- Possible spoilers ahead? Read at your own discretion. This is from old versions of the Skullgirls history and old profiles, so it could be out of date. If you're not sure, avoid it for now. If you don't mind potential spoilers, read on:
- A few old revisions of the plot summary and Peacock's bio seem to suggest this. Peacock used to be a girl named Patricia before she was kidnapped by slave traders. One summary, found here◊, as well as other entries like this one, suggest that Peacock's personal grudge against the Skullgirl is because Marie used to be her friend before becoming the current Skullgirl, but stood by and did nothing while Patricia was kidnapped. This led to the eventual enslavement and torture, then the augmentation by ASG Labs and descent into madness that would end up in the creation of Peacock. Now that Peacock is a weapon with powers on par with that of the Skullgirl, she can get her revenge on Marie for allowing her to become what she is today through her negligence.
- This WMG is sort of confirmed, as you go along through Peacock's story mode, there's more and more hints of it. After Dr. Avian's killed, Andy Anvil spots the Skullgirl. When Peacock gets a look at her, she says with tears in her eyes "...Marie's the skullgirl?" and decides to catch up with her before being interrupted by Double. After fighting Valentine and Double at the Cathedral, Peacock heads to the Catacombs to meet Marie. They talk for a bit like good old friends, referring to each other by name, and Marie even asks her to leave so Peacock isn't hurt. Peacock refuses to leave and decides to fight Marie, even if she's sad to have to. As the fight opens, Peacock says "Don't think I'll go easy on you..." while Marie says "...Patricia...". After the fight and Peacock destroys the Skullheart, Marie states that she wanted the Skullheart to get revenge on the slave traders who killed Peacock and to fight all evil. As she's dying, Peacock promises that they'll always be friends and that she'll take on Marie's work without trying to destroy the whole world in the process. Cut to Peacock fighting Black Dahlia.
- One of Cerebella's lines on defeating Filia is "You should've stuck with the family!" An odd choice for a win quote, unless she's talking about a capital-F Family... Granted, Filia's not the Mafia Princess type on first glance, but the loss of her memories must have had a significant effect on her personality, as it often does in Easy Amnesia stories.
- Also suggestive is the fact that her name (or at least the name she now goes by) is Latin for "daughter".
- Maybe she was in the same line of work as Cerebella?
- One of Peacock's winquotes against Filia also seems to suggest this: "Huh, I expected more from the Medici mob!"
- It's possible that Cerebella and Peacock could be referring to Samson in those quotes, seeing as he's attached to the back of Filia's head and neither quote is gender-specific. Maybe he somehow works for the mob?
- If you look REALLY closely at around 1:09 of this video shows a picture for just a moment that seems to contain Vitale Medici, his wife(?), and a black haired girl that looks like it could be Filia...
- An even more frightening possibility — the black-haired girl could also be Carol a/k/a Painwheel.
- It pretty much is. Note her hair is parted similar to Painwheel's, and that Painwheel's mask outlines are on the picture.
- Confirmed. While the exact details aren't known, when confronting Marie, Filia is told that she has Medici blood.
- Word of God says Lorenzo and Vitale are Filia's grandfather and uncle.
- The evidence: he vomits skulls in Filia's level 3.
- If they haven't changed the plotlines linked above, then we know that he ate Filia's parents...
- Further evidence: in response to Filia asking "Who are you?" in her opening, he'll sometimes respond with "Lunch."
- As either an achievement, a win quote or what not. Because it'd be epic.
- Confirmed; the "Real Circus Damage" achievement.
- Double Confirmed; The announcer can sometimes say "Now that's REAL Soviet Damage!"
- Triple Confirmed: Mike Z is recording the RSD voice as an alternative announcer. Furthermore, he says it verbatim as part of the pack.
- Confirmed; the "Real Circus Damage" achievement.
- This editor believes it will be Painwheel. Valentine is out, since she seems incredibly loyal and has done some pretty heinous things, and Peacock seems too psychotic and broken to snap out of her murderous personality. Possibly, Painwheel might be freed from Brain Drain's control, and undergoes a major breakdown at what she has become. She then decides to seek redemption by using her horrific powers for a better cause, even if she will never be Carol again, and still has her violent, destructive tendencies.
- Confirmed, except that it is Valentine who makes the turn... except that she turns against Marie, not the ASL.
- Possible spoiler ahead. Continue reading if you don't mind spoilers.
