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The Multiverse is a vast place, and each universe is guarded by a being with a title known as Overseer, who is given the ability to maintain their universe, but not all of them are benevolent.

This story is about a group of people, from different universes, who stumbled upon each other and decided to unite to help the people all around the Multiverse.

Multiverse Tales is a series of stories made out of drawings made by an artist named Christan Pearson on his YouTube channel known as Popcross Studio, who is well known of creating Crossover character designs.

This series contains the following tropes:

• The Alcatraz: Dimension S316, A.k.A The BackCells Prison, where other Overseers can send their uncontrollable creations into for a favor its Overseer, Dresden, can call upon.
• Arrogance Breeds Laziness:
  • Gentlemen Bestar, who runs the fighting arena in Backcells Prison, is a Faux Affably Evil Cthulhumanoid who seems to have a high opinion of himself and his power over the other prisoners, especially seeing as he used to be an Overseer before he got stripped of his powers and imprisoned. However, seeing as Bestar primarily gets other prisoners to fight for him instead of doing it himself, and the fact that he still doesn't seem used to the fact that he's not an Overseer anymore (he has a force of habit of tapping at his wrist, which is where an Overseer's runes of power are normally located), he really isn't that good at physical combat or physically strong. As a result, once Bestar gets forcibly thrown into the arena and finds himself at the mercy of his strongest prisoner, Unkillable Kate (who hates him so much that she's sworn to only escape from Backcells after she's killed him), his immediate reaction is to beg her to spare him, because he made her the unstoppable warrior she is. When Bestar's pleas fall on deaf ears, he resolves to try fighting by powering himself up with some literal lightning-in-a-bottle, but all his dirty fighting achieves is briefly dislocating Kate's shoulder with one punch, after which she pays him back with a lethal Neck Snap.
  • Recurring villain Tarsa is also a former Overseer, and unlike Bestar, she still has power at her disposal, and Tarsa's power clearly gives her a superiority complex, judging by how much she boasts about her might. Sadly for Tarsa, her power is clearly a crutch for her- she only dares to fight when she thinks she has enough power that her opponent doesn't stand a chance against her, and that power is always one she's stolen from an outside source. This is first shown in the spin-off series Mythal-Lethal, when main character Ortis accuses her of cowardice to goad her into trying to fight her god-killing descendant Mythal without the power of the Multiversal Orb (which the Seven Archons made for her). Initially, Tarsa does quite well, but once she starts losing control of the fight, she breaks her word and summons the Orb back to her hand to try regaining an advantage- and after Ortis forces her to fight fairly by banishing the Orb from their dimension, she immediately falls from sneering rage and disdain to screaming in hysterical fear as she realises that now, she can't hold her own against Mythal anymore, and the only reason she doesn't get killed right then and there (beyond needing to survive for millennia until she finally gives birth to Astra in the present day) is because she swallows her pride and begs Mythal to spare her in exchange for saving Ortis' life from the lethal wound she gave him in the first place.
• Benevolent Demon: The world of Multiverse Tales includes multiple examples of demonic beings who are not evil, including:
  • Ralph, a demon in dimension D667, who first shows up in Benny Sharp Saves Christmas from Lots and Lots of Demons to assist Benny Sharp and the Predator Coalition of Demon Hunters in defending a Romanian village at Christmas. Ralph, despite his impish appearance, is a purely benevolent figure who carries presents in his Bag of Holding, which he also uses as a weapon to kill evil demons with, thereby making him like a demonic composite of a Christmas Elf and Father Christmas himself, compared to the purely malicious and voracious Santa-based demon that is Pogonus.
