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Ethan is a werewolf and is responsible for the dismemberment murders.

He wakes up disoriented on the morning after one of the attacks with his nails digging into his palm, as if he'd just endured the pain of reversion from a sharp-clawed Wolf Man to his human form. The policeman whom Sir Malcolm spoke to said that there'd been a previous attack outside of London a month earlier, which fits with the Wild West Show's need to travel and a change-every-full-moon timeline. Ethan also makes up his mind to stick around in London and work with Sir Malcolm - someone interested in studying and possibly curing supernatural creatures - after walking by one of the murder scenes, where he overheard some women cursing the perpetrator. Finally, the opening credits show moving fur and a wolf's open jaws immediately before they show Ethan's face.

• I dunno. The idea of were!Ethan seems plausible, but I don't think he's responsible for the murders (though he might think that he is if he's been blacking out). As incompetent as the London police could be in those days, I'd like to think that even they could easily tell the difference between bodies that were sliced apart with a knife and bodies that were ripped apart with claws and teeth. The show might use that as a red herring, though.
  • So far, the show hasn't actually stated how the victims were dismembered, so we don't know if the police think they were cut or just torn apart.
  • Well they seem certain it was a person, not some creature with claws and sharp teeth.
    • Yeah, but how accurate do you think they are? As Sir Malcolm tells Inspector Galworthy, "you're hunting for a man, you need to start hunting for a beast". (This is called back to in 2x08 as Inspector Rusk questions Sir Malcolm over what he knows about the killings.)
    • That could go either way. He might have meant a literal beast or a metaphorical "person who acts like a predator". Or even just "an inhumanly cruel and depraved person". That line might turn out to be a red herring.
    • Sir Malcolm is a Great White Hunter. He'd naturally recommend hunting anything, human or animal or monster, like one is tracking down a beast.
• There's clearly something supernatural about him; he could control the wolves in the zoo enough to stick his hand inside a wolf's mouth, and when Victor wants some of his blood for a transfusion he flat out refuses, saying that it's "not a good idea."
  • No new dismemberments in episode 3 either, which would make sense if his transformations are on a lunar cycle.
• If he's a werewolf based on actual 19th century penny dreadfuls rather than Universal horror films, we can expect Our Werewolves Are Different to apply, e.g. he may have made a Deal with the Devil to become one, and wouldn't be able to transmit his condition by biting.
• One more possible piece of evidence that, werewolf or not, Ethan is involved in the dismemberments: the montage of Ethan's recent stressful experiences at the end of "Demimonde" includes images of the slaughtered victims. None of the other images are of scenes Ethan himself wasn't present for, very strongly implying he'd seen the dead bodies too.
• There is also the matter of how Ethan is able to summon the force of will necessary to exorcise Vanessa in Possession...
• Confirmed in part; he seems to be a werewolf in the style of The Wolfman 1941, though we only see a glimpse of him. We also have hints that he is connected to the murders, and that he seems to fear he committed them, but we don't know for sure yet if he is responsible. By the end of the series, it's heavily implied he is wholly responsible for any that were not just the vampires.

Ethan Chandler is not a werewolf, but a wendigo and/or a Native American skinwalker.

Just think about it. A wendigo is literally a 'demonic half-beast', a now archetypical horror that originated in the Algonquin and Great Lakes areas of North America. Basically, those who have eaten human flesh (whether from gluttony or necessity) eventually turn into wendigos, supernatural cannibalistic beasts. Alternatively, his skin changing abilities come not from the archetypical European werewolf, but from the Native American idea of the skinchanger - literally a warg.

• While all of the evidence for Ethan's supernatural nature has been wolf-related, so far Penny Dreadful has done a good job of putting spins on older tales. It would be much more fitting for him to be either a wendigo or a skinchanger, given where he comes from and the amount of times he speaks about Native American culture.
  • The preview for Grand Guignol also foreshadows this, by giving us a shot of what is presumably Ethan's hand, stretching and morphing into something else. There is no visible fur there, but the limb appears to be elongating somehow. Now read the description for the wendigo: "The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tautly over its bones. With its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash gray of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets, the Wendigo looked like a gaunt skeleton recently disinterred from the grave."
• Jossed, unless the Pennyverse's wendigos look just like the Wolf Man.
  • I think that while Ethan's werewolf abilities seem to be following the European style as he seems confused upon waking up and his change may not be voluntary, it is not outside the realm of possibility that there is some Native American connection in this. He makes frequent mentions of their culture, implying he spent time with them and it doesn't seem to be in a necessarily negative way. Unfortunately, how it actually relates, if it does at all, remains to be seen.

Frankenstein's original monster is responsible for the deaths.

Specific body parts are stolen, mostly organs. One of the monster's issues in Mary Shelley's was that he wanted a mate, could he be building one?

• It would explain why the killer seems to be exclusively targeting women...
  • The lamplighter was male, though, and the little girl was too small to contribute body parts to a female Creature.
  • Killing the lamplighter was probably just an act of necessity. The lamplighter might have seen the killer's face or something. (And for the record, we don't know for sure if the lamplighter was killed. He might have just run off in a panic.) As for the girl, children can donate organs to adults, so it's not totally implausible.
    • Awfully foggy night for the lamplighter to be noticing peoples' faces, however, and his lighter's pole was visible enough that it should've been easy for the killer to just keep some distance between them.
• From the sound of things, Caliban doesn't know how to construct a creature like himself without Frankenstein's help. In which case, it's doubtful he'd be gathering raw materials in advance: Victor's bound to drag his feet about getting started, and the parts would spoil before they could be used.
  • Maybe he's been trying to build a mate for a while but can't make it work. Victor did leave a bunch of journals behind when he fled his old lab. Caliban might have some of his old research notes.
  • But if he'd trying to build a mate for himself, why would he take the "reproductive matters" of a woman who was already pregnant?
• Apparently jossed; see above.

When Dracula does appear, he'll be played by a major actor from the Bond films.

Either Ralph Fiennes or Daniel Craig. The amount of Bond actors in the show, plus the creative team from Skyfall being involved means that the Count would likely be played by someone big.

• Plus, episode 3 suggests that Dracula, unlike the Orlok-like Leader Vampire from the first episode, is able to pass as a man.
• Jossed. Dracula is played by Christian Camargo. However, Dracula does look completely human; he even has olive skin.

Brona will become Caliban's 'bride.'