- She either encountered the current Skullgirl and survived or found the skull heart and made a wish, in either case the end result was the loss of her memories and the appearance of Samson on her head.
- The evidence: At the top of the world page [1] of the main site, the figure standing amongst the wreckage is a Skullgirl, notice the red eyes. Out of all the revealed characters only Filia, Valentine, and Painwheel have red eyes in their default colors and the latter two have some sort of connection to a Skullgirl. Valentine is the current Skullgirl's right hand woman and Painwheel was injected with experimental Skullgirl blood, though it may just be the mask in her case.
- She either encountered the current Skullgirl and survived or found the skull heart and made a wish, in either case the end result was the loss of her memories and the appearance of Samson on her head.
- Jossed: Filia has no connection other than being part of the Medici Mafia who Marie hates, it's Peacock who was actually friends with Marie.
- Or is it? Filia 'has' met with Marie in the past but just what happened hasn't been revealed yet.
- Filia's red eyes are the result of having a parasite attached to her, not because she has a connection with the Skullgirl.
- Filia turns into the Skullgirl in her ending. Aside from that, there's no connection.
- Going even further, it's possible that she or her people might have created the Skullheart itself for the purpose of turning humans into monsters.
- Confirmed: Queen Lamia and her daughters were from the race on Precursors who ascended to sort of godhood with their technology based on Parasites and started to be worshipped as The Trinity. Then Eliza came and killed Venus and Aeon, but Lamia escaped this fate through the proxy body named Double, with the Skull Heart left from her original form. Godlike beings, the Trinity has complicated relationships with the flow of time, so in retaliation they made the Skull Heart into the artifact present in the game to screw with humanity, because now they hate humans' guts. And whole Selfless Wish is a scam - the Skull Heart is a Jackass Genie par excellence and will find selfishness in anything, just to rub it in.
- Maybe she only joined up with the Skullgirl (heck, it even looks like she could have been forced to join) in order to get close enough to her to catch her off guard? She could be plotting to wait for the opportune time to backstab the Skullgirl and avenge her team, all while under the guise of being her servant.
- At the end of the story mode trailer, the last clip is a scroll-up of a lot of dead bodies (most of them look like doctors), ending with a still of what appears to be Bloody Marie holding a sword up to Valentine's neck, with Double standing behind Valentine. Perhaps Bloody Marie forced her into a "you will be spared if you obey my commands" situation.
- There's the above, but for those wondering about what Valentine did to Painwheel, her trope page itself says she was not happy about working on her and Brain Drain's plans for her. Perhaps she wants to Mercy Kill the poor thing?
- All of the above is confirmed in Valentine's story mode. Although the part about Painwheel is in fact the other way around; she wants Painwheel to kill her to atone for what she did.
- Not if you wish for world peace.
- Also if you wish for world peace. "I want peace so that I don't worry about anything anymore".
- If old plotlines haven't changed, then we know that Annie of the Stars was granted immortality due to someone else's wish on the Skull Heart, and Bloody Marie was revived from the dead via a wish on it. And, as the other person noted, the Queen's wish for peace. The thing definitely does seem to grant wishes, albeit in twisted ways. This Troper's theory is that it will always grant a wish, but it holds "pure" to such an impossible or alien standard that anyone who dares to wish will be guaranteed to turn into a Skullgirl.
- Not true. In multiple story mode endings, one of the characters you could play as can get their wish. For example, right before the boss fight, Marie admits to Cerebella that she's totally pure of heart, but she must be killed since the Medici family is evil.
- Black Dahlia is able to obtain an untainted wish for it; turns out 'pure' can mean Blood Knight Straw Nihilist.
Before Samson got attached to her head, Filia wasn't considered "pure of heart." However, her memory loss actually made her eligible for that requirement, due to the memory loss most likely changing her personality quite a bit. If the old plotlines haven't changed, this means Samson's plan of turning Filia into the Skullgirl will most likely backfire on him. And Filia will probably wish for her parents back, or something to that effect.
- Jossed. In her story mode ending, Filia makes a wish using the Skull Heart but is told she will still turn into the next Skullgirl. Her transformation will simply be slower due to making an almost pure wish.
- It's actually Cerebella who is pure enough of heart to be able to use the Skull Heart safely — and she REFUSES.
- Someone who shakes people down for the Mafia has the purest heart... Either the Skull Heart was lying, or it's a terrible judge of character...
- Well, you know what they say about pure innocence being both beautiful and terrifying...
