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Times where somebody was revealed to be a Canon Character All Along in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- An Impractical Guide to Godhood: Alexia, a seemingly interchangeable member of the Huntresses sent along with the second Great Quest is Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon under a Meaningful Rename.
- In the Worm x Dishonored crossover fanfic A Change of Pace, The Bone Carver, an antagonist who becomes Taylor's rival and is also marked by the Outsider, is Trevor, the character who would become Chariot in the source story.
- Happens twice in Cinders and Ashes: the Chronicles of Kamen Rider Dante.
- Hoshi is friends with a Super Sentai nerd by the name of Akagi. By the end of the first act, it's revealed that he is Akagi Nobuo from Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger, brought forth to Hoshi's world by his Creator.
- An inverted version of this happens with Shimashima. In the canon, Shimashima was mentioned once in a flashback by Setsuna and never appeared in the show. Thanks in part to a mixture of O.C. Stand-in and Ascended Extra, Shimashima ends up taking a much larger role before eventually being revealed to be Yuusuke Shimazaki, an original character who was Setsuna's father.
- In Conduit of Central City
, Cole encounters a young girl with powerful yet unstable psychic powers. When finding out that she doesn't even have a real name, Cole decides to use Number-Letter association based on the first three numbers of her Subject Identification, nicknaming her Ace, making her this fic's version of the DCAU Ace. - In the crossover fanfic The Dark Lords Ascendant, Sailor Moon and the Senshi face off against Corrupt Corporate Executive Tanizaki, who wishes to claim Sailor Moon's powers for himself, and is revealed as the reason the Great Freeze would have happened had he targeted Endymion's Golden Crystal first. In the Final Battle against his organization, Ranma figures out that since Tanizaki was The Unfettered, he wouldn't have given up his goal for power when the Great Freeze happened. Remembering that Tanazaki's company was working on spacecraft that could traverse the solar system, Ranma realizes that in the original timeline, Tanazaki fled the frozen Earth to the planet Nemesis so he could claim the power there, only to become the Death Phantom, one of the canonical Arc Villains of Sailor Moon.
- In Earth-27, Ambush Bug learns from reading the manual that Doctor Roy Westerman of Arkham Asylum is one. Not the Monitor! That would just be silly.
- Em Parker, a prominent Artifact, is revealed to be Rose Walker, a major supporting character from The Sandman (1989).
- The Thaumaturgist is revealed to be Victor Frankenstein, and one of his identities was T.O. Morrow.
- Random Sons of Batman trainees Don Jones and Rob Smith are revealed to be the human selves of mutants Bebop and Rocksteady.
- Fall of Starfleet, Rebirth of Friendship: A few characters (whether Dakari-King Mykan's "Original Characters" or seemingly new characters by the author Legendbringer) are revealed to be characters who exist in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
- Early in the story it is revealed that Goldwin is actually Discord in disguise.
- Beast Boy, one of the Unicornicopians brought in to replace members of Lightning's team, is revealed to be Thorax not long after his introduction.
- The Dark King and his followers (Giant, Demon, Ogre, Alien, and Bad Horse) are retconned into being the Bad Future counterparts to Shining Armor, Big MacIntosh, Pound Cake, Zephyr Breeze, Sweetie Belle, and Soarin, respectively.
- The Necromancer, Dark Conquest's backer, is revealed to be Grogar, one of the most iconic villains from G1 My Little Pony.
- Inverted with Dementia, Mysterious, Rep-Stallion who are revealed to be entirely new characters Galaxia Shine, Blackened Myst, and Swift Blade before becoming Titan's minions.
- Also inverted with Lord Titan who is revealed to be King Titan, the father of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.
- The Big Bad of Fractured Infinity is set up as a Hidden Agenda Villain early on, with chapter 25 revealing him to be Kugai Kudo. His Dragon is not long after revealed to be Kamen Rider Sylphi, from a different spinoff altogether.
- In the first Halloween Unspectacular, we're introduce to Humanoid Abomination ReGenesis, a government science project that Professor Membrane, among others, worked on. We never get a description of it until the last chapter, when Zim recognizes him as a newly-empowered Dib. This throws his world-destroying rampage into a new light and turns Membrane's actions from morally ambiguous to absolutely despicable.
