Characters / Grid Warrior

Characters from the game Grid Warrior:

Grid Warrior (your character)

A Super-Soldier created to deal with the threat of the malicious energy grid. He is able to drain the enemy programs' abilities and add them to his own.

• Attack Drone: Has one that follows him around.
• Elemental Powers:
  • Non-Elemental: The Shot Gun and the Machine Gun.
  • Casting a Shadow: His physical attack is a virus-infused blade that does dark-element damage. Upgrades to it are Virus Wave and Death Dance.
  • An Ice Person: Frozen Missiles (with Freezing Gas upgrade), Ice Beam.
  • Playing with Fire: Heatwave Rockets, Flame Thrower, Atomic Fury.
  • Making a Splash: Wave Blaster, Hydro Cannon, Tidal Crash.
  • Shock and Awe: Proxy Shock, Homing Bolt, Orbital Laser.
  • Dishing Out Dirt: Flak Cannon, Seismic Charge, Shock Tremor.
  • Blow You Away: Tornado Shield (MKI to MKIII)
  • Light 'em Up: Arc Angle, Holy Bullets, Judgement Beam

Non-elemental Foes

Energy Capsule

A Capsule that contains energy! Grab them to recover your lost health and energy.

This thing contains a lot of energy. But it can't use that energy to attack. Good thing you can absorb the energy from these things, you sick bastard.

• Helpful Mook: It doesn't even attack you. Grab it in order to recover health and energy.

Mega Capsule

A Capsule that contains a load of energy! Grab them to permanently increase your health!

• Gotta Catch 'Em All
• Heart Container: Essentially a Shout-Out to heart containers from The Legend Of Zelda, Energy Tanks from Metroid, Heart Tanks from Mega Man X, etc.
• Helpful Mook: It doesn't even attack you. Grab it in order to recover health and energy.

Frog Gunner

A program that resembles a frog. Can spit out energy shotgun shells.

Of all the animals to materialize into, this malicious program took the form of a frog. But don't let that fool you, because this frog has a SHOTGUN!

• Took a Level in Badass: On higher levels, they can dodge your attacks!

Gunship Drone

A flying drone-like unit that inhabits the outer areas of the Grid.

So this is what their security is like? Luckily you don't lose the game if these catch you.

• Crosshair Aware: Step into the light and they will start chasing you down.

Rapid Turret

Turret like unit that fires out bullets at a fast rate.

Don't go near this unless you want to be Swiss Cheese.

• Weak Turret Gun: Averted, it has quite a bit of health.

Rapid Cannon

Turret like unit that fires out cannon shells at a fast rate.

So one day Rapid Turret decided to give himself a Palette Swap and change his ammo into shotgun shells...

• Law of Chromatic Superiority: They look like a red version of the Rapid Turret.

• Underground Monkey: Of the Rapid Turret. The description even lampshades this!
• Weak Turret Gun: Averted, it has quite a bit of health.

Fire-elemental Foes

Rocket Tank

A small tank that fires semi-homing incendiary missiles that explode.

You've heard of water tanks, air tanks, oil tanks, gas tanks, septic tanks, fish tanks, but this here is a fire tank!

• Macross Missile Massacre: As your level gets higher, the number of missiles fired out increases.
• Mighty Glacier: Lots of attack power, but moves slowly.

Salamander

Lizard-like enemy that is based off mythical fire salamanders. Has a flame breath that is very painful.

This is the fire kind, not the water kind. Totally NOT Charmander either.

• Glass Cannon: It doesn't have much health, but its flamethrower is painful.

• Shout-Out: Looks vaguely like Charmander, in terms of color scheme.

Magma Demon

A strange foe that travels in the magma under the terrain, emerging to attack the player.

• Kung Fu-Proof Mook: You can only attack it when it is above ground, unless you have certain weapons.

Nuclear Silo

A large structure that drops mini-nukes on the player.

• Crosshair Aware: The floor is marked with a large orange zone to show you where the nuke will hit.

Proto-Crabburn

A crab-like program with no legs and no claws... yet. A prototype form of Crabburn from Arc Angle. Using the Tornado Shield nullifies ALL his attacks completely, making the boss a bit of a joke.

• Damage-Sponge Boss: Has the most health in the game.

• Eye Beams: Eye-flamethrowers, actually.

• Nuke 'em: Drops an A-bomb onto you as a Desperation Attack.
• Sequential Boss: You first face off against the missile launchers on its back, then its eyes, and finally the main body.

