- Doctor Holliday is Naomi, she uses nanites to artificially preserve her life, and keep her youthful.
- Providence is a finger of the Patriots
- Six is a clone of Gray Fox in a successful attempt to replicate the perfect soldier projects without the deaths of subjects or expenses of memory wipes.
- The event was not an accident, it was purposefully staged to bring the war economy closer to non-conflict areas. It was also an attempt to create an organic Metal Gear, because the costs of making one is more than merely growing one.
- Each EVO is an experimental organic Metal Gear, the designs for each of them are distributed randomly through SOP
- Van Kleiss is perhaps Vamp, motivated by the loss of his Dead Cell comrades, he has a similar goal to Big Boss towards creating a nation for soldiers.
- More to come
- Fun theories. But I think that's more like Fan Wank than something that would actually be true.
- But really, can't the same be said for just about any WMG?
- Fun theories. But I think that's more like Fan Wank than something that would actually be true.
- Robotnik is the last remnant of Providence trying to wipe out EVOs.
- ...and/or Rex's dad Put here solely because Van Kleiss said Rex was there when the Nanite Event happened.
- Alternately, Van Kleiss is Rex's Creepy Uncle because, seriously, the sequence where Van Kleiss's multiple robo-tentacles pierce Rex's stomach and drain him of nanites while Rex screams in pain was the rapiest example of cartoon techno-vampirism ever.
- All Jossed. He wasn't the head researcher or Rex's dad, though the uncle thing is still open.
- Rex's older brother. In "Dark Passage", Dr. Rylander tells Rex he has a brother, and that Rex's powers protected them both from the Nanite Event.
- Strangely enough, they both have red eyes, black hair, and sort of similar skin tones. could be a taller, gaunter Rex if you think about it.
- Doubtful. Rex has brown eyes. And he's Latino.
- Jossed.
- Alternately, Van Kleiss is Circe's father. Look at their hair and their eyes. They're the exact same!
- Or, perhaps, Breach's father. It goes along with the theory about the Pack belong. Plus, they both have pale skin and long black hair.
- Or...
- Strangely enough, they both have red eyes, black hair, and sort of similar skin tones. could be a taller, gaunter Rex if you think about it.
- Jossed. He was a minor lab tech before Rex ever got nanites.
- Zak Saturday grown up. Zak got turned into Van Kleiss of Generator Rex by the Nanite Event.
- Currently actually just a back up copy left in Abyssal. His real self is still in limbo in South America.
- Not Zak Saturday, but Zak Monday. The nanites brought him back from the dead, and reconstructed him to look more like Zak Saturday. Zak and the other Secret Scientists got stuck in Kiev and went EVO, or they would already have a cure for the nanites.
- Maybe Biowulf and Skalamander were a couple of the other scientists.
- This does seem to be the case, given how he acted in episode 9. Whether he was part of the project or one of the people funding it, is yet to be seen.
- Even more likely, now that Caesar has revealed more backstory. There were three scientists who wanted to weaponize the nanites back before The Accident, who were always left in shadow- probably them.
- If Van Kleiss is to believed, those three scientists may have been Caesar and his parents.
- Biowulf and Skalamander are Rex and Cesar's parents. Which is which is hard to tell at this point, but it is amusing to think of Biowulf being Mrs. Salazar with the lack of anything maternal in 'Wulf's manner. Of course they'd be amnesiac from their mutations since Biowulf threw her de-powered son out of an flying vehicle in one episode.
- As of "Promises, Promises", the "formerly dangerous and evil EVO" part has been confirmed. His Superpowered Evil Humongous Mecha Side fell apart after one battle with Providence, and amnesia-stricken Rex stumbled out of the debris.
- Alternately/Relatedly: Rex is a Tyke Bomb creation of Van Kleiss and or Providence, the unwitting Patient Zero and trigger of the nanite event, and possibly even Van Kleiss's biological son. Combining a bunch of the above and below theories: Van Kleiss was a scientist with Providence or it's direct rival. He injected a specially chosen or genetically engineered child, either his clone or biological son, with the nanites, as part of an experiment. Things either went horribly wrong, or horribly right, and now Providence may be using their own progeny to set right what once went wrong.
- This may tie into Rex's name. If he was the first viable host/growth medium for replicatable nanites, his designation might've been Generator X.
- Maybe Generators IX, VIII, VII, and so on are out there somewhere
- Jossed. He predates Providence, and Van Kleiss was evidently a nobody before the accident.
- But does he predate the Nanite Experiment? The Age Gap between Rex and Cesar seems large, if Cesar can just pop out of the timestream for 5 years and still come back older than Rex.
- This may tie into Rex's name. If he was the first viable host/growth medium for replicatable nanites, his designation might've been Generator X.
- A mutant. His ability to control machines isn't the result of his nanites, its a genetic mutation that allows him to control them. That's why his nanite constructs break down when his emotions do, even though other EVOs don't seem to have that problem.
- Rex might not be an EVO, his nanites could still be dormant, he is just controlling them with his powers.
- Alternatively, Rex and Van Kleiss, or rather, the real Rex and Van Kleiss were both killed during the event, and reanimated by the nanites. Rex was already infected before the event, and Van Kleiss somehow caused the event, which exposed him to the version 2 nanites. Most of Rex's brain and body were fried, and so the "nanite Rex" can only recall a few residual memories of the original. Considering what happened to a character with a similar powerset to Rex's...
- Rex is a creation of the scientists he considers his parents and Cesar. In that way, they really are his parents.
- Confirmed! Seen in a flashback in "Promises, Promises". However, it seems to be a Superpowered Evil Side, possibly brought about by untreated Phlebotinum Overload. If it happens again, it will likely NOT be awesome.
- Related Theory: Rex will be able to Mega Man. He absorbs Nanites, so it's probably going to happen at some point.
- Possibly leading to the above Humongous Mecha guess?
- Jossed, at least for now. Stated directly, in the preview for episode 6, in which he can't take on any more nanites, or he'll suffer some sort of catastrophic overload.
- Whose to say he won't try to overcome this? His abilities and obvious critical ties to the "Event" make him probably the most powerful being on earth, so it's very well posssible he'll hone his absorbing abilities to do even greater feats.
- Possibly leading to the above Humongous Mecha guess?
- Rex has some new uber-Nanite now; probably some new programs/powers in there.
- Related Theory: Rex will be able to to create new EVOs by reversing the polarity of his "shutting them down" power.
- Jossed But only by half. Doesn't this sound more like something Van Kleiss would do?
- Alternately, his wife died in the Nanite Event.
- He just ''doesn't like to talk about it (the past).
- Or...
- A real Zombie Advocate Type. Not the weird version Van Kleiss is trying to pass himself off as.
- They will demand that the Bug Jar be opened.
- Or No-Face from the Bug Jar got out and is actually leading them.
- Semi-Comfirmed: The Green Thumb, which appears "Outpost"
- Van Kleiss will use this to turn Rex against Circe, especially post the events of Alliance.
