The Teeth

The Teeth are a villain group operating in Boston<ref name="Boston"/> and New York,<ref name="new_york"/> although they used to operate in Brockton Bay.<ref name="Brockton_bay"/>

Description

The Teeth originally operated in Brockton Bay,<ref name="Brockton_bay"/> were they killed Heith Anders in a turf war.<ref>“Heith.”

Justin sighed. Heith was Fenja and Menja’s cousin and guardian, Kaiser’s first wife, killed in a turf war with the Teeth, back in the old days of Brockton Bay. She has powers after all.

Somehow, all of this would be easier if he could believe that Theo was illegitimate. - Excerpt from Interlude 18 (Donation Bonus #2)</ref> They eventually participated in a bidding war to hire the services of the Slaughterhouse Nine, instructing them to kill some members of the Protectorate. After completing the task, the Nine turned on them, nearly wiping them out.<ref name="Brockton_bay">“Years ago. Allfather still ruled Empire Eighty-Eight then. They held a big meeting between all of the factions. We stopped by. Great fun. I don’t think they accomplished a thing that day. We provoked a bidding war instead. Group called the Teeth wound up hiring us to kill some members of the Protectorate team. We did it, and then we wiped out the Teeth before leaving the city.”

The Slaughterhouse Nine must have been new, then. People today would know better. Hopefully. - Excerpt from Interlude 11b (Anniversary Bonus)</ref> However, they settled elsewhere and bounced back,<ref name="parian">The Teeth had tried to take a bite out of Parian’s territory. They had a history in the bay, and like the Ambassadors they had been nearly wiped out, only it was nearly a decade ago. They’d settled elsewhere while they bounced back, with a turnover rate high enough that none of the original members persisted. There was only the name, and an ethos of violence, anarchy, and profit at any cost, not unlike the ABB. Parian seemed to be making a point of not asking for our help, and I wasn’t intending to offer it until she did. - Excerpt from Chrysalis 20.1</ref> with operations in Boston<ref name="Boston">Crime lord of East Allston since est. date of April 2009. No subordinates. No past history as a subordinate. Criminal history indicates cap of second degree murder, tendency to mass damage to property and persons. Produces uncontrolled lifeforms that are incapable of replication. Adversarial relationship with Accord (#13151), Spree (#14755) and Chain Man (#14114). - Excerpt from Interlude 19 (Donation Bonus #1)</ref> and New York,<ref name="new_york">Less than a year ago, Butcher had been known as Quarrel, and as Tattletale told it, Quarrel had used a much smaller version of that same bow to kill Butcher Thirteen in a drawn-out fight in New York. - Excerpt from Imago 21.6</ref> although none of their original members remain.<ref name="parian"/>

The group has an ethos of violence, anarchy, and profit at any cost, not unlike the ABB.<ref name="parian"/>

Members

In modern day, the Teeth have seven or eight parahuman members,<ref name="dress">They reached the top floor and came face to face with the Teeth. Seven parahumans, wearing costumes that bristled with blades, spikes and spines. They managed to wear the trophies of their defeated enemies without looking primitive. Teeth, eyes, dessicated body parts and bones were worked into their costumes, a collective theme that promised aggression and violent retaliation for any slight. - Excerpt from Interlude 20</ref><ref>“Then who’s a higher priority? The Teeth?”

“Lots of aggressive powers. Butcher’s at the forefront of it all. Spree has rapid fire duplicate generation, Vex has the ability to fill empty spaces with small, razor-sharp forcefields, Hemorrhagia is a limited hemokinetic with some personal biokinesis, Animos can transform for limited times and packs a power nullification ranged attack while in his other shape. There’s two or three others.”

“I’m asking about their goals,” I said. “Any clue what they’re thinking? Are they going to come after us?”- Excerpt from Imago 21.1</ref> combined with about twenty unpowered individuals.<ref name="unpowered">Inside the building, the Teeth were recuperating from a recent conflict with Miss Militia and the other heroes followed soon after by an attack from Parian’s stuffed animals. As a whole, the Teeth amounted to twenty or so unpowered troops, plus a half-dozen or so powered ones. Even the unpowered Teeth had ‘costumes’ of a sort, were dressed in a hodgepodge of armor that made it hard to tell them apart from the powered members. - Excerpt from Imago 21.6</ref> Each member wears a costume bristled with blades, spikes and spines. Teeth, eyes, desiccated body parts and bones are worked into their costumes, giving them a collective theme focused on aggression and violent retaliation for any slight.<ref name="dress"/> Because of their similar style of dress, powered and unpowered members are hard to tell apart.<ref name="unpowered"/>

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