Chekhov's Gun (the second barrel)

[coriolis]

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Oh, snap, The Light is Mack, isn't it?

Why do I suspect this might not be a completely Good Thing. Time Travel like this is usually to fix something. They must need someone to talk to The Light, someone they are certain The Light will respond to...

[fauvem]

Do we need to revoke your gun license? Or just create a single thread for Wild Guessing?

But seriously, wouldn't Mack's loss of her sidekick hinder her ability to become such a great superhero? Or conversely, would the abrupt loss of her sidekick make her change for the better?

[hakkyounotenshi]

Val's trip is the first documented case of time travel.

She's going to go back to her own time and give her report to the agency. They''ll keep it in their records and in 2234 the Champions will send Mike back to grab her, completing the circle.

Mack's not losing Val here.

[waywardsmth]

i think it's probably Mackenzie too. The coincidence of the Light being the LIGHT and her being the only person we've seen with light based powers? Unless it's one of her parents. wouldn't that be a kick in the nuts.

"Yes yes, my mom/dad is a god in the future. of COURSE."

[coriolis]

And now, The Dark. The Vigilante, complementing the Law, the Light, not opposing it. So, not only are we potentially looking at Mac ascending (in the SG-1 sense), but the Vigilante, as well. This strengthens my belief EDIT: expressed in the "Second Barrel" Thread that Declan is alive and is the Vigilante; part of the complimentary dynamic of Dark/Light is brother/sister.

Okay, this could be a big fakeout. There are ways to subvert the apparent trope. I'm not inside Lore & Erika's heads, I don't know their intentions. If I'm on target, I hope it doesn't drive them into a hasty course change. And even within the framework I'm predicting, there is plenty of room for surprise; that's what keeps us coming back. This is where true artistry as writers comes in; what serves the story better, going with the original plan, even if some of us are getting ahead of ourselves, or chucking it all simply to confound the predictions?

Possible fakeouts include: Light/Dark could be another, pairing, after Mac & Val's time, maybe children or grandchildren of Mac. Or not related to her at all, pairing light/dark powers are far from unheard of (Cloak & Dagger, anyone?). The Light and The Dark could be a married couple instead of brother/sister. Maybe a future set of twins, like Kyoko and Dion.

Although if Dollmaker is Timmy (to still be around, he'd have to be a total-conversion cyborg or undead himself, oh,sh*t, if The Coroner returned and absorbed Maker's abilities, the mix sounds about right), that means that the current generation of Metro City heros (and villains) are going to be influencing (if not outright steering) the fate of the city (and possibly the world) for a long time to come...but the Metro City landscape is littered with "Mad Scientist" villains, plenty to choose from besides Timmy. But it matches the theme of "current generation develops lasting hold on fate".

Dollmaker is, I think, the nastiest villain, ever, bar none; he even beats out deathmonger from the Empowered universe. dm has necrobiotech that can control a certain class of dead superhero (of the most common in-universe hero origin), but that's it. Dollmaker (hmmm, same initials, D-M) can do his thing to ANY dead hero (or villain), and is similarly building up a stable of superundead. And he's not limited to flesh, nor (apparently) mechanical/hydraulic systems (which mean he beats out both Tony Stark and Agatha Heterodyne in the inventions department). Dollmaker, as described, can work with ANY unliving material, metal, wood, plastic, concrete. This is a godlike villain on the Naruto scale.

[Erika]

Jul 17, 2013 12:18:31 GMT -5 coriolis said:

If I'm on target, I hope it doesn't drive them into a hasty course change.

Oh, never fear. Nothing you say will ever affect the comic at all. We don't make the plot based on reader assumptions or suggestions. Quite the contrary, 99% of the predictions readers make, both true and false, are made because we told you to make them. Only the really outlandish ones are not due to planted information.

One of the reasons that we never confirm or deny theories is because it might give hints to what's actually true. Another reason is that sometimes it's funny to see what people come up with when they assume that some nameless person that appeared in a group shot MUST be important somehow, or that there's a huge clue hidden in the fact that the powers in our imaginary world don't jive perfectly with some comic they read or game they played.

[waywardsmth]

Jul 17, 2013 12:18:31 GMT -5 coriolis said:

Although if Dollmaker is Timmy (to still be around, he'd have to be a total-conversion cyborg or undead himself, oh,sh*t, if The Coroner returned and absorbed Maker's abilities, the mix sounds about right), that means that the current generation of Metro City heros (and villains) are going to be influencing (if not outright steering) the fate of the city (and possibly the world) for a long time to come...but the Metro City landscape is littered with "Mad Scientist" villains, plenty to choose from besides Timmy. But it matches the theme of "current generation develops lasting hold on fate".

Or . . . maybe it's just a new villain? Seeing as it's 200 years in the future, wouldn't it make sense that it's just . . . a new villain?

[princesspuffypants]

Jul 18, 2013 19:32:58 GMT -5 waywardsmth said:

Or . . . maybe it's just a new villain? Seeing as it's 200 years in the future, wouldn't it make sense that it's just . . . a new villain?

I actually delurked and registered JUST so I could karma you, cuz you are the first person to make any BLEEPing sense!

[coriolis]

Yeah the reveal was a big WTF because we don't think of Val as having "real" superpowers -- at least not the Dark set we're seeing now. The question is, how did she acquire them?! Good to see that she does eventually get rated as a Hero, at least.

The tats make sense, I hope the left-arm list isn't all directly attributable to The Coroner...

[coriolis]

Okay, that didn't go anything like expected. Full-on parallel universe. Which is good, because it means my theory about the home-timeline's Dark is still alive. Mack could still, over the next century, become The Light, it's just that The Dark will be someone else. Someone close to or with a connection to her, because that's how this seems to work. Unless The Dark is like the Captain Universe powers from Marvel comics, and transfer from person to person?

[Marcel]

Well, recently i have been re-reading some stuff and somethings that crossed my mind are...



The genius kid behind the giant robot: sidekickgirl.net/toy-story-iii/

Might actually be Forever Boy secretly gone rogue and free: sidekickgirl.net/second-date-vi/



Father Hernandez, who both houses a known henchman and covers some sort of secret passage/hideout in the rectory: sidekickgirl.net/break-in-at-the-rectory-iv/

Seems to have GOOD contacts in BOTH sides of the fence, as he apparently was the priest in Ricochet's funeral: sidekickgirl.net/funeral-ii/



Something that got my attention is that, Isauro's eye color is not quite normal, a sort of yellow/orange color: sidekickgirl.net/beauty-viii/

An eye color shared, afaik, with only two other people in the comic as a whole: sidekickgirl.net/funeral-iv/



Considering Wolf is pretty much a werewolf: sidekickgirl.net/coroner-xii/

Could this mean that Coldfire's powers are somehow supernatural in origin?



As an aside, the time travel arc and the whole "The Light and the Dark" thing has made me even more suspicious of a relation between Ilumina and the Vigilante, who might be either be her (supposedly) dead brother or some weird manifestation of her powers and/or huge bag of closed-off traumas & insecurities. Kind of a wide shot in the dark there, but who knows.