- The primary backer/corporate supervisor of the research that lead to the Nanite Explosion. If he's not an astronaut, he must have known or been paranoid enough about the work the scientists under him were doing to be Crazy-Prepared for a worst case scenario that, in fact, came to pass.
- The very first person Rex cured. I have no idea how this could work, but it'd add a certain layer to their dynamic.
- Partly confirmed. He's not the first, but Rex is responsible for White Knight losing his nanites.
- It's headed to find someone who it knows hates Rex: Van Kleiss. Eventually, though, it will try again to destroy all nanites worldwide, forcing Rex and Van Kleiss to work together to stop it.
- How's Rex supposed to warn Providence about ZAG-RS without revealing the secret of the Hidden Engineer Village?
- What if ZAG-RS contacts White Knight? And tells him it can destroy all nanites, without mentioning the "it will kill every living thing on Earth" part?
- Worse, what if ZAG-RS busts out and contacts Hunter Cain? He doesn't even believe that Nanites are in everything.
- Rex made the point that he would expose the village for the good of the planet.
- And ZAG-RS is an evil AI; what's to stop it from lying, or at least witholding parts of the truth?
- This is confirmed to have happened in the episode Gravity. Of course it's unknown if Rex was successful this time in stopping the crazed AI or not.
- Worse, what if ZAG-RS busts out and contacts Hunter Cain? He doesn't even believe that Nanites are in everything.
- That's why White didn't sound too surprised to hear that something like it existed.
- Who else could have made it?
- As it turns out, Caesar.
- She was crazy and delusional enough to believe that once she showed Rex her dollhouse, he'd fall in love with her and gladly be her boyfriend/plaything. For no reason other then this WMG makes the episode "Breach" that much creepier.
- Also, one of the reasons she acted independently (other then the fact that Van Kleiss would most likely disapprove) was because she was jealous of Circe and wanted to piss her off. (The next sentence is spoilered to protect tropers from the possible need for Brain Bleach.) After she escaped Providence and got Rex to love her by any means nessacary, she planned to sneak into Circe's room while she was sleeping, stand over her bed and stare intently at her face until she woke up, then whisper menacingly "I hit that."
- ...With her arms? ALL FOUR OF THEM!?
- (The next sentence, while spoilered to avoid spoiling the previous entry, will hopefully remove aforementioned need for Brain Bleach.) Deep down, a part of Breach was hoping that Circe would smile and say "Well, why don't you hit the other half?" And then they'd make out while Skalamander played saxophone in the background.
- And then the security guard on the other end of the camera sees what's happening...
- Four arms, two of which are giant, would certainly make for an interesting time.
- ...ow, I just got Mood Whiplash.
- Also, one of the reasons she acted independently (other then the fact that Van Kleiss would most likely disapprove) was because she was jealous of Circe and wanted to piss her off. (The next sentence is spoilered to protect tropers from the possible need for Brain Bleach.) After she escaped Providence and got Rex to love her by any means nessacary, she planned to sneak into Circe's room while she was sleeping, stand over her bed and stare intently at her face until she woke up, then whisper menacingly "I hit that."
- Think about it. He's the only EVO so far to not have Magic Pants; other than possibly being a nudist, which isn't too likely in such an urban area, there are very few reasons to be naked in the middle of the day. Ergo, he may have been showering when his nanites went nutso.
- Hence his Sunglasses at Night, but he has a few active Nanites that enhance his other senses to the point that it doesn't matter.
- That's a rather interesing theory. Though we'll have to wait and see if he indeed has a reason for hiding his eyes. It's possible he's got a Cyclops thing going on.
- If he's blind, he's not compensating with nanite powers, since it's been proven that he's not an EVO. He may just be a Handicapped Badass though.
- Or, maybe he's blind and his sunglasses are a high-tech device that lets him see!
- Jossed. He takes his sunglasses off in Divide by Six. They're perfectly normal sunglasses, and he has perfectly normal eyes.
- This makes him more badass than he was before.
- That's a rather interesing theory. Though we'll have to wait and see if he indeed has a reason for hiding his eyes. It's possible he's got a Cyclops thing going on.
- In the early parts of the episode when Rex is asking Holiday where the hell he is, Breach said "its a school...but its not a school...but its a school". Now, one would think she's referring to the school being her creepy psycho dollhouse, but when it shown the whole town is in her pocket dimension, it doesn't really make sense. And why Greenville, Ohio, out of every place in the U.S. (other than the fact that Ohio is just plain freaky). The realization for this troper came when he remembered how in one work of media there was a quote of someone saying "they sent me away to schools, and hospitals disguised as schools", etc. Its possibly that Breach was already looney before she got infected with nanites (think about it tropers, it is possible for any criminal or serial killer in the world to "pop" in the world of Generator Rex), sent to the Boarding School of Horrors which was actually an juvenile insane asylum (Hey, is there a trope for that, because I've seen it many times already). When she got her powers, Bleach took the entire town because it was the closest thing to "home" she's ever had.
- ...Contains a blueprint of the original, stable nanites and all of Dr. Rylander's research. Hence that infuriatingly cryptic comment about "Everything". As Rex gets more attuned with his nanites, he'll be able to read it — and then he'll know everything. Or at least Rylander's take on it.
- ...Is a treatment for Rex's recurring amnesia. Either to prevent it from happening again or to restore all of his memories.
- Will convert all nanites Rex come in contact with into his stable variant. Note how Rylander was obsessed not with eliminating the nanites, but with fixing them. Presumably there's a trigger of some sort; either a place, a phrase, or a certain concentration of nanites absorbed by Rex.
- ...Will be the next big bad after Van Kleiss is taken care of If he's not taken care of now. Possible rage of jealousy of his brother being pumped full of "good" nanites?
- It will most likely be either someone we already know in the story, or else someone introduced as an independant character before The Reveal. Shows love this kind of drama.
- Maybe Rex's brother is Van Kleiss.
- Or Noah. Contradicts some WMG's on this page, but adds to other ones. It's an idea...
- OR Rex's brother is Circe afterall the nano changes could manifest in all sorts of ways, not to mention how amusing Rex's reaction would be. don't look at me that way this is WILD mass guessing
- Or Biowulf.
- All Jossed. The brother, Caesar, was one of the scientists, previously absent from the setting due to relativistic time dilation of his fast-moving lab-escape pod, and is a kooky-but-kind positive figure.
- Really? He struck me more as a Cloud Cuckoolander with a bit of a ruthless streak, and very protective of Rex.
- Actually, it isn't jossed just yet. Caesar might just end up being the next Big Bad...
- Wouldn't White Knight have done some sort of background check?
- Maybe that's part of the deal. Noah wants to forget about the whole thing, and he asked White Knight to lie about his identity. In return, he would befriend Rex.
- I think we can joss this theory, as episode 11 Operation: Wingman showed Noah in what appears to be his own house, and nothing seems to suggest he's alone.
- If I remember correct, he could still be living with his mom. So it's still a possible theory.
