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The ghouls did threaten to poison crops in the US with it. So if you've eaten a salad, you're probably at risk now for Gray Goo Cyborg Venom growing in your veins, even if you refused to ever get a single covid shot! This is genocide. Every single party involved in conspiring to make this happen warrants a rope and a tree, at minimum!
Note that this list is only for characters appearing in the fanfic A Centipede Once Again Saves the Spideverse, which sought to show how simply adding Ciem and Italian Spiderman could dramatically - for better or worse - rewrite the plot to Across the Spideverse. Characters from other Centipede in the Spiderverse fics that don't appear in this one aren't listed. However, their Earth number naming conventions will follow similar logic. To understand the Earth numbers that these fanfic naming conventions are based off of, please see the list of Earth numbers represented in Across the Spiderverse on its official page on Marvel Database.
And per that logic:
Also of note is the fact that Italian Spiderman was included in this spoof set of images on DeviantArt largely due to a sort of ready awareness that Marvel would never allow Sony to negotiate with Alrugo for the rights to put Italian Spiderman in Across the Spiderverse, in spite many fans wanting him to be there. This suspicion was later confirmed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller themselves, who actually did want Franco to appear.
With multiversal singularities in the Dozerfleet Megaverse experience the same event millions of times, or do they only experience it once?
A very good academic question! Gerosha time is like a ball of rubber bands, to some extent. Sometimes, some of the bands can be snapped right off the ball, and made useless. Others will be bent a little, but will then default back to their place on the ball, until strained too far, and then they break off for good.
The Proto Geroshas, Gerosha Prime, Despair Gerosha, Classic Gerosha, and Comprehensive Gerosha are all considered essentially apocrypha now. They're archaic timelines that have no practical use, apart from describing the greater narrative prose of the works that were set in them.
This means that Cataclysmic Gerosha, first drafted in 2012, is the main literary canon that is considered essential Gerosha "reality." Because of this, all the branch-off timelines from Cataclysmic Gerosha, namely the Gaming and Crossover universes, are trying their hardest to revert back to being identical to Cataclysmic Gerosha.
The Gaming Universe never truly breaks apart from Cataclysmic Gerosha; it rather merely adapts the concept of Cataclysmic Gerosha for video games. The minor details for gaming notwithstanding, Cataclysmic Gerosha is still mirrored nearly identically. Small changes in narrative can occur based on player choices; but with one or another event always trying to snap the Gaming Universe back to defaulting to Cataclysmic Gerosha canon. Character appearances may vary from true G7 canon; but only on account of game resource-related conveniences.
The snapping point for Earth-G7.2.1, at which point it becomes permanently divorced from G7, is Xironooti and Mogabir's invasion. Even the Marvel invasions in Percolation and Percolation: Legends only changed reality for a small number of characters' lives.
This was by design. Therefore, even though G7.2.1 was still technically a separate reality from G7, Cherinob experienced the events of G7.2.1 and G7 as if it were all happening only one time, in the same universe. Her experiences didn't vary in any significant way until after the snap-off point. So from her perspective, each event that happened to her in G7, happened only that one time.
Given she has extremely limited free will, due to her mode lock within the Volition Dilemma Paradox following the War in Heaven, it wouldn't pay for her to try to relive G7.2.1 events having learned anything from G7, so as to try to make "better" decisions.
Also given the fact that Marvel never authorized these crossovers, nor authorized the Centipede in the Spiderverse crossovers, the canonicity of these works is highly disputable. Even so, multiversal singularities don't seem to be harmed by deviations in canon to the same extent as multiversal constants or radical variables are. Rubber band time has a way of course-correcting measures, as a check and balance against the Butterfly Effect.
In a similar fashion, while G7.2.9 Tanya Woven never gives up being Ciem due to having actual superpowers caused by Spiderverse-induced time travel shenanigans, her role and tenure as Ciem actively in the field remained very limited. After moving to San Antonio, she still spent a lot more of her time as a civilian than as a superhero. So for most intents and purposes, her G7.2.9 life mostly snaps back to obeying the logic of her powerless G7 and G7.2.1 selves.