- That, or the claim of her having a "pure heart" was Schmuck Bait from an Unreliable Narrator, which wouldn't be far-fetched given the Skull Heart already being a Jerkass Genie as it is.
- Actually, it's implied that Cerebella really would be pure enough to make a wish. Though she does work for the Mafia, she's never actually killed anyone, and sees the Medici family as her own family. At the end of her story, she's obviously quite distressed over the fact that she had to kill Ms. Fortune, even though she earned Vitale's approval for it.
- Cerebella being pure of heart is not so hard to fathom should comparisons to Terra be made. In short, fundamentally good people at heart that are easily manipulated by rotten people that they trust (Vitalli and Xehanort respectively).
- It's actually Cerebella who is pure enough of heart to be able to use the Skull Heart safely — and she REFUSES.
- Double jossed. The only person to safely use the Skull Heart is Black Dahlia.
She's probably the silliest member of the playable cast bar Peacock, with her lame puns and goofy animations, yet she managed to turn her Immortality into a unique fighting style. For all we know, she may be the biggest badass too.
- Confirmed, kinda. If her actions in Cerebella's story are anything to go by, Ms. Fortune wants to use the Skull Heart to completely destroy the Medici mafia. When she doesn't get it in that story, she STILL vows that she'll destroy them all. Underneath the puns, the kitty has claws.
We will get a playable Marie, Venus and Aeon as DLC to follow up on the canon storyline, followed by Black Dahlia, Leduc, Beowulf and more.
- I can't help but wonder how Marie will be made playable if they are really released as DLC.
- She'll be a maid with a vacuum cleaner. Also she got better and has no more visibly exposed bones. Or at least that's what it seems in the DLC character lineup.
- It was originally supposed to be Black Dahlia and Marie who would be released as the next DLC characters, according to Lab Zero. The Trinity sisters were originally going to be bosses for a theoretical third game. Not that it matters now, since after the Indiegogo campaign it's a moot point.
They are from an alternate timeline where Queen Nancy was never stopped and corrupted her daughters. It's why "Mother" has the same outline. Venus is if Umbrella grew up and absorbed her weapon or gained an eating disorder. Aeon is if Parasoul stopped aging earlier. If anything is different about Parasoul's hidden eye, Aeon will open hers and show she has the same condition.
One gives immortal life and the other turns you into a corrupted lich. If M.Fortune accepts the Skull Heart, her blood will flow through the Heart and the two will cancel each other out in a Bitter Sweet Ending.
- Or the Life Gem is created from the Skull Heart. Skullgirl blood makes Painwheel shake off injuries, and the Life Gem was always a crystallized lump of it.
Cerebella, M.Fortune, and Valentine see their associates as their family. Filia and Painwheel are at the least separated from their parents. Parasoul and Umbrella's mother is dead and their father is missing. Just as Patricia and Marie are war orphans, anybody could have lost their parents in the war. A Skullgirl is someone who was lured and adopted by Mother, which is why her daughters look so dissimilar.
- Or perhaps Double has been made in The Mother's image, once more living up to it's name as a "Double"
- Confirmed: Double is the proxy of Lamia, aka Mother. She's literally her body double.
Take Parasoul's ending. Her wish is amongst the most selfless and pure made: she simply doesn't want her sister to become a Skullgirl. Even then, the Skull Heart warns that she will become a Skullgirl in time. Based on this, this troper has to assume that it doesn't matter how pure a girl's heart may be: she makes a wish on the Skull Heart, and she's gonna become a Skullgirl.
- Agreeable. Fillia Just wants Painwheel to have her old life back but is still corrupted anyway. In fact, the only way to disprove this would be if Cerebella were to use it. she doesn't so...
- Alex Ahad has semi-confirmed this.
- Semi-jossed: Cerebella is the only one pure enough to qualify, but she will never be able to actually make a wish.
- Jossed. Black Dahlia is able to make a wish without becoming a Skullgirl, because she's a pure Blood Knight.
- Take a look at this quote from her ending:
- Painwheel: Do you really think you can control me? The truth is...you're next!
- You would think that's foreshadowing her plans to destroy Lab Zero, but what are you playing the game with? Why yes, you are using a controller! But unfortunately for you...Painwheel doesn't like to be controlled.
