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The Slaughterhouse Nine are a group of (usually) nine serial killers who roam from city to city in North America, commiting sensationalist and depraved acts of violence.<ref>[1]</ref><ref name="10.6">[2] Parasite 10.6</ref>

The group lineup is not fixed and the turnover tends to be high. On their arrival in Brockton Bay, following Leviathan's attack, there were only eight in their group and they were seeking their ninth member.

The Slaughterhouse Nine were the focus of Worm's one year anniversary bonus, a series of eight interludes released over the course of a week. Each update, for the most part, centered around the 'Nine' and their meetings with various candidates in Brockton Bay.

There are some serious spoilers below, especially on Jack Slash. Don't read any further unless you have finished reading Worm.


Current Members

Jack Slash

Male. The leader of the group. Has the ability to extend the effective cutting edge of held knives and blades to horrendous distance, while maintaining a consistent cutting power. Using this ability, he can cut through crowds or slice an enemy’s throat at any range.

He has dark hair, a styled beard and moustache. According to Taylor he is "good looking", "he had kind of a Johnny Depp look to him, though he had more of a widow’s peak, a longer face and lighter eyes"

Dinah Alcott predicts that Jack Slash will set the end of the world into motion in the next two or eight years<ref name="10.6" />. If he is killed before he leaves Brockton Bay this disaster will occur in fifteen years.

He brings about the end of the world by accidentally convincing Scion to turn evil, after a large battle with the heroes where he is betrayed by Gray Boy and trapped in his power. A member of the Dragon's Teeth then covers him in Containment Foam.

His weakness is non-capes, as his Shard is the 'Communications Shard', which lets him subconsciously manipulate capes, and stops him ever being surprised by them, among other things.

Bonesaw

Female. Civilian name Riley. If Jack Slash is the leader, Bonesaw is the figurehead of the group. A child tinker with a specialty in medicine and biology. She has used this ability to create monstrous minions, often combining two capes into one, maintaining a portion of each's powers. She views herself as an artist, her creations as art. In her dialogue with Panacea in Interlude 11.h, Bonesaw professes to be rather knowledgeable about where powers come from and how they work, and this is later revealed to be due to her countless medical experiments on both captured capes and civilians.

Bonesaw's power has allowed her to extensively modify the internal biology of the other members of the Nine, which leaves herself and her team-mates extremely durable. Over the course of the story, she loses an eye, both arms, and is bisected horizontally - she survived each of these and later reconstituted herself using 'spare parts'. She can also use this to exert control over those she has operated on - she controls her 'artworks' and presumably Hookwolf in this fashion, while later puppeteering Blasto by wiring her spinal column into his nervous system.

Bonesaw was recruited by Jack, who mutilated her family and forced her to rush around her house repairing the damage that he would do to each family member whenever she was not in the room. When she gave up, her mother's last words to her were "Be a good girl." Bonesaw resolved to do as Jack said and play the role of a well-behaved assistant to Jack, resulting in her involvement with the Slaughterhouse Nine.

Shatterbird

Female. Dark-haired and brown-skinned.

Shatterbird usually uses her power as the Nine arrive in a city to maximize panic, damage and terror. Shatterbird is a silicakinetic with the ability to manipulate glass and cause it to shatter explosively across a wide area. She describes herself as a scholar.

When she 'screams' in Brockton Bay, her power affects all the glass in her range and also hits all the silicon chips in computers and phones, as well as the sand on the beaches. She attempts to recruit Hookwolf to the Slaughterhouse Nine based on his personal strength, but is defeated before she can see him join the team.

She is taken over by Regent after the Undersiders attack the Slaughterhouse Nine to get Grue back. He keeps her until Echidna attacks, at which point she is subsumed and then, after Sundancer kills Echidna, Vista kills Shatterbird as mentioned in a later conversation between the Wards.

Crawler

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Crawler fanart by Scarfgirl.

Male. Civilian name Ned. Brute. An inhuman monster.