It's true that serious damage was done to G7.2.1's temporal reconciliation process with G7 due to Xironooti and Mogabir's invasion. Because originally, Rappaccini was never meant to find a way out of his reality. In similar fashion, Tabitha Pang and her friends were never originally meant to join a team called the Percolation Warriors. Main G7 continuity shows what every character's future would be like without this.
Not destroying Rappaccini's demonic bodyguards during the Great Battle for Little Rock was about the first time that Cherinob experienced any Gerosha history in any way significantly differently from how she experienced it at any prior point in time.
It's also noteworthy that outside of her native trilogy, Cherinob is seldom relevant to anything else prior to Swappernetters. Her involvement risks breaking the rubber band ball further. Therefore, stories that require multiverse logic pre-Percolation Warriors take pains to eliminate or minimize her role.
It's also noteworthy that the Divergency takes effect after the Ascension of Christ. So there can be only one Jesus, dying and rising once, for ALL. To have him have to be crucified a trillion trillion times in different variant timelines would cheapen the significance of his sacrifice.
Since 2007, Dozerfleet has found an online wiki to be an essential tool for its operations. But with the recent announcment that Miraheze is closing, and a current lack of good free MediaWiki hosting farms to turn to in its absence, the difficult decision has been made to, for the time being, shut down all operations on the Miraheze Dozerfleet Database.
The wiki has been backed up, and article XMLs will be used to create an offline directory.
With the wiki no longer online or an issue, once the above are addressed, this will free up a lot of time for creation, thus leading to sooner completion of projects that had been pending for after certain wiki edit benchmarks had been achieved.
Miscellaneous artworks that had been setup for the wiki can be redirected to DeviantArt.
Before work resumes on Corando's Don't Lose Hope, or any of the remaining six webcomics after it, or any literature after that, the remaining last several packs of Sims 4 adaptations of the Dozerfleet Megaverse have now become a top priority. It is the goal of Dozerfleet Labs to complete those packs before The Sims 5 is released. Dozerfleet Labs has no intentions of getting The Sims 5. So after the packs are completed, and the final webcomics are available for download, Dozerfleet will be moving in a very different direction from how it's operated for the last 17 years.
A lot of changes are happening, and quickly!
With Across the Spiderverse out in theaters and making a huge impact on the world of animation, it seems only fitting to discuss the issue of trauma in superhero origins, what it is, how it's handled, etc.
It's been said elsewhere that the genre has a tendency to "fetishize" trauma "as a path to power." And while Candi Flippo's powers did manifest when she had to fight off Don the Psycho in the middle school locker room, it wasn't his sexually assaulting her that was the real trauma that gave her the powers. Nor was it the trauma that became the path to her learning how to use her power properly.
By the time the "present day" timeline catches up in late 2015 in Ciem: Inferno, Candi has already unofficially been Ciem for about two years, just without the actual title for her mantle. It's her godfather Imaki's father-like love, patience, and instruction that allows Candi to truly grow in her understanding of what she can do.
If not for Don, there is the possibility that any other trauma response could have manifested her power as well. Any sufficient stress could have done it, since she was the fraternal triplet that had exactly the right unlock condition from her mother to activate Stan's dormant Centhuen Prototype sequence to full potential.
Yet, to truly become Ciem was not about trauma begetting power, but about committment begetting a desire to improve in self-discipline. To make the right call, in spite the price.
Candi is often (perhaps unfairly) compared to Spider-Man, due to both having bug logos and their bodies being fully covered under their suits. And while they have similar danger sense and reflexes, they have key differences too. Ciem uses Zeran wardrobes (and later, a Zeranite Marlquaan bond) to teleport short-range distances, akin to what Nightcrawler can do. Her fighting style is more like a mix of Batman, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler. She uses stingers and darts, rather than webs. She constricts enemies. While Spider-Man is more than plenty strong enough to imitate her constriction ability, she uses this and other combat techniques in a Batman-esque way to account for NOT having web-themed arsenal. Also, save for using special equipment, she can't stick to walls or ceilings like a spider.