- Plus, his concern for a scholarship (in "Rampage") implies financial problems, which seems more like a problem for a household with only one income generator than two.
- If this WMG is correct (keyword, if), it may be possible then that Nixon is Noah's mother's maiden name.
- His exact words were: "I'm not who you want me to be", that is not the same as "I'm not your father", in fact almost sounds like he is running away out of guilt. And it's completely possible that he was lying to Rex when he said he didn't know about his dad.
- Somewhat supported by the fact that he he named Rex.
- Maybe Rex and his brother were homeless kids. That's why Rylander got to name Rex, and why he became Patient Zero, because who's going to miss a couple of sick, homeless children?
- Somewhat supported by the fact that he he named Rex.
- Jossed by Caesar, Rex's brother.
- Alright, lets review the facts, shall we. Rex can cure any EVO that wants to be cured. If an EVO does not want to be cured, then it can block Rex. If Dr. Holiday's sister had become so far gone that she had lost her mind, it would make sense for Rex to be able to cure her. But if Dr. Holiday's sister still had enough of her mind left, and for some reason liked being an EVO (This troper has no idea why, maybe she's on the borderline between sane and off the deep end or something. Though it was kind of odd how smart Holiday's sister was as a supposedly non-sapient EVO, and how she didn't harm any of her victims). Because she doesn't want to be cured, Rex can't cure her, and because she can't talk, they have no way of telling that she wants to be that way, and so would think she was 'incurable'.
- Jossed She's cured in "A Family Holiday" and appears to be happy that she's normal again.
- The Pack and Rex aren't anomalies because they stay in control, they're anomalies because their transformations don't hurt. Most of the EVOs of the week are in painful transformations that cloud their entire sense of reason.
- Or, remember how Rex couldn't control himself when he overloaded with nanites? Maybe The 'insane' EVOs just had too many nanites activate all at once.
- Meaning the key isn't how smart you are, or how strong your personality is, just how many nanites activated.
- Does that mean that, if Rex took away just enough Nanites, they would be like Skalamander and Biowolf?
- Or, remember how Rex couldn't control himself when he overloaded with nanites? Maybe The 'insane' EVOs just had too many nanites activate all at once.
- A really interesting way to bring Van Kleiss back would be to have those Nanites fly over Abysus and reform him.
- That be pretty neat, and certainly would make killing him harder if it became a new ability of his.
- A really interesting way to bring Van Kleiss back would be to have those Nanites fly over Abysus and reform him.
- Both of them are the stoic Only Sane Man of their teams, have number-based names, and their trademak Sunglasses at Night. It makes sense!
- Except Nigel in permanently bald...
- The hair is actually a tattoo done by a really good artist.
- Or the Nanites did it.
- Or he discovered Rogaine somewhere along the path to adulthood.
- Except Nigel in permanently bald...
- Both nanites and Dark eco share an ability to warp and mutate.Only one can control it.
- So everyone eventually turned into elves and Ottsels?
- At the end of the second episode, Six comments that eventually Meechum will talk about what Van Kleiss wanted with him. Meechum hasn't been discussed since that episode. Whatever he knows, it is vital to Kleiss's Evil Plan and it will be revealed soon before Kleiss reaches that critical point in his plan.
- Confirmed. He's one of the scientists from the original Nanite Event. How he survived isn't stated, but give the age of his daughter its entirely possible he was on paternity leave (up to two years isn't unheard of in Europe)
- Van Kleiss=vampire
- Biowulf=werewolf
- Skalamander=dragon
- Circe=siren
- Her pale complexion and malnourished appearance could suggest a zombie.
- Or, given her schoolgirl looks, she's based off a Japanese spirit. An onryo, to be more specific.
- Skalamander is more of a Lizard Man to me.
- Rex said she was cute and nice. More than once.
- Not only that, at the end of the Wingman episode, after a little aruging, Rex implied he would go out with Annie if Noah asked Claire out again.
- Certainly would make for an interesting Love Triangle if Circe came into the picture again while Rex is seen with Annie.
- Or what if it was BREACH who came back instead?
- Alternatively Rex will start spending more time with Annie, Breach will come back and be locked up at Providence where Rex will occasionally visit her, and Cricket will join Providence to be closer to Rex. And THEN Circe will come back.
- OR Breach will get to him first, get rid of Circe through a portal, and grudgingly share with Cricket, who seems nice enough. All doing this while Van Kleiss and Quarry plan their evil schemes.
- There's also Green Fist Girl to compete with now. I think it has the Dating Catwoman elements, but less with the mortal enemies bit, more with the dating.
- And one of them may be either in the Pack or a character we haven't seen yet.
- The episode was released on YouTube and it is said that Cain had a wife, but she turned EVO.
- It's why he doesn't trust Providence or Rex, when his family went EVO, they weren't there and he had to kill them.
- He had a wife, as said above, but she turned EVO. It was never said if he killed her himself. But this could contribute to his distrust for Providence, because he said to Rex, "You push hope when there isn't any."
- It also explains why he refuses to admit that EVOs can be cured, he's trying to convince himself that killing her was the only thing that could be done and there was no other option or chance she would be saved.
- Her nanites project some sort of energy field around her that distorts probability, causing her to be a walking bad luck charm. Unfortunately, she can't turn it off, and probably doesn't even realize what's going on.
- This troper can't be the only one who thought that SHE was the bunny, and changed when angered. Then of course, I'm sure many imagined Rex giving her one it's feet for good luck.
- In Rabble its mentioned that Rex wasn't able to use any of his Shapeshifter Weapons when he was with the other EVOs the last time. And seeing that the people who made Generator Rex made another series with a chronic case of New Powers as the Plot Demands, it seems like this might happen to Generator Rex as well.
- Basically, its possible that something really bad happened to Rex's brother before the series began, turning him into an EVO and possibly a future Big Bad. As Rex tries to unearth his past after each successive memory loss, he finds out about his brother, tracks him down, and BAM! Right back to square one.
- Being trapped at Ground Zero during the Nanite Event fused Rex and his brother into one body. Their shared brain can't retain two sets of memories, so whenever one of them takes control, the other one loses their memories and "goes to sleep" until the next time they switch.
- Wouldn't that mean his brother is evil, since he would have sold out the group in "Rabble?"
- Yes.
- This just blew my mind.
- Being trapped at Ground Zero during the Nanite Event fused Rex and his brother into one body. Their shared brain can't retain two sets of memories, so whenever one of them takes control, the other one loses their memories and "goes to sleep" until the next time they switch.
- All Jossed. Rex's brother has been in relativistic time-dilation since The Incident, and only 15 minutes of busy hotwiring have passed for him- he isn't responsible for any of what has happened since the initial event.
- When a person (or animal/plant/whatever) "pops", the newly activated nanites within their body immediately search for other active nanites, which, unfortunately, are only found in large numbers in EVOs. If an existing EVO is within range, that's set as "normal" and the body is modified to that form. If there isn't an EVO in range, the mutations made using data from the trace amounts of active environmental nanites.
