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Disparation Alternate Universe Characters
In General
In General
- Alternate Universe: The entire point of the Disparation stories (from the word "disparate"). As if you couldn't tell from the pictures.
- Evil Doppelgänger: It's common for villains to become heroes (and vice-versa) in the various other worlds. It's just as common for the heroes' Alternate Selves to be villains in the various Disparation universes.
- What If?: Created to directly reference Marvel Comics' What If? books and DC Comics' "Imaginary Stories"/Elseworlds, the metafiction's Sentinel Comics Publishing Universe calls their equivalent line Disparation.
¿Quando? ¡Ahora! Dark Watch Universe
¿Quando? ¡Ahora! Dark Watch
Dark Watch
From left to right: Shockwave, Lucky Strike, Lady Luck, and Rat Beast
Lucky Strike (Setback)
- Battle Couple: With Kismet's Good Counterpart Lady Luck.
- Composite Character: Pete Riske but with the martial arts training and discipline of Mr. Fixer.
- Luck Manipulation Mechanic: Biased towards bad luck same as mainstream Setback, but with more control over it.
- Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: Has one in the form of this universe's Expatriette.
- Supernatural Martial Arts: Like his master, his martial prowess verges on mysticism.
Lady Luck (Kismet)
- Battle Couple: With Lucky Strike.
- Luck Manipulation Mechanic: Like Lucky Strike and biased towards good luck same as mainstream Kismet. She uses hers in combination with his.
Rat Beast (Plague Rat / Eduardo Lopez)
The prime universe Wraith's Eduardo López, who was killed by Spite, if he'd been a cop instead of a paralegal, and if he'd gone on to become patient zero for the Plague Rat curse/contagion.- By-the-Book Cop: He used to be this. Unfortunately, he was a cop in Rook City which isn't exactly the best environment for those looking to do good.
- Composite Character: Of Wraith's paralegal friend Eduardo López who was killed by Spite in the main universe, with Plague Rat's curse.
- Expy: His backstory of being a friend of the resident Batman expy's friend who goes on to be mutated seems to be a nod to the Ethan Bennett version of Clayface from The Batman.
- I Am a Monster: He feels this way about being a rat beast.
- Unstoppable Rage: He flies into a frenzy when badly damaged, in which his self-control plummets as his monstrous strength skyrockets.
- Was Once a Man: Was once a well-intentioned police officer.
Shockwave (Tempest)
- Anti-Hero: He's rude and condescending to his teammates, and is implied to get into a lot of shady, dirty business as a bounty hunter. Part of his joining the team involves promising to keep a lid on this sort of thing, and the creators confirm that if his story wasn't just a one-shot, he'd probably undergo Character Development to move past this.
- Bounty Hunter: His day job at the point in time when he comes to this version of Earth.
- For Want Of A Nail: Not finding the aid his people needed on Earth or the acceptance of the other Prime Wardens, this version of M'kk became an alien bounty hunter like Greazer Clutch. He's also something of what Greazer might have been like if he never came to enjoy the work.
- Good Colors, Evil Colors: He's a much darker take on Tempest, with red lightning instead of blue and a caped cowl.
- In the Hood: Has a long cape and peaked cowl.
Villains
The Wraith
Possibly an alternate version of Nightmist with the Wraith's name.- Apocalypse Cult: If the Coven of Gloom is anything like the mainstream Cult of Gloom.
- Our Mages Are Different: Seemingly some sort of undead witch who's part of the Coven of Gloom.
- Summon Magic: She summoned a monstrous, demonic version of Spite to cover her escape.
Bloogo
- Last of Their Kind: If he's anything like mainstream Bloogo then he's this.
- Pokémon Speak: Like mainstream Bloogo he can only say his name (which is likely how he got his name in the first place).
- Unexpected Character: If anyone from the mainline setting was going to appear as a villain, chances are no one was expecting it to be Deadline's fairly literal Morality Pet, a one-off target from the Enclave of the Endlings.
Night Terror (Expatriette)
- The Bus Came Back: In-universe (and technically out, too). Just when you thought she was just a one-shot character she comes back as part of the cast of the new Disparation comic line post-MistStorm timeline destruction.
- Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: To Lucky Strike.
- Rebellious Spirit: She frequently rebels against authority. This almost gets her killed when she accidentally causes explosions while defacing s lab.
- Toxic Friend Influence: To Lucky Strike in the past. So very much.
The Chairman (Citizen Dawn)
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Like that other Chairman, she has plenty of money and resources at her disposal.
- The Man Behind the Man: Is this to Night Terror and her Citizens of the Night.