Ice-elemental Foes

All

• No-Sell: Immune to most status effects. You get improved resistance to statuses when you assimilate them.
• Status Effects: Getting hit by them will make you get frozen, slowing you greatly.

Ice Car

A car that shoots ice missiles at the player.

Yes, this thing's name came from BlazBlue.

• Macross Missile Massacre: Fires out a slew of weak homing missiles at the player.
• Sentient Vehicle: Car-programs with their own AI.
• Shout-Out: Obviously named after the Ice Car meme.
• Status Effects: Their Frozen Missiles cause you to temporarily become slow.
• Vehicular Assault: It's pretty much a car that tries to kill you.

Snowflak

An oversized snowflake like program. It hovers around, leaving an icy trail that slows the player.

If they're snowflakes, why do they all look the same?

• Airborne Mook: Can hover, and is considered an aerial opponent.
• Fragile Speedster: Fast, but very fragile
• Ramming Always Works: Flies around to charge the player
• Sinister Geometry: It's a hexagonal snowflake that tries to kill you.
• Status Effects: Standing in their gas trail cause you to temporarily become slow.

Penguin Sub

A penguin-like enemy that travels under the icy terrain, surfacing to attack the player when they get near.

• Aquatic Mook: They're normally submerged underwater.
• Freeze Ray: Only on higher levels.

• Weaponized Exhaust: On higher levels, these things can fire out a Freeze Ray from their rear as they charge at you.

Yeti

A large yeti that attacks with ice missiles, ice beams, and a ramming attack.

• Wave-Motion Gun: Can fire out three ice beams in succession.

Crystaleyes

A giant snowflake surrounded by six smaller crystals, each of which is surrounded by another six smaller crystals. Fire-elemental weapons have good AOE and can destroy his crystals very quickly.

• Fragile Speedster: Once all the medium crystals are destroyed, it flies around the arena quickly. However, the main body has very low health.
• Freeze Ray: Attacks with these in its second and third phases.
• Lead the Target: As its ice beams are Frickin' Laser Beams , it will actually try to calculate your future position and fire at it.
• Macross Missile Massacre: Each of the ice crystals fire out Frozen Missiles, resulting in the entire place being covered in them.
• Meaningful Name: It's a bunch of giant ice crystals, seven of which have eyes.
• No-Sell: Each medium crystal can only be damaged if all the small crystals around it are destroyed, and the main core can only be damaged if the medium crystals are defeated. Otherwise, it is immune to all damage.
• Ramming Always Works: Despite using lots of ranged attacks, its favourite tactic is ramming into the Grid Warrior.
• Sinister Geometry: It's a hexagonal snowflake, surrounded by six hexagonal snowflakes, each of which is surrounded by a hexagonal snowflake. And it's not friendly in the least.
• Wrap Around: When the core is left, it flies around and gets this.

Water-elemental Foes

All

• Regenerating Health: All of them have this ability. You can assimilate them to gain this.

Starfish

A starfish with destructible arms.

You know what they said about starfish being able to regenerate? This one can!

• Asteroids Monster: On higher levels, defeating the starfish causes it to drop its arms, which can regenerate into more starfish!
• Spin to Deflect Stuff: Gets a natural armor bonus if it is spinning quickly.
• Starfish Aliens: Literally.

Rain Frog

A blue, water-elemental version of the Frog Gunner.

• Dodge the Bullet: Can dodge attacks by jumping to the side.

Giga Jelly

A large jellyfish that normally travels under the terrain, it surfaces to attack enemies with a tidal wave.

• Always Accurate Attack: Their Tidal Crash hits the entire screen! The only way to avoid it is to use the Seismic Charge.
• Shout-Out: To the Jelly viruses from Mega Man Battle Network- they charge up, and fire out a near-unavoidable tsunami if not destroyed in time.

Quadran

A watery dragon-like creature that lurks in the depths. Use the Homing Bolt or Orbital Laser to lock onto all its segments to deal massive damage.

• Sea Mine: Its desperation attack has it go underwater and release these. They explode into massive tidal waves that are extremely painful.

• Shout-Out: Looks somewhat similar to Gyarados.

Lightning-elemental Foes

All

• Armor-Piercing Attack: Lightning attacks ignore armor.
• Shock and Awe: All of them use electrical attacks.
• Fragile Speedster: All of them are pretty fast but fragile, save for the Thunder Tower (which can't move at all but has a buttload of health).