- The Skullgirl has red eyes. Filia, Painwheel and Squigly have all bonded with a parasite and have red eyes - and Painwheel has synthetic Skullgirl blood in her body too. Peacock's mechanical eyes are red. Valentine serves the Skullgirl and has cross-shaped eyes, probably not natural. Double has red eyes and it's a Eldritch Abomination in humanlike form. Umbrella has pink eyes and is attracted to the Skullgirl.
- What about Parasoul? Her eyes are orange.
- Her umbrella is a living weapon and perhaps she's partially bonded with it; it's not a part of her, but it likely only responds to her commands. This could also explain Umbrella's pink eyes; it could be their umbrellas can only bond with their owners, to keep non-royals from using them. Cerebella's weapon doesn't bond with its owner because Vitale doesn't want it to; it makes it easier to replace his enforcers.
- Doctor Avian has red eyes. But he doesn't appear to have any kind of cool special abilities at all... There are also several unnamed NPCs with red eyes who don't appear to be playable or otherwise in the spotlight.
- True, but just because they're supernatural doesn't mean their powers are awesome; they could easily be Blessed with Suck. And even if they had powers, it doesn't mean they all choose to use them. Plus, if Avian's got them, that could easily be foreshadowing: sure, he dies in at least one ending, but all of the endings are completely independent of each other.
- What about Parasoul? Her eyes are orange.
The Skull Heart is an Artifact of Doom forged by the QB's, which is why it always corrupts the user's wish (the "pure of heart" thing is a crock because few people would seek the heart if they knew it would corrupt them). Bloody Marie is the spitting image of a PMMM-style Puella Magi; it isn't unheard of them to be evil, and arguably, fighting The Mafia isn't especially evil anyway, and the Skull Heart functions exactly as a Soul Gem should. This is why Marie is still alive despite taking enough damage that she's missing most of her skin, and also why she's such a wicked boss. Her theme is of a maid because her wish was to completely clean New Meridian of the Medici Mafia. Double is basically a super-demon, the demon equivalent of a Walpurgis Night-class witch. And speaking of untold amounts of damage, the Life Gem is also a Soul Gem, albeit an empty one, but one which now contains Ms. Fortune's soul because she ate it.
- Also, the universe is as messed up as it is because after Madoka became the ultimate Magical Girl, she ran out of demons to slay and became the ultimate witch. Remember, she only protected OTHER magical girls from becoming witches; there's nothing that said SHE was protected from the same fate....Wait, no, yes there was. She destroyed her own witch form, nevermind.
- But what about the theory that the Skull Heart corrupts regardless of purity? The wisher would, themselves, become a Skullgirl...
- If you had actually watched Madoka Magica, you wouldn't be asking this question; the wisher would destroy her own Skullgirl form and Ret-Gone herself from existence. Of course, doing something that could Ret-Gone yourself from existence might be considered a pure wish - so maybe she wouldn't become a Skullgirl in the first place.
- Time for loophole abuse and the Skull Heart making Skullboys?
- Skullgirls are made from mortal females. The Heart transforms wisher into ultimate Skullgirl hell-bent on slaughtering all women or aborting every female fetus (and killing mothers in process).
- Skull Heart!? Okay Kyubey, the joke's over. You can stop now.
- I'd be interested to know what Queen Nancy's Umbrella of Choice was before her transformation...if she kept in Skullgirl form, or if somebody else got ahold of it.
- Also they probably went with Hungern instead of Hunger because it sounds cooler. So Pest will get changed, too.
- Famine is not literally "Hunger" or "Hungern" in German, but "Hungersnot". Considering what that looks like to an English reader, it's unsurprising they changed it
- Confirmed. Queen Nancy's Living Weapon was a scythe-umbrella called Todd (Death) and she kept it as a Skullgirl, while King Franz's Living Weapon is a Wave-Motion Gun-umbrella called Eroberung (Conquest).
- We know that the Skull Heart focuses totally on women, right? So what if it was a gift... Like, the Grim Reaper himself took his heart out and gave it to the girl he loved? What if she was pure of heart but was too afraid of the Reaper to love him? Heartbroken, he went to the Mother, and she enchanted the heart so that it would grant wishes, but only to the 'pure of heart'. Convinced that his maiden was pure, he brought the heart back and disguised himself as a handsome young man. His wife-to-be, enchanted by his appearance, is far more receptive to his approach now.
- When he showed her the heart again, she was terrified. He calmed her down and told her it would grant her one wish.