  • Mongomustraw, a Demon of Human Origin version of Monkey D. Luffy from What if ONE PIECE DEVIL FRUIT USERS Were DEMONS?! Most pirates who ate Demon Fruits had their bodies overtaken by Fear Herself's channeling her malevolent desire to force them to kill and torment humans through the Fruits, with their souls helpless to do anything about it, but not Luffy. It appears that the reason he kept his Friendly Pirate personality and his soul retained control of his body is because, being a seven-year-old when he became a demon, life hadn't made him cynical, fearful or cruel enough for the Demon Fruit to draw upon those negative emotions and take over his body. Luffy/Mongomustraw, now what is known as an "awakened demon", considered it his duty to track down other pirates-turned-demons and either help them regain control of their new forms (as he did with Nico Robin/Hannikoma) or defeat them to end the danger they posed to innocent people (like with Crocodile/Crocotsuna).
  • Fantorrell/Torrelli, one of the Seven Archons, dedicated to the genre of Fantasy. Unlike her siblings, who are Abusive Precursors who want to destroy the entire Multiverse and recreate it In Their Own Image, Torrelli is not interested in destruction, only laying waste to universes that had no sentient life in them (and even then, only doing so in order to prevent her siblings from becoming suspicious). She cares for all manner of living things (including her own demons, whereas the other Archons treat theirs as expendable tools), and for the Irish village she's been living in and protecting undercover, to the point of abandoning her old Archonic name. And while initially, she does cause some conflict, by challenging Tayrun Jaanavar to a contest for the title of Overseer of his dimension, she does it purely because she loves his fantastical world, and wants to stay in it for the rest of her life so that she can get away from her evil siblings, and ultimately, her willingness to do anything to defend those she cares about makes Tayrun willingly give up his position to her. Further proof of her benevolence is when she voluntarily concedes defeat to Tayrun following an intense, evenly-matched battle between both their strongest dragon summons, in order for her to undo the damage they've caused to the surrounding forest.
  • Cosmara "Mara" Noroi, a former member of the Predator Coalition of Demon Hunters. Mara received a Curse from Fear Herself that makes her turn bit-by-bit into a Demon of Human Origin every time she kills a demon (or any living thing, really). Because of this, Mara was subject to a lot of Fantastic Racism and shunning by her former teammates, which left her with a serious case of insecurity and Heroic Self-Deprecation, partially because she's worried that once she completes the curse, she'll undergo a Face–Monster Turn, but ultimately, she's not evil or dangerous to be around, despite hearing a demonic voice in her head telling her to kill things. Once Mara does complete the curse in "Mara's Final Kill", she doesn't turn evil, but neither does she turn into a full demon: instead, she's become a Nightmare Hunter, a being who can shape-shift between demon and human forms, created by Fear Herself as part of her plans to kill the Reaper. Sadly for Fear Herself, Mara's heroic upbringing and morality means she's not going to follow that unsavoury destiny.
• Big Weapon, Little Wielder: The hammer of the the Elemental Embodiment of the earth... forged by Husky Russkie Vasilia Kuznet:
  Vasilia: the mallet was nearly as large as his body! I could not even come close to lifting thing myself, but he swung it with one hand like it was child's plaything!
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Benny frequently does this, much to the confusion of everyone else around him.
• Demon Sorcerer: The Overseers are entities who in-universe are often associated with gods, but in practice are more like extremely powerful magic practitioners with long lifespans who are tasked with watching over their separate dimensions. Two of them powers connected to demons:
  • Tarsa, Astra's Evil Matriarch and the series' Greater-Scope Villain, is responsible for creating the Multiversal Orb by convincing the Archons — seven cosmically powerful demons responsible for creating the current multiverse — to share some of their power with her, in exchange for promising to use the Orb to create physical forms for them, so that they could interact with the physical world themselves for their own entertainment. Sadly for the Archons, Tarsa had no intention of keeping that promise, and once they gave her the Multiversal Orb — and merged several worlds with different pantheons into one, Dimension M308, for her to rule over — she left them behind in the non-physical realm, much to their anger. Even after the Multiversal Orb is destroyed by the end of the first phase of Multiverse Tales, Tarsa reveals that she still has a backup plan to steal power from the Archons once more — a curse that she put on the Orb to ensure that if anybody else did use it to give the Archons physical forms, she could steal any powers the Archons gained with those physical forms and send them, bodiless, back to the non-physical realm- an ability she happily demonstrates on the unlucky sci-fi Archon Sciferimov.