- The Many Dates of Danny Fenton:
- In the After Many Dates: Danny and Kim storyline, the heroes are plagued by a mysterious new villain named Thanatos who seems hell-bent on ruining Danny's life and killing everyone he loves, including Kim. It soon turns out he has a very good reason for why he's hurting Danny, he has to. After all, he's Dark Danny, a popular villain of the series from The Ultimate Enemy, who needs Danny's life to be ruined in order to exist
- In the After Many Dates: Danny and Gwen storyline, the two meet a trio of troublemakers named Vivian Hayley Smithee, Donald Commerce and Thad Rash. After getting arrested thanks to Danny Phantom twice, Vlad decides to use his partnership with Vilgax to his advantage on the three. He arms them with tech and gives them the respective codenames of Vid, Download, and Thrash, revealing they're actually the Masters' Blasters, a group of ghost hunters assembled by Vlad in the final episode of the series who never had their real names revealed.
- Queen of Blood (SirWill): Neptune is not a Case 53, he's a projection created by Danny Hebert after he triggered by trying to drown himself, with Danny himself being unaware of the connection.
- The crossover fic The Secret Biography of Donald Duck has Kay K from the Double Duck series make an appearance during Donald Duck's secret agent arc as his love interest; after Kay narrowly survives a rocket crash and goes off the grid to become a vigilante PI the two of them have a brief reunion before offically breaking up. However this isn't the last time she pops up, as the final chapter reveals that Pepper from DuckTales (2017) was actually Kay K in disguise who infiltrated F.O.W.L. as a sleeper agent.
- In A Vampire in Love, a crossover with Danny Phantom and Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, Revolta is forced to seek help after Danny Phantom's involvement destroys her castle and renders her unable to pose a threat to get the Grimwood girls. She's forced to recruit her brother, Repulso, a seemingly new character. She imprisoned him due to how dangerous he is and goes to free him from his prison, her mirror. He's the mirror monster who temporarily replaced Shaggy in the film, albeit forced into that state due to Revolta's magic.
- Worm: More Than Meets the Eye: Multiplayer, a cape working with Uber and Leet with Me's a Crowd powers, turns out to be Spree of the Teeth.
- In Eleutherophobia: The Day the Earth Stood Still, George Little gives Tom a few hints about his identity in chapter 2 — he used to work for the National Security Agency, he lived in the same town as the Animorphs when he and his wife got infested, and their son has been missing ever since — then at the end, he drops a bombshell: his son's name is David. This means nothing to Tom, but many readers were thrown for a loop when they realised Tom was talking to a certain Sixth Ranger Traitor's father.
- In What Tomorrow Brings, one of the Controllers who kidnapped Loren turns out to be Feriss 512, AKA Tom's second Yeerk.
- The Reveal in Where The Truth Lies is that that "Jordan" is Tom and "Kat" is Melissa.
- One of the participants in the Killing Game of Danganronpa: Komm Susser Tod is Tetsuo Garcia, a Masked Luchador with a strong sense of justice and a tendency to pepper his speech with Spanish words and phrases. Midway through Chapter 1's trial, he is exposed as the infamous Vigilante Man Sparkling Justice.
- Danganronpa: Paradise Lost's deuteragonist is Shion Nanashi, a green-haired amnesiac unusually skilled in robotics and with a massive guilt complex, who Monokuma quickly hints that he knows personally. It eventually comes to light that she is an amnesiac Monaca Towa.
- In Second Chances, L is haunted by a shinigami named Rae in the afterlife who's attempting to tempt him into using a Death Note. Rae turns out to be Light Yagami, L's archenemy.
- In The Nutdealer Expanded Universe the mysterious Shadow introduced in "Ultra Eden" is revealed in "Elated Run" to actually be Jevil.
- TITANOMACH sees protagonist Valentin Kozhukov eventually become the Speaker over the course of Triumvirate. His friend, Fang Sov, is very subtly implied to be the future Drifter.
- There are a few examples in this rewrite of Digimon Adventure tri.:
- Dark Gennai is changed from a shapeshifter whose default form resembles Gennai to the actual Gennai but possessed by Piedmon, leader of the Dark Masters, who escaped MagnaAngemon's Gate of Destiny in the original Digimon Adventure.
- Hackmon is given a backstory in that he's revealed to be Yukio Oikawa who was transformed into a Digimon by Homeostasis in order to survive the Digital World rebooting.