- Wait, in that case wouldn't Hunter Cain be right?
- Check the part about "trace amounts of active environmental nanites". If this theory's right, the safest thing for everyone is to hang out with EVOs who kept their minds, and hope the relevant code gets passed on if you "pop". Er, no, wait, the safest thing is to carry a blood sample from a sane EVO, or anything carrying their active nanites in a form that newly activated nanites can access.
- Wait, in that case wouldn't Hunter Cain be right?
- Think about it. According to the EVO street rats, he was able to cure EVOs even back then. But we know from the episode "Frostbite" that this involves absorbing an EVO's active nanites, and if he absorbs too many, Body Horror happens. Providence treats him by removing the extra nanites, but what happened before he joined Providence?
- See the 'Van Kleiss is Rex's Excess nanites' WMG
- His powers would go out of control and he would turn into a biomechancal Humongous Mecha.
- He'll go EVO, and Rex will save him. There are none so fanatical as a new convert.
- Or, His wife, who is being detained by Providence as an Uncurable, can be cured by Rex's new Super Nanite.
- So far, seems to be Jossed.
- But what if being fused with Rylander was what ''changed'' Van Kleiss' nanites?
- Jossed, since Rylander ended up getting brought back separately from Van Kleiss.
- But what if being fused with Rylander was what ''changed'' Van Kleiss' nanites?
- The episode with Cane actually takes place sometime after Gravity. Because of the damage she suffered in the previous episode, ZAG is unable to be a serious threat on her own, so she gave Hunter the blueprints to creat the EVO killing weapons (which seem similar to what ZAG was planning with the nanite suppressent in Gravity) and sent him out to do her dirty work. Eventually, ZAG would have betrayed Hunter, revealing that he was indeed infected with Nanites and would have to die.
- We know he has connections to the first one, after all, and he did say that now he'd be using his intellect, calling it his "most dangerous weapon". What could be mroe intellectual than developing a new nanite strain?
- He's the lead singer of Orange, the band that made the show's themesong. Once he reunites with his band, their song will bring the world to its knees....
- She's a really good spy, sent by White Knight to gather intel on Van Kleiss. Catching Rex's attention was just a bonus. note
- Oh boy, if that's the case, Rex is either going to have a major Heroic BSoD or do something really stupid to blow her cover if found out and tried to contact her.
- Every piece of technology used by Providence(guns, airships, space elevators, power armor, robots, buildings, nuclear weapons) looks like it's made out of cheap plastic. Either the economy is far worse after the nanite incident or White Knight keeps an iron fist on the purse strings.
- Because it's 20 Minutes into the Future, everything looks like an iPod. Except the the animation style of Gen Rex makes it look like plastic instead of metal.
- Supported by Caesar, who comments that the console in their main ship is made by a company that does good work, but its stuff is known to overload and explode.
- Seriously, what use is he gonna use a knife with sentimental value for?
- ...cutting Holiday's cake?
- Trying to cut Holiday's cake. For all we know it snapped on the attempt.
- See the "Agent Six will soon turn into an incredibly powerful EVO, forcing Rex to kill him" WMG above.
- As a sidenote, Six is supposed to kill Rex if He becomes insane, right? Maybe Six is supposed to kill himself right after he's killed Rex?
- ...cutting Holiday's cake?
- It would explain why they didn't have any established ties and were just swooping in and snatching up EVOs. Knight was the leader, but allowed for the scientists and Dr. Fell to carry on whatever research they wanted. But as seen in "Promises, Promises", we know that there was a big regime change.
- And be working with ZAG-RS, and possibly even Hunter Kain. They'll form a competitor to Providence, and lead a campaign that will have Rex and the others scrambling worse than when Kain was on the loose. ZAG will remain their little secret, much like Rex was for Providence, and obviously plot the destruction of everyone, including her two 'collaboraters'.
- Alternatively, Fell could be the one who designed Kain's weaponry as a means of getting back for getting the boot.
- Turning EVO gave him fur and opposable toes. He just poses as a talking chimp to escape any responsibility.
- The Librarian?
- Jossed. Robobobo reveals that Bobo was a Chimp before and after going EVO.
- Rex still sounds unconvinced by his alleged origin story.
- Considering that he seemed interested in the nanites for their monetary value, and considering who's in the market for active nanintes, it seems quite possible.
- Certainly a possibility. Though it'd be pretty funny if they turn out to be related. I mean, both basically had similar powers (mechanical arms), only Lock could make both arms change, and may not have regenerative powers like Van Kleiss used to.
- They both seem to have British accents. Besides, he could have been doing favors for him, such as getting those nanites. And since when do you see more than one British villain in the same show that isn't related with someone?
- Rex is known to have a brother that he saved with his powers. Possibly some nanites transferred over in the process?
- Both Gatlocke and Rex have the ability to generate machines out of their bodies at will, while almost all other EVO mutations are Body Horror based.
- What better way to hide a plot critical character than disguising them as a one shot villain in a filler episode?
- To this Troper, it seemed more like Gatlocke was a cyborg with artificial arms, especially since he couldn't repair the hand Rex tore off. That's also why I think he made the comment 'I've got EVO-envy!' as in, he would like to be an EVO, but isn't. Gatlocke is one of my favorite characters in recent media, though.
- Jossed.
- Pretty sure Van Kleiss said so in the first episode.
- I though the location of The Event was in South America? Where the rest of the research facility was?
- Confirmed. The research facility was in Abysus; the lab in South America was evidently a newer sublab Rylander set up after escaping.
- His suit power supply is presumably internalized and is definitely insulated against nanites. Rex's shutdown wouldn't hamper his performance.
- Bravo sir, for saying what no one else had the guts to say.
- I don't get it...
- The next episode, "Divided by Six", is supposedly about Agents Five through One going EVO.
- They met Five, IV, Trei, Dos, and (technically) One. So...confirmed?
- The 'sixth deadliest man in the world' was just a rumor made by Bobo.
- A false one, because everyone knows he's number one.
- Apparently Six IS the sixth deadliest man in the world. However, deadliest isn't the same as most skilled...
- Hey, that's true enough. It takes a lot of training (often years; months if you're some sort of prodigy) to master sword techniques, but using it is only as deadly as the extent of the sword wielder's reach. Firearms can wreak much more death and destruction over a much wider area, but one can attain basic proficiency with them in weeks (for example, the US Army Basic Combat Training is nine weeks) or even days.
- Deadliness probably also encompasses not just the ability to kill, but the willingness to do so. Six seems to have more restraint than many of his brothers-in-arms when it comes to the use of lethal force
- This is actually a very credible theory. Bravo for putting it up. For any who would accuse White Knight of Fantastic Racism remember that he only ever said he didn't trust anything with nanites, he never said he hated them. And not trusting anyone with nanites is a very sensible and logical practice, when you remember they could turn at any minute.
- Would be more plausible if he didn't keep throwing the word 'Freak' around.
- And that this makes the least sense of any WMG i've read recently
- Would be more plausible if he didn't keep throwing the word 'Freak' around.