  • Fear Herself/Arava, the former Overseer of Dimension D667. Fear has the ability to create demons that feed on human fear, which she first did after growing sick of humanity in her world grew greedy and entitled to the prosperity she used to bring to them, while giving her nothing in exchange. She claims to create demons because forcing humanity to face their fears enables them to overcome them and live better, more successful lives- a rationale she gives for deciding to steal the aforementioned Multiversal Orb and create physical forms for the seven Archons. Sadly, like any Deal with the Devil, Fear finds out that the Archons have no interest in helping her, and one of them viciously subjects her to a psychological breakdown and strips her of her power as an Overseer once they decide she has outlived her usefulness.
  • An example of this trope who is not an Overseer comes in the form of Fantorrel/Torrelli, the Archon who represents the Fantasy genre. Apart from being a demon herself, she can create lesser demons, like the other Archons, beholden to her will and has a smoky bird Familiar called Hunter, who she can transform into a more draconic form. Torrelli also possesses the powers of Weather Manipulation and the ability to turn grass into Vine Tentacles. Luckily for the rest of the Multiverse, Torrelli is the only Archon who isn't interested in destruction and evil.
• Experienced Protagonist: Alexa, Sterling, and Astra are this, as they had their own adventure in their own world.
• Eye-Covering Surprise: In The Death of Benny Sharp, the Sharp Gang are fighting Suvastiriff, an Archon demon themed around superheroes, inside a church, after luring her in there by faking Benny's funeral. One of Suvastiriff's demon minions, Galactic Tiger, attacks Heath "Hurricane" Reynolds and makes to bite him, only for her eyes to suddenly be covered by a pair of pink glowing hands made of energy. The hands belong to the Sharp Gang's former enemy-turned ally, Harold the Herald, and he's covering Galactic Tiger's eyes to distract her long enough for Heath to punch her.
  Harold: Uh-oh! What's the matter there, tiger lady? You can't see the big guy's fist? Where's his fist? Oh, whoop! There it is! (Heath gives Galactic Tiger a Megaton Punch)
• Eye-Dentity Giveaway: In Battle for the Beast World, what prompts former demon hunter Sterling Engeal to realize that the Overseer Astra who he and his friend Alexis Jones have been manipulated into fighting by the Beast World's Big Bad, Ulitus, isn't entirely evil is when he looks into her Supernatural Gold Eyes and realizes that they're the same color as the eyes of his thought-to-be-dead girlfriend, Diamos, the daughter of Lucifer himself, who apparently gave her life in a Heroic Sacrifice to kill her father and destroy his demonic army six years ago. By the end of the battle, when Ulitus is defeated, Astra reveals via her shapeshifting abilities that she is Diamos- or, more precisely, Diamos was an identity that Astra assumed in order to fight alongside Sterling and Alexis when she grew interested in them all those years ago.
• Gladiator Games: Eloise Ludum turns her dimension, Z009, into one for her fellow Overseers, kidnapping people and/or beasts, usually sharing the same theme (someone from Crapsack World, Blob Monster, etc), across the multiverse to make them compete or fight each other for their freedom.
• Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing:
  • Benny Sharp and his boyfriend, Champagne McGregor, respectively.
  • In banter episodes featuring Dresden, he normally plays the grumpy to another character's gleeful, usually Benny.
• God Is Evil: Or in this case, gods. The seven Archon demons created everything in the Multiverse, but now wish to destroy it and recreate it in their image.
• Gone Horribly Right: The Fazbian Kingdom's corrupt ruler created dangerous chimeric wyverns to amuse himself by terrorizing his own populace, and to see if one could infuse a soul into an artificial being. In the end, he terrorized his people straight away from the kingdom, and after his son stood against him, was then devoured by his earliest creation and became its soul.