- She was so hypnotized by his visage that she wished them to be 'together forever'. The Reaper stood horrified as the woman of his dreams turned into the Skullgirl. She was forced to be a human weapon of unparalelled destruction, and he was forced to aid her and every other Skull Girl after her. The Skull Heart contains the jealousy and anger of the original Skullgirl, forced to spend all eternity in a spiritual prison. Whenever a new Skullgirl appears, he dedicates his life to protecting her. If he ever appeared in the actual storyline, he would be the second challenger, in his human form and carrying a Tommy gun (he would be the weakest enemy in story mode due to him having no special powers he can use against the Skullgirl, for fear of killing her). He would also be the last boss, taking posession of the Skull heart and becoming a hulking Reaper. Worth a shot.
- Before you ask, the reason why she was impure of heart is because she was too enchanted with the Reaper's power and what he could do rather than actually loving him.
- That tommy gunner that appears in Marie's fight? Those and the shadows that fight for her are the Reaper.
- Jossed. If you stop the picture when the Shadow attacks, you can see a woman-like figure with the Mother's triune crown. It would make more sense to say that the Skull Heart was a weapon used against the Mother and stole half of her power. That would explain the great deal of horror that happens and would explain the reasoning behind Double. Double is posessed by the true bad guy while her original psyche believes she does nothing wrong. When her eyes glow red, she is the Big Bad. Also, why does the Skull Girl need another servant ie: Double? While it does seem promising, the Reaper is not strictly necesarry, and may even end up as the final boss. After all, he gets the power of the Mother and tons of dead people to boss around...
- She was so hypnotized by his visage that she wished them to be 'together forever'. The Reaper stood horrified as the woman of his dreams turned into the Skullgirl. She was forced to be a human weapon of unparalelled destruction, and he was forced to aid her and every other Skull Girl after her. The Skull Heart contains the jealousy and anger of the original Skullgirl, forced to spend all eternity in a spiritual prison. Whenever a new Skullgirl appears, he dedicates his life to protecting her. If he ever appeared in the actual storyline, he would be the second challenger, in his human form and carrying a Tommy gun (he would be the weakest enemy in story mode due to him having no special powers he can use against the Skullgirl, for fear of killing her). He would also be the last boss, taking posession of the Skull heart and becoming a hulking Reaper. Worth a shot.
- Jossed by DLC. Skull Heart belonged to Queen Lamia, who, along with Venus and Aeon, used Parasites to ascend to sort-of godhood. Then came Eliza and killed them out of envy of their status, but Lamia survived through her proxy - Double. Having complicated relationship with timestream, the Trinity made the Skull Heart in what it is now as a means for revenge. The Selfless Wish is a scam - Trinity simply hates humanity and uses this plot to cause additional misery. Gender requirement most likely stems from Lamia being a woman.
- As you may have noticed in Painwheel's story, there's a picture of a girl with blonde hair with a group of friends with her. After some research, this is apparently Fillia before Samson took over her hair. In the past, Fillia was actually an Alpha Bitch who tormented poor Carol!Painwheel in school. This eventually lead to Carol!Painwheel having a breakdown and she ran out of school, crying. With nobody around outside of school, a certain nurse with 36E breasts found the perfect test subject to kidnap...and thus, Painwheel was born. Fillia found out the next day that Carol had suddenly vanished after her breakdown, and she felt a little bit of guilt, AKA the main reason the Skullheart says she's impure. Somehow, even with her memories erased, that just never really left until she ran into Painwheel, who claimed to know her. If you've played Fillia's story, you know the rest.
- Didn't Valentine object to the experimentation performed on Painwheel, though?
- She didn't want to, but it's implied Brain Drain forced her into it.
- Somewhat jossed when you consider that Filia and Carol were apparently friends before Samson took over Filia and Carol's transformation to Painwheel.
- There might be a bit of truth in this, though. While it's hinted overall that Filia did something really bad that turned Carol into Painwheel, there's even more confirmation in the Dummied Out script for the original second ending where Filia wishes for her memories back. Specifically, Samson's "You told me not to...!" If that really is the truth (though who knows considering the party involved), Filia's amnesia was self-inflicted with Samson's help. In that case, the guilt was probably so extreme that she felt she had no other way to atone, kinda like what happened in Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
- It's painfully obvious when you look at her that Black Dahlia is a cyborg—That grenade launcher-esque arm cannon is hard to miss. If you consider the jointed appearance of her knee and ankle joints, her legs may also be robotic. Knowing this, where is the only place in the Skullgirls universe we know cyborgs are made? The Labs.