- I'm gonna have to call Straw Vulcan here. Logic and rationality don't work that way. There have been many instances of him showing irrational behavior, nor does being purely "logical or rational" render one incapable of understanding emotion or basic social convention. In fact, his alienation of his subordinates actually proves that he's behaving irrationally. What you've described is a lack of empathy, which is independent of rationality. Many serial killers, sociopaths with a proven lack of empathy, manage to avoid detection for so long because they were rational enough to analyze and understand basic social protocol and human emotions, and react appropriately to them even if they didn't truly empathize. Many of them were even described by neighbors are friendly and charming. Contrast White Knight's behavior where he has — time and again — pigheadedly acted in a way that only caused Rex to rebel further, even though the rational option would be to try and reason with Rex instead of bludgeoning him with authority since even a cursory analysis of all of Rex's previous behavior should clearly indicate that he responds better when he's allowed some leeway than when he's held on a tight leash.
- Alright, I will accept the charges of Straw Vulcan and admit I spoke of things I didn't really know about. However, I would like to maintain the core of my WMG : that accident did something to the Knight's mind. Took out part of his emotional side, made him extremely 'cold', made him near incapable of empathy. If you've played the video game The Longest Journey, I base the whole thing on the character of Gordon Haloway : bleached skin and hair, cold as ice, rid of his emotions by magic.
Honestly, nobody would bat an eye if Breach got some ultra-sympathetic backstory, and with such sympathy, comes a much greater chance for redemption. Taking into account her Ensemble Dark Horse status and the fact that this is a kid's show, its a lot less likely that redemption would happen in the traditional fashion
- Like Peter and the Giant Chicken? Maybe it started out as small rabbit he tried to hunt in the slums of Hong Kong that went EVO?
- Whoa, this actually ended up semi-confirmed. It's a family of giant evil rabbits instead of a single individual, but yeah.
It wasn't DNA on the Marker, but nanites. Providence discovered, and sealed up the Marker, then destroyed all records of its existence after discovering they didn't have the technology to destroy it.
They for the most part give the affected person a twisted version of what they want when they were infected. Here are theories as to what I think their wish is
- Rex = Wanted to escape guilt from somthing
- Van Kleiss/ No face = Become a leader
- Breach = Wanted to travel
- Circe = To be a singer and attract boys
- Noah = Wanted to be be free to have fun when he wanted
- Random beasts = to not be hunted by predators
- Purple guy in a suit = He was a glutton
My only reasons for this is that both Cricket and Hinata are Shrinking Violets with feelings for the main characters and Man Of Action shows have had many Naruto references before.
- Six's handle is because he is the sixth most deadly person in the world, which is also due to his insane physical abilities. Also, Serge was referring to Six's stoic nature and the fact that he followed orders without thinking for himself, as a machine would.
- But he does think for himself before following orders
- Not as far as Serge knew. He only knew Six for a few minutes, which were spent by Six considering how to best destroy Serge's home basically.
- Jossed, at least as far as Rex knew, who commented in "Waste Land" when Six tells him that this Sea-Urchin would have killed a normal Person, 'You know WAY too much about stuff that can kill you, Six.'
- Jossed. Six reveals in "Divide By Six" that One took him in as a child, which is why he's so loyal.
- Related Theory: He and Circe will join the Green Fist, allowing more Dating Catwoman moments for Circe and Rex, and giving Rex and No Face a chance to work together.
- Rex, Six, Bobo and possibly Holiday will go AWOL after Providence crosses the line in their crusade to rid the world of the "EVO menace". They will then not only have to fight rouge EVOs, but a highly militant Providence with a nice bounty on their heads. Along the way, they'll meet and team up with various good EVOs for a later Gondor Calls for Aid moment in the finale. White Knight may or may not struggle with the direction Providence is taking, and if he does have a Heel Realization, he will be promptly replaced with someone worse with the last name "King."
- Certainly would be intesting. Of course, don't forget that Rex (and Bobo, to some extent) are quite chummy with most of Providence, so it could wind up they have to go on the run, but eventually regain a foothold with the soldier they've befriended over time.
- So it would become a case of the Big Bad Government vs Rebels who have the sympathy of the Big Bad Government foot soldiers? Real Life Much?
- Certainly would be intesting. Of course, don't forget that Rex (and Bobo, to some extent) are quite chummy with most of Providence, so it could wind up they have to go on the run, but eventually regain a foothold with the soldier they've befriended over time.
- Confirmed. After the time skip, Black Knight takes over Providence and directly opposes Rex. Or rather, Rex opposes her.
- Maybe it's a shout-out, but the color was changed for less legal hassle in the future.
- If you mean original Ben 10, then that'd be a fun What-if scenario. Otherwise... no, I'd rather see Rex go anywhere near that traninwreck that claims to be Ben now.
- Definitely original Ben, unless it's a Take That Me Bizarro Episode with it's tongue firmly planted on the cheek.
- I don't see hot it could be a Take That Me, since Man Of Action had nothing to do with the later reincarnations.
- Confirmed. It will be part of the GR continuity. It's going to be interesting to see how Man Of Action writes aged-up Ben.
- Definitely original Ben, unless it's a Take That Me Bizarro Episode with it's tongue firmly planted on the cheek.
- Six revealed a few seconds later that the Providence soldiers would NOT have dropped him off had he asked. But if he was able to discern that so quickly, then you're right, something about Cesar makes him savvy.
- Seems like we do have good reason to have suspicions. If Written in Sand is any indication, he certainly seems to be full of secrets. Though I wonder if he might be possible suffering from a sort of split personality.
- Confirmed-ish. While Caesar does work for Providence (Which has undergone a FaceāHeel Turn), it's hard to call him 'bad'. The mind control collars are a genuinely good idea.
- With Noah, who is top 4 in his class WHILE hanging out with Rex tutoring him, he'll adjust in no time!
- This is in a lot of fanfics, I'm just saying.
The biggest question is, will the game be a hard T, or suffer from the dreaded restraint of an E rating? We know the series is far from kid friendly (at least little kids), but it'd be a shame if Rex is just smashing robots half the time and not dealing with any major threats. Conversly, it would be nice to see a hardcore game that doesn't rely on just mindless blood and gore to be good.
- Problem is the game would just be Prototype !FOR KIDS or Prototype Lite, though if it improved on that game's many drawbacks (ugly graphics and annoying mission design most notably), it could dance around The Problem With Lisenced Games. Personally I'd think Cel Shaded graphics would be really nice.
- Huh? The graphics in Prototype weren't that bad (granted not nearly as polished as inFAMOUS, but chalk that up to it being made concurrent for two systems). But it still could be fairly violent (long as Rex's enemies are monsters with non-red goo blood). But you never know, hopefully they'll be bold with this and actually break the curse on licensed games based on cartoon (and I mean, if Batman could, then why shouldn't Rex?)
- It's possible. I mean, if the Chupacabra is real in this world, who's to say that a Cthullu expy isn't far off?
