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Unconfirmed
- If the Pride conspiracy has been going on in the show as long as it did in the comics, it's more likely that they were secretly evil all along. And as a master of the mystic arts, Tina would have been in the best position possible to keep their actions under the radar of the Sorcerer Supreme.
- Victor is confirmed to exist in the future, though it's unclear how he comes to be.
Which, really, can help explain Tina's different characterisations.Though Tina is initially presented as the most villainous member of the PRIDE, its apparent by the end of Season 1 that she's no more evil than the others and, with Amy's death and Jonah's threats prior to that, she had a decent Freudian Excuse. As the PRIDE are setting out to stop Jonah by the end of the season, its possible that they'll undergo a full Heel–Face Turn, and Tina, at the very least, will survive, albeit at the cost of everything.So, where does someone who's gifted with magic (albeit technologically-assisted magic) who lost everything end up? Joining the Masters of the Mystic Arts.
Confirmed
- Semi-confirmed. While Old Lace has feathers, it's still less than a real raptor.
- Basically confirmed, as Old Lace is specifically identified as a Deinonychus, which paleontologists have theorized had feathers.
- Seems like the case. The series is stretching the origin of the team out, so they haven't even spent that much time as, well, runaways yet.
- Confirmed; Xavin debuts in the second season.
- Confirmed. Jonah is Karolina's real father, but Leslie did want them to meet, at least at first.
- Confirmed: It's revealed in "Doomsday" that Leslie threw a bomb and called Tina letting her know it's done.
- Magic in the MCU frequently mingles with science-notably on Asgard where Thor said they are considered one and the same. It's entirely possible Alien science/tech can interact with wizardry.
- Confirmed in season 2.
- Confirmed.
- Semi-confirmed. He wants to free his entire nuclear family, which includes a daughter, son, and wife.
- Confirmed. He's a human who was given powers by the same rocks as Molly.
- Confirmed.
- Confirmed that some parents are killed by the end of the series, but not most of them. Robert and Angel are killed, while Janet Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence. All of the other parents live.
- Semi-confirmed, as he comes the closest to being a mole and sells out the team at one point, but it's not a permanent thing.
- Close, he does go back to the parents, but not until near the end of season 2.
Jossed
- No, they wouldn't, Tom Rothman.
- It's seen as an old man with cracked skin. Not a cloud but a far cry from giant animal-headed gods.
- Jossed. A leak of the first teaser/trailer shows someone (Molly?) with superstrength and also shows Karolina Dean in her Majestrian form.
- Jossed: The Yorkses and Hernandez both knew what was going down and Hernandezes got killed in the process.
- Jossed, as Molly clearly has her powers, but developed them without being exposed to a Terrigen crystal or being encased in a chrysalis as portrayed on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
- Unless her powers somehow manifested during puberty without needing to go into Terrigen.
- Still unlikely, because exposure to Terrigen is more or less the only accepted canon method of having one's Inhuman abilities manifest — though it's possible it happened prior to the events of the show and we just never saw it.
- In Episode 9 young Molly was exposed to glowy blue rocks from the dig site before her eyes flash yellow. It would be a new form, but Terrigen is not out of the question.
- Effectively jossed as of the series finale, as Molly's powers are never explicitly identified as Inhuman.
- Unless her powers somehow manifested during puberty without needing to go into Terrigen.
- Xavin could still be a Skrull, just a regular Skrull since it is the Super Skrulls who are tied up with the FF/Fox.
- With Skrulls officially appearing in Captain Marvel this line of reasoning is happily contradicted.
- Now that Marvel owns Fox Studios, the Skrulls are fair game for the MCU.
- Jossed in season 2, where she's identified as a Xartan.
- The MCU tends to be okay with people being called by their given names a lot of the time. Given that the comic characters were only associated with names like "Arsenic" and "Sister Grimm" for a very short time, there wouldn't be as much pressure to have them called those aliases.