Frankenstein's met her once already and probably will again since she's a buddy of Ethan, giving him ample opportunity to learn where she lives and kidnap her; he'll probably reason to himself that she's going to die soon anyway and want to spare her the horrible end of his mother, and just think of the lovely, lovely angst this will cause for everyone!

• Would Victor willingly use a tuberculosis sufferer as a source of body parts, though? His own mother died of the disease, so he's surely studied it in depth and would know how poor of a condition Brona's tissues (not just her lungs) would be in.
  • Well, he's perfected reanimation, so it's not much of a stretch to think he might have perfected some sort of tissue regeneration process as well. He might also choose a tuberculosis victim as a way to spite Caliban. "Here's your new bride! Don't mind the cough!"
• Confirmed; Victor performs a Mercy Kill and has her body on the table now.

Alternately, Caliban's bride might be created from the body of Sylvia Vane.

That's the Shakespearean actress whose affections the original Dorian Gray rejected, causing her to kill herself. In this Verse, Sylvia might work at the Grand Guignol, allowing Caliban to become attracted to her in secret, even as Dorian (turned on by the theater's grisly take on Shakespeare) charms her and breaks her heart. If Dorian ruins her and drives her to suicide, she could come back as a Bride of Frankenstein with her own vengeful agenda, that Caliban — who's holding the short end of the same immortality stick as Dorian, hence is a natural foil for him — would be more than happy to help her achieve.

• I think this is extremely likely; the show likes to subvert expectations of when we're meeting these characters and how the events in their stories take place. The blonde actress Caliban spied on at the Grand Guignol could indeed be a Sylvia who hasn't had her heart broken by Dorian yet, and when she kills herself, Caliban will be ready to swoop in to make her his Bride.
• Jossed, see above.

Dorian Gray will be an antagonist, not one of the (anti-)heroes of the story.

He's the only major character who hasn't been recruited to Sir Malcolm's vampire-hunting crew, and his encounter with Brona suggests he's sufficiently jaded and turned on by the morbid to want to get it on with either a demon-possessed Vanessa (once he gets over his fear) or one of those white-haired vampire women. Either desire would provide motive for him to sell out Sir Malcolm's team. Plus, the series is an obvious Spiritual Successor to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and any such homage wouldn't be complete without a Griffin plotting treachery.

• That might explain why he's so little-represented in the opening credits' montage.
• Given his actions in "Memento Mori" ( murdering Angelique) this is increasingly likely.

Caroline Frankenstein was murdered.

Tuberculosis (aka consumption) doesn't come on all at once like in "Resurrection"; it starts out as a normal fever with cough and gets progressively worse. Caroline exhibits no symptoms whatsoever up until she coughs blood all over herself. That's the sort of thing that'd be seen in poisoning with hemotoxins that destroy pulmonary capillaries, not in an infection.

• What motive would anyone have to kill her, though?
  • Inherit the estate, perhaps? Victor doesn't presently have much money, yet he seems to have grown up quite wealthy. His mother says it's "just you and me" after the dog dies, suggesting his father was already deceased. Eliminating Caroline before Victor could come of age may have allowed a distant relative to usurp claim to the Frankenstein family fortune.
    • His father isn't deceased - he's the bearded guy who first tries to usher Victor away from his mother's sickbed, and then glares at him at the funeral, when Victor refuses to come to the grave. In addition, the three sobbing boys with him are presumably Victor's older brothers, so there would be a lot of murdering to be done before the Frankensteins lost the estate. From his father's reactions to him as a child, and the issues Victor displays both about father figures and more athletic brothers, it seems more likely that Victor is deliberately estranged from his remaining family, and doesn't have money because of that.
    • I would argue that his mother was wealthy enough to afford medicine and was probably hiding her illness from her son. Most likely it hit her so bad at that time that she couldn't stop it. Some people are able to hide their TB for a long time and even function normally.
    • Except if she'd known she was ill, she probably wouldn't have been snuggling and kissing her son for fear of passing the infection on to him.
    • TB isn't spread through kissing, touching (persons or things), or even sharing food and drink, it is spread by inhaling the particles when a diseased person coughs or sneezes. Her being ill has no bearing on whether she hugs or kisses her son.
    • Actually it does. An infected person can spread TB simply by talking and breathing since the infectious dose of TB is absurdly small. Just being in the same room with someone who has TB risks infection.
    • But depending on the year it was, they wouldn't know that. Up until the 1880s they didn't even know Consumption was contagious, or even that it was a bacterial disease. Some people even thought that it was caused by vampires, granted it is unlikely that the well educated believed this. Also, some people just don't get TB or they have a form of it that never actually manifests symptoms and is not deadly. She could easily have died of TB and still acted exactly the same way she did without causing Victor to have TB.
    • The series is set in 1891, and clearly it's known that consumption is contagious, because Brona warns Dorian that he shouldn't risk coming near her because of her illness.
    • The series may be set in 1891, but his mother didn't die in 1891. Assuming Victor is in his mid-to late 20s, or even 30, and he was between 8 and 10 when his mother died, then she died somewhere between 16 to 22 years previously in the 1860s or 1870s, before they knew it was contagious or caused by disease.

Ethan isn't a werewolf, but whoever he killed in America was.

Ethan is a talented gunslinger, avoiding America because he apparently killed someone. The letter from his father says that "the marshal has been paid." It implies that Ethan was clearly implicated in a "normal" murder, not some werewolf-style mauling. What could drive him to murder? Perhaps putting down a werewolf. It would also explain his familiarity with wolves, if he had to chase down and survive a werewolf.

• Or maybe he is a werewolf, because the one he's wanted for killing bit him before it died.
  • And the reason he's so visibly disturbed by the dismemberment murders...is because he's afraid he might be the one who did it.
• Jossed, he's the Wolf Man. The thugs his father send to collect him suggest that the killing(s) he's wanted for in the U.S. involved a lot of blood, so probably their victims were ripped apart rather than shot.
• Further jossed in season 3: Although Ethan may have killed as a werewolf in America as well, the murder he's wanted for is that of his U.S. Army commander, whom he shot for gloating over a massacre of Apache women and children.

The master vampire Ethan kills in the pilot was Dracula. It's Mina Murray who is the real power behind the vampires in London.