Regardless of these distinctions, children with small reference pools do still get the characters confused. Enough that the Centipede in the Spiderverse parodies on DeviantArt have a field day with it.
Yet, the heart of what trauma does shape her the most in her life, actually has nothing to do with a "losing Uncle Ben" moment, as one might expect. Rather, it has to do with her gradual loss of faith in authority structures, due to repeatedly being betrayed by authority figures throughout her life. The version of Captain America seen in The Winter Soldier would much better be able to relate to that sense of frustration, even though different iterations of Spider-Man have had plenty of their own clashes with authority.
Does this mean that Candi has no "Dead Uncle Ben" moments? Nonsense! She first loses both parents in a road rage assassination when she's seven, putting her in a similar camp to Batman and Doctor Sivana from DC. She was then raised by an often-neglectful older sister, when her rich brother Reily outright refused to take her in. Her godfather had joint custody, but of her only, not her two sisters.
Next, Candi lost her daughter, Angie, to a miscarriage while she was in juvie. This left her completely devastated; but it was hardly the moment that shook her the most.
While she was incarcerated for refusing to betray Imaki, she witnessed several guard and prisoners that she'd grown to care about get ruthlessly slaughtered by the Screwworms, Anitos and Korsicht. She was tempted to become very bitter at that moment, but held on to doing the right thing, and defying Darius' bid against her soul.
Then, she lost her boyfriend, Danny, when he fell off a mountain and died. With him gone, she lost all hope of joining his family and starting a new one, to become the mother to her future children that she herself was robbed of.
Next, she lost another boyfriend, Tyrone Menster, to Affadidah's goons. Her brother Reily and his whole family were then killed. Then, she lost her new foster family to the same. Then, she lost her oldest sister to Gunner and Skellig Soorfelt. Then, she lost her godfather in Denison. Her new husband Donte was almost killed, and her new friend Dolly was almost killed. Her sisters were scattered to the wind, and she considered them dead as well.
Yet, none of these "losing Uncle Ben"-type moments were the tragedy that shook her most, even if it did weigh on her to lose so many loved ones.
The repeated attempts on her life she faced didn't shake her either. So what did?
Don the Psycho, Warren Bozil, and Wayne Norfine all either took advantage of her sexually or attempted to at some point. Though, Warren was the least malicious about it, and she was able to forgive his indiscretion, while reminding him that she was married and couldn't let anything continue. Not even rape trauma was enough to push her almost to her breaking point.
In the end, it was something much more banal than that: authority figures doing the opposite of their jobs.
While Spider-Man has had his share of issues with authority, even within just the 2018 Insomniac game with regards to Sable going rogue, this act of betrayal by authority is miniscule to Candi's feeling of betrayal by authority structures. Peter's overall view of authority isn't shaken to the core in that game, as he already didn't trust Sable nor Osborn much to begin with.
Candi was torn in her early life between Imaki's correct interpretation of Romans 13, which prohibits tyrants from ever being legitimate authority; and the 21st century American pop culture corrupt reinterpretation and twisting of its words, often pushed by the very Christian institutions that should know better, and utilized by tyrants to invoke divine right to their intentional abuses and crimes!
Foolishly, Stan and Shalia allowed Erin to go to a Baptist college that taught the incorrect view. She became indoctrinated, and then informed Candi that she had to listen to Darius more often than not. Meanwhile, Imaki saw corrupt actions in Darius that convinced him that Darius had forfeited all legitimacy over Candi's or anyone else's life a very long time ago.
Candi tried to live her life as much as possible to appease both her legal guardians, but this got harder and harder to do. And when her spiritual and emotional needs started getting neglected by both, she turned to finding a boyfriend as a way to make up for it. Unfortunately, she was offered only low-hanging fruit to choose from. So she picked the two men that were the least low-hanging: Danny Loffin, and Tyrone Menster. Due to their not being quite right themselves, and coming from terrible family backgrounds, they had sexual expectations, that she readily surrendered, in exchange for the emotional support she wasn't getting elsewhere. This led Candi to years of compulsive and unhealthy sexual addiction, which put her in the very situation that got her arrested in 2015, when she had to run home after Danny's house caught fire, and then police mistook her for a terrorist!
