History WMG / TheCape

* Peter Fleming AKA Chess had a guy [[FrameUp framed for murder]] and [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat blown up in a fiery explosion]]. Naturally, [[NeverFoundTheBody a body was never recovered]]. Then, a superhero with the exact same height and build appears. And still [[WhatAnIdiot he hasn't figured it out]]? Impossible. [[TheChessmaster Peter Fleming]] is working the long con here. He knows Vince Faraday is the Cape and must be using him to flush out Orwell, the real threat to the Ark Corporation. In fact, Max Malini may be in on it, explaining why the audience never saw how he was captured by Chess in the pilot episode. He let himself get captured to head off any suspicions Vince Faraday, [[ExpansionPackPast an ex-soldier cop]], might have had about him.

** The show's scope is pretty small, so far-nothing too ambitious. The story centers on a single city, and the Cape is more concerned with and motivated by his feelings for his family, with his sense of justice being secondary. So the conflicts are a little low key. A CorruptCorporateExecutive is more than enough for now. Think about the scale of SinCity, for reference, but remove the general public's involvement.

[[WMG: Orwell is going to go undercover as SummerGlau at some point.]]

* The show is Troperrific enough to be devised by a ten year old, and is probably his way of making sense of the tragedy, ala [[StElsewhere Tommy Westphall.]]

[[WMG:Max is a retired supervillian from {{TheGoldenAge}} .]]
Come on its so obvious, not only is [[{{RetiredBadass}} Max running a crew of pulp comic criminals.]] He used to be one in the 60s. Can't you imagine him runnig around in the Cape pulling off robberies with his usuall flair of the dramatic while fighting the hero of the city with good natured quipps. Unfortunatly the modern age of criminals who rape and murder has made him a little bitter hence to him taking to drink. The fact that two of his students have gone to the dark site has not helped. The other student.. Chess.

[[WMG:Vince Faraday is the stepbrother of [[{{Lost}} Daniel Faraday]].]]

** Or other brother [[{{Lost}} Daniel]]?

[[WMG: There will be a crossover with AceAttorney.]]
* Think about it - AceAttorneyInvestigations introduced characters surnamed Faraday - what's to say that Vince won't mention his brother Byrne and his little niece Kay?

[[WMG: The Cape is going to inspire a wave of real-life superheroes ''ala'' {{Kick-Ass}}.]]

* Think about it. His lieutenant, Scales, has a skin disorder. It makes sense if Chess has a mutation related to his gimmick, similar to any number of {{Batman}} villains. The only time he's seen with normal eyes is when he's entertaining guests or setting a trap for the hero.

Within [[Series/{{Community}} Greendale's universe]], it's entirely plausible that The Cape in all its camp goofily narmish glory would get that much mileage.

* Granted, it is a secret society with access to assassins. It is also an organization [[BreakTheBadass that even the nigh-omniscient Orwell has little intel on]]. Peter Fleming may, in fact, be a member like [=LaFleur=]. The Ark Corporation privatized the Palm City Police Department under orders from Tarot. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel High Octane]] ParanoiaFuel and [[NebulousEvilOrganization the kind of thing that happens all the time in comic books]].

[[WMG: Vince Faraday is an ancestor of [[AssassinsCreed Desmond MIles]].]]

Within [[{{Community}} Greendale's universe]], it's entirely plausible that The Cape in all its camp goofily narmish glory would get that much mileage.

** Either the writers [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste want us to underestimate Chess]] or [[BadWriting they don't know how to write]] a MagnificentBastard.

* If it's magic, then would it be linked to the 'Grey Cowl of Nocturnal' from 'Oblivion'?

* No one seems to comment on the sheer absurdity of a masked criminal mastermind with a CodeName terrorizing a major city. The guy killed people but that doesn't make him any less absurd. The underreaction of the public might be because supervillains, at least, are not new. Max Malini and the Carnival of Crime seem to imply that [[UnderStatement Palm City attracts a strange breed of criminals]].

Within [[Community Greendale's universe]], it's entirely plausible that The Cape in all its camp goofily narmish glory would get that much mileage.

[[WMG:Somewhere, the series did run for eight seasons and a movie.]]

At the end of Razer, [[spoiler: Orwell is sitting in an entirely white room, with a black circle painted around the couch she's sitting on. Given that the Orwell's Watching logo is an eye, she seemed to be going a little nuts throughought the episode, her response was a little... odd, and that Chess has those friggin' contacts, it's safe to say there's going to be more eye nonsense going on.]] Either that or Summer's just playing another role where she's adorably nuts. WHATEVER

Mostly as above, but Fleming killed Orwells mother because she wanted to leave him/found out about his crimes and wanted to report him. He couldn't deal with what he had done and created the Chess persona so he had someone to blame. He left Orwell out of shame.

*** That would make their encounter on the train in "Scales" a CallBack to "Kozmo" when he claimed he'd able to recognize his own daughter. Apparently, a wig and a feathery domino mask is enough to fool this MostTriumphantExample of a SmugSnake.