Firstly, it seems Sir Malcolm has been looking for his daughter a very long time, and secondly, it doesn't seem he's a very good father (considering he let his son die of dysentery in Africa). If we believe the spirit of Peter Murray, Malcolm was having sexual relations with either Vanessa or Mina. We also have no idea what kind of a man Jonathan Harker was, or how he might have treated Mina. All factors that would drive Mina to seek out the presumably magnetic, seductive, and powerful Dracula. Having been with him so long, he could have turned her into a vampire. In the original Stoker novel, it was implied Dracula studied black magic, which could account for this version of Mina being able to contact both Malcolm and Vanessa at will. To keep them assuming she's being held against her will, she could make up all sorts of things.

• One particularly interesting bit of dialogue could support this theory - in "Resurrection", Fenton says to Vanessa "naughty girl, Mother will punish you". "Mother" might not be Vanessa's mother, but the Mother Vampire, Mina Murray.
• Alternately, vampire-Mina isn't in charge, but she's still willingly cooperating with Dracula to recruit her "dear friend" into the fold, so they can be companions again.
• Further evidence for this one - in "Demimonde", Vanessa herself questions if Mina is manipulating them (as it was Mina who lead her to the zoo, where they found Fenton, bringing him back to their home and thus "inviting" the master vampire in) and that she could be "beyond help". Malcolm fires back that she can't blame Mina, as Vanessa has betrayed her in the past, but Mina reminds him he abandoned Mina his entire life before this happened. Sounds like Mina could hold them both responsible.
• Jossed in that Mina refers to the Master wanting Vanessa shortly before Sir Malcolm puts her down. Confirmed in that she's been actively helping him lure Vanessa into his clutches. The Master still seems to be out there.

The master vampire that was defeated in the first episode is coming back.

Sir Malcolm's team doesn't seem to know much about vampires, and the way he "killed" the creature didn't conform to any of the traditional vampire-disposal methods that prevent them from reanimating. We know Victor and a hematologist will be testing the cadaver's blood extensively. It's possible that the creature is only dormant, and could be revived if, in the course of their experiments, one of the doctors accidentally spills some normal human blood (used for comparison with the creature's and/or Fenton's) on the "dead" carcass.

• Jossed. No sign of him, though it seems that what we thought were the "master" vampires are really more along the line of Elite Mooks and the "true" Master (potentially Dracula) is still out there.

Van Helsing is part-vampire or someone close to him was.

When Victor meets with the hematologist Sir Malcolm has cultivated - Doctor Abraham Van Helsing - they begin talking about Malcolm's desire for a cure. Van Helsing claims vampirism is something Malcolm does not understand, but that he himself does, "intimately". Either he himself was once bitten by a vampire and partially turned, or someone close to him was, and that was his first test of a potential cure. It likely failed.

• Confirmed that someone close to him (his wife Hannah) was transformed into a vampire, although it's unclear how much of a chance he had to try to cure her before resorting to Staking the Loved One.

Dorian is the intended host for Amon-Ra.

The vampires worshiping the Egyptian gods Amunet and Amon-Ra seem to want or think that Vanessa is the intended host for Amunet (which is complicated by the "older" demon already possessing her. Dorian, who if he is like he is in the novel, is lacking a soul. This would make it pretty easy for a spirit to possess him.

• In the finale, Mina claims that the Master intends to personally breed an army of offspring with Vanessa. Unless the Master isn't a vampire at all, but some kind of possessing entity that merely uses vampires as servants, it's hard to see how he could do this through Dorian.

Cthulhu will be involved.

With all the super natural goings-on in the story, it could be possible that, given the concept of Cthulhu was made around the time this show takes place, the elder God might have SOME connection to the story.

• Lovecraft didn't start writing about Cosmic Horror until the 1920s, and his work was partly a rebellion against the human-oriented themes of Gothic horror fiction. The styles aren't really compatible when they're played as straight as Penny Dreadful is playing them. Some of Lovecraft's predecessors, like Arthur Machen or William Hope Hodgson, might be workable as inspiration.

Vanessa is a vampire

Or at least a kind of...part-vampire. The show seems to be suggesting that vampirism is a result of demonic possession or a pact with demons. Vanessa is clearly suffering from demonic possession, which allows her to (among other things I'm sure) communicate with Mina (who seems to be a vampire) and stop a leader vampire in his tracks. There's also a late scene in "Closer Than Sisters" where Vanessa asks Sir Malcolm "Will you let me in?" before she enters his home. Perhaps this is wishful thinking on my part but that seems like the old myth about vampires not being allowed to enter a house uninvited. And of course, the vampires clearly want her for something or other.

• Jossed in that she was never fully human (as she wasn't able to get past the Cut-Wife's supernatural barrier), but she wasn't at all a vampire. However, this has since changed after "Ebb Tide." Vanessa has allowed Dracula to bite her, which will presumably turn her into a vampire.

The characters and the works of fiction they're based on both exist in the same universe.

Thus far, Lord Shelley has been alluded to, but the subjects of his wife Mary's work exist as real people in the world of the show. The penny dreadful Varney the Vampire (often considered to be the first modern vampire story) exists as a work of fiction in this universe, yet the characters of Stoker's Dracula also exist as real people.

Perhaps both the fictional characters and their real-life counterparts exist at the same time, inexorably linked yet unaware of the other's existence.

Vanessa isn't actually possessed by demons.

Rather, she's both psychic and telekinetic, but is in denial about her powers because she believes them to be evil. Refusing to consider they might come from inside herself, she's invented a demonic alter-ego to which she attributes the bouts of poltergeist activity, mind-reading, and telepathic contact with Mina that actually arise from her subconscious use of her own abilities. This alter-ego's apparent connection with Amunet isn't because Vanessa is host to Amunet, but because she's absorbed concepts from dark Egyptian mythology from vampire-Mina, who was brainwashed to believe such things by the Master.

Mina is Not Quite Dead

The "rules" of vampirism for the purposes of this series have not been clearly established. We don't know for sure what it takes to 100% kill a vampire, so we can't say that being shot in the head was enough to kill her.

• It certainly was enough to kill *some* of the mooks/Brides, but not all of them considering there are many instances of them shrugging off gunshot wounds. Furthermore, we only see Malcolm shoot her in the shoulder. The second bullet is never seen hitting her, just that she's lying next to Vanessa.

Dorian only recently obtained his painting

When he goes to look at it in "What Death can join together", he seems to be rather surprised as his wounds heal while he looks at it. It's possible that the painting is rather new, and he is seeing the portrait take on his pain and disease for the first time.