- Her concept art also shows she has a long horizontal scar running across her back — the same place where Elizabeth Short, the real-life Black Dahlia, was cut in half.
- But that's not all. Consider her line in Peacock's storymode ending: "So, the rumors were true. Geiger's resorted to experimenting on children now? My, how the mighty have fallen." If you read about the ASG Labs' history on the Skullgirls website, you'll see that Dr. Victor Geiger was the Labs' founder. If Black Dahlia is a cyborg and knows Geiger on a personal level, it seems apparent that she has a past with the Labs.
- Also suggestive is the fact that her pale skin and pointed ears are almost a perfect match to Dr. Avian's.
- Word of God says that Tom was hired away from Lab Four by Lorenzo, and brought with him the prototype mecha suit he was working on (Ottomo). The Medicis have a history of headhunting ASG Labs personnel.
- Bloody Marie = Andrew Ryan: The first in-game Big Bad of their series and get replaced by the next Big Bad
- Lorenzo and Vitale Medici = Frank Fontaine: Both run the equivalent of The Mafia in their respective cities, and made the original Big Bad a Well-Intentioned Extremist trying to stop them
- Brain Drain = Sofia Lamb: MadScientists that are all For Science!, and expose on The Evils of Free Will.
- "Father" Zachary Hale Comstock = The Trinity: Both have Religion of Evil tropes behind them, and their story arcs involve AlternateUniverses and Timey-Wimey Ball shenanigans.
- Samson's current girlfriend. Recall Samson's namesake: the old story in the Bible where Samson got his strength from his hair. During this story, he had a lover named Delilah who manipulated him and eventually led to his demise. Maybe she plays a similar role as a Shout-Out to the story: he's doing what Delilah told him to do and turn Filia into the Skullgirl, and could be a case of The Woman Behind the Parasite.
- A previous Skullgirl. She was killed and Samson's doing what he can to take revenge on those who killed her. So by turning Filia into the Skullgirl, he'll be able to have the power to kill all those who killed her.
- A previous host who became or was killed by a Skullgirl.
- Confirmed to be a previous host on one of the Salty Cupcakes streams. She was apparently a very important host to Samson in his past.
- Samson's creator who separated him from a superhuman of the same name, possibly with his identity.
- Black Dahlia, who shares Samson's Supernatural Gold Eyes and is connected to the Medici Mafia.
- Eliza's story reveals that Delilah was Samson's previous host.
- This could give the red eyes theory a stronger connection. Everybody with them is either a parasite host or someone who's gotten their hands dirty with artificial parasites. Except Parasoul, unless something new gets revealed about her.
- In Peacock's intro, we learn putting multiple parasites on someone contaminates their soul but it can be regulated through something called a theonite balance. The Skull Heart corrupts its host and makes them give off a large theonite reaction. Painwheel regulates her two parasites using some other more extreme method which is likely her being injected with Skullgirl blood. Unless it's just Technobabble it points to a pretty strong connection
- Confirmed, sort of: the Skull Heart is the only remain of Lamia, aka Mother. The Trinity belonged to the race of Precursors behind the Parasites technology, and they ascended to godhood through it. Then came Eliza and murdered them.
- Well she IS stated to be far stronger as a soul than previous Skull Heart hosts, so her coming Back from the Dead (possibly as a benevolent equivalent to the Grim Reaper) isn't out of the question
- Similar to the above, Double was just a construct created by Venus and Aeon, in order to wipe out humanity. Why? Well, seeing as how they act like teenage girls, it's likely they got bored one day, and decided to exterminate a planet for a cheap laugh.
- Jossed: she's a proxy body of Lamia, their Mother.
- She will wish for Cerebella to love her. As a result, when she inevitably gets turned into a Skullgirl because of formulating such a selfish and immoral wish, Cerebella will be one of her servants.
- She will wish for Cerebella to be happy with Vitale. She will still turn into a Skullgirl because her heart will keep hints of jealousy towards Vitale. When Cerebella finds out about it, she will feel sad about it, and will question her actions even more.
- She will cop out of making a wish, thinking that it would be playing dirty, and either discard or destroy the Skull Heart.
- Meh. Jossed before it could even take flight. Apparently, the devs have said that, even if Feng is released as a playable character, her attraction for Cerebella will not even be mentioned in the story. Mike even asked Alex about the love affair and it doesn't look like Feng would have any romantic feelings towards Cerebella.
- Doesn't mean they can't drop a few hints of Les Yay! ...Hey, a guy can dream, can't he?