- Certainly a possibility. Though the show probably won't be able to say anything like that. Though they could at least imply it, if Cricket ever gets a second appearance.
- At the very least it would mean everyone would be in good health with diseases like HIV and cancers kept down by the reprogrammed nanites.
- Personally, I think Caesar and his parents were the scientists who wanted to use Rex as a weapon. It would make a nice twist, no?
- So maybe ZAG-RS really is their mother with her mind uploaded into the machine? That'd be pretty crazy.
- I'm figuring it'll go down in one of two ways: Cesar is playing The Chess Master, and is doing a bang up job pretending to be Cloud Cuckoo Lander. Or He really is whacked out of his gourd and is suffering from split mind, where one half is the friendly but clueless brother, while the other is a cold hearted bastard who makes Van Kleiss look like Jesus.
- Who's to say he isnt a Cloud Cuckoo Lander and The Chess Master, the two don't have to be mutually exclusive. That's why Bunny-Ears Lawyer exists.
- Personally, I believe he's a genuinely sick (as in having a pyschological disorder) individual.
- Seems to me he is just a Badass Bookworm with ADD.
- There's also the unidentified Providence traitor that Van Kleiss was in contact with at the beginning of "Payback." We never did learn his identity, anyway...
- Jossed as of A Family Holiday—Holiday's sister's name is revealed as Beverly, and she seems to be around Rex's age.
Rex will probably kill Van Kleiss for real, leaving Circe traumatised and mentally fractured. Using her powers to their full extent, she'll seize control of the Pack and all other Evo's in Abysus and use them to try crush Rex and Providence as revenge.
- Not possible or likely considering the current status quo.
Because the man's entire schtick is that EVOs cannot be permanently cured, which Beverly clearly shows to be the case. He may not believe she's cured or may not even care. Expect an all-out war between him and Rex's crew, especially Doc Holliday.
... a Flawless Victory for Van Kleiss and the Pack. Quarry's abduction is another part of a master plan that Van Klyce is brewing up, a plan that started when he stole that reactor back in the first episodes. The Pack didn't really want that weapon, they just needed to 'get' Quarry for that master plan. Breach's last smirk to the viewer wasn't seen by Rex & Co, and wasn't an animation mistake either. She was simply satisfied with a mission that went perfectly as planned, the personalities of each of the pawns exploited to their full potential, the Pack off with what they wanted, and Providence not having a clue of what's really going on.
- Jossed by the episode 'Remote Control'. Quarry was in Van Kleiss' custody and the leader of the Pack apparently broke him apart as punishment for his stunt in Honk-Kong. So it was indeed an epic fail on Breach's part.
Two of the three scientists that wanted to weaponize Rex, because they were seen in his dream in Frostbite and they look exactly the same as the EVOs in the garden when the sequence changes... or they could be Violeta and Rafael Salazar, just 'cause.
The nanites were supposed to repair damage and cure diseases, but the code that restricts them to the organism's baseline is faulty. Instead of just restoring their host to a healthy state, they go further and try to "improve" the organism. The EVO's practically always turn into oversized predators because, from the nanites' perspective, bigger, stronger and more dangerous is a logical improvement for the host. The EVO's are superstrong, superfast and often take on forms based on their environment, such as the desert priest who transformed into a cactus-like creature and the fisherman who became an aquatic EVO, and they often gain superhuman powers, like Breach's portals or Circe's screams. This is especially clear with animal EVO's like the beetles in "The Swarm": being bigger, stronger and faster at reproducing, they can outcompete normal bugs and take their ecological place. Each person and creature's nanites, once they "pop", try to improve the host as much as they possibly can. It's just that the human mind often can't withstand the process, so most EVO's turn out as mindless beasts (which the nanites, only being programmed to repair the body, don't worry about).
- Also, Rex's Nanites had their programing completed, and ended up with superpowers anyway. So it's possible that improving the base organism was part of it from the beginning, but the nanites take that too far too.
Rex Salazar. And she was used to remove Rex's excess nanites prior to the event. Or had some sort of affiliation with Rex.
Caused Rex's blackouts. He was able to gain control over Rex's nanites and somehow wipe his memory like he probably did ZAG-RS's. Rex witnessed Cesar cause The Event, and at the last minute his older brother wiped his memory in fear of being found out. Cesar then proceeded to get on his spaceship. He also wiped ZAG-RS's memory because she held harmful data... or something.
This is why some EVOs merely gain superpowers and don't mutate into a monster. Ones like Bobo and Circe are infected by a mix of fully programmed Nanites like Rex and unprogrammed Nanites like everyone else, the programmed ones preventing them from being completely mutated. Van Kless is probably infected simularly, but when he was revived, his programmed ones were corrupted, letting Rex cure him.
After the disaster that was the negoitiations with No Face, Van Kleiss decided his next partner should be firmly under his thumb before the talks could begin. So after learning of Quarry's past connection to Rex, he had Breach give him the oppurtonity to wreck some havoc "against the deal", and when Providence cracked down, Abbysus would be a saviour by either saving him, or sparing him when Rex left him for the wolves to punish for his rebellion, discouraging future bad conduct. Learning where the treacherous Circe was is a bonus whose use will be determined at a later date.
- And Van Kleiss will find him before Providence does.
- Turns out Van Kleiss either revived him, or found him sometime before Providence came to search Rylander's old lab. His whole "revenge" scheme was merely a means of quickly sympathizing with Rex and gaining his trust.
- In Six Minus Six, he lost all of his memories but was persuaded to stay because of Rex and the fact that Rex trusted him. Rex vanished for six months; everyone probably thought he was dead. Sp Six left. There'll be one hell of a "where were you" moment that leads to a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.
- Likewise, Holiday: without Rex, there was no cure. She couldn't just let them start killing again, and so went to do research elsewhere.
- Even White might not have gone bad—something else might be going on. We don't know if Black Knight is telling the truth. Clearly things have changed...and not for the better.
- And this will be the focus of Back in Black
- Ahem. Beard of Evil. QED.
- Confirmed-ish. The mind control collars serve a vital function (Especially since Rex was missing) and take the 'Kill' out of Contain, Cure, Kill, but some might see taking away free will (However much free will EVOs have, anyway) as being extremest.
- It's also why Six almost died where Rex just risked a memory reset. Caesar decided Six being back to his old mercenary self but only loyal to Rex was a liability. Or he was jealous that Rex clearly trusts Six more than him.
- She's either a robot, a nanite construct, or a human whose nanites have been hijacked by ZAG-RS. Caesar may have had something to do with her construction.
- The accident that nearly killed Rex was Caesar's fault.
- Not intentionally, of course. But in Tom Sawyer fashion, he suckered Rex into doing a chore or an errand that he didn't want to do. That chore, by chance, puts Rex in the right place and the right time to suffer the accident and get a nanite transfusion. If Caesar hadn't convinced Rex to do it, he would have been the one getting the operation.
- Caesar wanted Rex's powers.