• I dunno about that. If that is the case, why does he keep it locked away in a secret room if he thinks it's just a painting?
• It also doesn't quite jive with Dorian claiming to already have tried everything and getting bored horribly easy. That only makes sense if he's been playing this game for a while.
• Brona clawed Dorian deep enough to bloody him in the second episode, yet there's no trace of any scabs or scars on his back in his later shirtless scenes. Presumably he's been healing himself all along.
  • Jossed; John Logan has said that Dorian has "seen the fall of civilizations". Also, as of Memento Mori, we've seen what is in the painting, and it looks old.

Victor might gain feelings for the 'bride' Caliban wants.

Such a twist to previously established canons in other works would be right in line with the show as a whole, and previous hints about the good doctor's romantic tendencies might serve as foreshadowing for this plot. It would also enrage Caliban nicely.

• Except Victor's "romantic tendencies" mostly seem to hint that he's not interested in women. And there already is a romantic contender in form of Ethan.
• So far, Victor's feelings toward his creations seem to be paternal ones, which would make an attraction for reanimated-Brona on his part incestuous. Not to say the show couldn't go there, it just may be the wrong flavor of creepy for this program.
• Confirmed. Sorry, but Victor's necrophilia is exactly this program's flavor of creepy. He fondles the not-quite-resurrected Brona, touching her breasts and the scar tissue from his autopsy.
  • actually, I went back to re-watch S1, and Brona has a much smaller and less obvious scar than Proteus. I submit that Victor didn't need to autopsy Brona at all... that scar is from when he gave her a lung transplant before reviving her, so she wouldn't be sick in her second life.
  • And it seems to be even more complicated then that. Victor confesses to Still-Dead-Brona that he "missed talking to her." Since Victor and Brona hardly knew each other, and we've yet to find out if he had other female acquaintances that only leaves one possible person he might be addressing here - his mother. Poor Victor really seems a lot more messed up than it first appeared. Necrophilia is just the tip of the iceberg here.
  • this might verge more on Alternative Character Interpretation, but Inspector Rusk's interview with Ethan (Sir Malcolm mentions 'Christmas is coming up' near the end of S1, and Rusk speaks of 'last year') implies that at least a month or so passes between season 1 and 2; presumably to give all the characters a breather so they don't go nuts from the stress. (and if Victor did switch out her diseased lungs with a healthy set, the way her scars imply, it probably took him awhile to find a good set in a notoriously filthy city like 1890's London) Victor might very well have been talking to Brona in the tank all this time, much the same way many little girls talk to their toys (I know I did); his actions towards her body in the tank could be a case of advanced anthropomorphism combined with 'wow naked chick' (because Victor has the social and sexual development of a mid-teenage boy, let's admit it). Which in itself isn't much less creepy, come to think of it.

The thing possessing Vanessa isn't Amun-Ra or Amunet; it's Sutekh.

Its speech to her about wanting her to rule with "over a dark, scorched, dead world" is similar to Sutekh's speech in "Pyramids of Mars" about "leaving nothing but dust and darkness." Of course, since this is Penny Dreadful and not Doctor Who, this version of Sutekh decides to throw in some good old Catholic guilt as well.

Madame Kali/Evelyn Poole is a vampire.

The Season 2 trailer shown her in a bath full of blood, a la Elizabeth Bathory. So she could be Bathory or maybe its just a reference to her and she could be Carmilla, a vampire from a story that actually predates Dracula. If she is, she could even be stronger than Dracula, has her own plans, or could very well be one of his followers.

• Season 2 confirms that she is a follower of The Master, but so far looks to be only a powerful witch rather than a vampire.

Malcolm is not merely a Parental Substitute for Vanessa, but her actual biological father.

We know he was having an affair with her mother - if it went back far enough, he could be the father with no one being the wiser. Also, they have some similarity in personality, as sneakily referenced during Vanessa's conversation with Peter in the maze. (That is, Malcolm's disappointed that Peter's not more like him, and wishes Peter were more like Vanessa.)

• Malcolm also comments to Vanessa even earlier than that, 'You are the daughter I deserve.' He could have been speaking metaphorically, but what if he wasn't? Also, Vanessa actually does resemble Malcolm quite strongly, with their matching extreme cheekbones and dark hair. BUT, anyone remember what colour eyes Vanessa's mother had? Because Eva Green has blue-green eyes, and Timothy Dalton has green (according to imdb anyway). Blue eyes being a recessive trait, it is unlikely but still possible to have blue eyes if only one parent has them too (one of my friends in high school had a particular shade of blue eyes in her family as a rare dominant trait. Also, I have green eyes, but my mother has hazel and my father had blue, as does my brother). However, it's impossible for two brown-eyed parents to have a blue-eyed child, or for two blue-eyed parents to have anything other than a blue-eyed child.
  • Anna Chancellor has blue eyes, fwiw.

Dracula is responsible for the Ripper murders, and Ethan witnessed them while under Dracula's control in his wolf-form.

As pointed out above, Ethan's montage of stressful events in Demimonde included the Ripper murders; all the other scenes were those he personally witnessed, implying that he'd witnessed the murders, too. I seem to remember that in the book, Dracula could control or at least communicate with wolves as well as bats. ("Ah, the children of the night - what music they make!") If he could control, or at least summon Ethan in Wolf-man form, perhaps to guard Dracula while he committed the Ripper murders, that would explain a lot. However, this ability requires Dracula to be within a certain distance of Ethan to work, which is why things with those bounty hunters worked out the way they did - Wolf!Ethan was free-range that night. Or Dracula just turned him loose to see the show.

Victor is a necrophiliac.

There were hints of this in the first season, with Frankenstein generally being more comfortable around dead people than the living, and Vanessa's comments about him while she's possessed possibly pointing the viewer in this direction as well. This is even more apparent in the premiere of Season 2, when he lovingly caresses and stares at Brona's corpse in the vat of preservative fluid. Necrophilia wouldn't even be out of character for Penny Dreadful's version of Frankenstein.

Lucifer, Dracula, Amon-Ra and Vanessa's demon are all one and the same.

There are plenty of clues that link these entities together: Mina and Evelyn Poole both mention "the master", and though Mina never name-drops "Dracula", Evelyn definitely identifies the master she serves as Lucifer. But the vampires are linked with the devil and his plan to conjoin Amon-Ra (himself) and Amonet (Vanessa) together because images of this event appeared on the inner-skin of the vampire that Malcolm and Vanessa take to Frankenstein. Evelyn is also invested in the carrying out of this Amon-Ra/Amonet plan, and it was certainly the intent of the entity that Vanessa identifies as "the serpent, devil of the pit" (a.k.a. Lucifer) that appears to her in the guise of both Malcolm and Ethan at different points of her life, and which was implied to be the very same demon that's been torturing her since childhood. Two more links: in the Comic Con deleted scene, Evelyn is given the line "what games we shall have" (which is what the demon utters just before it possesses Vanessa) and she sings "The Unquiet Grave" in the bathtub full of blood (a song that Vanessa hums while possessed). Whew.

