Sounds like a question for the Letters Page - I'm wondering if there's some big reason for not including him near his Nemesis in the production schedule (Wraith was the second full episode for crying out loud) other than just not wanting to lead off their podcast about super heroes with a super dark story about a serial killer.
Also it would have been weird to do Spite as the first villain. I think based on their fictional history Legacy, Wraith, and Baron Blade needed to be the first three episodes.
Oh, agreed, but now it's weird (to me) that they never bothered circling back to him. Maybe there's just not much there - we already got a lot of his story in the Wraith and Gloomweaver episodes after all.
FWIW, I think the list of villains we have left to get episodes is:
- Biomancer
- Bugbear
- Greazer
- Infinitor
- Iron Legacy
- Kaargra Warfang
- Miss Information
- Progeny
- Spite
- Voss
Infinitor and Cosmic are combined, and presumably it'll go Parse>Miss Info, Sky-Scraper>Kaargra and Tempest>Voss, so that leaves us 6 "stray" villains to cover (possibly 5; I don't know if they'll actually do a separate Iron Legacy ep).
And I think Parse, Sky, Cosmic, and Tempest are also the only heroes left to get episodes, so we're probably going to end up with a very villain-heavy month or two.
I feel Biomancer, Greazer, and Bugbear likely share an episode.
Greazer and Bugbear yeah I think could definitely get crammed into the same episode. Maybe even Spite too; I honestly think he probably doesn't have a whole lot of story that wasn't covered in Wraith or Gloom's eps.
Biomancer I'm unsure. It sounds like he actually has his hands and fleshchildren into quite a few things; it would depend on just how many things for me to judge how involved his ep would need to be.
For Biomancer, C&A did say early on that they though he only merited an interlude. But that was before Interludes got canned, and also before Biomancer started a war with the Cult of Gloom, Princess Cool, and Arcanist Lupus, and before he enacted his plot to replace C&A with flesh children. Also, they might have just been joking (because Biomancer is gross), or they might simply decide to still give him his own episode and just have it be a shorter one.
So I'm not sure how intentional this is, but Swap-Spite has cracking in the mask in a very similar place to where it looks like Tactics Glamour has cracks in their mask. Knowing Tactics Glamour is Miss Information from Letters Page, I'm very interested to know if this is coincidence, or from some twisted timeline where Aminia gets the Spite cocktail rather than Donovan.
What an interesting concept! :D
Now I want to see her Akira and Agent of Gloom versions. Though I imagine the former would be pretty much the same, considering.
I hate myself for thinking that Fem!Spite is slightly attractive. Although she does look slightly more sane. I'm sure she'd be creepy looking wreathed in shadow standing over a dead body or two though.
Welcome to a common fangirl conundrum. "Character [x] is evil and creepy but also kinda hot for being evil and creepy what do I do with this dissonance."
That sounds like one of the lines I had the most fun writing as Lacuna, wherein there's some mental dialogue about Tyler Vance being both hot and taken.
As a character, she's also pretty close to his age, anyway (she's late 20s/early 30s).
"Person/Character [x] is hot but taken/batting for the other team/ace" is an entirely different set of dissonance...
I actually meant that I find Fem!Spite adorable. I need to choose my words better. I'm ace.
Whoever mentioned Miss Information before, yeah, I totally see it. Take a look at her Villains incap art from the digital game; she totally looks like a woman who would become a drug-fueled serial killer. c.c
Oh, very possibly. I had fun writing it because I'm a straight male who was playing/writing a woman. (I'll leave it to the women who were in that game to decide how convincingly that happened.)
Hey! Nice to meet another ace here!
Basically, "Character is evil and creepy but I find them hot for that" is a whole cluster of… stuff. The dissonance of being attracted to someone you know you shouldn't be, the whole weird interplay of being scared versus being aroused, domination themes, etc.
But "Character is taken/incompatibly oriented" is really just more of a simpler "sigh, life is so unfair" sort of thing. Or as my favorite RL joke I've heard goes, "Men are like parking spaces; all the good ones are taken." It's pretty much 100% true, especially when you get to my age.
Admittedly kind of amusing in fiction, if a character ends up with a bunch of admirers and is really clueless/irritated/bewildered/indifferent to the fact. (Less funny IRL, though, as I can attest from listening to my happily married or gay male friends complain to me about very persistent women.)
Humorously, I got a chance to see Patience, which discusses this very topic, just yesterday.
Likewise.