In Crawler's case the phrase "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is literally true. Every time he is hurt his body adapts, rendering him more resistant to whatever hurt him or giving him other capabilities or features. He regenerates very quickly and the advantages gleaned from any such regeneration are permanent, making him look less and less human.<ref>Interlude 11f</ref>

Crawler intentionally submits himself to suicidal situations so he can become even stronger. He has been doing it for some time now, and Jack Slash believes it to be his main motivation for joining the Nine; since the Slaughterhouse Nine have a kill order against them, it provides Crawler with stronger and stronger opponents.

Crawler appears indifferent towards the fellow members of the Nine, being concerned only with his own strength. He was not interested in coming up with a trial when Cherish joined the team, declaring her to have passed his trial by killing Hatchet Face. He selected Noelle as his potential recruit, solely because of her power.

Crawler is killed by a bombing run orchestrated by the PRT using Bakuda's confiscated weaponry, which turns his body to glass, leaving him unable to regenerate.

Mannequin

Used to be a man named Alan Gramme, codename Sphere. As a Tinker with a specialty in biomes, terraforming and ecosystems, he was working in projects to build self sustaining biospheres on the moon, solve world hunger and build aquatic cities near cities plagued by overcrowding. These projects were interrupted when The Simurgh attacked one of the sites and killed his wife and children, simultaneously destroying his projects. He went mad and began modifying his own body to isolate himself from the world.<ref>Interlude 11d</ref>

Now he stands nine feet tall and has replaced all of his joints with either a doll’s ball joints or lengths of chains. His entire body is encased in a special ceramic shell, with no openings or perforations.

After modifying his body he become a serial killer, with an emphasis on targeting individuals, predominantly tinkers and rogues who seek to better the world with their powers. Bonesaw mentions that Mannequin had the potential to become a long-term member of the Nine (a distinction she otherwise reserves for Jack Slash, herself, and Siberian).

Mannequin chooses Armsmaster as his potential recruit for the Slaughterhouse Nine, but fails to successfully recruit him. During the Nine's stint in Brockton Bay he attacks Skitter's territory, killing several bystanders before Skitter drives him off. Mannequin is punished by Jack for losing this fight by forfeiting one day of his recruitment trial.

Mannequin is ultimately killed by a PRT bombing run using Bakuda's repurposed technology - the resulting explosion turns him to glass.

The Siberian

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The Siberian fanart by M4NN3QUIN .

Female. A recurring nemesis of the Triumvirate, the Siberian’s skin is striped with black and white, leaving her nationality uncertain. Hookwolf notes that she is untouchable, immovable, invincible in a way that even Alexandria isn't. She also displays greatly enhanced strength, agility and/or speed, with the ability to scale a building in a very short span of time.

Rumor has it that the Siberian doesn't talk, but her dialogue with Bitch suggests differently. Her parting words to Bitch inform the girl that the rumor persists because everyone else who has heard the Siberian talk has died.

Siberian attempts to recruit Bitch as a possible ninth member of the team in Interlude 11a.

The Siberian is a projection of Dr. Manton, appearing shortly after Manton lost his child, who looked remarkably similar to Siberian (despite the black and white stripped skin). While Siberian is indestructable, Manton is quite frail and possesses no powers besides his ability to project the Siberian. Whether Siberian has control of Manton or Manton has control of Siberian is unclear. Manton moves from town to town with the Slaughterhouse Nine, relying on his Siberian to keep him safe.

She is killed by Dragon after Dragon and Defiant chase and fight the Slaughterhouse Nine. After Bonesaw clones the group multiple times each, Clockblocker manages to destroy the Siberian by getting her to run into a thread he froze in time. Foil also manages to destroy her by shooting her with a crossbow bolt she has affected. In each case, the projection is removed and Dr. Manton can replace her.

Burnscar

Female. Civilian name Mimi. An older teenager or a young-looking twenty-something. Dark hair. She is a Blaster and a Mover, a pyrokinetic with the ability to teleport betwen flames. Much like Labyrinth, Burnscar has a psychological drawback to her power; the chemical balances in her brain are adjusted whenever her power is in use, and she effectively becomes a sociopath, with no ability to empathize with others and a dampened mental state.