Others
Officer Kel-Voss (Grand Warlord Voss)
- Evil Doppelgänger: Inverted presumably, since this version of Tempest isn't exactly heroic.
- The Ghost: We never see him. He's just mentioned by Shockwave as the reason for why he's hiding out on Earth.
¿Quando? ¡Ahora! Freedom Five Universe
¿Quando? ¡Ahora! Freedom Five
The Freedom Five
From left to right: Plaything on top of Infinitor-Apenote , Unity, The Ashen Heir, and Apex.
The Ashen Heir (The Argent Adept)
The gender-flipped version of Anthony Drake, but with Nightmist's mist-based curse.- Composite Character: She's Argent Adept's Alternate Self but has looks and magical twists to her powers that also resemble Nightmist.
- Gender Flip: In this universe, she's Angela Drake instead of Anthony.
- Magical Flutist: She carries a pan flute with the soul of her grandmother Abigail Grey, the previous Virtuoso of the Void, inside.
- Magic Music: As is typical of a Virtuoso of the Void.
- Powers via Possession: Until she finally learns everything she needs to about being a Virtuoso on her own, she gains the bulk of her powers and knowledge from her great-to-the-nth grandmother possessing her.
Unity (composite of Unity & Omnitron X)
- Composite Character: Omnitron-X but with Unity's name and looks.
- Mechanical Lifeforms: Combining the technical skills of two different characters into one.
- Robot Girl: Since, after all, she looks like a metallic version of the mainline universe's Unity.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: She has feelings, wears clothes, and even comes with hair.
Plaything (The Dreamer)
- The Atoner: Still trying to make up for all the chaos caused by the Dreamer.
- I Am a Monster: She's having trouble getting over her Dreamer phase.
Apex (composite of Bugbear & The Naturalist)
- Animorphism: He can turn into various apex predators.
- Composite Character: In this universe Moris Dugal gets powers like Naturalist's instead of his main counterpart's Bugbear powers.
- Meaningful Name: His name is Apex and he transforms into Apex predators.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Zigzagged. He can deliberately trigger the changes, but they also sometimes come on him with little warning. He trains to minimize this.
Infinitor-Ape / "Apefinitor" (Infinitor)
- Bash Brothers: In this universe Hugh (Captain Cosmic) and Nigel both ended up sane and heroic, and fought villains together for a time.
- Early-Bird Cameo: A long time coming: an evil version of the same ape appears as an enemy (Treacherous Ape) in The Dreamer's villain deck. That same ape actually appears in front of the same circus ape in the art for Tachyon's Lightning Reflexes card, all the way back in the base game!
- Evil Doppelgänger: Inverted. This version of Infinitor is fully a hero.
- Killer Gorilla: Possibly an orangutan, but nevertheless, a big scary ape.
- Power Crystal: The green oblivion shard that granted Infinitor his powers. This version of the character has the crystal embedded in his forehead.
- Soul Jar: After his physical body was obliterated by this universe's vastly more powerful Empyreon, all that's left of him is the oblivion shard containing his consciousness. The ape he has to inhabit is built as a replacement for the old one.
- Status Buff: An In-Universe example. His power is that he uses energy to increase his strength in parts of his body.
- Was Once a Man: Is now inhabiting the body of an ape due to some weird comic book resurrection shenanigans.
Villains
Empyreon
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Attack of the way-bigger-than-fifty-feet sun-eating abomination.
- Eldritch Abomination: Almost definitely, what with being huge, eating suns, and having a giant hole in his chest.
- Planet Eater: Even worse. This version of Empyreon eats freaking suns!
Inverted Universe
The Fearsome Five
The Fearsome Five
From left to right: Terminal Velocity, Black Frost, Legacy of Destruction, White Wraith, and Rampart
Legacy of Destruction (Legacy)
- Anarchy Is Chaos: The creators have described him as the worst sort of insurrectionary anarchist; the lantern insignia on his chest has no flame inside it because his ancestor started their endless legacy of destruction by snuffing out a lighthouse just to cause mass destruction through making ships crash.
- Beware the Superman: Actually not as bad as Iron Legacy's example, but he's still pretty out-of-control and super powerful. The digital game actually has the heroic Luminary of this universe spell out the fact that if nothing else, at least Legacy of Destruction seems to have fun being evil.
- Evil Doppelgänger: To the prime SOTM universe's The Paragon Legacy, an Evil Is Hammy Card-Carrying Villain rather than Iron Legacy's He Who Fights Monsters Knight Templar, and basically what Baron Blade might be like if he had Legacy's powers instead of being a Gadgeteer Genius.