• Great Big Library of Everything: The Akashic Records are one for the Multiverse. Every idea that has ever existed resides there, and its contents usually subtly enter people's minds as ideas, hence why there are cases of Expies between universes.
• Hair Substitute Feature: Fear Herself/Araava, one of the main villains of the Multiverse Tales, differs from other Overseers by having bubbling, shifting purple slime instead of hair on top of her head. This, combined with her unnaturally blackish-grey skin, Supernatural Gold Eyes, and Creepy Monotone, helps establish her as an unsettling Humanoid Abomination, perfectly fitting for a woman who created the hordes of demons that populate her world.
• Humongous-Headed Hammer:
  • Vasilia Kuznet is a highly-skilled blacksmith, willing to forge suits of armour and weapons for anybody who asks it of her. She is depicted with a hammer with a long handle and a head comparable to a solid stone block, though, in contrast to most characters, she's depicted resting the hammer's head against the ground so she can lean on the handle and put one foot on the head. Vasilia is presumably strong enough to wield the hammer seeing as she's both a blacksmith and a Husky Russkie. In this video, she recalls having been contracted by the very personifications of the four elements, and when she forged armour for the embodiment of the earth... we'll let Vasilia explain in her own words.
    Vasilia: For a weapon, he wanted something big, and when I asked him, "How big?" he said, again, "Big!" So I designed him hammer with the same elements for his armour. And the mallet was nearly as large as his body! I could not even come close to lifting thing myself, but he swung it with one hand like it was child's plaything!
  • Voslo, Vasilia's older brother, is even burlier than his sister, and he has a hammer head built by her to replace his missing right hand. The hammer's size is not that outlandish compared to his sister's, but in one episode, Vasilia mentions that when she gave her brother pieces of a magical armour equivalent to the Smash Ball, the hammer magically grew bigger, along with the arm and armour around it, and Voslo could even turn it into a Shapeshifter Weapon with enough willpower!
  • "Astra and the Secret Knights": Unghu, The Big Guy of the titular Knights, is a Boisterous Bruiser who carries a hammer over his shoulders with a head that easily dwarfs his own head. Unghu can carry the hammer due to the fact that he's a Dragonborn, and therefore is strong enough to carry the hammer when normal humanoids can't.
  • "Kate Kills Claus": The Hammer Twins are two supervillains who work for an evil version of Santa Claus. Frost (based on Frosty the Snowman) uses a hammer with a head that looks like two top hats put together, which enables him to create icicles and pillars of ice to fight with. Cindy Lou (based on Cindy Lou Who) uses a hammer called Nutcracker, which looks for the most part like a cartoonish wooden mallet with an even bigger head than Frost's. Cindy Lou can carry it effortlessly, partially due to the fact that the hammer shrinks to toy size when it leaves her hand, and only grows back to normal size when touched with a bare hand (hers or otherwise)- and Kate is pragmatic enough to use this to kill Claus by getting close enough to stuff the shrunken hammer inside his mouth with her gloved hand, then touching it with her bare hand to make it regrow with... explosive results.
• Hypocrisy Excuse: In Redemption of the Were-Jaguar, Vasilia Kuznet (the titular were-jaguar) chides Ganghadaaran Sambhavana (a Beleaguered Assistant to the Van Helsing family) because he has "great trust issues" and keeps treating her in a hostile manner, despite her assurance that she can control her alternate form and transformations. As Ganghadaaran himself reminds Vasilia, though, she has no right to accuse him of being untrusting, when she's insisting on keeping her status as a were-jaguar a secret from her friends. A frustrated Vasilia states that she has a good reason for keeping that secret- when she first became a were-jaguar at the age of five, she didn't have any control over her transformations, and she attacked and injured her friends and family many times, to the point that today, they still judge her unfairly for it. Vasilia hides her other form from her friends because she doesn't want them to treat her the same way her family does, and as Ganghadaaran is doing now. Ganghadaaran, however, bluntly states that her Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse- as far as he's concerned, her hiding her secret from her friends means that either she's a liar who doesn't have as much control over her were-jaguar form as she claims, or she's a hypocrite who doesn't trust her friends will accept her "more fanged side". And seeing as Vasilia Hates hypocrites, hearing this accusation from Ganghadaaran really tempts her to lose control and lash out at him. Ultimately, though, Vasilia realizes that the Jerkass Has a Point, and that she was indeed being a hypocrite, and decides to make up for it by being more open with her friends from now on.
