- Good or Evil Spinny?
- Gretta Heel–Face Turn.
- To take this further, she could at first be pretending as part of Doctor Universe's plan. Then she decides she genuinely enjoys being a hero, and so abandons him.
- Further still, that could be part of his plan, making her The Mole.
- And again, she could just be pretending about that, and is actually helping her new friends in the Chicago Superheroes.
- A Civil War storyline. The setup is there; Tiger and Mecha Maid have very different ways of doing things, as do Ben Franklin and Super MILF. There are undoubtedly other heroes throughout the country. And Spinny, as a Spider-Man parody, is the perfectly middle ground for everyone to fight over.
- Alien Invasion! Because why not.
- Have Evil Spinnerette go all Doctor Doom on us.
- She stays away, spending all her time learning magic.
- At some point in the future, she learns a time travel spell.
- She travels back in time to the original discovery of magic and learns all she can there, including how to become immortal.
- She could even become the goddess who originally turned her into a drider!
- She then hides away in a cave and waits until modern times.
- Once she senses enough time has passed, she returns to Chicago to destroy Spinnerette once and for all!
- Some ideas about how that could go down:
- ES could raise an army of driders
- ES could use time magic to enable her to kill Ben Franklin
- Going off the above, Spinnerette decides to recruit the younger ES against goddess ES, and young ES could choose to become a hero, creating a time paradox that restores her legs and brings Ben Franklin back to life (but sticks him back in the 18th century), and also leaves goddess ES alive in the present, though with a lot less power.
- Buzz becomes an anti-hero who uses guns to fight the villains, like The Punisher.
- The superheroes get a man in the chair.
- A Secret Warriors storyline, maybe Minerva training some demons from the underworld who want to become superheroes.
- Evil Spinnerette reveals she needs Heather's blood for the ritual, presumably because she's a mix of spider and human DNA right now. Note that not only did the chamber infuse spider DNA, (despite the doctor mentioning the experiments with this thing were meant to involve scorpions), the thing blew up afterwards for no apparent reason. Who's willing to bet Evil Spinnerette put this in motion to make a perfect sacrifice, then destroyed the chamber to prevent anyone trying to make a properly trained superhero with it? Dr. Lambha was correct! It was a supervillain! What's still not explained is why the machine blew up.
- Her arms "vanishing" is visual short-hand for her flailing around so quickly as to induce motion-blur, trying to regain her balance. Still a good guess though, as we truly do not know the limits of Alex's magic powers.
- The boy part is jossed. Mecha Maid's secret identity is a Korean woman by the name of Marilyn Seong.
- The gay part is confirmed in the cliffhanger ending. MM outright said she loves Spinny.
- How do you overcome the confines of a power chair? With a powered suit, of course!
- Apparently confirmed with the newest (11/5/10) comic and then confirmed by the next comic.
- The guy killed Uncle Ben because Peter didn't try to stop him hard enough, thus making him really understand what "great responsibility" entails. Since Heather Jumped at the Call and in fact her mistake was jumping into crime-fighting too recklessly, the same happening to her wouldn't make any sense. Instead, it will be a lesson about reckless.
- Somewhat confirmed. She claims to have become a superhero so that she could create the ideal world where the nerve amplifier she invented would be used as medicine, not as a weapon. She's entrusting Heather with the blueprints, implicitly to carry on that dream after she's gone. This won't happen; Heather or somebody will find a way to cure or at least arrest the progress of Marilyn's ALS. Spinneretteis firmly on the Idealistic side of the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism, and it just won't stay that way if key characters are Killed Off for Real. (See other WMG for further commentary on this point.)
- Jossed as of the December 6, 2010 comic. If the tape gets watched, she's got bigger problems, since her boss works for the most dangerous supervillain in Columbus, OH. The question is whether those security cameras in with the recombiner are part of the school security system, or a more personal one for the not so good doctor. If the latter, she could still be in danger.
