Welcome to another instalation of my Footenotes series, where I deconstruct art and story to make some rediculously fantastic speculation claims. Lets get started!
Ok, follow along with me folks. In Sotm:
- Writhe is one of the four members of the Sentinels team. His incap art shows him losing control of his powers and transforming in a way. He is pictured outside of a Belltower.
- Setback is shown in SotM being attacked by a black viscous like creature. Setback has a ton of art references and character references to Peter Parker of SpiderMan. This black creature strongly resembles Venom in appearance and form. Where did Venom get its start in the comics/movies? A Belltower.
- In the V5 decks, we are introduced to the Seer, a villain we know very little about. But he is a Fanatic Nemisis. Where did Fanatic go after confronting Apostate in order to come back as the Redeemer? The Belltower of a church.
Ok lets jump into Tactics:
- Tachyon is seen Sucker Punching Spite. Spite has, evidently, come back from the dead for a 2nd time, looking much more human and sporting a new costume. He still has that mask, and some nice red gloves.
- Throwing Knives sees Wraith and her old nemisis Spite battling in a church that seems to be collapsing. Those eyes of Spite though. Notice both shape and color.
- Visionary's Foresight. A mysterious figure is grabbing an older Seer. Notice both eye shape and color (and glove color) of this mysterious figure. And that black viscous-like stuff forming around his arm...
Speculation time!
After we broke the bodily vessal of a Spite revived by Gloomweaver, Jack Donnovans spirit went into a sort of limbo. Judging by Spites brown hair (and not black nor white) in Tactics, his angry spirit seems to have found another host body. Judging by the outfit and body type, probably a wrestler. This particular wrestler was likely abusing drugs, such as sterioids, or probably even more likely in the Sentinels comics world, drugs from Pike or elsewhere to give him an edge. This would make a perfect candidate for Jacks spirit to make a comback.
Anyways, during Tactics, Writhe faces off against this new incarnation of Spite in the old church that was so important to both Fanatics story and Writhe's story. Spite, after taking a few knives right to the head, is left to die in the collapsing church. Writhe (who might still be lurking around this particular area), seeing a perfect oppertunity here to latch onto a new host (something he failed to do with Setback initially), now forms a mutual connection with Spite. The figure attacking Seer in Visionary's Foresight has the glove, the eye shape, face shape, and eye color of this new Spite. And that black stuff around his arm point to the connection with Writhe as a symbiotic entity.
"But Foote, saying Writhe is now a symbiotic evil Venom-thing is too far fetched. Go home Foote, you're drunk"
But is it really that crazy? Eugene Wilkerson didn't start off as a hero. He was a crook. He had some bad tendencies off the bat. Secondly, the "black, amorphous" cloak he designed that would allow him to steal from banks in the first place "bonded to his flesh, giving him the very properties the energy was supposed to impart" (thats all from the Sentinels Bio). That cloak he designed and how it initially malfunctioned has all the trappings of something that could latch on to others as it did Eugene.
There is precedent of Spite accepting to be a vessal for other powers as he was a servant of Gloom in order to be resurected and continue his killing spree. Being a host for this version of Writhe to prevent another death seems like a good deal for him if it provides him with additional power. And I'm sure Spite is begging for more power after having such a grand taste of it from his other incarnations.
This could be very bad news for our heros. A Writhe-infused Spite sounds like a nightmare of epic proportions to deal with.
What do you all think? Leave comments below!