• Jerkass Gods: Ulitus, Fear Herself, Eloise Ludum, Tarsa, the list goes on. It's implied by Dresden that many of the Overseers of the Multiverse are this.
• Legion of Doom: Both the seven Archon Demons and Tarsa's Imperium Pantheon in the spin-off series Mythal Lethal.
• Mysterious Disembodied Voice: In the fourth Dinosaurs as Demons video, demon hunter Cosmara Noroi hears a mysterious, eerie, rasping voice speaking to her as she and her friends approach an island, telling her that it knows she's coming, and it doesn't want to be kept waiting. Initially, Mara thinks that the voice belongs to Sauriecluss, the demon general she and her friends are there to hunt, but the voice is later established as belonging to a different individual when she hears it dismissing Sauriecluss as a powerless fool, and the general is devoured by a massive T-Rex demon. In a later story, the voice comes back, and it is revealed to be Kaijagrex, one of the Archons- seven cosmically powerful demons who created the current iteration of the multiverse, and want to gain physical forms so they can invade it, destroy it, and recreate it in their own image.
• Now Allowed to Hug: "Unkillable" Kate Blakeour Hates Being Touched, stemming from years of growing up in a nightmarish prison dimension full of supervillains, which taught her to see everything around her as a direct danger to her life, including physical contact (except for hugging her young friend Ana Fenz). In a gender-switched dynamic of Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl, Sterling Engeal starts helping Kate adjust to life outside of prison and to teach her how to let go of such an unhealthy mindset. While the process is naturally slow-going, by the time of The Soul of the Enemy, she's progressed enough that she's the one who initiates her and Sterling's first hug, as a way of relieving her Anger Born of Worry due to him recently visiting Dresden Oakland, the warden of her former prison, without telling anyone about it beforehand. Sterling's reaction heavily contributes to the growing Ship Tease between the two. Further proof of Kate's emotional growth is in The Broken Hero, where, when Sterling is the one having a Heroic BSoD after a really cruel decision of Dresden's, Kate decides to repay the emotional help he's given to her before by intimately touching him above his heart, and then helping him begin to heal by having the two sleep platonically together with his arms wrapped around her for the night. All of which shows the positive influence Sterling's had on Kate.
• Odd-One-Out Protagonist: Bustar Terminax appears to be this trope in Bustar Terminax: Dungeons and Demons. He's an alien Bounty Hunter who comes from a science-fiction universe, visiting a fantasy universe on his multiverse-jumping holiday, and teaming up with the Secret Knights, an organisation of magic-based warriors, so you'd think he wouldn't fit in with them or be able to provide any helpful knowledge. However, the Secret Knights are revealed to actually be more open to the idea of alien life than they seem, seeing as one of their members is actually a Cybertronian disguised as a dragon, and despite Bustar not knowing much about magic or demons, what little he does know about them (thanks to a brief team-up with demon-creating Overseer Araava/Fear Herself in a previous episode) gives him a clue as to the modus operandi of the episode's main villain, and he works with them to combine his technological skills with their magic and put an end to the invasion of undead cyborg monster demons their world is undergoing.