- The way it works in the MCU is that that the characters officially have codenames, but the heroes interact mostly with people they are familiar enough with that they are on first/last name basis (either friends and allies, or villains for whom It's Personal). The Runaways in the comics did the same thing for the same reason; the kids are True Companions so calling each other by their code names would be wierd, and either their parents would know them from appearance (during the original miniseries) or they have no one outside the group that they need to keep a secret for (after that), so they had no reasons to try and keep a secret identity. All in all, there'sless of a chance they'll stick to their codenames in the MCU than in the comics.
- Jossed. The handles don't come up at all.
- ... they haven't yet, anyway.
- Ultimately jossed by the series finale, as they've never kept codenames.
- The way it works in the MCU is that that the characters officially have codenames, but the heroes interact mostly with people they are familiar enough with that they are on first/last name basis (either friends and allies, or villains for whom It's Personal). The Runaways in the comics did the same thing for the same reason; the kids are True Companions so calling each other by their code names would be wierd, and either their parents would know them from appearance (during the original miniseries) or they have no one outside the group that they need to keep a secret for (after that), so they had no reasons to try and keep a secret identity. All in all, there'sless of a chance they'll stick to their codenames in the MCU than in the comics.
- Jossed by the series finale, as Stark is never mentioned at any point.
- Nico Minoru: obviously with Doctor Strange (2016), since her mother appears in the movie. Maybe her mother was a more nice person...until Mordo decided to strip her of her powers or tortured her because he wanted the names and directions of her apprentices.
- Jossed. Tina's status as the same woman from the film is ...iffy.
- Alex Wilder: his parents were one of the many criminal families of New York or had associates there, but decided to get out of the city for very good and rational reasons.
- Jossed. Geoffrey's previous criminal career was in Los Angeles as a member of the Crips. Catherine is an Amoral Attorney, and this was her role in the past prior to the show.
- Karolina Dean: her mother would casually mention having a previous relationship with a Manchild with a ridiculous nickname before coming to Earth.
- It doesn't even seem like Leslie is an alien in this series.
- Gert Yorkers: her parents would be previously scientists of SHIELD that were charged with studying the Tesseract and ended without work after the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Old Lace is not a dinosaur but an alien animal that they accidentally summoned during an experiment and decided to take with them.
- Jossed. The couple are bioengineers who created Old Lace after joining the organization as a form of protection for Gert. No reference to SHIELD is made.
- Chase Stein: his parents worked on the military branch of Stark Industries until they lost their job when Tony closed that branch. For bonus points, it will be revealed that they were among the scientists that were berated by Odadiah Stane for fail to replicate Tony's Armor.
- Jossed. Victor is the CEO of his own successful company and Janet isn't linked to the science side of things.
- Molly Hernandez: her parents were civilians until they ate some fish oil supplements and everyone they knew began to see them as less than human. Or they were from Afterlife and escaped or were exiled before having Molly or when she was very little, making her ignorant of her heritage. However they still had with them some of the supplements or maybe even a Terrigen Crystal that Molly WILL end up using during the pilot or in the middle/ending of the First Season.
- Jossed.
- Victor Mancha: an LMD or Ultron Drone that gained true sentience. If he is an Ultron Drone, he has matured more than the original and really thinks like a human. The Runaways would be the first people he finds that at least hear his side of the story and he joins the group to atone for the sins of his creator.
- Jossed, as Victor never appears in the series but is confirmed to exist in the future.
- Xavin: a Chitauri that survived when Iron Man closed the Portal, he/she and others of his/her species had been hunted by SHIELD and HYDRA since the failed invasion, making him/her the Last of His Kind on Earth right now. This, however, will serve to Retcon the Chitaury into an entire Tragic Villain species: it will be revealed that Thanos conquered their planet and forced the survivors to be transformed into his soldiers. The reason they are Always Chaotic Evil is because they are completely aware of their situation, with Xavin being one of the few that hadn't turn insane. To make his/her situation more of a Tear Jerker, he/she is at the brick of taking his/her own life after all that has happened when the Runaways find him/her. To explain his/her powers, it would be revealed that the Chitauri had been experimented in the past by the Kree, making him/her a non-human Inhuman, and can change appearances because he/she stole a camouflage device similar to the used by Agent 33 from some HYDRA operatives.
- Jossed; Xavin is a Xartan in the series.
