Handicapped Badass: He fairly easily takes out Reyna and Oscar, two legitimate badasses in their own right, all after Reyna already cuts off one of his hands.However despite only having a handful of lines and not having anything really important to say, his Tyran is surprisingly good and he's actually the most eloquent Locust character in the series, other than Myrrah (who's actually human). Filler Villain: He's not at all developed, unlike any of the original Locust Horde leaders, and exists mostly to put an individual face on the Swarm, which otherwise has no individual characters in the entire game.The name is only mentioned in the achievement for defeating him. Everyone Calls Him 'Barkeep': He's only known as the Speaker, and he isn't even named in the game itself.

Climax Boss: He fights you while riding a Swarmak about 4/5ths of the way through the game.Advertised Extra: He appears somewhat prominently in the game's trailer, but actually only has one scene (two if you count the village attack where he's always out-of-focus) and is promptly killed off.The Speaker is the creature personally responsible for leading the attack on Kait's village and kidnapping her mother, Reyna. 'The path to your mother lies through me!'ДЄ Swarm Scion of some importance that appears in Gears of War 4. Was Once a Man: Swarm Drones and Juvies are humans that were captured and put into pods, causing them to mutate into what they are now.Stronger with Age: Some of what makes up the Swarm is a group of stronger Locust that spent the last 25 years evolving in hibernation.As noted below, Scions empower their fellow Swarm by releasing osmium dust into the air, which reacts with Swarm biology and makes them stronger, implying that being in such close proximity to all that osmium was the reason the Locust evolved into Scions in the first place. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: At least one of the Locust cocoon dumping grounds was an old osmium mine that was no longer in use.Getting an Active Reload increases its fire rate, allowing for even more dakka. at least until it overheats and both its fire rate and accuracy instantly become total garbage until you let go of the trigger and let it cool down (hey, nobody said they were good at making guns). More Dakka: It's safe to say the Swarm are a fan of this, since the only gun they have actually made themselves is the Claw, a powerful light machine gun with a massive 100-round magazine that gets more accurate the longer you hold down the trigger.In-Universe Nickname: Del provides a name for a majority of the Swarm creatures that he and his friends run into.The speed is quick enough that Delta Squad takes immediate note of it once they're not under fire. Dumbass No More: Downplayed Trope, but once they gain a queen of their own, they are able to start making their own firearms and armor within weeks.Overall, the Swarm serves as the successors to the Locust Horde as the primary enemies that humanity faces off against starting from Gears of War 4 onward. As it turns out, the Locust were still very much alive, and used the 25 years that humanity spent in peace evolving into more powerful creatures that Del later dubs as being like a 'Swarm.' In addition, the areas that were used for dumping grounds end up mutating into large nest-like complexes that become the new staging points for the Swarm. The corpses left behind by the Locust became wrapped in cocoons that were completely indestructible, which forced the COG to dump said corpses numbering in the thousands off at dumping grounds all across Sera, and locked them away out of sight.

The Locust was thought to have been completely disposed of when Adam Fenix' Neutron Bomb went off when in actuality, this was far from being the case. like a swarm.'ДЄ new enemy to humanity that came out of hiding 25 years after the war against the Locust Horde was finally brought to an end. 'Guys, that sounded like there were dozens of em'.

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