- Another Day in Bluffington Duology: In "The Convert", Annie Ferguson, the woman who Roger knew as "The Countess", revealed herself to be Judy Funnie, Doug's sister whom everyone thought to be dead.
- Due the fact that Raditz is brought back to life in Dragon Ball Z: Dynasty, aside from Trunks, Raditz and Launch's children Ranch and Daikon return to the past as well to warn and help the Z-Fighters against the Androids. Except "Daikon" isn't Raditz's son; he's actually Goten using a fake name.
- In Sculpting Cheese Elvises, Cosmo is assigned to be the godparent of a girl named Anna Hoffman in the year 2054, and the minute he sees Anna's mother he insists he knows her from somewhere. Poof firmly believes this isn't true, but the penultimate chapter reveals Cosmo is right— he does know Anna's mom, because she's Tammy Turner.
- Cave Dancers Pretty Cure: In the third episode, Mokey tells Wembley and Boober about her earliest memory, where she watched a baby Fraggle hatch from his egg, and got to hold him. It's not until the end of the chapter that she reveals that baby was actually a newborn Boober.
- In Curse The Darkness, Helena Dubois, a French viscount's daughter who falls in love with the Creature, is eventually revealed to be the girl he rescued from a river twelve years earlier.
- In build your wings on the way down, Edward Elric forms an Intergenerational Friendship with a college-student named Gabby. When Maes Hughes meets her at the train station for Ed's departure, he notes that she looks very familiar, before realizing she looks like General Olivier Armstrong. He then realizes that "Gabby" is actually Catherine Armstrong, the youngest of the esteemed and renowned Armstrong family.
- "A Bright Flash": The narrator is initially left unknown, even as he begins giving details eerily similar to Godzilla's origin story. The final line reveals that Godzilla was the Narrator All Along.
- In Goldstein, the epilogue of Year One reveals that Rabbi Zeller's daughter Shoshananote is a witch, implying that she is Rose Zeller, a very minor character from the books.
- Pandora McGonagall from The Peace Not Promised is a Composite Character variation. Initially, she appears to just be Professor McGonagall's niece, but it later turns out that she's actually a younger version of Luna Lovegood's mother.
- In Cultstuck, the titular cult is lead by a Really 700 Years Old man known as the Grand Elder, who in turn is advised by his friend, a rarely-seen "outsider" known as the Messenger. Only when the two finally meet in-story and address each other with their Alternate Universe's selves' given names does it become clear that the Grand Elder is Expatriate Darkleer, who predates the cult, and the Messenger is Grandpa Harley, a human with a teleporter.
- In A Thing of Vikings, King Adalwin ua Imair of Vedrarfjord is eventually revealed to be Alvin the Treacherous.
- The End of the World (FernWithy): 1st Quarter Quell Victor Charlie Flynn refused to leave the Capitol due to how he was mistreated and ostracized back in his home, building a new life before mysteriously vanishing to get plastic surgery and reinvent himself as Caesar Flickerman.
- In The Victors Project:
- District 11's first Victor, Orchus, runs away from the district years after his victory and lives in the woods for several years. Once he returns no one recognizes him, and he lives anonymously on District 11 for the rest of his life, which comes to an end when he gives the three-finger salute at Katniss and Peeta's Victory tour and is subsequently executed.
- Mags spends Chapter 37 in a tenuous alliance with a peacekeeper named Barabbas as they investigate the murders of a victor and a politician. The chapter ends with a failed coup that nonetheless leads to a new presidency. Then she meets the young new president in a room full of roses but doesn't recognize him as Barabbas without the disguise he wore earlier until President Snow makes a familiar smile, and it dawns on her how thoroughly and disastrously she's been manipulated.
- Throughout This is my fault, how?, an unknown entity frequently appears investigating rifts in time, telling Josuke that the Joestar's family use of time powers or drawing in enemies with time powers caused the rift, then advises him to take down DIO before he becomes too powerful. The penultimate chapter reveals he is Funny Valentine, who came from his world to put a stop to the rifts and DIO before they threaten his universe.
- Heroes In Forgone Dreams: Prince Fluff brings up a pen pal a few times. Said pen pal is later revealed to be Elline.
