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Biogenesis Heroes
Sage, the Life Forester
Bio Tempest. A scientist who has devoted his life to freeing Verdanth of the Darkspore.
- Arm Cannon: Wields one which is capable of healing both himself and his allies every time it deals damage.
- Badass Bookworm: Described as having a "vast intellect" and was a scientist prior to the Darkspore invasion, but can turn hordes of Darkspore to chunky salsa just like everybody else.
- Green Thumb: Tree of Life, which summons a massive tree where it's cast, growing as damage is dealt to nearby enemies and healing nearby heroes. After a short period of time, the tree with explode, further healing nearby heroes based on how big the tree got. This also applies to his Strangling Briars ability, which slows enemies caught in them and deals damage over time.
- The Minion Master: Sage constantly summons minions while he's on the field, up to two at a time.
- Plant Person: Sage's body is covered in thorns and his limbs look like branches.
- Science Hero: Prior to the Darkspore invasion, Sage was a brilliant scientist as described in his lore.
Tork, the Fungal King
Bio Tempest. A thief who repented upon becoming one of Crogenitor Astra's 'test subjects' and being imprisoned for a decade.
- Achilles' Heel: None of his abilities deal any direct damage; as such, he deals zero damage to any Elite Mooks with the Unstoppable quality.
- Anti-Debuff: Sporogenesis, which heals friendly characters and is one of the few ways to directly remove debuffs from characters.
- Cool Mask: He wears a gas mask that prevents him from inhaling his own knock-out mist.
- Forced Sleep: Sleeping Cloud, which puts enemies to sleep. Notably, Tork is the only hero capable of putting enemies to sleep in the first place.
- Knock Out Gas: He uses this to render those who inhale it unconscious, giving Tork the chance to raid their items.
- Magic Mushroom: His unique abilities revolve around the usage of fungi to various effects.
- Poisonous Person: Receives one during a horrible experimentation by Astra. Most of his abilities revolve around poisoning enemies, most notably Toxic Spores, his basic attack.
- Support Party Member: All of his attacks either deal damage over time or inflict some kind of status ailment. However, he can buff nearby characters with his Rampant Growth passive and is one of the two characters capable of removing debuffs.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Astra's experimentation greatly amplified his abilities, but in return drove him insane to the point of a Heel–Face Turn.
Arborus, the Viridian Protector
He is a Bio Sentinel. A government prefect forced by war into becoming an Ikuyu - a God of the Infinite Green - despite not being spiritually qualified for the position.
- Achilles' Heel: Enemies with the Ghostly quality, as his focus on dealing Physical damage is big enough that he'll take far more damage trying to hit the enemy that it isn't worth the health lost. This gets worse on higher difficulties, where the chance of the enemy dodging his swings goes up drastically.
- Boring, but Practical: Arborus' gameplay is nothing particularly exciting, but the amount of damage he can deal is staggering given some weaker enemies to hack through.
- Carry a Big Stick: Wields a massive wooden club.
- Dash Attack: Entangling Rush, which comes with the bonus of entangling both the target and nearby enemies in roots, immobilizing them.
- Green Thumb: Arborus has the power to control nature itself.
- Got Volunteered: Was forced into the Darkspore war due to the Verdanthi needing another Ikuyu.
- Physical God: According to his lore, he has the ability to summon volcanoes, redirect rivers, and split mountains. However, he can do none of this ingame.
- Made of Iron: Aside from being a tank and having a lot of health, Arborus has the Thorn Bark passive which decreases incoming damage and reflects some as well.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Arborus has two sets of arms.
- Treants: He's an imposing figure who's body is covered in leaves and has massive limbs that resemble tree trunks.
Viper, the Toxic Ravager
Bio Ravager. A craftsman who was genetically altered by Astra and became a resistance leader.
- Animal Theme Naming: Viper has various poison-based powers, hence why he's named after a kind of highly venomous snake.note
- Bad Powers, Good People: Led a resistance against the Darkspore invasion prior to the events of the game and made a great deal of weapons for them beforehand. His powers revolve around poisoning his enemies multiple times over before killing them in a single stroke.