- Psychotic Smirk: Usually has either a thin, smug smirk or a sadistic grin plastered across his face.
Black Frost (Absolute Zero)
- An Ice Person: Like mainstream Absolute Zero.
- The Bus Came Back: He returns as part of the post-MistStorm Disparation books.
- Control Freak: The creators have said that part of his villainous characterization is wanting to freeze the world in place.
Rampart (Bunker)
- Powered Armor: Same as mainstream Bunker.
Terminal Velocity (Tachyon)
- Super-Speed: Just like mainstream Tachyon.
White Wraith (Wraith)
- Adaptational Superpower Change: Unlike the rest of the Fearsome Five, whose powers are seemingly unchanged from their mainstream counterparts, White Wraith seems much more superpowered and supernatural than mainstream Wraith, who is a martial, unpowered, gadget-wielding Batman Expy.
- Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: While the heroic Wraith is still dressed in a flattering costume, the White Wraith is wearing nothing but some body wraps.
The Founding Five
The Founding Five
Luminary (Baron Blade)
"You lack the mad mirth of the Legacy of Destruction. Your Legacy is of sorrow and loss. I cannot let your sadness crush this world as well."
- Gadgeteer Genius: And how! For one there's her lunar prison where she traps Legacy of Destruction on the moon (which doesn't last very long). There's the Omnitron Defense System which defends Megalopolis and other cities from destruction. And of course, there's the beam she used to trap Legacy of Destruction in stasis and then beam him to a prison in Antarctica.
- Gender Flip: Of Baron Blade.
- Promoted to Playable: She appears as the promo variant for Luminary in OblivAeon.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: She's a princess who uses her gadgets to fight evil.
Peacemaker (Spite)
- Body Horror: Volunteering for medical experiments left him superstrong, but also deformed and unable to breath anything but ammonia.
- Dumb Is Good: In contrast to his mainline counterpart, this Donovan is not terribly bright, but has the best of intentions.
- The Empath: He can sense people's emotions and also calm them down.
- Nice Guy: He is the ultimate nice guy, which makes sense since his counterpart, Spite, is the ultimate psychopath.
Express (Fright Train)
- Gender Flip: A female version of the male Fright Train.
- Hurricane of Puns: In any universe, in any gender, Fright Train absolutely loves train puns.
Flashbulb (Ermine)
- Gender Flip: Is a male version of the female Ermine.
- Hurricane of Puns: Loves photography puns.
- Light 'em Up: Can create blasts of light from his hands. Unusually, rather than doing damage, these instead serve to blind and stun adversaries.
- Pretty Boy: Is outright described as being a "foppish pretty boy".
Blank (Equity)
- Invisibility: As long as he has eye contact with you, you can't see him.
- Intangibility: In conjunction with that, he can phase through other matter.
Heroes
Zosimos Alchemista (Biomancer)
- Flesh Golem: He still makes these but he only has one and whenever one dies he replaces it. However, instead of them being disposable he thinks of each of them as a very good friend and when they die he relays their story to the next flesh child.
- Walking the Earth: And collecting knowledge on the way.
Heartbreaker
- Heel–Face Turn: Was a career criminal but the Bloodsworn Colosseum turned him around.
The Bloodsworn Colosseum (The Bloodsworn Colosseum)
- Boisterous Bruiser: Most of them seem to be very boisterous since they're putting on a show instead of fighting to the death.
The Omnitron Defense System (Omnitron)
- Citadel City: Is responsible for turning several cities into this.
Others
Mayor Pike (The Chairman)
- Benevolent Boss: Does it count if he's the boss of a bunch of authority figures such as the police?
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He generally is a rather reasonable and good man who will fully support the heroes.
Chief DeLeon (The Operative)
- By-the-Book Cop: She's a good cop and always does what's right.
- Da Chief: We don't see her boss around any subordinates but it's likely she is this.
The XTREME-Verse
The XTREME! Prime Wardens
Xtreme Prime Wardens
In General
From left to right: Haka, Tempest, The Argent Adept, Fanatic, and Captain Cosmic
- '90s Anti-Hero: Their universe is basically one big love letter to said era and the decade as a whole, in particular to Rob Liefeld-inspired character designs, the crazy fashion and hair, and how everything was marketed as being XTREME and over-the-top. To quote Guise: "Leather! Metal! Spikes! Chains!"