She used to be interred in the same mental asylum as Labyrinth. Mimi thought they were friends, when the truth was that doctors used social time with Elle as an enticement to get her to cooperate. They escaped the asylum on the same day, with Elle escaping with Faultline’s Crew and Mimi presumably taking advantage of the chaos to slip away. Mimi found herself alone with nowhere to go, and ended up with a man that tried to take advantage of her and prostitute her. She tried to scare him off but the drawback of her power led to her getting carried away and burning him to death.<ref name="I11c">Interlude 11c</ref>

Several weeks after that, while she was still on a spree, Shatterbird recruited her for the Slaughterhouse Nine. <ref name="I11c" />

Burnscar does not select a recruit for the Nine during their visit Brockton Bay. She is only seen laying out her challenge to Bitch - to kill Skitter and the Undersiders, but this is never completed. She is ultimately killed by Grue, who kills her upon undergoing his second trigger event by copying the Siberian's power and using a projection to beat her to death.

Hatchet Face

Male. A new recruit, described as an ugly man that has been beaten, burned and just plain abused so often that his face was as much scar tissue than flesh. He has general brute capabilities and interferes with the powers of any capes within a certain range of him. Because of his ability to remove powers, he is described as a 'bogeyman' of the superpowered world.

He was defeated by Cherish to get into the Nine. He has been rechristened Hack Job, and is now an abomination made by Bonesaw, physically melded with Oni Lee in a kind of artificial siamese twinship. The resulting monster has Oni Lee's teleportation ability and a lesser version of Hatchet Face's ability to block powers. Both are still aware, but are fully in Bonesaw's thrall.

Cherish

Female. The newest member of the Nine. She can sense emotions over a massive range and use them to find people. She can also alter people's emotions, but the effects are only short term and her victims build up a resistance after being exposed to her power.

Cherish is Heartbreaker's daughter and Regent's sister and she joined the Nine to force her other brothers to stop pursuing her and to stave off her boredom. She later selects Regent as her recruit for the Nine, intending for him to die during a trial rather than join the Nine. She has plans to use her power on the other members of the Slaughterhouse Nine and force an emotional dependency on her, to the point that she can control them.

She is given longevity and trapped in a small coffin at the bottom of Brockton Bay with her power's filters removed, so she feels all the sadness in the area, as Bonesaw's revenge. She is later tricked into killing Butcher 14, as her power lets her affect the emotions of anyone within a certain range of her.

Hookwolf

Male. A former member of Empire 88, his muscles consist of metal hooks and knives that he can expand outwards, encasing himself in a ball of moving blades. He is very hard to injure in this state.

He was recruited from Brockton Bay at the end of Jack's 'test'. Bonesaw controlled him after giving him extensive brain surgery.

Deceased/Former Members

King

Male. The founder and leader of the original Slaughterhouse Nine. Large and muscular, he had superhuman strength and a form of conditional invulnerability where he automatically and instantaneously transferred any injuries he should have received to the bodies of everyone he had touched in the preceding 24 hours. Killed by a team-up between the young Jack Slash and Harbinger.

Harbinger

Male. A teenager with functionally infallible CQC skills and broader undetermined Thinker talents. Close friends with Jack Slash. Playing along with Jack in their murder game, along with making a name for himself, was the primary reason Harbinger had for staying with the Nine. He mysteriouly disappeared from the Nine shortly after he and Jack assassinated King and has not been seen since. Currently works for Cauldron as the Number Man. 

Gray Boy

Male. Shaker. Case 53. Appeared to be a barely-pubescent young boy wearing a school uniform. His body and clothes were in black-and-white. Has the ability to create customized (and permanent) time-loops targeted on spatial locations in such a way that, while the bodies of anyone caught within are repeatedly looped, their minds retain continuity of consciousness. The defensive application was automatic and constant, reverting his body to an unharmed state whenever he is killed, injured or even so much as dirtied while his mind retains continuity of consciousness. Disappeared under mysterious circumstances before the beginning of canon. Later, it is revealed that he was taken by Glaistig Uaine.

When the past members of the Slaughterhouse Nine are cloned, Jack Slash asks Bonesaw to only make one clone of Gray Boy because of the unspoken reason that Jack can't control more than one. He later goes on to show why, betraying Jack in the middle of a large fight against a conglomerate of heroes and villains and indirectly leading to the end of the world.

