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[[WMG:The only reason why the Fraternity's names apeared on the loom is because Sloan was not killed.]]

Throughout the comic, numerous paralells to Marvel and DC comic books are made. For example, many of The Fraternity's members are {{Expies}} of villains from either continuity: The Emperor is obviously [[ComicBook/IronMan The Mandarin]], Fuckwit is supposed to be Bizzarro, [[MeaningfulName Johnny Two-Dicks]] is The Ventriloquist, Mister Rictus is The Joker, and so on. Additionally, several Fraternity agents bear an uncanny resemblance to [[Franchise/SpiderMan The Headsman]], Darkseid, Reverse Flash, and Venom. When the Professor shows Wesley his secret, it's obviously supposed to be Superman's cape, and someone who is implied to be Superman himself is seen confined to a wheelchair. If that's not enough, the comic also makes reference to seven-dimensional imps, [[ComicBook/XMen level nine intelligences]], and the two actors Rictus killed are more or less outright named as Batman and Robin (especially considering how he taunts them as they die). Additionally, in the pile of bodies shown in the flashback to the war between the heroes and villains, characters resembling The Hulk, Wolverine, and The Thing can be seen.

Consider this, in 2011 [[Comicbook/{{New52}} the DCU got rebooted]] and the following year Marvel updated their titles (but not continuity) now since the Fraternity is a mix of both the DC and Marvel universes, perhaps some plan enacted by the Batman expy before he died or some higher force causes their warp to be undone...and then a modernized version of their past comes into existence. I don't really know what it's be like but I'm pretty sure Wesley would survive since he is their version of ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} and all.

Well, they ''did'' in the original timeline. But then they rewrote reality, erasing the heroes from existence, but leaving themselves as supervillains. Thus, the SuperheroParadox still applies (althought, it's inverted). The superhereos didn't stop to exist, they just shifted to other people, waiting for the villains to break TheMasquerade and allow them to emerge. Let's think about that poor kid: if Rictus' hopes come true, he'll grow up training to avenge the murder of his parents, shot in front of his eyes, in a dark alley, by an unknown criminal. [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Sounds familiar?]]

I mean, if he was fully in line with the whole non-killing policy of the original Batman, I doubt that Mr. Rictus would be so terrified of him. It also further tracks with how the expies of actual DC villains are much more twisted and darker than their original counterparts. The Joker would never be a humanitarian, or ally himself with an actual Nazi. Catwoman, despite often being portrayed as anti-hero, would never ally herself with the Joker, kill people in broad daylight or enter a relationship with a rapist. Clayface is also often portrayed as being an anti-hero, and his origin is far less disgusting than Shithead...and so on.

I mean, if he was fully in line with the whole non-killing policy of the original Batman, I doubt that Mr. Rictus would be so terrified of him. It also further tracks with how the few clear expies we see of actual DC villains (Joker = Mr. Rictus, the Future = Per Degaton, the Fox = Catwoman and so fort) are much more twisted and darker than their DC counterparts. The Joker would never be a humanitarian, or ally himself with an actual Nazi. The Fox is a straight-up supervillain with a bit of grey morality mixed in, and not the anti-hero that Catwoman is usually portrayed as.
It would only stand to reason that whoever fulfilled the role of Batman in this world would be more like {{Film/Kickass}} Big Daddy but now with an inheritance in the billions.

* Sloan actually send each of them in some really immoral mission to make their name appear. Wether their name actually appeared wasn't relevant, he only needed it to plausible (since they couldn't tell if it was a name that actually came out or not, and there would have been a good reason for it to appear, ignoring the name would still have marked them as NotSoDifferent even if the name was actually a fabbrication).
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Throughout the comic, numerous paralells to Marvel and DC comic books are made. For example, many of The Fraternity's members are {{Expies}} of villains from either continuity: The Emperor is obviously [[IronMan The Mandarin]], Fuckwit is supposed to be Bizzarro, [[MeaningfulName Johnny Two-Dicks]] is The Ventriloquist, Mister Rictus is The Joker, and so on. Additionally, several Fraternity agents bear an uncanny resemblance to [[Franchise/SpiderMan The Headsman]], Darkseid, Reverse Flash, and Venom. When the Professor shows Wesley his secret, it's obviously supposed to be Superman's cape, and someone who is implied to be Superman himself is seen confined to a wheelchair. If that's not enough, the comic also makes reference to seven-dimensional imps, [[ComicBook/XMen level nine intelligences]], and the two actors Rictus killed are more or less outright named as Batman and Robin (especially considering how he taunts them as they die). Additionally, in the pile of bodies shown in the flashback to the war between the heroes and villains, characters resembling The Hulk, Wolverine, and The Thing can be seen.

[[WMG: The members of The Fraternity are renegade [[Literature/NightWatch Others]].]]

Its kind of hinted to be. The villains are all Captain Ersatz of DC villains and none of the heroes are ever named. Seltzer and Wesley are looking at a red cape from an angle we cant see meaning there might be a superman logo on the other side. In parallel 2 Wesley is fighting a character who looks very like Superman but we only see him from behind. The actors who used to be superheroes; One is in a wheelchair, obviousely meant to be Christopher Reeve who played Superman.

[[WMG: The members of The Fraternity are renegade [[NightWatch Others]].]]
This is obvious, what with the movie being directed by Timur Bekmambetov and starring [[Creator/KonstantinKhabensky Konstantin Khabensky]]. They are disillusioned from the policy of the Watches, so they forgo the usual Watch terminology to differentiate themselves from the mainline Others and call the Twilight "adrenaline time". In some way they severed themselves from the Twilight proper and need objects or contraptions to awake their powers (guns, the wax-like bath, knives). Only the most proficient assassins are Others and capable of physics-defying feats, the rest are just trained humans who may or may not know about their employers. Sloan is a powerful Light Other who, like many Light and Dark Others before him, believed he could change the world by affecting humans. Anton Gorodetskiy was sent by the Night Watch masqueraded as human (none of the Fraternity are Great Others, so none of them can see through the disguise) and faked his own death to suggest a crucial strategy to Wesley, the explosive mice.

[[WMG: The man who killed Fox's father will be the film's version of Mr. Rictus.]]


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Throughout the comic, numerous paralells to Marvel and DC comic books are made. For example, many of The Fraternity's members are {{Expies}} of villains from either continuity: The Emperor is obviously [[IronMan The Mandarin]], Fuckwit is supposed to be Bizzarro, [[MeaningfulName Johnny Two-Dicks]] is The Ventriloquist, Mister Rictus is The Joker, and so on. Additionally, several Fraternity agents bear an uncanny resemblance to [[SpiderMan The Headsman]], Darkseid, Reverse Flash, and Venom. When the Professor shows Wesley his secret, it's obviously supposed to be Superman's cape, and someone who is implied to be Superman himself is seen confined to a wheelchair. If that's not enough, the comic also makes reference to seven-dimensional imps, [[ComicBook/XMen level nine intelligences]], and the two actors Rictus killed are more or less outright named as Batman and Robin (especially considering how he taunts them as they die). Additionally, in the pile of bodies shown in the flashback to the war between the heroes and villains, characters resembling The Hulk, Wolverine, and The Thing can be seen.