Alas, Imaki was just about married to the idea of a Great Sodality, and that Candi's future should revolve around it. As she learned, in spite Imaki's best intentions, his view of her future was very narrow one, lacking in greater perspective regarding what was all possible. The idea that she could always just join the Navyropes if the Sodality method didn't work, was unthinkable to him.
Candi's history with almost everyone she ever knew, and her idea of "faith in a system," was subjected to betrayals that go deeper than even some of the most visceral betrayals that Peter Parker has faced. Rather, the threats posed to her entire worldview are more on the level with a different Marvel hero's disillusionment: Captain America!
It may be useless here to reiterate the entire plot to The Winter Soldier, but the comparison is plain as day. Candi was told most of her life to trust SCALLOP, and believe in the idea of this Big Government structure. And then, SCALLOP betrayed its own founding ideals, and betrayed her, time and time and time again. Her whole view on authority figures in general was permanently damaged due to these constant acts of betrayal. Similarly, Steve was initially brought into what became SHIELD on the pretense that it was out to stop threats like Hydra, and do good in the world - only for him to repeatedly catch SHIELD acting more like Hydra than its antidote! And then, to find out that half of SHIELD had already BECOME Hydra!
Ben Franklin's admonision to America: "A republic, if you can keep it," is a moral warning for the entire world to heed, even today! For even in the real world, we see that Lord Acton's axiom is not easy to cheat regarding power "corrupting absolutely."
In A Centipede Once Again Save the Spiderverse, Candi's aggressive preemptive action to protect Miles and Gwen from Miguel is not motivated by any concern whatsoever with the canonicity of the death of Uncle Ben figures. Which is why when Miguel declares her a "hypocrite" over the fact that every version of Imaki Izuki must somehow die as well, Candi is not even phased. She doesn't care about what Miguel believes is "inevitable." Because to her, Miguel's abuse of power, and cruel mistreatment of Miles, is a far greater sin than any selfishness on Miles' part.
As far as Candi is concerned, Miguel starting to sound like Darius Philippine is far less forgivable than ANY shenanigans that she, Miles, or Gwen could be guilty of by tampering with canon.
Another reason for Candi's lack of concern is the fact that Imaki's death is NEVER HER FAULT in any canon! In Gerosha Prime, Despair Gerosha, Classic Gerosha, and Comprehensive Gerosha; Imaki has a heart attack - not caused by any reason that has anything to do with Candi. In Cataclysmic, Gaming, and Crossover Geroshas, it was Arfaas' ambush at Denison, and SCALLOP and the Texan government with their lack of concern over border security on this matter, that was responsible for Imaki being shot dead. Amidst the chaos, there was nothing Candi could've done to save Imaki.
In spite an accident occurring that traps Kamohoalii, Anarteq, and Nemara in a world based on Disney's Moana, one which is quickly undone, Candi makes the right move by temporarily hiding Miles and Gwen from Miguel in the Hawaii of an Earth-G7.2.9.
In that universe, Earth-G7.2.1's Dr. Jordan Offe, one of the scientists working on various Phexo experiments, gets abducted by the Percolation Wave due to the wave being made unstable by Miguel's hunt for Gwen and Miles. Offe, not remembering what day it was, enters in a shift to work after his G7.2.9 counterpart had left for the day. This prevents Tanya Woven's grandfather from escaping the lab with her father prematurely, when he got uncomfortable with the Phaelite Society of Earth. As such, a similar experiment to the one performed on Stan Flippo was successfully completed on Tanya's father.
Therefore, in Earth-G7.2.9, Tanya Woven developed her own proper centipede powers, and had to befriend Anarteq and Kamohoalii to avoid being locked up by SCALLOP during the Beliah Amendments Enforcement Drive. Unlike her Earth-G7.0 counterpart, G7.2.9 Tanya never properly retired from being Ciem, given she had powers just like Candi's.
