WMG / Über

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The story will finally end with aliens invading and conquering Earth

• Some evil alien species deliberately gave the Third Reich the secret of superpowers so that World War II would escalate even more and destroy human civilisation, so that they could take the planet with no difficulty.
  • Although surely superpowered human armies would make an alien invasion more difficult?
    • The aliens all have superpowers.
    • And their superpowers are significantly better than humans. Compare the first days of aviation with modern fighter jets, or black powder weapons with assault rifles.
    • Which begs the question of why they didn't just invade outright in the first place.
    • Too much work. Let the humans soften themselves before aliens sort them out. Aliens care about staying alive too, you know.
    • Alternatively, the aliens could have a way to control any beings altered with the means they provide.

The final issues will show what the modern world is like with Ubers

• The Axis will be defeated at great cost, but modern history will be completely altered by the superhumans. World power will lie in the hands of the countries with the most Ubers (think of China and India, with such large populations that they could have whole armies of Ubers even if only one human in 5,000 is viable). Instead of the nuclear deterrent, peace will be kept with the "battleship" deterrent – after all, one "battleship" Uber can do easily as much damage as a nuke, and can be reused endlessly. Special superhuman law enforcement agencies will hunt down and kill criminal Ubers; Uber terrorism will be the greatest security threat worldwide. Some Ubers will live in isolated communities where they can be among their own kind. The first generation of natural-born Ubers (the children of Uber parents) will be growing up in a world where they are both hated as monsters and worshipped as demi-gods. Uber rights will become a social issue, with many people questioning whether natural-born Ubers should have a choice of fighting or not. Frankly, "Uber 2013, Uber 2014, Uber 2015, Uber 2016, Uber 2017, Uber 2018, Uber 2019, Uber 2020, and Uber 2021" would make great spin-off stories.
  • Picture the final scene of the last sequel series: the first Uber President of the United States, his eyes glowing a deadly blue as he takes the oath...

There are more ways to create Ubers than already described

• The normal process grants a combination of physical enhancement and energy powers, inducing slight changes in body morphology (mainly stature and muscle mass)
• The Modified Load process grants greater physical power at the cost of no energy manipulation and extreme physiological alterations
• It stands to reason there may be a third route, which maximizes energy control with little to no physical enhancement and changes in stature.
  • Confirmed in #13: Katyusha shows no physiological changes well into her activation (aside from enhanced durability), but she has immense energy control and Reality Warper capabilities only hinted at before.
  • Confirmed in #15 & #16: The Blitzmensch are exactly that.

This leads to...

• Modified Load could also be used to create a "battleship"-class Uber with massive physical enhancement but no energy powers. Cue Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever, which is apparently what Leah Cohen is becoming.
• The ultimate enhancement process will allow the creation of "battleships" who can fly. The nation that discovers this process first will win the war.
  • Almost confirmed: The Nazis were able to create the Tank-Men and Battleships after decoding 1/5th of the 'instruction manual' regarding the enhancement process. As of latest issues, they made further progress into developing Blitzmensch and their own Giant-class.

• An "enhanced spy" is depicted in #18, apparently capable of shapeshifting and modifying her voice, as well as generating a disruption halo.
  • Swerved: It appears to be some sort of illusion effect.

• With so much of the manual still undecoded, there may be one or more completely undiscovered branches besides the physical enhancement and halo effect paths and combinations thereof.
  • Confirmed: The Geltmensch are one other branch. Whether their are more still remains unknown.
  • Confirmed: As of Issue #4 of Uber: Invasion we know there is another branch with unknown abilities and as of Issue #5 the allies are trying to figure out how to successfully activate ubers of this type in order to find out what it does; so far the attempts prove fatal to the candidates.
  • Confirmed: And the nature of the new branch is finally revealed in #7: it's Super-Speed.