Gray Boy's clone goes on to trap Purity and Crusader in an endless loop. However, when the battle turns against Jack, he places him in an endless loop and disembowels him. He is killed almost immediately afterwards when Foil (who used her sense of perfect timing to accurately imitate being looped) killed him with a dart empowered with her ability, which counteracted Gray Boy's power.

Chuckles

Male. A tall obese pear-shaped man whose face was tattooed to resemble clown makeup. A speedster, his brain and legs operated at inhumanly fast speeds while his arms and chest possess superstrength. However, due to the fact his superspeed was permanently switched on and had been so since his trigger event, he perceived the world in perpetual slow motion and was incapable of normal communication. He managed to teach himself to make a sound similar to laughter, hence the name.

Screamer

Female. Had the ability to perceive and finely manipulate all sound within a mile radius of her location, letting her do, among other things, perfect duplications of enemy radio chatter/voices and project unending screams into their eardrums. Used it for team communications, surveillance and psy-ops against heroes.

Winter

Female. White-haired, with white irises edged in black. A former child-soldier, mercenary and arms dealer. Her power generated a wide area effect that sapped heat from the environment, kinetic energy from moving objects and volition from biological life forms. Favored guns and grenade launchers. Was lovers with Crimson.

Crimson

Male. Had the power to grow into a super-strong super-durable state after drinking human blood. Wielded an enormous sword. Was lovers with Winter.

Breed

Male. Created monsters that serially infested and fed on human bodies, growing in size and lethality with every corpse over the course of their life-cycle. Killed when an unnamed hero called in an incendiary missile strike on his location.

Murder Rat

Female. Created by Bonesaw via fusion of a villain named Ravager and a hero named Mouse Protector. Possessed enhanced agility, enhanced reflexes, enhanced flexibility, enhanced strength, foot-long razor-claws, the ability to inflict unhealing wounds and the ability to teleport to any wound she inflicted.

Nyx

Female. A Case-53 with red skin, black eyes and vents along her hairline and arms. Had the power to sculpt seamless illusions from a poisonous gas emitted from said vents. Breaking the illusions by physical force resulted in the gas being released indiscriminately.

Nice Guy

Male. A Stranger with the power to make people think of him as a perfectly harmless bystander no matter what murderous action he might be taking.

Skinslip

Male. A minor regenerator with a changer ability, allowing him to manipulate his own skin. Skinslip’s skin can act like a grappling hook, allowing him to climb, and it can help break falls. He can also smother and bludgeon his opponents with it. Can extend his ability by flaying people and crudely stitching or stapling their skin to his own. Regeneration connects the tissues and extends his power’s breadth and reach, but it doesn't prevent all rejection or decay, forcing him to replenish it from time to time.

Miasma

Male. A stranger, invisible and undetectable but for an odorless gas he gives off that wears away at other’s minds, causing headaches, ringing in the ears, watery eyes and eventual blindness, memory loss and coma.

Psychosoma

Male. Stranger four, master seven. Tall, bald and narrow, with pencil-thin mustache and beard, spidery fingers. Had the power to transform people into monsters. Carefully calibrated damage would revert them back to their human selves albeit at the risk of being promptly slaughtered by any of his victims who had not yet reverted.

About Serial Killers And Parahumans

A serial killer is typically defined as an individual who has killed three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time (a "cooling off period") between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification. The motives of serial killers are generally placed into four categories: visionary (believing they are another person or are compelled to murder by entities such as the Devil or God), mission-oriented ( justifying their acts as "ridding the world" of a certain type of person perceived as undesirable), hedonistic (they feel pleasure from killing.This pleasure can come from lust, thrill and/or profit) and power or control (to gain and exert power over their victim).

The majority of reported and investigated serial killers in the USA are white males, from a lower-to-middle-class background, usually in their late twenties to early thirties. But according to the FBI, and based on percentages of the U.S. population, whites are not more likely than other races to be serial killers.

The reason behind someone becoming a serial killer (nature or nurture) is still open to debate. But empirical research shows that most of them share some characteristic like having been bullied as children or abused (emotionally, physically and/or sexually) by a family member. These two episodes in particular can lead to a trigger event which explains why there are so many parahuman serial killers.

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