• The only thing this doesn't explain is why it's so important that Evelyn and the witch's coven "find" Vanessa and prepare her for Lucifer. He seems to have been doing this all Vanessa's life without any assistance from vampires or witches.
  • Probably Evelyn doesn't really care if Lucifer gets Vanessa now or later on, but she does care about whether she, herself, can claim the credit for him doing so more easily.
• Jossed as of "Memento Mori": Lucifer and Dracula are both Fallen angels, one consigned to Hell and the other to Earth. They're brothers competing to claim the Mother of Evil.
  • "A Blade Of Grass" seems to have jossed the idea that Vanessa's demon is a manifestation of either one of them, as Amunet basically tells them both to fuck off and die when they try to seduce an institutionalized Vanessa.

in her new 'life', Brona will be re-named 'Elizabeth'

Based on Victor's fascination with Brona in the tub, and that in the novel, Victor spent his life in love with his adopted sister/cousin Elizabeth (who was murdered by the Creature on their wedding night). I can just see Caliban suggesting it after coming home from a day at the waxworks after working on the Royalty display, in particular Queen Elizabeth 1.

• Jossed. Her new name is "Lily."

Brona will eventually become Mary Shelley.

As noted above, Lord Shelley is mentioned as a real person in this universe, but I THINK that PD takes place after when Mary Shelley published 'Frankenstein'. So maybe in this universe, Brona will eventually leave Victor and Caliban, take the name Mary Godwin, become Shelley's lover and later wife (maybe Dorian introduces them?), and write the novel 'Frankenstein', both to cover her tracks and as a not-entirely-true tribute to her creator and quasi-brother.

• Unless the show has drastically re-written the history of British poetry, Percy Bysshe Shelley is almost 70 years dead by the time these events take place.

The disfigured victim of the Mariner's Inn Massacre will become the Phantom of the Opera.

Teasers show a character with a familiar mask in the background, and John Logan has said that although Season 2 will not introduce more characters from Victorian literature, Season 3 will. Making the victim of the massacre an important character sounds like one way to do that and would provide another antagonist for Ethan.

• The survivor, Mr. Roper, already is an antagonist for Ethan: He's one of the two bounty hunters Ethan's father sent after him. Which probably Josses this WMG, as presuming to re-imagine the cultured, quintessentially-French Phantom as a sleazy American thug-for-hire would likely get anyone who's a fan of the Opera Ghost's original story to start throwing things at the TV screen.
• Further Jossing comes with the official synopsis for Episode 6 — a plot point is Mr. Roper coming after Ethan for revenge, so that character's thread will likely be done by season's end. (And as far as another antagonist for Ethan goes, there's one already — Inspector Rusk of Scotland Yard, "who sort of becomes Ethan's nemesis" according to John Logan himself.)

By the end of the season, Ethan will have to make a Sadistic Choice.

Between staying in London to help protect Vanessa from Evelyn, or fleeing the police when they come after him for the killings at the inn.

All of Victor's creations will eventually get fragments of their original lives' memories back.

Victor implies that Brona's resurrection was more "gentle" than Proteus's, and attributes her rapid re-acquisition of language and motor skills to this. It's a fair bet that she'll start remembering her old life over the course of season 2, undermining Victor's and Caliban's attempts to mold her into "Lily": after all, that's why Brona was made a major supporting character for season 1, in the first place. So, no surprises there ... but there could be surprises to come, if Caliban starts recalling his (or his brain's) original life as well: a life about which we currently know jack-squat, and which could add new elements to his story beyond what Mary Shelley's novel or its innumerable treatments ever addressed.

• Called it! The Creature has a flashback to his human life in the Season 3 premiere.

Evelyn is going to use Malcolm as leverage against Vanessa. Vanessa will have to make a Sadistic Choice like Malcolm did last season. It won't turn out as well.

Pretty self-explanatory, as we hear Evelyn detailing her plan to do as such, but here's how I think it'll go down. Evelyn's been enchanting Malcolm to do her bidding, and I think he's going to turn on Vanessa and the rest of the company. At first, they won't believe anything is wrong, because Malcolm is known to be cruel, at times, and lose his head over women. But it comes to light somehow that Malcolm is no longer in control and if Vanessa wants him unharmed, she'll comply with Evelyn. Of course Vanessa refuses, but it makes Evelyn keep her promise and hurt Malcolm badly enough to raise the stakes. Vanessa loses it, uses the black magic grimoire she took from the Cut-Wife to level up in power, and while she saves (or potentially resurrects) Malcolm, she loses her soul entirely. The third season is her journey back from the darkness, as well as the dangers encountered by revealing her stronger powers.

In a later season, Vanessa will become pregnant.

In a Rosemary's Baby type situation. It has already been revealed that the Master intends to personally populate the world with their offspring, and Vanessa has been characterized as maternal at several important junctures; her demonic entity wishes her to become the "Mother of Darkness,, and the captured vampire teen refers to her as "mother".

• Or maybe, while the Nightcomers are focusing all their scheming attentions on Ethan and Sir Malcolm, Vanessa will turn to the one ally which they've been completely ignoring, by having Victor give her a hysterectomy. She can't very well become the "Mother of Evil" if she can't become the mother of anything, and it'd serve her pursuers right for disregarding Frankenstein as a threat because he's "merely" an expert on science, not magic.

Angelique is a fallen angel

Angelique mentions being ignored by her family and not being born as "what he was meant to be". We assume it is because she is transgender but what if, instead, Angelique was an angel who conflicted with God's plan and fell from grace? Hence the arc words as Angelique fell alongside Lucifer. Her transgender is a byproduct of being an angel as the original angels were depicted as being genderless. Unlike Lucifer, Angelique chose not to descend into darkness and live out her life as human.

• Jossed by "Memento Mori"; Angelique is mortal enough to die when Dorian poisons her for discovering his portrait, and it was Dracula who got kicked out of Heaven along with Lucifer.