- Heather may be aware of her medium, but she's still hopelessly Wrong Genre Savvy at times. Thus far, Heather and Marilyn have had more scenes together, built more chemistry together, and most importantly, have a lot more subtext. From Heather being the latter's damsel in distress, to Mecha Maid's reaction to her Clothing Damage, the hand-holding, and all the pictures of them together the case is clear, but most damning of all, when Darien cooked up a plan to hook himself up with Heather by inviting her to a movie, she inadvertently ruined it when she instead spent the night chatting with Marilyn, sort of "choosing" her over him, however unintentionally.
- Sahira straight-up thinks that Mecha Maid is in love with Heather.
- Confirmed. Marilyn and Heather are dating.
- Mecha Maid's not out for Spinerette as a lover. She know how little time she has, and leading a double life means not even her own parents know everything about her. She may be attracted to Spinerette, but in the end, what she wants before she dies is someone who knows everything about her. Someone who doesn't just see Mecha Maid or Marylin Seong, but Marylin Seong who is Mecha Maid.
- Jossed, Mecha Maid has admitted she is indeed in love with spin, to her face.
- First, we point out how heather's costume makes her look like a six-armed Captain Ersatz of Spider-Woman (or something), and then marvel points that out too. We point out the Les Yay context in between Mecha Maid and Spinnerette, and then that becomes a subplot.
- The question now isn't if Krow is a Troper but if he will succeed in addressing every WMG on this page.
- This was before Doctor Universe became a major supervillain. The fame resulting from gunning down a superhero catapulted him to the top of Ohio's (admittedly small) supervillain community. It was not on purpose but he used it nevertheless.
- Jossed. Dr. Universe has known for a long time who she is. She's Spinnerette. That's all that matters.
- Plus, advancing the "Lycanthropy as curse" meme could be used to protect people who get outed as werewolves, since A) it makes werewolves seem much more rare than they actually are, and B) the general Muggle populace would be more sympathetic to "ordinary people who lose control against their will" than secret cabals of physically intimidating shapeshifters living in their midst.
- This and anything similar are Jossed in volume 9. London says that he never transforms back into human anymore, so he probably doesn't HAVE a secret identity. Sorry!
- It could also explain Sahira's interest in being able to make clothes from the spider silk Heather can make. Perhaps she got tired of Clothing Damage from changing between human and the underwear is the first thing she made using it: a test run of her sewing skills using the new material. Otherwise why would the panties survive when widening hips and a sprouting tail would have caused them to rip and fall off?
- Jossed: It was a picture of Minerva, taken at exactly the right angle to make her three heads appear to be just one.
- The woman is Tiger's wife, or quite likely, ex-wife. We've seen in the werewolf episode how their marriage came to the breaking point over his superhero activities. If she did leave him for that reason, it'd be plenty of reason for him to feel bitter about Canadians in general.
- If Alexis Woodrow's Heel–Face Turn is genuine (which still very much remains to be seen as of 8/31/11, when the episode in her saga is just really getting under way), she might find a spell in her beloved D&D manuals that could heal Marilyn, or at least put the disease into remission.
- Heather herself, of course, could be the one to find the method of saving Marilyn. She's a grad student in biology/biochemistry, and it's well-known that the venom of various arachnids (spiders and scorpions) has highly useful medical applications. Heather herself (as she's stated on one occasion) isn't venomous, but what about Alexis? Again, if Alexis' Heel–Face Turn turns out to be the real deal AND if she's venomous, she might be willing to lend Heather some of her venom for research purposes.
- If the cure to ALS is ever found, in universe, "Adastraea" will be denied getting it. Why? She killed the researcher who came up with it. Dr. Singh What bigger rejection can there be than that. She'll get to enjoy her Als in her prison/hospital bed for the rest of her short, sorry life.
- The author could potentially cure it with the genetic infusion chamber. ALS slowly breaks down the connection in the nervous system. If the genetic infusion chamber gave Marilyn a Healing Factor she could regenerate her nervous system as it's broken down.
- Confirmed, and he's a time traveler.
- Buzz Rickards may or may not be a troper, but Colonel Glass sure is confirmed to be. He even lampshades the fact that he exploits the Faceless Goons trope by saying to his enemy that he "should read the TV Tropes entry for Faceless Goons".
