Trivia / Sentinels of the Multiverse

• Ascended Fanon:
  • Technically true of all games, as the creators have said that every game played is canon to the storyline, representing one of the uncountable timelines in the multiverse.
  • In a more specific sense, One player's fan fiction about the Wraith's final battle with Spite proved popular enough that it inspired one of the video game's Weekly One-Shot challenges. Subverted, as the game's writers revealed Wraith was not in fact the person who finished Spite off... but then again not subverted, with the above ruling that all games are canon.
• Author's Saving Throw: During the Rook City Renegades kickstarter for Definitive Edition, a reference to "Voodoo cults and primitive tribes" was left in Gloomweaver's update from his original writeup in 2012. The next day, with the Realm of Discord update, Christopher made sure to include an apology for this and make it clear that the writeup in RCR was going to lean much less on problematic old tropes.
• The Cameo: Heroes will occasionally pop up in other unrelated works from Greater than Games, like Bottom of the Ninth or Lazer Ryderz.
• Defictionalization: Variation — there are no actual Sentinels Comics comic books, except for the Freedom Four Annual No. 1 on the game's website. But the fandom has been clamoring for comic books in the universe for some time, and got their wish as one of the stretch goals for the OblivAeon Kickstarter was to produce Freedom Five Annual No. 30, which tells the story of OblivAeon's arrival.
• Development Gag: The game's creators have said repeatedly that Absolute Zero was heavily reworked from his original conception, going from essentially "Ra with an ice gun instead of a fire staff" to his current design. During the Absolute Zero episode of the Sentinels podcast, Adam and Christopher revealed that, in the fictitious world of Sentinels Comics, there was an unrelated Golden Age hero named Henry Goodman who took the alias Absolute Zero to fight Nazis with an ice gun and co-founded the original Freedom Four before being forgotten due to a lack of popularity in-universe (and later replaced on the rebooted Freedom Five by the current Absolute Zero, Ryan Frost). Later in the podcast episode, Adam and Christopher state that a reference to the origins of the character.
• Fandom Life Cycle: Currently at stage 2. The game has multiple dedicated sub-forums within the Greater than Games forum but is very little known outside of there and a few Discord servers, one of which is locked behind a paywall.
• Promoted Fanboy: Played with. Richard Launius originally created Nightmist and the concept that would become Gloomweaver as a fan project, before the team at Greater Than Games took note and invited him to design both in collaboration with them. However, unlike many such Promoted Fanboys, Launius is already an accomplished tabletop game designer.
• Release Date Change: Because so many people backed the OblivAeon Kickstarter there was a massive and repeated delay of the expansion because of the sheer amount they needed printed, not even counting the Kickstarter bonuses.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Revenant and Setback were two of Adam Rebottaro's oldest ideas for a hero and a villain. However, once Kismet won a contest for a fan-submitted super-villain character, she was too perfect not to use as Setback's nemesis. Thus, despite his great importance to the overall storyline, Revenant never gets to appear in-person as anything more than a minion in one of the Vengeance decks.
  • Absolute Zero was heavily reworked over time, starting off as just a scientist with a freeze ray (and a deck similar to Ra's, but ice-themed, according to Word of God). The creators decided this was too boring and tried to spice things up with a deeper, more-tragic backstory before just deciding to rebuild the idea from the ground up to make it more interesting. The "original" Absolute Zero remains in the game's fictional backstory as a Legacy Hero from World War II days replaced by the current version of the hero.
• Word of God:
  • The game's writers are active on its forums and regularly hold Q+A sessions on Twitch during art streams. Between these, they've put out a lot of information about the series, either new tidbits, or confirming fan speculation — e.g., that Setback and Expatriette are a couple and that Tachyon and The Matriarch are cousins.
  • They also poke fun at it from time to time — in The Wraith's episode of the Letters Page podcast, they open by joking that the Wraith is actually three cats in a human suit before quipping, "That's canon, by the way," and moving on.
  • The Letters Page Podcast itself is effectively "Word of God: The Podcast" since it's Christopher and Adam (and occasional guests) doing 1-2 hour vocal dumps of lore and answering people's questions about said.