G7.2.9 Tanya acknowledged how the destabilization Miguel was responsible for was the only reason she got to be a proper Chilopod Crusader, as she was never meant in the original timeline to be anything more than an elaborate imposter. The fact that this Tanya became Ciem, though she was never meant to properly be Ciem originally, gave Miles a confidence boost that he didn't have to worry about Miguel's opinion about who Spider-Man was supposed to be. After all: Miguel, by creating this new Tanya, had become every bit as big a hypocrite as he accused Candi of being!
Regardless, this core difference is what explains Candi's actions in the fanfic, as opposed to those of the spiders. They're all primarily motivated by the personal tragedy of what seems like the needless loss of someone close and personal to them. Candi, however, is more like Steve Rogers; in that she's primarily motivated by avenging the general moral principles of authority that current office holders have betrayed, that the office may have its honor restored, for the sake of preserving liberty and justice for all in the greater picture. In her view, if this cannot be the case, then no amount of personal sacrifice to rescue a personal loved one will have any long-term meaning. If a tree branch doesn't fall on your uncle; but you do nothing to hold tyrants accountable unto the governed and unto God, then your loved ones will eventually be crushed by the tyanny that you failed to hold accountable. Their fate will be worse than if the tree had killed them!
It's easy to see how the Ben Parker mantra, which seems to invoke Luke 12:48, has been twisted as "just take Peter's powers away, and he'll go back to having no responsibility." Yet, since knowledge is also power, Candi is often there to remind that lack of superpowers is no excuse to act as one having been given no responsibilities in life. That some callings will always be present, and your exact power level will be irrelevant. Tanya feeling obligated to become Ciem even in a world where she had no centipede powers demonstrates this even better than Candi's lecture in A Centipede's Way Home did. So did Tabitha's heroine journey in Sodality: Vindication and Swappernetters, when she acted nobly even before receiving a Marlquaan bond, in spite the fact that only Maurice himself being assigned as her supernatural bodyguard even before she was aware of it prevented her from being killed MULTIPLE TIMES!
While Candi does find it concerning that Miles is so selfish and rebellious as a teen; she considers Miguel's abusive personality and abuses of power to be far worse than Miles' selfishly wanting to rewrite canon to save his father. This puts her in a difficult moral conundrum, where she can understand the points of view of both; and yet still sides with Miles, in spite demonstrating no desire to rewrite canon to save any of her own lost loved ones.
If there's any character that demonstrates this arc's moral conclusions better than Candi, Peter, Miles, or Steve ever did, it was the one man that was far enough ahead of the curve to skip to the end: Charles Hammerstein. Unlike Rogers, Hammerstein grew up already mistrusting authoritarians. His morals were almost in line with those of Spider-Punk, in spite being put in almost a Captain America situation as "Centipede Charlie." He ultimately joined the military when coerced to, to save his girlfriend of Japanese descent from unlawful internment by FDR; but it was only his acting selflessly for her sake that convinced him that tolerating any of the coercion he was being subjected to would ever be worth it. Even then, he viewed the FDR regime as shysters, being wholly unworthy of being trusted or respected.
Hammerstein breaks the scale, as he would also have sided with Miles, in spite being just as bitter as Miguel. He all but entirely foresaw the betrayal he'd face on the frontlines, when his own government decided to abandon him to be murdered by the Japanese. Yet, he knew that he had to fight on and escape somehow, if he were ever to see Lacey again. He vowed that if he did survive, he'd find a way back home as soon as possible, and do to those in high office that betrayed him on the frontlines exactly what they intended to do to him! He didn't care if he were vilified for it: he'd kill the Zionist-controlled reporters speaking ill of him next! And any other pathetic soul siding with these tyrants that got in his way!
Amidst his rage, his being tragically mowed down by the Japanese was what prevented Hammerstein from going down a dark path, which would have been the beginning of an outright antihero if not villain arc for him, as he became more and more reckless while exacting his vengeance. And it's the very lines he would then have crossed, that the Navyropes took pains to avoid crossing, that kept them from becoming the same very thing that Hammerstein would have, had he lived.
Especially in our world, where we don't have huge cadres of superheroes to fight these battles for us, statements like "vigilance is the eternal price of liberty" cannot be overstated!