Katyusha is the first Uber of a new type

• She displayed no changes in stature after enhancement
• She shows no signs of greater physical strength (although she's clearly durable enough to survive a massive explosion)
• Her disruption halo when first shown is clearly far stronger than that of a mere tank-class
• Confirmed. Also a matter transmuter.
• Possibly Jossed. She is very heavily implied to be a partially-activated Battleship, which is why she displayed no powers like her comrades. She appears to be using her halo to create both catalyst and food out of soil, and says that she is fulfilling her body's "needs". This would explain why her powers could develop even after the Soviets halted her activations. It's even possible that all Ubers can do this instinctively if left starved and incompletely activated for long enough.
  • She doesn't display any physical changes (apart from a possible Healing Factor) well into her activation. Consistent with later-appearing Blitzmensch.
• Her blood test creates a result far in excess of even Battleship class Ubers.
• Confirmed in later issues - she's the first pure-halo Battleship to be created.
  • Except her survival of the explosion that resulted from testing her blood, which obliterated everyone else in the room, clearly shows she has a good degree of physical resistance. And considering that the Woden's Blood she makes for the Soviets only activates Tanks as far as we know, how she came to be mostly halo-activated is a mystery.
• Combining the previous two bullet points, Maria is not only the first Halo-type Battleship but also the first member of a new class superior even to battleships. Super-dreadnaughts perhaps? My money is on Japan's first known Uber of this type being named "Yamato".
  • hinted at as of Invasion Issue #5 with the mention that the allies assumption that the Germans had only shared tank-men technology with the Japanese was incorrect and with the news of the Japanese attack on San Diego being deliberately stated as an attack by 'A Japanese' not 'The Japanese...'
  • Jossed in Invasion Issue #6. While named Yamato, the Japanese attacker is only a standard Tank-man Battleship.
• It's possible that her instinctive self-activation gave her the ideal Jack of All Stats activation - massive halo powers, just enough strength/resilience to work defensively without being musclebound, possibly some level of telepathic ability as well.

Katyusha has a Healing Factor

• Note how the stump of her right hand appears to have changed from withered in #8 to somewhat fleshy in the beginning of #9
• Now note how the ending of #9 carefully works around showing that arm. She appears to support herself on that arm normally, though, and her silhouette in the issue's final page shows something like a hand where there should be only a stump
  • Confirmed as of #13.

The German battleships will ultimately fight one another

• It's already well-established that Siegmund and Sieglinde hate Siegfried, who is Hitler's favorite and a total sadist. Sieglinde and Siegmund are growing to question their roles in the war, having already sacrificed so much to no real avail. Sieglinde in particular seems to be well aware that Germany cannot win the war, and that she and the other Ubers are simply prolonging the country's suffering. Eventually, she and/or Siegmund will rebel against Hitler to try to save what remains of Germany from ruin; Siegfried will then be ordered to defend the Fuhrer. A battle to end all battles will ensue.
  • Jossed. Siegmund kills Hitler in his bunker.
  • While this exact scenario might not be possible, a battle between Battleship-class Ubers hasn't necessarily been Jossed. Siegfried, who is fiercely loyal to the Reich, would definitely try to avenge Hitler if he discovers that Siegmund was responsible for his death.
  • Jossed. Siegfried and Siegmund throw down after Hitler's death, but they're interrupted by the appearance of a mysteriously resurrected Hitler. And with Goebbels' taking Hitler's appearance, who knows what happens next...
  • Jossed. with Siegfried's death in Uber: Invasion #7.

Stephanie is a battleship potential

• She conducted an Uber-potential test on herself. We don't see the results; all we know is that it's positive. Her urgent eagerness to enhance herself implies that she's a battleship potential (after all, she knows that a mere tank-class won't be enough to fend off the German battleships).
  • Stephanie lied to Alan. The test came out negative. She wanted to kill herself using catalyst. Alan knew that: “I’m not letting you kill another one here.”

Woden's Blood is a refined form of Compound V

• Super Serum invented by WW2 Nazis? The main difference being that it gives users defined superpowers instead of completely random ones.

The Axis will discover new Battleship potentials and new ways to activate them

• At the moment they seem like on the short end of the stick, with only a matter of time until they're facing Katyusha, Cohen, and Razor, before you even factor in the Rivers brothers. Germany may discover another potential or two of their own, or, alternatively, Japan's first Battleship class Miyoko may arise to prevent the allied Battleships- especially Katyusha and Leah Cohen, being of the halo and heavy types as they are- from dominating too much. The advent of destroyers and cruisers helps as well, but less so as that's something both sides have.
  • strongly hinted at as of Invasion Issue #5 with the mention that the allies assumption that the Germans had only shared tank-men technology with the Japanese was incorrect and with the news of the Japanese attack on San Diego being deliberately stated as an attack by 'A Japanese' not 'The Japanese...'
    • Jossed: It's revealed that the Japanese Invader is only a standard Battleship Tankman.

The Soviets wage war upon the Western Allies immediately upon defeating the Axis

• There's no doubting the hostility and suspicion between the Soviets and the US/British, and once they've defeated the Nazis, they'll be living in terror of each other's battleship Ubers. Stalin will 'lose his mind' (largely because the authors hate Dirty Commies) and somehow think it's a good idea to try to conquer Europe before the Allies can regain control of it, using Katyusha to spearhead an Uber advance that the British and Americans will have to counter with their own Ubers, or even nuclear weapons. World War 3 will rapidly ensue.

