Editing Thanda

{{Infobox team
|leader=[[Turanta]] (presumably)
|allies=[[The Undersiders]]<br>[[Protectorate]]
|web serial = [[Drone 23.5]]
}}The '''Thanda''' are a type of [[capes|cape]] operating in the Indian sub-continent.

==Goals and Methods==
In India, capes are strictly divided not just between [[Heroes|Hero]] and [[Villain]] but also between the [[Garama]], the media-savvy, ostentatious, and well-known "hot" capes, and the Thanda, the unacknowledged, unofficial "cold" capes.<ref name="23.5"/>

Since the Thanda are not a unified team, they do not have an entirely homogeneous set of goals, besides preferring to stay hidden and unacknowledged. However, they are said to have the killer instinct that has allowed India to fight off [[Endbringer]] attacks. [[Defiant]] describes them as fighting "for real, not for play."<ref name="23.5">[[Drone 23.5]]</ref>

Thanda capes generally take names that can be repeated in general conversation without tipping off an eavesdropper about the nature of the subject.<ref name="R1">The goal of the Indian cold capes was to have names that could be slotted into conversation and dropped in casual mention, specifically as non-names. - [https://redd.it/4eo4m2 Conversation by wildbow on Reddit]</ref>

==Known Members==
*[[Phir Sē]]<ref name="24.3">[[Crushed 24.3]]</ref>
**Unnamed teleporter without [[Manton-limit]].<ref name="24.3"/>
*[[Turanta]], attended key meeting as leader, holds "astrologer" [[shard]].<ref name="25.5 e1">We don’t have time to laugh about like this,” ''Turanta'', the apparent spokesman of the cold capes said.<br><br>''"I am not joking, astrologer.  I would like to see their lights dancing in the air.  I have seen only glimmers, fragments of the performance.  To see it all at once… yes.”'' - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/scarab-25-5/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.5]]</ref>
*[[Sifara]]
*[[Bahu]]
*Unnamed teleporter, specializing in "meteorite" strikes <ref name="26.5">[[Sting 26.5]]</ref>
*Unnamed member with a power similar to [[Clockblocker]]'s<ref name="27.5">[[Extinction 27.5]]</ref>

==History==
After [[New Delhi]], a group of Thanda capes emerged as leaders within the 'cold' community. Their logo was a five-by-five grid with each block containing a specific letter.<ref name="27.2">[[Extinction 27.2]]</ref>

==Trivia==
*Thanda (ठंडा) is the Hindi word for "cold", pronounced with an aspirated "t".
*In Hindi [[Phir Sē]] (फिर से) means "once again".
*In Hindi Sifara (सिफ़र) means "zero" or "cipher", and Sifara in Urdu (سفیر) means "ambassador".
*In Hindi Turanta (तुरन्त) means "immediate" or "swift".
*In Hindi Bahu (बहू) means "multi", "vast", or "daughter in law".

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