- ...or she could just smash the darn thing to oblivion out of pure frustration from everyone pushing her around and also from Marie talking smack to her before fighting her (Umbrella). Little kids can be like that often.
- ...But that doesn't take into account (in at least Parasoul's story), that Umbrella's life-force is linked to the Skull Heart, and that it's destruction (unless it finds a new host) will kill her... Actually, that would form another Bittersweet Ending, where Umbrella, despite realizing what'll happen if the Skull Heart is destroyed, makes a Heroic Sacrifice by destroying it anyway. Bonus Tear Jerker points if she just has enough time to say "goodbye" to her older sister, or finally meets her mother in the afterlife.
- Jossed. The only person to treat Umbrella as Just a Kid is Parasoul; Beowulf and Filia both try to attack Hungern (Samson recognizes Hungern as very bad news, and Beowulf thinks she needs saving from Hungern), Cerebella and Eliza try to kidnap her, and Brain Drain is forcing Painwheel to capture her because of her Skullgirl blood. It ends quite happily, too; Umbrella is able to recognize the Skull Heart for what it is and destroy it. This has no negative effects on Umbrella herself, and she's last seen having a sleepover with Filia and Carol, telling them the story about how she beat the Skullgirl.
- Sort of confirmed in Black Dahlia's storyline. She just wants to fight things, so she has no use for the Heart except as bait for strong opponents. When she finally does make a wish after killing anyone who could meaningfully oppose her (to be transported to a world where she could fight forever and never be bored), it is granted and she does not become a Skullgirl. The Skull Heart seems thrilled it finally got to grant a wish, too.
Why yes, this was inspired by The Book of Darkness.
- Now Semi-Confirmed with Filia teaming up with Squiggly in her battle with Double.
- That said, being a Jerkass Genie created to wipe humanity off the face of the planet, it'll probably grant the wish granting the same Cessation of Existence to the entire world
- In Filia's old Time Out animation, Samson rips open her shirt, revealing that she does wear one.
- I think he looks off because Leviathan was originally a legitimate snake/dragon-like being. With the resurrected Squigly he's become an undead skeleton, just as she has lost some of her flesh.
- Confirmed: The Skull Heart is a Jackass Genie and hates humanity's guts, it doesn't care about actual purity and will find selfishness in everyone on principle.
- Expanded on in Dahlia's story. The Skull Heart thinks that benevolent wishes are impure because they negate the goodness of their goal by relying on an outside source to achieve it. Dahlia manages to make a 'pure' wish due to her nihilism; she wants to go to a world where she is always fighting. This isn't a selfish wish because it doesn't hurt anyone and Dahlia herself gets no special aid in surviving, but it isn't a benevolent wish because it doesn't actually help anyone. So the Skull Heart happily grants a wish exactly as intended for the first time in its existence.
So... what do you get if you fight fire with fire? More fire. Brain Drain sent what is basically his own pet Skullgirl against the real deal. Why? Because he wanted control of the Skullgirl. He deliberately let Painwheel loose off the leash so that she would direct herself to destroy Bloody Marie, replacing her. Valentine, who worked on Painwheel, was surprised to see her break free of the mind control so easily. And she would know about it more than anyone, save Brain Drain. So Brain Drain let Painwheel go to take out both Valentine AND the Skullgirl to take care of a loose end and replace the Skullgirl. He already has control over Painwheel. He made something of similar makeup that he already controlled because asserting dominance over a Skullgirl is... kind of hard to do.
Brain Drain himself showed very little urge to actually fetch his wayward weapon girl once she strayed off to do crazy Painwheel things. He only actually shows up when Painwheel's Skullgirl aspects (the eyes) started to manifest, which was his green light regarding whether or not his gambit had succeeded.
But years later the same damn thing happens when Queen Canopy wishes for world peace. Where the hell did SHE get the Skull Heart from?? Simple. She got it when the Contiellos were destroyed. The Medicis are implied to have a great deal of pull within the Kingdom, preventing Parasoul and co. from storming that nancy boy Lorenzo's mansion and making him dead, making his family dead and burning his house to the ground and then desecrating the ruins in the middle of the night in a bout of movie induced irony. So... when the Medicis went and pulled the plug on the Contiellos, the Canopy Kingdom also had forces there to get the Heart. Then the Skullgirl happened and they, though not prepared, were able to put her down quick and easy. Ish. Not linking that power to the Skull Heart, they pinched it when Lorenzo wasn't looking and kept it from him. And after a while Her Majesty goes and wishes for something as unfathomably selfish as world peace, and we know what happened from there.