- Klara Prast: an Inhuman, Human Alien stranded on Earth and adopted or just a Gifted, she began to show powers at an early age and her parents thought they were antinatural, but knew that their neighbors would meddle if they tried to kill her, so they decided to marry her to a guy that could be her father to get rid of her. Now, there are two options about how to do this: 1) Klara exist in Present Day but lives in a community like the Amish, that likely don't have a clue about all that had happened in the world outside their village; and 2)the Runaways travel in time to 1907 and, when they discover her situation, take her with them. Hey, if they do 2) the 1) would be a very good excuse if they had to explain her behaviour to modern day people.
- Jossed, as Klara never appears in the series.
- Jossed, as this never happens throughout the series.
- Jossed. A body completely vanishes when put through the sacrifice and doesn't leave a corpse behind. There are still hints that Amy was murdered instead of the suicide that it appears to be, but it wasn't a sacrifice.
- Jossed. Amy learned about what was going on because she hacked into her mother's files without her knowledge, and is implied to have been murdered when she was caught.
- But wouldn't a tech genius like Tina know better than use her daughter's three-character name as a password for such sensitive material?
- Jossed. While Alex was lying about the password being "password", he knew the real password because Amy herself had hacked the system two years ago and Alex knew about it.
- He will probably die, doing something noble for his friends unlike in the comics.
- Jossed. He's never killed.
- Jossed. Jonah murdered Amy.
- Jossed, but the actual truth holds some surface similarities. Amy didn't discover the PRIDE conspiracy, but she tried hacking into her mom's servers, causing Jonah to murder her.
- Jossed, Topher has been cast for Season 2.
- And is a human given powers by the same rocks as Molly.
- Jossed. Both Jonah and Leslie have confirmed that Jonah is Karolina's real father.
- Jossed. She never appears again after the first season.
- Jossed. This never comes up.
- Jossed. He's Gibborim.
- if true, it would be a very long delay. The Fox / Disney merger still needs approval from the government as of the end of season 1.
- Jossed. The origin of her powers is never identified either way.
- Jossed, though she later appears in the Dark Dimension.
- Jossed, as Victor is eventually confirmed to exist with the same name.
- Jossed. Gibborim are a race, not a single being.
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- Jossed.
- The Runaways heading to Chase's secret hideout.
- This badass line from Alex, which may be either Foreshadowing or a Red Herring towards his comic death."If [being an adult] means turning into the people who raised us... I hope I die before I get old."
- Karolina, Nico, Alex and Chase stop a group of burglars who try to rob a convenience store.
- Cloak and Dagger's appearance (And subsequent mind erasure by the PRIDE).
- A Take That! towards Buffy the Vampire Slayer, if they bring in Topher or not.
- Molly ends up riding Old Lace, even spouting her comic line of having put her hat on the dinosaur."I PUT MY HAT ON OLD LACE!"
- Everyone else but Alex having fun with their powers in Chase's hideout, with Alex bemoaning that he is basically in hell after he has died.
- None of the above happened, so Jossed.
- Jossed, though there's some animosity lingering.
- Jossed. He is the final host of Jonah's family.
- This seems likely as he's beginning to be close to his dad.
- Confirmed, although Chase doesn't take his spot - instead, it seems that Frank Dean has the position of Mole this time.
- Double subverted in that Alex is revealed to be the final host of Jonah's family in season 3, and is shown to have an evil counterpart in the future, meaning he does become a mole of some sort.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Jossed. Alex does become a sort of mole later on, but he isn't responsible for Amy's death.
- Jossed.
- Jossed. Although she does go to him to learn about herself. Mid-season, she chose her friends, but was devastated when Nico killed him as revenge for Amy.
So eventually it all takes a toll on him, making him betray the group because they "made" him do it.
- Jossed. He doesn't become the mole, and the team starts to forgive him. Although he still made a few stupid mistakes.
This will lead to Alex being blamed but instead of becoming an enemy Alex will merely be consumed with guilt, sending him on a redemption Arc.
- Sort of yes, sort of no. Darius does give up Alex to his dad but he doesn't learn much else about the others.