- When the operation is successful, Rex becomes the darling of the scientific community overnight. Try to see the situation from Caesar's point of view. You've been a child prodigy all your life, the son of two great scientists, working your ass off and possibly sacrificing huge chunks of your childhood for recognition in the scientific community. Suddenly, your ten year old brother - who has probably never worked for anything or accomplished anything on his own - is given the breakthrough of the century on a silver platter, and you're now living in his shadow.
- To add insult to injury, your little brother develops superpowers as a side effect. While all this is happening, while he's getting all the attention and love and recognition, all you can think about is how that could have — should have — been you. After all, remember what Rylander said to Rex? "The look on your brother's face..."
- Caesar caused the nanite event because he was either trying to obtain Rex's powers, or control Rex.
- We don't have a lot of information about what, exactly, Caesar did to cause the nanite event, or how it even happened. Still, judging by the way Caesar was dodging questions, it's obvious he was doing something he wasn't supposed to do.
- It's been suggested that Caesar was the one who caused Rex's initial blackouts - perhaps Caesar was performing an illegal/unethical experiment on Rex, or trying to "steal" the nanites from Rex in a Van Kleiss manner to take the powers for himself.
- It's also been suggested above that ZAG-RS has something to do with Rex, and the RS in her name stands for "Rex Salazar". It would certainly fit with the idea that he wanted some kind of control or influence over Rex.
- The Omega Nanite might have been developed as a means of developing powers similar to Rex. Maybe that's why Caesar and Van Kleiss both wanted it, and why it was developed in the first place.
- Her face and hair are very similar-same pale skin, dark hair covering one eye, same colored and shaped lips. They might have the same hairstyle if Black Knight didn't tuck it behind her ears. It's either this, or an egregious use of Only Six Faces. Breach had a time machine buckled onto her, perhaps she landed in a different time than Rex, like, say, ten years in the past. After losing her extra arms...somehow (perhaps she's just hiding them; she is wearing a cloak/cape after all)...she managed to become a part of the Providence council. And she's been waiting for Rex to return from his time traveling incident ever since. This might explain by Black Knight was so affable to Rex, because she last remembered him as a close friend. She only chose this moment to take over Providence because at any earlier point, Rex would only consider Breach an enemy.
- Pretty well Jossed in "Back In Black": Black Night was already part of Providence, and stepped in when White Knight stood against the higher-ups and went rogue.
- Breach is a time traveler - maybe she goes back in time, gets cured, & then joins Providence. Alternatively, Black Knight becomes Breach & gets thrown back in time.
- Pretty well Jossed in "Back In Black": Black Night was already part of Providence, and stepped in when White Knight stood against the higher-ups and went rogue.
- Something will happen that triggers Rex's Superpowered Evil Side. Maybe Six, Holiday, or someone else will appear to die, causing Rex to turn back into the giant mech from Promises, Promises. It'll all be sorted out in the end, and Rex will return to normal, but the point is that right after Six regains his memories, Rex will lose his.
- Rex comes from a family of prominent scientists, and with a big project like the Nanites in the works, his parents and brother were all in very high demand. Who looks after their ten-year-old son, then? Well, saddle one of the flunkies with him. Caesar picked out a quiet, unthreatening, third-rate lab hack for the job, Van Kleiss. As he and Rex spent time together, they grew very close and Rex looked up to him. Then the event happened, and the nanites drove Van Kleiss insane. He can remember the attachment to Rex but it has become twisted and warped and lost in his struggle for domination.
- The series finale seems to indicate he was crazy all along, but he may have been good enough at hiding it that young Rex never realized. And maybe, beneath his lust for power, part of him really did care for the boy back then.
- She's another experiment from around the same time as the nanite project.
- Which is how he came up with the idea of controlling EVOs in 'Back in Black'. Maybe Moses is in cahoots in running New Providence with BK and Caesar?
- Like with Breach, the nanites' mutations made him go a little funny. Black Knight found out and is currently controlling him. Because honestly, whether or not Van Kleiss was right about Cesar causing the Nanite Event, and whatever his motivations are, he's shown himself (as in "Mixed Signals" and "Night Falls") to be extremely protective of his brother. To endanger Rex's life by turning the EVO-brainwashing machine to full power, with only a token objection, seems a bit out of character.
- He had six months of wondering if his brother was gone forever, and then suddenly his brother is back. That'll do funny things to you even if you're normal, which Cesar isn't.
- Yeah. Besides, Caesar seems like more of an 'The ends justify the means' kind of person. Although we'll probably find out there is some kind of horrible side-effect of the mind control later on, the mind control IS a pretty good solution, all things considered. The only real problem is that the collars can be deactivated at any time by Black, which means that she could potentially re-release the controlled EVOs into society, then threaten to turn the collars off if she doesn't get her way. Basically, she's successfully managed to weaponize EVOs, just like Van Kleiss...
- One problem: Rex didn't have the Omega nanite until halfway through the first season, and things were already going downhill before that. Plus, he's been shown to develop nanite overload, which wouldn't happen if he was constantly leaking them.
- I would say he leaks them too slowly for them so not build up, but you shut me down with that Omega nanite info. I didn't know that, thank you.
- Actually...you were right-ish. The Omega nanite does apparently create nanites according to Heroes United.
- Actually...you haven't been paying attention. Read what I said above: Things had been merrily going to hell before "Dark Passage" (season one, episode nine), which is when Rex received the Omega nanite — and the Omega nanite's abilities were spelled out in "Written In Sand" (season two, episode 12; fully ten episodes before "Heroes United"). Rex couldn't access the nanite production ability before S 1 E 12, so unless the OM 1 makes nanites on its own, even while it's in storage in the jungle, Rex is not the source of all the nanites, still.
- ................ You weren't around for the first half of the series, were you?
- The Omega One nanite was created to take Alpha's place, and Rex has that. The rest of the theory works for me, though. Van Kleiss was working in the lab; maybe he programmed his own batch?
- Or just knows about them to modify them? The draining peoples nanites is likely an application of his knowledge, the glove was made by him and is not part of his natural EVO powers (controlling living things with nanites in them)
- He could only create and control EVOs after he uncured himself at the end of season one. Prior to that, he only had control of the ambient nanites in Abyssus.
- Maybe there'll even be a schism soon...
- The current Providence soldiers don't seem to be the same ones that worked for Providence while Rex was around. They're extremely competent now, for one.
- That may be Black Knight's influence. Some of the foot soldiers seemed to know Rex, which means they'd been around before the time skip.
- Confirmed. "Black and White" shows that Captain Calan and a number of his men are White Knight's inside men. Calan is even loyal enough to smilingly take a punch to the face from White Knight to make it seem like Calan tried to fight them off instead of letting them in.
- And now the description is something about Rex losing his goggles. Say wha?
- The quoted description was the work of a Wiki Vandal. Losing his goggles is the correct description.
- Dang.
- The EVO everyone was fighting was pretty disturbing, though.
- The quoted description was the work of a Wiki Vandal. Losing his goggles is the correct description.