Computer Rat

A pest around Metaspace that feeds off energy. They are generally docile, but harm one of them...

Totally NOT Pikachu.

• Berserk Button: Hit any of them and all the rats in the room attack you!

• Shout-Out: A small electrical rodent, similar to Pikachu.

• Video Game Cruelty Punishment: Hit one of them, and all of them come after you.
• You Dirty Rat!: Somewhat subverted as they are peaceful unless provoked.

Magnetoids

A magnet enemy that attaches itself to another, allowing it to charge up energy for its attacks.

[[Insane Clown Posse *** magnets, how do they work]]?

• Crosshair Aware: Touch the crosshair and they will shock you!

• Selective Magnetism: They only attract themselves.

Thunderbike

A motorbike program that speeds around the area.

• Crosshair Aware: Touch the crosshair and they will shock you!
• Ramming Always Works: They hurt if they run into you.

• Suicide Attack/Taking You with Me: When damaged enough, they will sometimes charge into you and explode for a lot of damage.

Thunder Tower

A stationary tower that produces satellites that hit you with a laser.

• Kill Sat: Summons these to attack you. If they lock onto you, they will drop an orbital laser that does heavy armor-piercing damage!

• Shout-Out: Its name is inspired from Mother 3's Thunder Tower.

Raivolt

Huge Spider enemy that attacks with electrical webs. The Frozen Missiles and Ice Beam will make the spider really slow.

• Cognizant Limbs: Its joints can be targeted and destroyed, temporarily disabling them from attacking you.
• Crosshair Aware: Touch the crosshair webs and they will shock you!
• Death from Above: Its Desperation Attack has it stand on the ceiling and rain orbital lasers on you- fail to avoid, and you take massive damage AND get stunned, which opens you up to his Shockwave Stomp.
• Fragile Speedster: One of the bosses with the least amount of health, yet it is very fast.

• Glass Cannon: One of the bosses with the least amount of health, yet it packs a punch.
• Goomba Stomp: Attempts this on you by jumping at or on the player.
• He Was Right There All Along: Starts the battle on top of the ceiling, then it drops down to attack you.
• In a Single Bound: Can leap very high for a Shockwave Stomp attack.
• Meaningful Name: Rai (Japanese for thunder) + Volt.
• Shockwave Stomp: Jumps really high and tries to squash the player, doing damage in a large radius. Use the Radar to check where it is, and run!
• Shout-Out: An electrical spider, similar to Web Spider or Galvantula.

Earth-elemental Foes

All

• Heavily Armored Mook: All of them have heavy armor of sorts. You gain armor from assimilating them.

• Weaksauce Weakness: If hit by virus, they will be infected for a longer time than most other mooks.

Flak Cannon

A large turret on the ground. While initially harmless to you, they will shoot down your Attack Drone without mercy.

I don't fly, and neither will you!

• Anti-Air: Its weapon is used against your airborne drone.

Armadriller

An armadillo program with a drill for its head. Prone to charging at you.

Yes, this is supposed to be an armadillo with a drill for its head. Ironcommando fails at drawing this one.

• Attack Its Weak Point: The head is invulnerable to damage. Attack its body.

• Foe-Tossing Charge: Their Seismic Charge pushes you away.
• Invulnerable Attack: When they use their Seismic Charge.

Moledriver

Mole like creature that can burrow into the ground and pop up to create a shockwave. Oh, and it charges at you too.

• Foe-Tossing Charge: Their Seismic Charge pushes you away.
• Invulnerable Attack: When they use their Seismic Charge.

Golem

A Stone-golem like program. Its shoulders have Anti-air cannons on them.

• Anti-Air: Its shoulders sport these.
• Foe-Tossing Charge: Their Seismic Charge pushes you away.

• Invulnerable Attack: When they use their Seismic Charge.
• Shockwave Stomp: Their Shock tremor does this.

Drillium

Wormlike program that tunnels underground, rising to attack the player. Attacking it with the Death Dance or Virus Wave will cause it to get a virus, whittling its health even when it is underground

• Attack Its Weak Point: Its head is armored but attackable, although it has a massive drill in the way. However, its tail is very vulnerable.
• Attack the Tail: Its weak spot is its glowing tail core.
• Bullfight Boss: In one of its phases, it will charge at you, giving you an opportunity to attack its tail.