This all spawned from this Troper beating Squigly as Parasoul. Leviathan accuses Parasoul of being a usurper. Wonder why.
- Jossed by the webcomic and mobile game. The downfall of the Contiellos was simply the result of Double manipulating the Medici Mafia into carrying out a hit on them so that Selene would wish on the Skull Heart. Word of God is that the Renoir family are called usurpers by the people of New Meridian because they are descended from colonizers and conquerors, while the Medici and Contiello families are descended from the original inhabitants of the Canopy Kingdom and deeply resent the fascist-coded regime. As for the Renoir forces being present in the form of Big Band and Ileum, the mobile game and prequel webcomic exposit that the ASG Labs—which hadn't gone AWOL at that point—have the ability to detect the Skull Heart's theonite energy signature. As for Queen Nancy, Parasoul's story mode in the mobile game reveals that at some point—presumably after Selene's defeat, or possibly even before she became the Skullgirl—Double approached Queen Nancy Renoir with the Skull Heart (presumably having reclaimed it after Selene's defeat) and offered to let her use it to wish for world peace, but that nothing happened for several years due to her wish being tainted with resentment for her husband's warmongering—leading to Nancy's pregnancy with Umbrella being tainted by the Skull Heart's power. Then, seven years prior to the events of the game, the Skull Heart's curse was finally triggered and Nancy was turned into the Skullgirl.
- Probably jossed, since Cerebella's story mode shows that the life gem is still completely whole inside of Ms. Fortune. The only way she'd be stuck as immortal forever is if she never feels like cutting it out her stomach. ...Or if no one decided to follow Cerebella's example.
- Wrong, Cerebella's Vice Versa headgear has the power to create gems out of things, like with her super ability to pull a piece of the ground up and punch it, turning it into a giant diamond going at high velocity. She compressed Ms. Fortune into a substitute Life Gem, because its power 'flowed through her veins'. The Fortune Life Gem even has her little collar's bell face on it. That Life Gem wasn't pulled out of her, that Life Gem IS her.
- Ingenius!
- ... I didn't understand a word of that.
- Allow me to attempt to translate it for you. Despite the fact that her story mode was just a dream (or not), and that she is a creation of Brain Drain, she is not under his control. Being inhabited by two souls, she may have more personality that any other of BD's cloning projects, and thus, may want to be Filia. So she takes down BD and his projects, so that he won't come back to her and make her do whatever. This leaves her room to hunt down and inhabit Filia.
- Regardless of how much sense this actually makes, this did not happen in the story, nor are there any hints that the Brain Drain connection is canon to it. Unless Lab Zero decides to play her seriously and add her to the lore proper with said connection, this is probably jossed.
- Jossed. She had normal arms that were lost when the Medici mutilated her, with Lab 8 giving her the artificial parasite Argus to serve as prosthetics.
The horrifying part comes from where it came from; it's people. Gehenna is the accumulated biomass of many thousands, or even millions of people that have been sacrificed to the chambers or that Double itself has personally gone out and captured... or swallowed.
- Confirmed, to an extent. While it's never elaborated where the biomass came from, it is a part of Double that she can use to respawn if her body is destroyed, and even create multiple copies of herself from.
- More likely, Robo-Fortune will still start off as a shameless Evil Knockoff of the real Ms. Fortune, but will eventually grow a conscious along with Fortune's personality (complete with wondering if she was starting to grow a soul in spite of being a machine).
- Jossed, to an extent. Robo-Fortune is designed by Brain-Drain for the express purr-pose of killing the Skullgirl and claiming the Skull Heart for Brain Drain, and is a Pungeon Master who thrives on references to memes and breaking the fourth wall. Her story mode has her seriously question Brain Drain's competence and attempt to use the Skull Heart to break free from his control, before deciding to claim it for Lab Zero and use it as a power-source for the Robot Apocalypse.
- There could possibly still be the opportunity for some characters to reappear as Older and Wiser versions of themselves. Some may not even change that much, since Miss Fortune is The Ageless as a side-effect of the Life Gem's immortality, Peacock and Big Band are both Cyborgs, and since almost the rest of the cast is full of young, teenaged girls, a ten or even twenty year Time Skip will leave most of them in their 20s or 30s, which would probably still be prime fighting age for them.