The Western Allies will wage war upon the Soviets immediately upon defeating the Axis

• There's no doubting the US-British hatred of formal dictatorship, social welfare, and workers' rights, and once they've defeated the Nazis, they'll seek to conquer the Soviet Union before they can establish any more Battleship-class Ubers or develop nukes of their own, using Razor and Churchill to spearhead an Uber advance that the Soviets will attempt to counter with Maria, but ultimately fail. The Western Allies will win in short order, but at the cost of moral bankruptcy.

Josef Stalin is an Uber potential

• He's definitely going to try to have Katyusha taken out fairly soon, and it won't work. She'll retaliate by challenging him to take Woden's Blood blind the way he did to her, and since the series runs on From Bad to Worse, he'll promptly activate instead of dying.
  • Jossed: Maria kills him by transmuting his body into catalyst.

Klaudia/Sieglinde will give birth to the first natural-born Uber

• She and Markus/Siegfried had sex immediately before her deployment to London. It seems unlikely anyone has stopped to think about how contraception would work for Battleship-class Ubers, and in any case she expected to die shortly afterwards, so preventing pregnancy was probably not on her mind.
• Just before she was tested, a German scientist involved in the programme commented that women showing signs of Uber-potential could be "good for breeding". Kieron Gillan does like his Foreshadowing...
  • Given the injuries Sieglinde sustained after her battle with Katyusha, it may not be so likely anymore if such a thing can cause a miscarriage.
  • Likely Jossed, since it has been over six months in-universe since Sieglinde's deployment to London and there has been no hint she could be/have been pregnant. (If a natural-born Über is ever shown in the series, it will probably be someone else's child.)

The post-War period will be characterized by successful, but incredibly bloody, wars waged by colonial powers to retain their colonies

• With the ability to kill hundreds of thousands of colonial combatants and civilians at little-to-no cost to their own forces, France and Britain and the USA will have no trouble maintaining their formal and informal empires.... provided they destroy the Soviet Union. If they don't, then the decolonization wars of the late twentieth century (Indochina, Algeria, Kenya, Vietnam) may be even bloodier than their OTL equivalents.

Possible Future Battle Match-Ups

• Razor vs Sieglinde: A fairly obvious one, given their indirect history.
• Siegfried vs The Rivers Brothers: Two heavy cruisers vs a Battleship could be interesting, plus the irony of having Siegfried who is dedicated to the Reich's cause and fully believes in that Master Race propaganda going against two black soldiers would be interesting and cool.
  • Partly Jossed: Siegfried gets taken out by the Zephyrs... who are all African-American, because they were viewed as expendable enough to be subjected to an entirely new and particularly dangerous type of activation.
• Churchill vs Katyusha: If the series ever delves into the Cold War (or at least TTL's version of it), and the match-up between the two specialized opposites would be interesting at least.

The next Battleship

• Will be a Japanese-American in an internment camp. Probably a teenage girl.
  • Alternatively one of the 100th/442nd, because there's been a distinct lack of them in this.

Battleship Zero is Sieglinde's husband

• It would explain its unusual reactions to her, and be entirely in keeping with the tone of the story, if Sieglinde's husband had been the first battleship candidate and the official story of his death a cover-up.

If there's ever an Uber 2000's mini-series, the main villains would be Uber radical Islamic terrorists.

In the 21st century of the Uber universe post-main story, Barack Obama is a heroic Uber, or at least an anti-hero Uber.

The power source that empowers Ubers has an eldritch horror connected to it.

General Sankt was a monarchist

He supported a greater Germany, but he held Hitler in utter contempt. He also referred to Germany as a country of "Prussian steel and deluded people" (paraphrasing), showing how he viewed Prussia as superior to the rest of Germany. All of this makes it possible that Sankt was a staunch monarchist who was only supporting Hitler in hope of restoring the Prussian-dominated Kaiserreich.

Project Götterdämmerung will kill all Ubers

Götterdämmerung translates to "Twilight of the Gods" and refers to a Wagnerian opera where the Norse gods die. The Nazis know that they absolutely will lose a prolonged arms race, so it's possible that their entire plan all along is to put themselves in an as good as possible position using the Ubers, then destroy all Ubers in the world and prevent the technology from being used against them. This way, they can disarm both the U.S and USSR, who undoubtedly have invested everything into Uber production at the expense of a conventional army. This will ensure that the world has no choice but to recognize Germany's hold over Europe, since the loss of Britain makes it impossible to pull another Normandy, and the USSR is way too spent to even fathom another conventional war. Basically, it'll be as if they nuke half the world, then destroy every nuke in existence so they can't be nuked back.