- In Playing House, most of the Legends are de-aged, and Leonard and Sara have to set themselves up as their "foster parents" in the present day while they look for the witch responsible. They run into trouble when they need to be vetted by a social worker named Nelson. For most of the fic, he appears to be a regular Original Character, but in the final chapter, he is revealed to be Kent Nelson, a.k.a. the host of Doctor Fate and a former member of the JSA.
- The Myth of Link & Zelda: Breath of the Wild features a sand seal named Kali. She's mainly featured the "Naboris" arc as the sand seal Link rides to battle Naboris itself. The only things notable about her is her pink color and her immediate affection towards Link. She's revealed to be Epona's reincarnation in a sand seal form, and Zelda returns her to her natural horse form so that she may once again act as Link's loyal battle steed against Ganon.
- In the fangame Hyrule Conquest, a character named Bongo is introduced as the leader of the Yiga Clan. After she is decapitated and her body becomes the host for Dethl, she mutates into the monster Bongo Bongo from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
- The Legend of Zelda: The Sage of Darkness.
- Link's father is a Posthumous Character, but he is resurrected near the climax of the film as Dark Link.
- Inverted with the main antagonist, the Skull Kid, who's revealed to be the alter ego of the seemingly friendly and helpful new character Davik.
- The short story Exclusive has a reporter come in to look in on the daily lives of the Avengers living in Stark Tower. The last few lines reveal that the reporter is actually Peter Parker.
- MCU Rewrites: In Age of Ultron: Redux, Pietro and Wanda Maximoff's father seems to be Spared by the Adaptation from Avengers: Age of Ultron as the twins' mother raised them on her own and he was not present when the Maximoff's house was destroyed by a missile from Stark Industries. In New Avengers, Wanda tells Vision about how she and Pietro were found by a man who could do some parlor tricks such as setting down a cigarette lighter and that it could not be picked up not matter how hard someone tried and making a coin float. The man takes the two children to a Jewish family to raise them. The final scene of the story has an unknown man, who goes unnoticed by everyone attending except Wanda, visiting Pietro's grave and is wearing a ring with an "M" on it, with an author's note confirming that Pietro and Wanda's father is Magneto.
- Sixes and Sevens introduces original character Emily, but the prologue implies and a later chapter confirms that she's actually this fic's version of Jacqueline Falsworth.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
- The Morrigan:
- Goodfellow, the mysterious information broker active throughout the solar system and allied to several of the pov characters, is actually Notrette Rembran, Miorine's mother, having undergon Brain Uploading after her death.
- Faceless, the assassin who goes after Suletta in the third book, is Elan #2, a character who doesn't appear in the anime but must exist given that there are Elans #4 and #5.
- Mortal Kombat Khronicles:
- One of the Kytinn females that flee the destruction of their hive in chapter 30, is revealed at the end to be D'Vorah.
- Played With in regards to Chow (Liu Kang's brother) and Kojin (Earthrealm's fire god), who are mentioned in canonicity and the latter appears in a spinoff game, but they never appear in a main line game. But this story reveals that they were the unidentified warrior and flaming man seen in the background of The Pit II in Mortal Kombat II.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Bride of Discord: A retroactive example happens when Red Shoes, an OC who goes on to marry Pinkie Pie, is revealed to be Cheese Sandwich using a fake identity to avoid his ex-marefriend, who he thinks is out to get him, after said character was introduced in the show proper and the creator began to ship him with Pinkie.
- Sharing the Night: Chapter 12 introduces a number of OCs to populate the ancient past. One of them is Couscous, an ambassador sent from the dragon empires to the alicorn city of Utopia. Later on, it's revealed that he is in fact Discord, or at least the person that Discord used to be. What do you get when you take a magic-less pony, have his fire of life torn out by an angry alicorn, fill him with dragonflame to replace it, have him survive the apocalyptic rain of stars that destroyed civilization and gave magic to mortal life, then leave him to ponder the ruins of the world and the deaths of everyone he knew? As it so happens, you get a pony-dragon hybrid with extremely powerful and unique magic, who then sets out to create his own perfect dream world to replace the sad ruins of reality.
- To Serve In Hell:
- Rarity is repeatedly menaced by an insane assassin who keeps killing people, cracking jokes about it, and pointing her towards where she needs to go (according to him). The fic hints at it rather strongly, and eventually says outright that he's Cheese Sandwich, gone a bit loco after Pinkie died.