- This episode likely took place before the Ben 10 crossover, as it would explain how Rex's goggles function like a tool rather than just be sporty protective eyewear.
- Or, alternatively, to save Holiday.
- Now that would be interesting, wouldn't it? But if that were true, wouldn't Black Knight have warned Van Kleiss about Breach's betrayal beforehand?
- Which she would have known about ... how, exactly?
- She was a member of Providence's board of directors, and likely one of White Knight's superiors when the incident with Breach took place.
- Which she would have known about ... how, exactly?
- Of course, she might use those mind-controlled EVOs of hers as leverage, but who knows?
- Which, of course, means he created an AI based off the woman he thought most highly of to perform a rather mundane task that spiraled greatly out of control, threatening everyone.
- Related Theory one/both of their parents were abusive in some way...and Cesar failed to relize this. It's common for abused children to believe it's their own fualt for the abuse, so it's extremly possible that Cesar and Rex never told anyone. Since Cesar modled ZAG-RS after their mothers voice she was probably the least (if at all) abusive to them, which is why he labled the voice "comforting". Cesar's less-than-sane behaviour is the result of the abuse. On that note...
- And if Rex gets these memories back he's going to develope trust issues.
- Overlapping with the "Black Knight is Breach" theory above, BK's transformation will cut her age in half, shatter her mind, and give her an extra set of arms and the ability to open portals with her mind. The only difficulty is getting her sent back in time without Van Kleiss' device...
- This troper is starting to think she's already an EVO, and just keeping it under wraps for now. Circe (and possibly Feakins) prove it's possible to change and still pass for normal. The second part of this guess is that the Consortium is aware of it, and that's why she got the job. No idea what her abilities would be, though.
- This is confirmed in End Game Part 1. She has the same powers as Rex, but stronger.
- This troper is starting to think she's already an EVO, and just keeping it under wraps for now. Circe (and possibly Feakins) prove it's possible to change and still pass for normal. The second part of this guess is that the Consortium is aware of it, and that's why she got the job. No idea what her abilities would be, though.
His giant robot form wasn't a result of him going berserk but the result intended by the nanite developers. The meta-nanites are meant to be put into him and mode-lock in that form in addition to giving him the capabilities to devastate the world.
The first time his memory got wiped was because Cesar and his pals stopped it as the plan was being put into action by triggering the nanite event. The second time was when the surviving scientists tried to restart the plan again without enough of the meta-nanites.
Cesar and Van Kleiss are the only two who know what Rex really is and Cesar is secretly working on a full measure to take care of Rex in case if someone gets it right the third time. This is why he shot at Rex during the crossover episode because if Alpha absorbs either Rex or the Omega nanite it would bring about the goal of the plan.
- To this troper, it looked like his builds and One-Winged Angel form were drawn from his lost childhood memories. But your theory does intrigue me.
What if Alpha tried possessing Rex? He would've come very close to burning poor Rex out before he was saved, but was in critical condition. The only way to save him was with the batch of good nanites, which could heal him. (Perhaps this was arranged specifically by the group that believed in humans controlling the nanites?)
Either way, though, it was Alpha who caused the accident and forced Rex to be given nanites.
- Confirmed, kind of. The summary for "Remote Control" says it's Quarry doing the controlling, but last we heard he was in Providence custody. Either he escaped, or Providence is backing his efforts.
- Actually, Breach took Quarry to Van Kleiss the last time we saw him. However, Quarry did mention that he got the tech from Ceasar...
- A) Argh, yes, you're right; B) He called it Cesar's tech (because Cesar invented it), but did he actually say Cesar gave it to him?
- Actually, Breach took Quarry to Van Kleiss the last time we saw him. However, Quarry did mention that he got the tech from Ceasar...
- Confirmed on The Other Wiki. It's Van Kleiss. And Breach!
- Given the show's pattern of using villains in widely-spaced one-off episodes (ZAG-RS, anyone?) this is a distinct possibility.
- What if he's somehow involved with Providence and the collars (willingly or otherwise)? Mind-controlling EVOs was pretty much his main shtick.
- Semi-confirmed in that he shows up in "Enemies Mine", having been imprisoned by Providence at some point off-screen.
- It's so far Unknown how Van Kliess knew Black Knight so we may have to wait.
- That's an easy one: They knew each other through the original nanite project (him on the science side, her on the Consortium side). The mystery is what that relationship entailed and what she wants from him now.
- E.V.O.s tend to think of each other as brothers. Also, ew.
- Jossed, see Hermanos
- When he was awoken from stasis, he seemed to be genuinely traumatized. I don't think he's faking it, at least not entirely.
- 100% confirmed in "Endgame, Part 2" where he reveals he in fact was Obfuscating Insanity.
- Considering the past few WMGs involve episodes that haven't aired yet in the US, allow me to remind everyone of the existence of the spoiler tag.
- That actually makes a lot of sense. You get a cookie for making me feel better about the show.
- if this is true, it could mean good things for Rex's future. If the memory wipes are triggered by an overload, rather than a periodic event, then they can be prevented.
- Are being rescued by Breach, to start anew (why is Breach doing it... insanity?)
- Are being tortured by Breach because they abused her (sucks for Biowulf and Skalamander because they sort-of reformed)
- Are being kept for a movie or sequel series (Duh)
- Just died (maybe the nanite wave interfered with her powers despite her not being there, collapsing the portal on top of her and her "guests")
- Fell into a plot hole (if the series never gets picked up)
- Are being tortured by Breach because they abused her (sucks for Biowulf and Skalamander because they sort-of reformed)
- The episode with the news reporter investigating Providence actually answers this. They use some kind of laser or something to remove the nanites from the milk.
- Correction: Not a laser, but a high-powered magnet. Apparently since nanites are machines, magnets can still effect them.
- That he was well known enough for the UN to recognize him as Abysus' leader implies he was a well known figure among humans, so he may have even brought hope to pro-evo humans & families desperately wishing that a missing loved one who's nanites had activated was safe and alive.
- His time in the past implies he knew as much if not more about history, dead languages and culture than he did about tech- so its possible that STEM wasn't even what he had his (presumed) Doctorate in.
- It's possible that Voiletta and he did get along & she may have even been atttracted to him. Hell if she and Rapheal were polyamorous then Van Kliess might not even be lying at all. Which meant whatever dislike of him Cesar had would be amplified, since he could potentially hurt Cesar's mother.
- It's very possible that while he might just inherently be the sort of man to lose sleep over killing someone, he may have never even been in a real fight until after the event. I somehow doubt whatever armed response they sent into Abysus was happy to see a labcoat after fighting their way through the products of that experiment.
- Hell, its probably why Skalamander (one of the more uncanny looking evos) is such a jerk to everyone & why Rex's old gang is so desensitized to... so many things no 15 year old should ever have to deal with.
- Sqwydds second episode speaks volumes about how far Evo acceptance has come, while also giving a grim window into what it used to be like for them. And when you really stop to think about the implications, its haunting picture indeed.