Okay, I’ve been giving it some thought, and based on the cards given and some conversation, I’m going to take a revised wild stab at our Disparation contents prior to the reveal next month:
Heroes: 6
Chrono-Ranger (Reprioritize)
Visionary (Forget What You Saw)
Omnitron-X (Systems Iteration)
Parse (Optimized Efficiency)
Guise (Take Out The Trash)
Darkstrike and Painstake (Enthrall)
(This leaves Justify the Means to be either a Bounty for Chrono-Ranger, or a secondary card for a double-deck for D&P)
Here’s my justification - we’re not likely to see the Sentinels in the same set as another multi-hero deck, and KNYFE fits the space stuff really well and I still think we’re going to get a space-themed set. La Comodora seems too early to me still. But Guise has multiversal awareness and connections, while being a popular guy and an early deck in the original game.
Villains: 9
The Dreamer
La Capitan
Apostate
The Ennead
Iron Legacy
Miss Information
Lord of Aeternus
Wager Master
(someone we have never even heard of)
The Ennead are from another universe, and Apostate is part of the general explosions that come with Disparation. The rest are either multiversal threats or, in the case of Wager Master, a straight-up multiversal being. I think we’ll also get Fall of the Prime Wardens as an Apostate event, and Busybody as a Miss Information Critical Event given her similar theme.
In Letters Page 237, I thought C&A said that Darkstrife and Painstake were very minor heroes during the multiverse era. They never get their own book, and only on rare occasions take over something like Justice Comics for a short arc, then disappear again. Popular as they seem to be, they just don’t seem prominent enough for a deck.
They may not be prominent, but they’re AWESOME, and even though I don’t currently play DE, I’ll be very sore if they invent characters this cool and don’t ever publish them in a playable form.
Congrats! Looks like I should have stuck with my November prediction of KNYFE rather than switch it up to Guise.
I’m definitely still strongly leaning Darkstrife and Painstake as the sixth, although it’s also been suggested that we might see Rambler in this set and have those two show up in a future set, which would make sense timing-wise; Rambler showed up in Letters Page stories a little while ago, and C&A could still be working on D&P right now.
Well, as much as I feel that La Comodora is the best lore fit for the sixth hero and that Darkstrife and Painstake don’t make sense for several reasons, waiting on the reveal of D&P as the mystery new hero fits the same pattern they established with Alpha.
DP&PS May not make sense from a “multiversal” standpoint, but we know that Apostate and the Ennead will be in this set as well, which opens up “realms” being thrown into the mix. Which makes them make a ton of sense.
Minor, yes, but occasionally significant, like the whole thing they did the other week, including discussing when they were created and when they had their own stories.
And… here’s the thing. Maybe it’s bad to go off on a sample size of 1, but after the various reveals with RCR, I think they’re going to try to have new stuff in each expansion, heroes and villains that weren’t in the original version. Like Alpha. So unless they pull out Fashion in a surprise reveal (and she seems more an RPG thing), D&P are the only available.
They have admittedly been talking about Fashion longer. Ultimately the question is whether they have a space expansion planned, as she would obviously go in that. For disparation, both Fashion and DS&PS would be a stretch, as neither of them is from another timeline, but both of them are loosely from “other realms” (the past in Fashion’s case, which would very loosely place her into the same category as Chrono Ranger).
Chrono Ranger did originate in the past but he ends up in an alternative future. From that with CON he is trying to prevent that future and easily fits as being from another universe/timeline at that point.
Fashion seems extremely unlikely to appear in any SotM set to me. Yes, Fashion did exist as a super hero during the '50s, but only as a gimmicky teenage romance super hero, which I don’t think had enough substance for a deck. And if my memory serves, her reappearance as an actually cool hero in the '10s was extremely close to OblivAeon, moreso even than Benchmark. (Thus, I think that it is almost a certainty that she’ll appear in the RPG’s space book.)
Citation needed. “Realm” is a pretty vague term. If they could broaden the focus of disparation to include Aeternus, by the same logic as the Oracle of Discord originally appearing in the Dispo book, and most of Dispo-the-set is focused on alternate timelines such as Iron Legacy, then time travelers could also qualify as having “come from another realm”, and thus Fashion is still a conceivable inclusion. I do think she’s less likely than DS&PS, and I’m far less interested in her, but she does predate them in the podcast’s lore by quite a bit…hell, she predates Alpha, so if they ever plan to publish her, she’s already overdue. And the hype train is a lot more likely to lose moment for her… everybody wants to see the twins, and thus making them keep wanting thus for another year seems like it would be the better choice in terms of brand management, if they do eventually plan to release both them and her. Fashion is far more likely to just fade out of the fandom’s interest level almost entirely if they keep us waiting too long, something very unlikely to ever happen to the Aeternals.
Timing on when to release a certain deck doesn’t matter. They’ve mentioned they already know what they’re going to release and in what order. To me I think there will be excitement for any new deck regardless of when they’re introduced.
I don’t think that the term Realm is very vague, at least how it’s been used in Sentinels. True, we haven’t really gotten a definition for it, per se, but we have plenty of concrete examples: the Realm of Discord, the Host, Clarity, the Græy, the Egyptian Underworld, Myriad’s Demon Bug Dimension, Quetzalcoatl’s Plane, et cetera. I think that the term’s sufficiently distinct from timeline or universe.
Of course, this is just semantics, and none of it prevents the Twins from showing up in Disparation, especially if Apostate and the Ennead will be there.
Time travelers generally come from another universe. Sentinels has very rare true time travel (within the same timeline), and I believe Fashion is one of them.
It is my understanding that “realms” are more similar to the ideas of “planes” present in the world of D&D.
Guess I figured because she’s from a different universe.