The series takes place in the same universe as Once Upon a Time/Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

The England presented in the show has remarkable similarities to the one Alice is from: a slightly anachronistic snowy Victorian landscape where all the characters from literature and mythos are true, but with their own spins and changes. The madhouse Alice is forced into even resembles the one Vanessa is locked in: right down to the forced attempt at drilling into both girl's skulls. The show presents the looming specter of industrialization/modernization but never fully plunges into it because time isn't actually moving in the Penny Dreadful verse, it's another bubble of story-telling, a snapshot of time against which the dramas of the characters can unfold but nothing really changes. It will always be the Gothic demimonde-world teetering on the edge of modernisation where supernatural battles can play out.

When he appears, Dracula/Satan/Amun-Ra/The Master will be played by Mads Mikkelsen

Because he's already playing a Dracula/Satan-esque character with aplomb, and he's already shared the screen with Eva Green in Casino Royale (2006).

• Jossed; Christian Camargo is playing Dracula.
• Jossed again when referring to Satan; it seems as though Satan doesn't really have a physical form and can only appear to Vanessa as people she knows.

The 'further characters from Victorian literature introduced in S3' (as referenced by John Logan) will be Jekyll & Hyde and/or Spring-heeled Jack

Jekyll & Hyde is such a classic, and the ultimate case of Disasociative Personality Disorder was made for Penny Dreadful.Spring-heeled Jack is actually folkloric, rather than literature, but became so entrenched in Victorian London culture that he actually appeared in several Penny Dreadfuls and even plays, of the type played at the Grand Guignol. No one was ever identified as Spring-heeled Jack, so that leaves the field wide open for whatever character Logan & Co wish to created - they could even do a season-long origins arc.

In season 3, Angelique will become a dual-gender version of Jekyll & Hyde

There's actually a cult movie called 'Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde' that works with this concept, too, so it's not completely out of nowhere.The trailer for 2x08 shows that Angelique somehow lays eyes on Dorian's portrait. In an attempt to a) become ageless and forever beautiful herself b) stay with Dorian forever and c) become female in truth, Angelique will attempt to replicate the process with a portrait of her own. However (possibly due to Dorian himself not really understanding how it works - he never worked out the 'whys' of it in the original story) it goes wrong, trapping Angelique in a flip-flop male/female state.

This could even finally bring Dorian into the gang in truth; he's probably got a pretty shrewd idea of at least some of Vanessa's magical talents. Who else could he turn to in order to undo what Angelique's done to herself?

• Jossed, as Angelique is murdered by Dorian in 2x08 after she discovers his secret.

Evelyn's seduction of Sir Malcolm is so that she can marry him, gain symbolic parental rights over Vanessa and hand her over to Lucifer in marriage.

I'll admit, my fairly outrageous idea hinges on Sir Malcolm being Vanessa's natural father. Evelyn's original idea was a simple kidnapping; her 'enticement of dear Sir Malcolm' is part of an elaborate plan B.

a) Evelyn doesn't need Lady Murray dead to get Malcolm into bed, or to lead him around by his... um, hormones. She doesn't care about scandal, and Malcolm's made it clear that Gladys has officially ceased to give a shit what - or who - he does. The only reason for Evelyn to require Lady Murray dead is in order to replace her.b) It's been made clear that Lucifer not only wants Vanessa to birth his children but as his bride. For one reason or another, a formal ceremony of some kind is required to achieve his aims.c) by ancient traditions (and you can't get much more ancient than Biblical) a daughter's hand in marriage can only be bestowed by her father... or, if the father was dead, her mother. (look, I'm not saying it was fair or right, just that it was)d) ergo, Evelyn wants to marry Sir Malcolm and become Vanessa's stepmother. If Sir Malcolm conveniently dies, she then has the ancient right to marry Vanessa off as she chooses; in this scenario, Evelyn can hand Vanessa over to Lucifer perfectly legally - ritually speaking, anyway.

• Except even if Vanessa is Sir Malcolm's illegitimate daughter, the only person who could really confirm that is Vanessa's mother, who's dead. So far as Vanessa's traditional and legal status is concerned, Mr. Ives is her father, and unless he's openly declared Sir Malcolm to be her lawful guardian, it'd be up to him to consent to any potential marriage. From what we've seen, Evelyn doesn't even know who he is.

Victor never intended to bring The Creature to life, and raised him by sheer accident. Part of the reason Victor hasn't found a way to destroy him is that Victor needs to know how he did it.

The Creature is very different from Proteus and Lily - the supernatural gold eyes and the extreme body temperature for a start (Lily has 'unusually cool hands', but John's hands 'feel like they're not truly alive'). Not to mention, the disfigurements... if you were intending to raise a dead person, surely you'd choose someone that would blend in just a little more? Proteus had autopsy scars and Lily a far less extreme Y-incision (presumably from Victor giving her a pre-resurrection lung transplant, because he already knows how she died), but they were still (more or less) in one piece all along. The Creature is implied to be sewn together from several bodies. I submit: science is a matter of trial and error. The Creature was only meant to be Victor's initial crash-cart test dummy - so he could figure out things like how much charge would be needed to re-start the heart, whether the original brain could handle automatic cerebral functions and so forth. So when the Creature woke up and started howling, Victor fled at least in part because he expected the charge and the heartbeat to run out in a very short time, meaning that whoever responded to the noise would find a fresh corpse in Victor's original lab, and Victor himself might be up on murder charges (or at least graverobbing).Achieving something like this, and not knowing how he did it? Is exactly the way to drive Victor nuts, and do all sorts of stupid and dangerous things in order to gain the answers he seeks.

Victor's 'triumphs' in resurrection aren't just due to science; he has a powerful, unschooled gift for magic... perhaps even necromancy

Just a 'what-if' scenario, really... but it would explain a lot. Victor may have inherited a magical gift from his mother, who died just when Victor's powers would have started 'waking up'. Victor, either unknowing or in complete denial, suppresses his ability, and since it's untrained, is infinitely malleable (or is actually aligned with death and resurrection anyway) and steadily grows more powerful. In most fictional magic systems - and, as I understand it, in Wicca itself - the success of a spell depends at least partly on how badly the caster wants it to work. Victor Frankenstein wants to pierce the veil between life and death very, very, badly.

if Lily continues her actions from the end of 2x07, Victor will attempt (and perhaps succeed in) a murder-suicide in atonement once he finds out.

