Nightmare Fuel / Grrl Power

• Maxima gets pretty scary towards the end of the press conference, especially towards the pink haired reporter who is really only doing her job. Particularly when said reporter asks why Maxima went full power for the demonstration, prompting Maxima to laugh at the notion that she'd gone full power there.
• Ariana's "what if" scenarios that feature what she thinks is going on after Max's show include a bandaged man speaking in Arabic saying (according to the provided translation) "Dead, am I?" Recall that Max once said the only super who could ever match her is dead and get the shivers...
• From the same page, the creepy priest(?) with the glowing yellow eyes:
  The cleansing is at hand...
  • As of 2023, five of the seven reaction frames on this page have been proven to be foreshadowing, so he may still be set to appear properly...
• The villain who is a Psycho Knife Nut with Super-Speed is just creepy. Then he throws a knife into Heatwave's foot.
• And Maxima does not fight fairly, as highlighted twice during her fight against Vehemence. First, she coordinated with Peggy to shoot out his left eye, then took advantage of Halo's distraction to blast off his arm, threatening to do it to his head if he didn't surrender.
  Sydney: I'm unhappy I was part of that.
• For a normally light-hearted comic, Sydney's discovery of hanging bodies used for their blood is pure Nightmare Fuel.
• It turns out that Concretia has been Made a Slave, and that's why she's a criminal. Then her "manager" shows up to showcase just how horrible the situation is.
  Sydney: Hooooly shit. I knew a chick who powered herself with other people's blood, and she was less of a creep than you.
• Deus's theory about super-intelligence is nothing short of paranoia-inducing, as he lays out the simple fact that a god-like intelligence would certainly be smart enough to conceal its own existence from the world at large, and the only reason anyone would even know it existed was if it wanted people to know. His expansion on the topic isn't much more comforting: he theorizes that, just as physical super-abilities come with Required Secondary Powers that prevent superpowered individuals from simply destroying their own bodies every time they use their abilities, super-intelligence must also come with super-wisdom or super-benevolence...but he acknowledges that what constitutes "benevolence" is subjective and relative, and possibly incomprehensible to those of non-super intelligence. Even creepier is the unspoken implication that he just might be talking about himself.
• Sydney tries to win a fight against some demons by using the green orb's ability to generate nitrogen, like she used to put out the fires in Galytn...not knowing Nitrogen Narcosis was a thing. Other than the one who is built to live underwater, she nearly kills all of Parfait's friends on accident while just trying to knock them out.
• Strip 1231 reveals a terrifying weakness of Sydney's no one had considered: Possession by another being. In this case, the mercenary Lapha. Thankfully not as big an issue as it could have been, since Lapha cannot control the orbs, only Sydney's consciousness can, but it's still pretty bad. And all she had to do was wait for a chance to get close by impersonating a different Aeorlith that Parfait knew. This naturally leads to Sydney's body with the both of them inside getting locked up in a blacksite cell specifically made to detain Sydney. Which Sydney is more flattered than anything that they have, but still.

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