• Shout-Out: To Moldorm from The Legend of Zelda - it's a worm whose weak point is its tail.

Wind-elemental Foes

All

• Blow You Away: All of them have wind control of some form, mainly in the form of tornadoes.
• Airborne Mook: They either fly or float, and take extra damage from the Flak Cannon. You get the ability to float over obstacles and immunity to Shockwave Stomp attacks by assimilating them.
• Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud: All the enemies excluding the Galewing.
• Fragile Speedster: Tend to be fast, yet fragile.
• No-Sell: All of them excluding the Galewing can render missiles useless by sucking them in with their tornado.

Air Spinner

A green triangle that spins to cause tornadoes. They can only travel on certain lines.

Although it is an air unit, this things starts out under the terrain.

• Took a Level in Badass: On higher levels, they can use fire and ice tornadoes.
• Sinister Geometry: A large, green triangle that tries to kill the player.

Galewing

Annoying birdlike pest from the Domain of Gas. Attacks the player by charging at him.

This is one of those enemies who doesn't use the power that it gives you. Other than that it's just one really angry bird.

• Zerg Rush: Appears in large numbers.

North Wind

Plane-like enemy that fires icy missiles, as well as a tornado stream attack.

• An Ice Person: Fires out frozen missiles as an attack.

Storm Swarmer

Strange, hovering thing that sends mini-versions of itself to attack you. It also uses elemental tornadoes which are very painful.

• An Ice Person/Playing with Fire: Uses Fire and Ice tornado shields.

Sky Fortress

Large, floating fortress held up by giant fan things. Lowers itself occasionally to attack the player. Flak Cannon takes out its fans, while Seismic Charge and Shock Tremor allow the player to stun it without getting hurt by the tornado.

• An Ice Person/Playing with Fire: Uses Fire and Ice tornado shields.

• Flunky Boss: Can send out Air Spinners, Galewings and North Winds to attack the player.

Holy-elemental Foes

All

• Feed It with Fire: Shining the Arc Angle at them causes them to regenerate health, as they absorb light energy.

Satellight

A floating satellite unit that shines a light to slow the player down. It hovers high and only comes down once the player is in its light.

Someday, this thing's ability will become the savior of Cyberspace.

• Kill Sat: Subverted, unless your level is high enough.
• Status Effects: Standing in their light makes you slowed.
• Took a Level in Badass: At level 8 and above, these guys can fire a Wave-Motion Gun!
• Wave-Motion Gun: At level 8 and above, it can change its laser into one of these!

Photonic Bounder

A strange floating thing that rebounds off walls, as well as when it gets hit by something. It leaves a trail of light orbs that home in on you if you get too near them.

This guy doesn't need a mirror to reflect.

• Airborne Mook: They're considered as floating enemies.
• Glass Cannon: Has low health, but it has strong armor.

• Homing Projectile: They leave a trail of light orbs. Getting too near one will cause it to home in on you!

• Ramming Always Works: If they fly into you, you will take damage.

Solar Laser

A Solar-powered Turret that drops from the air and fastens itself onto the terrain. It charges up and fires out a deadly laser at the player.

• Mighty Glacier: Takes a long time to charge and doesn't move, but it does MASSIVE damage to the player.

Viral-elemental Foes

All

• Invisible Monsters: They do not appear on the radar unless revealed by light. By Assimilating them, you gain an ability that reduces the Mook detection radius.
• Status Effects: Most of them can inflict a virus on you should they hit you successfully.

Black Blade

A large black sword that floats around and tries to stab the player once it detects him.

What's an evil fantasy sword floating around in Cyberspace for?

• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The result, if you don't avoid it.
• Ramming Always Works: What it attempts to do to you.

Bandit

A purple triangular thing with a sword. It charges at the player and strikes when near. Otherwise, it will move around erratically to avoid attacks.

Good thing you don't have money to steal!

• Bandit Mook: Averted, as you don't have any money to steal.
• Fragile Speedster: Fast yet weak enemies.
• Weakened by the Light: Attempts to turn away from the light.
• Zerg Rush: They appear in HUGE numbers

Shadow

A purple fog of viral energy. Is capable of splitting up and reforming itself.

• Deadly Gas: Touch them and you'll get the virus status.
• One to Million to One: Can split up into smaller copies of itself that bounce around. Killing them does lower the combined form's health, though.