• Painful Confession: In the Battle for the Beast World, Astra the Overseer, who ended up being pitted against her former friends, Sterling Engeal and Alexis Jones, was forced to reveal by the Big Bad Ulitus that she was the one responsible for their dimension getting invaded by The Legions of Hell six years ago, by giving Lucifer a piece of the Multiversal Orb with which he was able to create and release his demons. This in turn led to the Heroic Sacrifice of their friend/Sterling's girlfriend Diamos, Lucifer's daughter, in order to kill her father and destroy his army- a sacrifice Alexis now feels she should never have had to make if not for Astra. By the end of the battle, though, Astra reveals that they only know one side of the story: she was Diamos, or rather, Diamos was an alternate identity of hers that she created many years ago. Astra was raised to be an Overseer by her abusive, narcissistic mother Tarsa, who had grown apathetic to humanity over thousands of years, and wanted Astra to succeed her and clean up their messes so that she could become a human again and spend the rest of her life on Earth as a Retired Monster. But Astra hated the idea of her mother getting a peaceful retirement after all the cruel things she'd done to her, so instead, she visited the pocket dimension that Tarsa kept her former friend Lucifer locked in, and gave him a piece of the Multiversal Orb, so that, while he couldn't escape, he could create demons and release them onto the world, all to ruin Tarsa's planned retirement home so that Astra could spite her cruel mother. Astra had not been brought up to care about human beings, like most Overseers, but when she saw Sterling and Alexis forming the Agency of Supernatural Protection, she grew interested in them, and knew she wanted to be a part of their story. So, she disguised herself as a demon, gave Lucifer Fake Memories of her being his daughter, and joined up with the Agency to help fight against the demons. Eventually, though, she grew sick of Playing Both Sides in the human-demon war that she'd started, realizing that she was no better than her mother now, and so she decided to end her sick game by making it appear as though she died killing Lucifer, leaving her home dimension behind, and locking it off to prevent any other Overseers from coming there and ruining it like she'd done. She desperately wanted to stay with her friends, having genuinely come to love them, but she felt sure that they'd hate and reject her once they found out the truth about her. By the time she finishes her confession, Astra is broken-voiced and ashamed. Alexis is clearly angry and incredulous, but then Sterling steps forwards and reassures Astra that the fact she genuinely came to love them proves that not all of their relationship was a lie, and whilst he doesn't trust her to be a Redeeming Replacement for Ulitus, he can forgive her, and be grateful to have his old love back. From this moment on, Astra now strives to be The Atoner for all the bad things she's done in her past, and to repair her relationship with her old friends.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Psychoperdilicth, the Archon of Psychological Thriller, gives a long and devastating one to Arava/Fear Herself in "Fear Isn't Enough".

• Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain: Two of the villains in the series are Dresden Oakland and Fear Herself, two Overseers (individuals with powers comparable to gods) who have antagonistic encounters with the Sharp Gang. Dresden, despite his Creepy Monotone, burnt, flaky skin and overall nightmarish appearance, is a surprisingly honourable man who always keeps his word, acts as the warden of a prison for dangerous supervillains, and has a noble goal of making the Multiverse a better place by getting rid of the Overseers that he sees as causing most of its problems (an opinion supported by the fact that his world's former Overseer, Tarsa, deliberately created dangerous monsters to overrun his world, then scarred him and left him behind so that the Reaper would have to kill every living thing in his world just to prevent such monsters spreading to other worlds). He also harbours secret guilt for imprisoning Unkillable Kate in Backcells Prison for 20 years to make her strong enough to be his Unwitting Pawn, especially since his plan was rendered pointless by his own partner, and ultimately decided to let her escape. Fear Herself, however, is a sociopath who, beneath her claims that she creates demons to encourage people to face their fears and make better lives for themselves, ultimately enjoys humans' suffering and is unapologetic about ruining Cosmara Noroi's life by giving her the curse that turns her into a Demon of Human Origin. Dresden is clearly a more sympathetic villain than Fear by these reasons alone.
• Toxic Family Influence: Quite a few villains of the series became villains due to the negative influences of their families.