Victor already feels at least partially responsible for the murders the Creature's committed. How much worse will he feel if Lily continues killing, and turns into the Victorian version of Aileen Wuornos, especially since he only resurrected her because of the Creatures threats/pleas/successful guilt trips?That's not even counting the subsequent broken heart; regardless of your opinion on Victor and Lily's relationship, there's no doubt he's genuinely in love with her. She's not only his first love, she's probably the only person he's loved at all since his mother died. Victor's officially described as being 'as much Romantic Poet as scientist'; due to his driving obsession with his scientific quest, Victor basically has the social and emotional development of a teenager (and it's been scientifically proved that they're all nuts anyway). Victor's been on a fairly thin edge, mentally speaking, for awhile now... guilt and heartbreak might be enough to push him over the edge.In the original novel, Frankenstein died in a suicidal quest to destroy what he'd created in atonement for the deaths his Creature caused. Given how PD loves to rip out hearts out metaphorically while they do so literally on screen... how much more tragic would it be for this scenario to play out with Victor and Lily?Fingers crossed that Billie and Harry are both too large a part of the planned ongoing story arc - and their contracts are too ironclad - for this to actually happen... (bites fingernails).

The chained figure of Dorian's portrait is going to break free, little by little, each time he commits an evil act.

It animates to look up when he murders Angelique, which may be the first step in its eventual escape from the bondage of paint and canvas. Eventually he'll commit a final villainous deed and it'll erupt from the painting to lunge at him, leading Dorian to stab his corrupted image and die himself.

Possible fates for Inspector Rusk in 2x10...

At this point, the poor Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist is the one significant character left who doesn't seem to have an evil past to atone for (though he fought in the Transvaal Wars) or has turned out to be morally gray or black. He's been circling the antiheroes like a vulture, just waiting to swoop, but they can't save the world if they're set for a date with the hangman. As of 2x09, there's no confirmation that he'll carry over into Season 3. There probably won't be time to wrap up his plot thread properly in 2x10, unless he's killed off. So any of the following things could happen:

• He will be killed off. Prior to this he will either:
  • Turn out to be Evil All Along like so many other characters in this show or...
  • Be another fundamentally good soul cruelly given the chop, after Peter, Proteus, Van Helsing, Gladys, Angelique...
  • As a bonus, whether he's good or evil his death could make things much, much harder for the antihero squad in Season 3.
• He will figure out/learn what's going on but still not be able to bring the heroes to judgment yet, which will provide a plot thread for Season 3.
• He will figure out/learn what's going on, join the heroes, and continue into Season 3, perhaps becoming a regular. With Sembene likely dead after the events of 2x09, and Dorian, Lily, and Caliban becoming a villain team, there's room and need for another member on the Anti-Hero team, and he'd be a great contact with his police connections. He might even turn out to be a Handicapped Badass. And if one wants an extreme twist...
  • He will be the REAL Wolf of God in a Prophecy Twist. Assuming that God Is Good in this show's universe, why would He use a indiscriminately murderous werewolf, who has slain children, to do His bidding? Now a Determinator police inspector who hasn't let losing an arm as a solider keep him down, who pursues his quarry carefully and untiringly in the name of law and order...that's someone a good deity wants on their team! Who says the Wolf of God has to be a literal wolf? Not to mention that he'd give the concept of "the left hand of God" a whole new meaning...
• And any of these developments might reveal that he has a supernatural ability or isn't quite human. Up until now, he's only been seen as a Muggle with an open mind, and nothing in the backstory the audience knows of him suggests he's anything but that...but is he just very good at hiding what he actually is?
  • In the end, this was all Jossed: He's escorting Ethan back to America to meet his fate. The closest thing he's done to an outright evil deed is holding back on extraditing him simply out of his need for closure on the killings. So now...

Inspector Rusk will become a regular in Season 3 — and The Reveal about him will be made.

Season 2 ended with two regulars dead, and with the remaining characters separated by great physical and/or emotional distances, Rusk becoming a member of Team Dreadful could be useful. Not only will he help Ethan escape the hangman (because someone has to do that — in fact, he will do that even if he isn't a regular, and then get bumped off if need be), his fascination with the mysteries surrounding our antiheroes will be because he's no mere handicapped, curious Muggle but because he's one or a combination of the following...

Generally, it might be that he is or will become...

• Someone who has a past with monsters and that's how he really lost that arm.
• The reincarnation of someone who figures into the prophecy! His old body might be mummified, peacefully moldering in the British Museum, which would allow a mummy to be part of the story in a sideways manner (Douglas Hodge is Caucasian, so he can't turn out to actually be a mummy such as Imhotep).
• A new love interest for Vanessa. He doesn't seem to have a wife or family, and he's no less valid as a shipping possibility than Ethan, Victor, or John just because he's older and plainer than the first two. (True Beauty Is on the Inside.)
• A Handicapped Badass.
• Possessed. (Will the force be good or evil?)
• Really 700 Years Old.
• A Hunter of Monsters
• Another werewolf, because Ethan will transform during the ocean crossing, kill most of the people on board, and chomp on Rusk before falling overboard. Ethan will awaken washed up on shore somewhere, leaving Rusk with a new reason to keep tracking him: he'll want revenge for, yet also need Ethan to teach him about, the curse. This would account for why Rusk's character was made one-armed: it'll let us always tell who's who if they both transform and start fighting each other.

If he remains morally good, he might be or become...

• A Reluctant Monster / Non-Malicious Monster, who knows how to control transformations into his other form, or hold back killer urges.
• A Noble Demon.
• An Angel Unaware.
• The real Wolf of God in a Prophecy Twist.
• An Occult Detective.
• A Gentleman Wizard.
• The Good Counterpart to Dorian Gray if he turns out to be long-lived or immortal.

If it turns out he's Evil All Along, he might be or become...

• The Mole on Team Dreadful.
• A Fallen Angel.
• He Who Fights Monsters.
• An Evil Sorcerer, perhaps with ambitions of becoming a Sorcerous Overlord.
• Another form of The Master! Given that Dorian and Lily are expected to serve as the Big Bad of the Season 3 arc, having him turn out to be a Greater-Scope Villain would be a great twist.

Vanessa isn't actually cut off from God, and realizing that will drive a Redemption Quest in Season 3.

Just because everybody says/thinks so doesn't make it true, and we haven't heard God's opinion on the matter yet! Another Season 3 addition!

Sembene's role in Season 3

Sembene is the Ensemble Dark Horse of Penny Dreadful, yet he still hasn't had his backstory episode, and as of 2x10 is dead at Ethan's fangs. A quick browse of message boards, etc. shows that this has not gone over well with many fans, in part because of its unfortunate implications. It's time for an Author's Saving Throw. In Season 3, he will be revived in Africa — perhaps as a zombie, which would add another cool creature to the cast.

