Thanda

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Goals and Methods

In India, capes are strictly divided not just between 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="comment">Conversation by wildbow on Reddit</ref>

Known Members

• Phir Sē
• Turanta, attended key meeting as leader <ref name="25.5">Scarab 25.5</ref>, "astrologer" shard.
• Sifara, leader<ref name="25.5"/><ref name="30.5">Speck 30.5</ref>
• Bahu, leader<ref name="25.5"/>

History

One member of the Thanda appears to have a power similar to Clockblocker (27.5):

"The wind blew the silk, threatening to pull it from my grip.  Scion was moving, and it could break at any instant.

I passed the silk to the Thanda.

He gave me a curious glance.

Then he froze it in space.

It fixed the thread’s location in space, froze Scion as well.  The golden man was rendered immobile."

The other member has non-Manton-limited teleportation (24.3):

"Kismet glanced up at the glow, then turned to run.

He wasn’t even turned all the way around when there was a flicker. A man appeared just in front of Kismet. A teleporter.

And his forearm extended through Kismet’s chest.

Then he flickered, like a bad lightbulb, and he was gone, leaving only a gaping hole where the arm had been. Kismet collapsed, dead.

A teleporter who can bypass the Manton effect."

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>Extinction 27.2</ref>

Trivia

• Thanda (ठंडा) is the Hindi word for "cold", pronounced with a hard "t".
• In Hindi Phir Sē (फिर से) means "once again".
• In HIndi Sifara (सिफ़र) means "zero".
• In Hindi Turanta (तुरन्त) means "immediate" or "swift".
• In HIndi Bahu (बहू) means "daughter in law".

References

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