User blog:RoninTheMasterless/Off My Mind: KO snaps, KO in Marvel

"Hello, hero. This is control. Are you for hire tonight?"


Spider-Gwen and Peter Prowler


No War is Ever Civil


Earth-H8: Land of Odysseus
Earth-H8 was created by Gelos of Earth-35, partially in order to drive both Knight Owl of Earth-53 and the Spectre crazy, by showing them that in enough things were different, they'd be just as insane and evil as the people they fight. In this universe, Will grew up essentially the same as he did in Earth-53 and Earth-35, but the difference was one bad day made him snap. Unlike the Joker however, Will simply resolved to kill all humans (more akin to Ultron), having finally decided he find no redemeptive qualities in man (some say it was Donald Trump getting elected president, others say it was him never getting laid), he resolved to kill everyone and live out the remainder of his life in absolute peace and quiet.. In this sense, the character is inspired by an episode of the Twilight Zone, called "Time Enough To Last," in which a generally decent man, who is stuck in a dead-end job with a inconsiderate and borderline verbally abusive wife, survives the nuclear holocaust and becomes the last living thing on Earth. He is free to eat from the derlict stores, and read all the library's books (reading being the thing he loves to do most, and what everyone actively prevented him from doing). However, in typical Twilight Zone fashion, it all blows up in his face as his glasses fall off his face and break, leaving him incapable of reading, since he cannot fix them himself, and anyone who could is dead. Obviously the big difference here is Will decides to kill everyone himself. Gelos rewarded him with superhuman power after he snapped, more than enough to kill all humans on Earth. He took the name Odysseus to reference his hatred. One noteworthy trait, that Gelos was infuriated by, was despite snapping from reality, Will did not excersice unbridled cruelty to everyone: he was only cruel to people he felt who he felt  specifically  harmed him, or genuinely awful people, the rest he just killed quickly and as painlessly as possible, reflecting that in some way he felt he was doing them a favor, as if he was mercy killing them from enduring the same bad day that made him what he was. Indeed, Gelos in some measure suceeded in driving a version of Will crazy, crazy enough to commit genocide, but the fractured mentality still attempted to be what it considered heroic.