  • Harold the Herald, a former enemy turned ally of the Sharp Gang, is an Affably Evil Amusing Alien, but he's still evil. A large part of that is because his father, Kahorgoth, was an evil alien warlord, who is mentioned to have trained children to be serial killers. Among Harold's list of crimes are: working for Elloise Ludum, an Overseer who kidnaps people and creatures from across the Multiverse to force them to compete in Gladiator Games; destroying entire cities: and killing children, including his own nephew and an entire bus full of children that he locked in a cage with a rabid gorilla. Indeed, Harold's child-murdering is regarded as especially heinous by those who know him, including his adoptive brother Bustar Terminax, who cut off both his arms the second time he did it. That said, his recent Heel–Face Turn proves he's not irredeemable, and even he has moral lines that his father would cross, but he wouldn't.
  • Astra, the Overseer of Dimension A-016, was raised by her mother Tarsa, a sociopathic Narcissist of an Overseer who had long since grown apathetic to humanity and treated them merely as a means of entertainment. Tarsa was cruel to her daughter, and raised her to not care about other beings, which is in direct contrast to an Overseer's job being to watch over and protect their world. Because of this, Astra had no problem partnering up with her mother's former friend Lucifer and helping him create a demonic army with which he could overrun the world to make sure Tarsa wouldn't get to retire peacefully on it after all the bad things she'd done to her. Luckily, Astra's eventual friendship with the Agency of Supernatural Protection made her realize how what she was doing made her no better than her mother and do a Heel–Face Turn.
  • Zamrzalak, the Starter Villain of spin-off series Mythal-Lethal, is the daughter of Morana and Anubis, who is a proud enforcer of the Imperium Pantheon (a pantheon of Jerkass Gods to end all Jerkass Gods- with a few Overseers thrown in), forces the unlucky mortal Ortis Filimo to track down demigods and gods who the Pantheon want to kill before they can grow powerful enough to challenge their rule- even if those demigods aren't genuinely powerful or dangerous- and, after sending her pet monster Mrzawa to kill an innocent demigod father in front of Ortis, scars his arm with the word "Godslave" as a permanent reminder for him to know his place. The narrator speculates that, perhaps if Anubis had raised Zamrzalak instead of her mother, she might have turned out more compassionate towards humanity.
  • Finally, there is Fear Herself/Arava, the Overseer of Dimension D-667. 700 years ago, Arava was a little Polynesian girl whose mother would constantly force her to go and work with the other villagers, so that she could "be of value" to her. When Arava was chosen as the successor of her world's Overseer, and first used her powers to dispel a raging storm over her island, her mother appeared to show actual affection for her for the first time- but ultimately, she just saw her daughter's powers as a way to continue forcing her to serve her and the village. As the years went on, and Arava's powers brought prosperity to first her island, and then the rest of the world, her mother became increasingly complacent, greedy, and entitled, berating Arava every time the good fortunes she brought started to dip, and forcing her to keep giving them more and more, while giving her nothing in return. Eventually, Arava snapped and decided that her mother- and humanity as a whole- didn't deserve her help. Now, Arava has become a tyrannical ruler of her dimension, creating increasingly powerful and dangerous demons to torment people with, and while she claims it's to force them to face their fears, conquer them, and change into better people with better lives, ultimately it's because she's still caught in a loop of alternating between trying to be of value to her long-dead mother, and trying to torture her, seeing her cruelty and laziness in every human alive- basically, she just wants the rest of the Multiverse to be as miserable as her mother made her.
• The Unmasqued World: In "Fear of the Demon Hunters", Zoophiathan revealed the existence of demons to the world at large by attacking Denver with a horde of his demons. While he was ultimately defeated, knowledge of demons still remained, which made people all the more afraid of demons but also bolstered the Predator Coalition's ranks.
• Vocal Evolution: Applies to many of the more recently created characters, but especially Benny Sharp. In his first appearance, his accent was much less prominent than in recent episodes.