- The Guardian of Tartarus, a bestial figure that appears anytime a portal to Tartarus is opened and sends one pony out for every pony that is sent in, is revealed in the second-to-last chapter to be Fluttershy. After being trapped in Tartarus herself, she became a Willing Channeler for Discord, letting him inhabit her body and twist it to her liking in return for her getting to reduce the suffering of Tartarus' inhabitants as much as possible.
- Apex Predator (MHA): Izuku's online friend Hana turns out to be the thought to be dead Hana Shimura, Shigaraki's older sister from the manga.
- Ignited Spark: Daikoku Yaoyorozu at first appears to simply be Momo's controlling and overbearing father, created for the fic just like Itsuka's parents. But then it's revealed he lives a double life as Flect Turn, the Big Bad from the World Heroes Mission movie.
- Turning a New Leaf gives Izuku a mentor in the form of the mysterious Underground Hero named Amaterasu. When she takes Izuku in for internships, Amaterasu reveals she's actually Fuyumi Todoroki.
- Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox has the aspiring Serial Killer Spiral Reaper, who turns about to be Yamato.
- sunflower plays with this a bit. Two members of Team Ro, Neko and Mangusu, are actually Tenzou and Yugao. Their identities are swiftly revealed to the readers, but Gai isn't aware of who they are... and has notable difficulty recognizing faces.
- In Black Star (Persona 5), the Phantom Thieves fight against Hastur, a manifestation of humanity's fear of an unknown future after Shido's change of heart and Yaldabaoth's defeat in the main game. Hastur bears many similarities to Persona 2's Nyarlathotep, from their views on humanity right down to having the same catchphrase ("That's a contradiction"/"You contradict yourself"). The author has confirmed that Hastur is in fact Nyarlathotep under a different alias, who had managed to return from his banishment at the end of the second game due to humanity's fear creating a hole in the Collective Unconscious which allowed him to escape.
- In The God Complex, the Phantom Thieves (and Akechi) find themselves in a copy of Tokyo, with an entity telling them they must clear seven Palaces created from the twisted desires of their own numbers. As they clear the Palaces, they soon realize that the entity sounds like Dr. Maruki, the counselor from Shuijin Academy who had his own Palace. They eventually learn that Maruki has been possessed by Yaldaboth, who had survived in his weakened state and seeks revenge on the Phantom Thieves.
- In Throw Away Your Mask, it's all but out-right said that the entity claiming to be Kurusu Tsuyoshi is actually Nyarlathotep disguised as Akira’s actual uncle, if his yellow eyes and his canon penchant of being disguised as someone else is any indication.
- In Magia: A New Hope, Ashley runs into Yoshida Tamura, initially believed to be an Identical Stranger to Homura but ultimately revealed to be her cousin, who experiences visions of Homura's past timelines. Several timelines later, Tamura joins the Wings of the Magius and unleashes her Doppel, Matasaburo, revealing herself to be the Black Feather nicknamed Kuro from Homura's Valentine's story in Magia Record.
- This happens a lot in Resonance Days as a result of the specifics of the afterlife setting. Magical girls who become witches before dying do not identify with their old name upon arriving in the afterlife, instead using their witch name, meaning that a great deal of characters are actually the witch form of canon characters who simply don't remember or use their old name.
- Oktavia von Seckendorff is, of course, Sayaka Miki. Interestingly not the case for Charlotte, who is not Nagisa Momoe because the fic was written before the release of Rebellion.
- Arzt Kochen and Nie Blühen Herze are actually Airi Anri and Yuuri Asuka from Puella Magi Kazumi Magica.
- Margot is actually Kirika Kure from Puella Magi Oriko Magica; the AO3 version gives this away by using her canonical Witch name, Latria. The Madam whom she works for is Oriko Mikuni herself, though she's not a witch and simply prefers to go by her title.
- Perhaps the most important instance of this is the Big Bad Oblivion, who is Momo Sakura, Kyoko's younger sister.
- The Junior Officers chapter "Turning Wheels" features a little girl who meets the Octonauts and decides she wants to be one when she grows up. It's not until the end that she is revealed to be Deborah, a junior officer.