• Alternately, Sembene will come back as a ghost. We haven't seen a proper Pennyverse ghost yet, which is a huge lapse in a series inspired by Victorian horror literature. He'd be able to continue his role as the quiet dispenser of wisdom to the group, potentially manifesting before each of the others to draw them back together, however scattered they might be. And even his backstory would fit, because for once, it'd make perfect karmic sense for a ghost to be draped in chains, as per tradition, without need for Dickensian symbolism to justify it: he'd be paying the price for his slave-trading days when he'd chained people up.

The new book-derived character in Season 3 might be...

(Suggestions gathered from here, other message boards, etc. Bonus points if one of the regulars turns out to be them (too).)

• Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde
  • Confirmed. Shazad Latif has been cast as Dr. Jekyll.
• Doctor Moreau
  • Jossed, possibly forever: the producers wanted him for Season 3, but he's not Public Domain and they couldn't get the rights to use him.
• Ayesha, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed
• The Invisible Man
• The Time Traveler
• A character from one of Bram Stoker's other novels
• Sherlock Holmes, or maybe just Dr. John Watson
• Carmilla
  • Semi-confirmed. John Logan says that Carmilla has inspired one relationship every season - Vanessa and Mina in season 1, Evelyn and Hecate in season 2, and Lily and Justine in season 3.
• Arthur Gordon Pym, if the Creature's ship sailed to the Antarctic not the Arctic
• The Canterville Ghost

Ethan's father used him as a weapon

Upon discovering his son's lycanthropy, Ethan's father, possibly in conjunction with the American Military, began using him as a weapon by waiting until a full moon and then pointing him at whatever group of people they wanted decimated. It explains both Ethan's guilt, and the fact that he is living in hiding from his father.

• Which rather implies that Talbot Sr. wanted Roper and his Native associate to get killed, as he didn't warn them not to try to apprehend Ethan at the time of a full moon.
• Jossed; Ethan's father seems unaware of his son's lycanthropy, and wants Ethan back to force him to atone for giving Kaetenay's Apaches information about the Talbot ranch's defenses.

The newly announced character, Justine, is taken from the Marquis de Sade's novel of the same name

The character description given is that she is "an acolyte to Brona and Dorian Gray". Given the amount of kinky sex that tends to go on with those two characters and their new megalomania, a character from a work by the Marquis de Sade would fit right in there, especially as the Marquis de Sade's character is a young woman trying to be virtuous but is constantly surrounded by corrupting influences.

It will be revealed that Sembene is a witch doctor with influence over the dead.

It has already been heavily hinted that Sembene is not all that he seems to be and has some form of magical power, especially since he is almost completely unfazed when it comes to the supernatural. One of the ways these abilities will manifest themselves in season 3 by Sembene displaying the ability to resurrect himself.We will also receive some possible reveals about Sembene's backstory (For example, Sembene being a slave trader will be a metaphor for dealing will souls and zombies. Or maybe we will find out that the original reason Malcolm met him had something to do with his magic.)

• Sembene could also serve as a new magical tutor to Vanessa, teaching her alternative forms of magic.

Randolph Carter will get an Early-Bird Cameo.

As a child, obviously.

Hyde is either in complete control or is slowly but surely taking over Jekyll.

In the two episodes we've seen him in (as of May 9th), Jekyll has been doing some seriously nasty things, chief of which being planning to brainwash Lily so she can essentially be Victor's love slave. Given how, in the story, Hyde was steadily supplanting Jekyll, and we know that by the time he is introduced in the show, Jekyll has already been performing his experiments, it would make sense if it was revealed that he had already used himself as a test subject and is now either fully taken over by Hyde, or is starting to be.

• Or we're seeing elements of his evil side now, which will become Hyde when he starts playing Professor Guinea Pig. Once that happens, the aspect of him that continues to answer to the name "Jekyll" will be left a much better person, morally, and be repulsed by his own prior misbehavior; unfortunately, without his bitterness or anger he'll no longer have the drive to defeat his other self.

The writers didn't screw up by having Sir Malcolm in Zanzibar.

Malcolm may have already brought Sembene home to Senegal, then traveled to East Africa in order to retrieve his son's body and bring it back to England as he'd once planned to. However, when he found himself back in the region where he'd gone exploring in decades past, the place had changed so much for the worse that he got terribly depressed, and ended up drowning his sorrows in seedy taverns instead. He wound up in Zanzibar thinking to catch a ship for home from there, but never actually booked passage because he was too depressed.

• Alternately, Sembene could have been born in Senegal but moved to Zanzibar because of his work as a slave trader. Slavery had been abolished in Senegal by the French back in the 1850s, but persisted in Zanzibar until 1873.

Dracula killed the orderly.

He'd intended to make him into one of his vampires, which (like Mina) could influence Vanessa by playing off their previous friendship. But he didn't count on the body being stolen by resurrection men and reanimated by Frankenstein before it could rise from the grave. This would account for the Creature's pale skin and strange eye color: he was just starting the process of reviving as an undead before Victor ran all those volts through him, and he woke up as something else instead.

Dr. Seward has latent witch powers.

They might not be as strong or apparent as her ancestor Joan's, but it seems highly possible, especially after her success with Vanessa's hypnotism in "A Blade of Grass." That hypnotism could be more than just psychological; it was so immersive that it could easily be magical in some way.

Dracula has been working with Imhotep the Mummy

Where there's ancient Egyptian magic involved, he can never be too far behind.

In the upcoming comics...

Now that a sequel comic has been announced, things not covered in the show that might happen...

• Vanessa will return from the dead. How is anyone's guess. Time-travel? Vampirism? Does a guilt ridden John Clare force Victor to bring her back? And we might actually find out what the HELL Amunet is.
  • Judging from the newly released comic covers for issues 1-2, Ethan will travel to Egypt to revive Vanessa/Amunet.
• The mummy will be the villain of the first arc.
• Ethan finds out about Brona.
• Sir Malcolm dies at some point given how high father figures and mentors' mortality rates are in fiction.
• Carmilla will appear at some point. Bonus if she's a past lover of Dorian's.
• Lily will team up with "Lord Hyde" at some point as both want revenge on Victorian society for the mistreatment they suffered at the hands at European patriarchy.
• Dracula vs. Ethan at long last!
• Seward will develop witch powers.
• Catriona is the Time Traveler, or his daughter at least.
• Dracula's true form will be revealed.

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