he considers the Wizard a friend, and only engages in conflict with them because they're refusing to stop interfering in his business. Compared to the previous two arc villains, he has many more bits of humorous and witty dialogue. Don't let it all fool you, though-- he's much more dangerous and powerful than he lets on, and his [[TheChessmaster plans are numerous, ancient and infinitely complex.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: A lot of his dialogue with the Wizard, post-Khrysalis, falls into this category. At certain moments, he drops the act completely, becoming almost [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness ominously serious]]. [[spoiler:You can practically ''feel'' him shift his tone from Old Cob to the primordial Grandfather Spider.]]

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Justified in that he's a [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination Primordial]]]]. His true endgame, and even the purpose of his actions, are mostly unknown to the Wizard, but his schemes over the course of Polaris and Mirage fit him squarely into the 'villain' category.
* CurbStompBattle: Destroys Overlord Xerxes' ''entire army'' with one quick spell. It's implied that he was only defeated in Mirage because he was holding back out of subconscious respect for the Wizard, and even that was basically a tie.
* TheCorrupter: To Morganthe, and the Duck of Death in Pirate101. He's also heavily suggested to have had a role in Malistaire's descent into madness.
* ArchEnemy: [[spoiler:Grandmother Raven,]] who broke his heart and went against his wishes [[spoiler:when she created the Spiral.]]
* SealedEvilInACan: Locked in the [[TailorMadePrison Black Hole]] in the depths of Khrysalis by Grandmother Raven. Even the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Umbra Legion]] is ''terrified'' of the Thing in the Pit. Taylor Coleridge tricks the Wizard into releasing him towards the end of the Second Arc.
* RuleOfThree: Is one of the three [[spoiler:Primordials, along with Grandfather Tree and Grandmother Raven]].

* TokenHuman: The one human official in the Polarian Empire, surrounded by walrus, polar bears, penguins and moose.

* MinionMaster: His boss fight is based around him summoning his Titan Experiments to aid him in battle.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: Serves as this for Mirage, both at the 1/4 and halfway points of the world.

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* Complete Monster: Morganthe has absolutely no qualms about committing atrocities to further her agenda, ranging from kidnapping to ''genocide.'' During the Azteca questline, she [[spoiler:brings down the Xibalba meteor, obliterating the entire world of Azteca, including innocent men, women, children and ''her own forces'']] without a shred of doubt or hesitation. Unlike Malistaire, she has no excuse for her actions, nor does she ever show remorse for what she's done. The closest thing we see to her behaving any other way than ''pure evil'' is as a little girl, in a memory gauntlet in Radiance Alcazar. Even then, she's [[spoiler:just trying to convince Sir Malory to MindRape King Artorius instead of murder him]].

* SpidersAreScary: Has several pet spiders, and her Umbra Legion is heavily spider-themed. Her elite commanders are Spider Magi PettingZooPeople, and the Spider Temple in Zafaria marks the beginning of her Grand Prophecy. Even her outfit is... spider-y.

* EvilOverlord: The straightest example of this trope in the game-- it's even his title. He's an ancient warlord who commands an army of the undead, and a definite {{badass}} as well.

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