I'm not sure Ambuscade will go back to being a villain -- the bio implies he gave up villainy even before the whole OblivAeon thing started. If Tactics says otherwise, however, nevermind.
Tactics does indeed say otherwise. He's also part of the crime team For Profit.
I think that ambuscade post oblivaeon is more of a mercanery than an outright villain. He does whatever because it pays. Crimal aspects just happen to pay better.
Alas, Tactics does say that.
I continue to feel as though Tactics is the sort of Bad Future which superheroes are usually bent on preventing. It's very odd to me.
Except that against OblivAeon, any future is a good future.
Akash'Bhuta goes through enough things (sacrificing to the Void and absorbing shards to become Akash'Darsha) that combined with the fact she is literally just fighting to save herself (being the spirit of the Earth) I have no issue with it. She's a spirit and trying to cope with the most incredible change of her existence.
Oh, no! We’re in the darkest timeline!
I got the impression that part of the future darkness of Tactics is due to the massive destruction caused by the OblivAeon event. So, even in victory, there is huge loss.
People are talking about Ambuscade becoming a hero - but it looks like from the promo decks that these are alternate timeline versions of Ambuscade that Nightmist grabbed via "Become the Portal". Stuntman has no scars, and the variant version states that the scars 'never stopped his acting career' (which is obviously did for our timeline's version of Ambuscade).
I just assumed that Stuntman is an alt timeline version of him that goes away after the OblivAeon crisis.
The regular version of Stuntman is very much implied to be the main universe's Ansel Moreau (note the band-aid covering the place where his scar is on his incap side in Villains).
Stuntman has a scar but it's covered by a bandaid. His "scar" which is seen on his incap side from VotM is pretty minimal.
Stuntman is wearing a plaster on his face, exactly covering the scar Ambuscade has on his face on his Votm uncapped side
Wasn't his really prominent scar on the right side of his face? We only see his left side on his Hero card, but his promo shows his right side, and his scar is very much visible.
The promo is from an alternate reality where he embraced his scar and became an ultimate stuntman.
The promo is an alternate reality version of Ansel.
About Blade: let's not forget that characters change and evolve. The baron we saw trying to pull the moon into earth is not the same man toward the end. He might still harbor a ton of hate for the Parsons, but I don't think we can just totally dismiss the effects of the positive energy field on his worldview. I'm sure it has shifted slightly over the course of the comic.
I also thought Stuntman was an alternate reality version of Ambuscade. That would be disappointing if he was just Ambuscade, Stuntman seems much more of a good guy, while Ambuscade seems like an over-obsessed hunter.
EDIT: Clarification
Stuntman is the man known as Ambuscade and the promo version is just him brought in from an alternate reality much like Ivana for Luminary.
Ambuscade is a movie star with a hunting obsession. The obsession consumes him and he starts hunting heroes. Pays for "Shady Genetics Corporation" to give him powers, he gains energy-manipulation powers but his face is scarred, he quits acting and hunts heroes, now his only passion.
In Villains he heads up the Slaughterhouse-6 to continue that quest.
When that fails Ambuscade gives up.
He decides to go back to the movies.
Then Oblivion attacks, and he becomes Stuntman, a hero.
In Tactics the power he gained from "Shady Genetics Corporation" is fading. He is working as a mercenary for money to try and pay for more power.
In Uprising he is working for the Operative as she tries to rebuild the Organization. In For Profit Ambuscade and Operative have formed a merc team, ditching everything but the quest for money.
I don't get the feeling he is a villain playing hero, I think his hunting is over, he comes to terms with it. But Oblivion attacks and he becomes a real hero, living out his movie career in real life.
For an adrenaline junkie like Moreau I could see being the hero filling both the need to take down big prey and be a star.
But when his powers start to fade he loses that too. More than anything now he just wants to be powerful again. That's how we get from where we first met him to For Profit.
This logo is perfect! I'm a day late, but remarkably impressed. The moon in the back is an especially nice touch. Bravo!