The comic already has one spider-powered protagonist. A plot involving Sahira getting spider-powers would be redundant and all-too likely to have a Reset Button pressed on it by winding up a dream or somehow being reversed back to the status quo after a while. While the characters may certainly suspect and believe (understandably so) that Heather's condition will somehow have spread at first, this will not be the case. Instead, it will turn out that Sahira somehow became possessed with (or is the incarnation of) a Hindu deity and didn't notice at first. This would give her unique powers of her own, and even possibly allow her to hide her extra arms when she needs to be discreet and appear like a regular human. (Possibly causing envy in Heather, who will need to continue to rely on the fat suit.)
- Confirmed in the book-only Chapter 5: It turns out that Sahira's power is to copy other people's powers by touch.
- They merely think that 'Black Tiger' is just a cooler superhero name.
- It slipped up that way a few times and ended up sticking; about half the people he corrects literally say along the lines of "Wait, I heard it really was 'Black Tiger', sorry!"
- He reminds everyone of Black Panther but since he has more of a tiger theme with his costume and powers, and because Marvel is known to sue superheroes for copyright infringement, everyone just took to calling him Black Tiger.
- The old man who gave Tiger his powers used "Black Tiger" as his superhero name, and everyone just assumes the new Tiger is using the same name (or thinks they are the same person).
- It would require an advanced and very human AI. More likely is that Mecha Maid is like the Major (they share the same hair and eye color, and have a similar hair style) a full-body cyborg. That implies that Marilyn has found a way (which we haven't yet witnessed) to transfer her consciousness into the cyborg Mecha Maid. If so, this may mean Tear Jerker handwringing over her impending death might be a bit premature. (It would also explain her noncommittal reply - when she makes her revelation of her fatal disease to Heather - when Heather implores her not to die; Marilyn knows that she will in fact survive in some form, but for whatever reason is not yet ready to reveal that to Heather.)
- it's even possible that Marilyn - who we know is one of the great geniuses of the age in cybernetics - is working on a fully organic replacement for her dying body, a la Blade Runner's replicants. This raises the possibility that she could enlist Heather's (a biologist!) help in this task. (Let's not discount magic. If Alexis' Heel–Face Turn turns out to be on the level, and her putative plan to reverse her Body Horror transformation by magic works, she might be willing to apply the same magic to Marilyn.
- Jossed. She has been shown being taken out of her costume. The strength is due to nerve amplifiers, and not power armor. That would severely reduce the necessary size, since it won't need powerful motors. Far more likely is that Mecha Maid might figure out a way to do this, but hasn't succeeded in doing so, yet.
- Arrayed against this argument is that the comic has a largely Animesque art style, how good guy Marilyn is also an anime fan and modeled her superhero alter-ego after Mahoromatic, how that Heather has never been rational in this series, and is generally more...stupid, and bases her own arguments on Pokémon and Naruto, which is in turn a common anti-anime argument to the point that anime fans consider them strawman analogies. More likely, it was just an ironic running gag for the chapter, especially considering the next chapter was more manga stylized than any of the earlier ones.
- Minerva contracts it simply by drawing blood from him thanks to a particularly hard love-bite while making out with him.
- Now that Dr. Universe made The Reveal, it's half right. Every CKG comes from pineal gland of one Dr. Zhang, aka Ultra, who according to Universe was murdered by the government to get raw materials.
- This would explain how there are some places that the CKR powers are more or less powerful: more powerful on dimensional weak points, where the Shard connection is stronger, and less powerful on dimensionally stable points, where there's more "interference" between the Third Entity's private dimension and the Spinnyverse.
- The above also explains how characters can have the CKR go critical: their Shard is getting too much energy channeled into it, and might become overwhelmed.
- This explain how the infusion machine which contained a Cherenkov-Kirby Reactor was able to give Spinnerette her powers: it is essentially a machine that artificially gives out Shards like the Entities do.
- Confirmed. They made up afterwards.
- Most fast healers in comics age slowly.
- Sort of confirmed. Delta is a Dream Weaver - he can be a Reality Warper inside of his dreams, but probably not in reality.
- Oh no. Never mind.