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: Xtreme Argent Adept is the only one whose base power deals more than 1 damage, but it's actually better spent ordering other characters to play an extra card and use an extra power. Surely no accident, then, that this synergizes especially well with Xtreme Captain Cosmic, allowing him to toss out more constructs and then fire them all at a single target, and Xtreme Fanatic — if she can burn an enemy to the ground with one of her AOE cards, she can then choose a new target for Kill the Spirit, not to mention Rebel Yell's damage priming her for Wrathful Retribution.
- Denser and Wackier: The creators note that the original stories set in this universe were actually reasonably sober and serious, but over time, it turned into over-the-top parody.
- Let's You and Him Fight: They pass through a portal into the mainline universe and immediately start fighting with their Alternate Selves, but eventually sort things out, leaving the prime Prime Wardens with a warning as they return to their own reality.
- Not Your Daddy's X: The devs keep saying this all through the XPW's Letters Page episode. The episode is even referred to in the show notes as “Not your dad’s episode.”
- Perma-Stubble: As Adam puts it, "You have permanent five-o'clock shadow; it will not go lower than that".
- Theme Naming: All of the powers for the Xtreme Prime Wardens variant character cards are named for various '90s hard rock and metal songs.
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: It is the Xtreme-verse, after all. Though in the actual comics nobody says Xtreme.
Xtreme Argent Adept
- '90s Hair: Fashionably shaggy reddish Bon Jovi-style long hair.
- Cool Shades: Wears a silver pair of these in contrast to his main counterpart not wearing any sort of face covering. The creators note that they're evenly matched in power except that Xtreme Argent Adept has "those sweet shades and his guitar".
- The Power of Rock: In this universe his Virtuoso instrument is an electric guitar and a rebel yell.
- Punk Rock: Channels this with a base power that's a Shout-Out (Pun intended) to Billy Idol.
- Worthy Opponent: In the digital version Akash'Bhuta notes that she actually kinda likes this version of Argent better for being "loud and dissonant" and "chaotic", though she's still going to kill him anyway.
Xtreme Captain Cosmic
- '90s Hair: This version of Cap rocks an Ultimate Warrior-esque mane.
- Cool Shades: Like Argent, he wears a pair of mirrorshades, gold in his case, in place of his usual Domino Mask.
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: This version of him has a power that deals a target one energy damage, then causes each of his constructs in play to deal that same target 1 energy damage.
- London Gangster: In this incarnation he brandishes Hard Light submachine guns, and has a much lower-class, more confrontational attitude than his "prime" universe counterpart.
- More Dakka: He shouts in his intro dialogue in the digital game that he has "more golden guns than you've had hot dinners", and demonstrates by posing like Cable with a couple of them.
Xtreme Fanatic
- Curb-Stomp Battle: To unlock her, Fanatic has to destroy every vampire in the Court of Blood without letting them damage her even once.
- Evil Costume Switch: The original edition incapacitated art for her simply shows her holding Apostate's BFS Condemnation (Evil Counterpart of Fanatic's own sword Absolution) aloft.
- Facial Markings: Has what appears to be a cross-shaped scar branded over her left eye, similar to the red stripe Psylocke occasionally sported, and possibly also a Shout-Out to Bishop's M for Mutant brand
. - Leotard of Power: Sports a yellow one with a red waist sash and yellow leg sashes, all of which looks deliberately like a color-swapped version of Psylocke's getup.
Xtreme Haka
- Draw Aggro: He has the only base power in the game that lets a hero take damage in place of another target, and regenerates a free point of health the first time he takes damage each turn after activating it.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: He has one of these with the sleeves artfully ripped off, based on one of Wolverine's old costumes, complete with a dusting of shoulder hair and a heavy five o'clock shadow.
- Samurai Ponytail: Loose in the back, rather than his usual man-bun. Wolverine occasionally wore one of these, too.
Xtreme Tempest
- Evil Costume Switch: Still not evil, just a '90s Anti-Hero, but this hits Xtreme Tempest harder than the other Prime Wardens — his '90s costume is all black with a red sash, and the Colossus-style cloth shoulders of his vest are quite pointy.
- Good Hair, Evil Hair: You can tell he's a badass because he keeps his head tentacles all slicked straight down and back instead of the "looser" styles his other variants favor.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: His outfit has a "male" version of this (he-vage, if you will), based on Namor the Sub-Mariner's classic "vest" costume.
- Real Men Wear Pink: As grizzled as this version of Tempest appears, he still loves Katy Perry.
Villains
Apostate
- Chained by Fashion: Unnecessary chains around his overly muscular arms, another '90s staple.
- Malevolent Masked Men: Wears a metallic faceplate like The Dark Knight Rises' Bane.