- Damage Over Time: Where most of his damage comes from - notable in the sense that he as more ways of inflicting it than anybody else.
- Glass Cannon: As is the case with most Ravagers, he's quite fragile, but can deal a remarkable amount of damage when handled properly.
- La Résistance: A leader of one, according to his lore.
- Mechanically Unusual Fighter: Is the only character to revolve around stacking various Damage Over Time effects on enemies, and can inflict up to three different types when playing as his standard variant. Where he gets really unique is with Expunge, which cleanses the target of any damage over time effects, but not before dealing all the damage those effects were going to do at once. Knowing how to inflict his status effects on enemies is crucial when getting him to work properly. In addition, he is the only Bio Ravager in the game.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Viper has two pairs of arms.
- Plant People: Covered in thorns along his back, with one variant replacing said thorns with leaves.
- Poisonous Person: Focuses directly on poison-based abilities and wields several.
- Poisoned Weapons: Zig-zagged. He's depicted as wielding a poison-covered knife in promo art and described as wielding such in his lore, but his weapons ingame don't deal poison damage directly. Rather, all of his attacks can poison enemies, bar Expunge.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Depicted with these in promotional art.
- Spike Shooter: His Thornado ability, which shoots thorns around him, dealing damage to whatever enemies are too close.
Savage, the Lord of Beasts
Bio Sentinel. An orphan who grew up in the rainforest, and one of the few Verdanthi able to communicate with animals.
- Auto-Revive: His pet can do this for him once per mission, provided it's still alive.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: He doesn't wield any proper weapons and becomes one exclusively if his pet is killed.
- The Beastmaster: Has access to a special minion referred to as "Savage Ally," who will attack alongside him and is the only minon that can use abilities alongside their summoner.
- Draw Aggro: His pet can do this if enraged; particularly useful when his Beta form is selected, which has direct access to an ability that can be used to enrage said pet.
- The Empath: Savage can communicate empathically with animals.
- Foe-Tossing Charge: Wild Charge. His pet will charge with him if it's alive.
- It Only Works Once: His pet can revive him once a level, provided it's alive as he dies.
- Master of None: Without his pet, his damage output, abilities and stats are none too impressive.
- Mechanically Unusual Fighter: Savage is completely reliant on having his pet around - without them, he's particularly weak and a Master of None. In addition, he is the only hero in the game capable of reviving himself - if his pet is alive as he dies, the pet will revive Savage with some of his health back, though this only works once per level.
- Speaks Fluent Animal: Accoridng to his lore, Savage can communicate with animals both empathically and through pheromones.
- Wild Child: Was one of these prior to the events of Darkspore.
Cybergenesis Heroes
Seraph X-S, the Infiltrator
Cyber Ravager. A combot reprogrammed by Crogenitor Suzu to have free will and a personality.
Meditron, the Repair-Bot
Cyber Tempest. An explorer who repurposed his healing nanobots to fight Darkspore.
Titan, the Impenetrable
Cyber Sentinel. An architectural engineer who was resurrected by Suzu and cybernetically enhanced.
SRS-42, the Missile Commander
Cyber Tempest. A mechanical engineer who nearly died from toxic gases before Suzu turned him into a cyborg.
Goliath, the Energy Guardian
Cyber Sentinel. A warrior who wields the Electro Sword and hails from one of Infinity's technomartial orders.
Necrogenesis Heroes
Jinx, the Dark Reaper'
Necro Tempest.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Jinx double-crossed her people to join the Nocturni Legion, then did the same with the latter.
Revenant, the Deathrider of the Stars
Necro Tempest.
Wraith, the Spectre of Vengeance
Necro Sentinel.
- Skull for a Head: He has the appearance of one as a result his mutation during the time he was hiding in the Nocturni Mines for safe cover.
- Token Good Teammate: IS this to the rest of the Necrogenesis heroes, being the only one that lacks any association with the Nocturni Legion. He also tried to maintain the membrane separating the realms of the living and the dead after Ingto destroyed it in his experiments.
Arakna, the Soul Collector
Necro Ravager.
Skar, the Shadow of Death
Necro Ravager.