- Ma Fille introduces a young boy known as Dragon in the chapter "Field Trip". At the end of that chapter, Dragon vows he's going to become a boxer and "read every single rule there is". Fast forward to the chapter "Old-New Guy", where a now-adult Dragon returns to the WVBA, and is revealed to have been a young Aran Ryan, who is now notorious for being extremely aggressive and a cheater.
- Pokémon Reset Bloodlines has two characters who are revealed, though not named, by Sabrina as being people Ash had met in the anime before time reset: his father and the Bloodliner King. The same character.
- In the fangame Pokémon Zeta and Omicron, the main antagonist, Odin (in Zeta) or Zeus (in Omicron) is revealed to be The protagonist of Pokémon Gold and Silver, who had his Lugia (in Zeta) or his Ho-Oh (in Omicron) turned into a Shadow Pokemon and stolen from him by your Evil Twin, and turned evil in an effort to gain enough power to take it back.
- Lacero centers on an OASIS user known as Lacero and his intentions for it should he win the egg hunt. The last line of the story reveals he's Nolan Sorrento, the main villain from the book and film.
- Beautiful Monster features Harriet DeVille, a woman who is in a happy relationship with Betty. Initially, Harriet seems like an Original Character who's replacing Betty's canonical husband Howard. It isn't until Angelica calls her "Howard" that it's revealed that she's actually a Gender Flipped version of him.
- Ruby and Nora features an expy of the Arkham Knight named Skull who is later revealed to be Mercury Black.
- "I hate my job..."'s premise is about an unidentified man disparaging his co-workers, starting with a wannabe supermodel, then a smart girl who he suspects to be a lesbian, and finally a perpetually hungry stoner who takes his Great Dane to work. The final line reveals that the speaker is Fred Jones, ranting about the rest of Mystery Inc. and their eccentricities.
- Sacrifices introduces a seemingly Original Character with the initials of A.L. who happens to have a grudge against Zak Saturday. Eventually, it's revealed that A.L. is really Arthur Beeman, who still believes that he needs to kill Zak to ensure Kur can't destroy humanity as well as being really pissed about his expulsion from the Circle of Secret Scientists due to his previous attempt at killing Zak.
- Frenzy concerns Sonic investigating a Serial Killer, with their first victim being Amy Rose. The culprit is eventually revealed to be Metal Sonic.
- My Perfect World, Shattered is written as an Apocalyptic Log by a well-meaning and kindly scientist who attempts to build an utopia, that is thwarted by a mysterious and destructive beast. The final line reveals that the entire scenario is a Perspective Flip of the very first game, the scientist is Dr. Ivo Robotnik and the beast is Sonic, respectively.
- Inverted in We Are the Chatroom Gems. Ms. Agate, one of the teachers from the first chapter, is revealed by the ask blog to not be Holly Blue Agate, but rather her sister.
- Sword Art Online Abridged:
- The second episode features Jeffrey, a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant comic relief character who believed that Jesus was ordering him to kill people. By the sixth episode, he returns as the founder of the Laughing Coffin guild, wearing a cloak and carrying a cleaver, revealing himself to be the show's version of PoH.
- In the second season, Shoji debuts as a voice-only character, one of Sugou's minions whom Asuna singles out during her off-screen rampages. Then Episode 17 has him appear on-screen as one of the "slug scientists" from one of the most notorious scenes of the source material, while the credits list his full name as Shoji Yanai, suggesting he's that character from the Alicization arc making an Adaptational Early Appearance.
- In Chapter Four of To Catch A Raven, Raven meets Jinx's peer, Sebastian Crawford. Sebastian is actually Red-X.
- The Distant Finale of Eugenesis is narrated by an unnamed cultist embarking on a mission to assassinate Rodimus. Throughout the story, the cultist finds himself repeatedly backstabbing various factions and growing disillusioned with his cult until he finally quits and joins a Decepticon-revivalist movement. As he departs from their hideout, his recruiters remark that the little cultist is remarkably smart and will fit in well in their new movement. One of them asks what the cultist's name was again. Their leader says his name is "Tarantulas".
- In Vicious Circle, Starscream is sent back in time to the early days of Cybertron and meets, among others, a medic named Wiper who is brainwashed by the Quintessons. In the final chapter, it's revealed that Wiper was a young Soundwave all along.