Plasmagenesis Heroes
Char, the Blazing Inferno
Plasma Tempest.
Lumin, the Lightning Provoker
Plasma Tempest.
Zrin, the Sun Fist
Plasma Sentinel.
- Elemental Punch: His left fist can generate plasma.
- TheMafia: His background implies that he was gangster.
Blitz, the Storm Striker
Plasma Ravager.
Krel, the Living Firestorm
Plasma Ravager.
- Last of His Kind: The Darkspore killed off his children, which were among the last survivors of his own species.
- Savage Wolf: He's an alien, but his design draws on them heavily, in addition to the traits he takes from hellhounds.
- Was Once a Man: Krel was formerly a canine-like alien who had flesh and fur; now he's all rock and lava.
Quantumgenesis Heroes
Andromeda, the Gravitic Warmaster
Quantum Tempest.
- Alien Hair: They're tentacle-like ones.
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: Her skin color is blue.
Orion, the Lightspeed Tempest
Quantum Tempest.
Magnos, the Binary Star Sentinel
Quantum Sentinel.
Maldri, the Quantum Raider
Quantum Ravager.
- Teleportation: He inadvertently acquired this power while raiding Zelem's lab, but later puts it to effective use.
Vex, the Chrono-Shifter
Quantum Ravager.
Crogenitors
Player Crogenitor
A crogenitor put into stasis for a thousand years and awakened to lead an uprising against the Darkspore.
Specialist Crogenitors
Astra
The Biogenesis specialist that worked on Verdanth and created the Bio heroes.
Ingto
The Necrogenesis specialist that worked on Nocturna and created the Necro heroes.
- Mad Scientist: His experiments shattered the boundaries between life and death on Nocturna, and his treatment of Revenant isn't kind in any way whatsoever.
Ptyron
The Plasmagenesis specialist that worked on Cryos and created the Plasma heroes.
Suzu
The Cybergenesis specialist that worked on Infinity and created the Cyber heroes.
Zelem
The Quantumgenesis specialist that worked on Zelem's Nexus and created the Quantum heroes.
- Abusive Precursors: Pre-release information mentions that he destroyed the planet Nakto himself. This lore was dropped upon release, and Zelem became a Benevolent Precursor.
- Benevolent Precursors: In the current lore, Nakto was destoyed when its star went nova, and Zelem tethered the remaining pieces back together to create the Nexus.
- Killed Off for Real: He's the only one of the good Crogenitors confirmed to be dead. The others have more ambiguous fates.
Destructors
The Crogenitors that sided with the Darkspore, mutated into monstrous forms via E-DNA.
- Abusive Precursors: They're currently leading the Darkspore to destroy the galaxy.
- Boss Battle: Fought in the x-4 missions on each planet.
- Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: While all the Crogenitors dabbled in this, the Destructors are notable for creating and using E-DNA, which causes rapid and substantial mutations.
- Hive Queen: Seem to be one for their respective planets. The Corrupter is this for the Darkspore as a whole.
- Was Once a Man: They were Crogenitors who became part of the Darkspore.
Arcturus, the Cybernetic Colossus
The Cyber Destructor fought on Infinity.
Merak, the Devastator
The Plasma Destructor fought on Cryos.
Nashira, the Shadow Void
The Necro Destructor fought on Nocturna.
- Dragged Off to Hell: When she dies, she's dragged down into one of her own portals, invoking this.
- The Dreaded: Even the other Darkspore fear her.
- Eldritch Abomination: Nashira definitely looks the part. Might overlap with Undead Abomination given her Necro typing.
Orcus, the Devourer of Life
The Bio Destructor fought on Verdanth.
Polaris, the Gravity Manipulator
The Quantum Destructor fought on Infinity.
Xylan, the Corruptor
The leader and creator of the Darkspore, fought on Scaldron.
- All Your Colors Combined: He possesses all the Genesis types, and will switch between them as the fight progresses.
- Big Bad: He's the creator of E-DNA and the leader of the Darkspore hordes.
- That Man Is Dead: Invoked by HELIX, which describes the Corruptor as "what's left of Xylan".
