Influx- Antiverse Tomato

ZOMG SOMETHING NOT PONY RELATED!!!! TEH WORLD IS ENDING!!

For the few people on here who still watch me from my KHE days, as well as those from places other than Freedom Reborn, a bit of background is in order. For the last few weeks I've more or less headed a project to create a non-sucky Anti-Earth counterpart for Aquaman. Overall the results are already promising, and I'd easily take any of them over the "canon" ones.

Anyway, back on topic here. With all of the huballo about getting a proper CSA Aquaman, I finally broke down and decided it was high time I designed Anti-Tomato (he's still "Tomato" technically but Antimato rolls off the tongue). Set to premier towards the end of Influx' first "Volume," Antimato's world was similar to ours, except on his world, a war between the earth's heroes had driven him insane. He set to create a perfect world under his rule, killing all the world's heroes (save Teknos, left alive "for sport") in the process. He then set about building a device to let him conquer other earths... but Teknos was able to steal the device, and use it to contact the primary earth's Influx (ala Anti-Luthor). They win, Teknos sets about rebuilding "Anti-Earth," everyone's happy. The end.





Just kidding. Love Mirror Mirror stuff too much 4 that

The way the story is presented, Antimato is supposed to be another one shot villain... the "obligatory antiverse" story, as it were. There'd be some cryptic hints as to what caused "the Hero's War" but overall it'd just be a filler arc in the middle of a larger story, and an excuse for Influx to have a few other time/reality adventures before the end of the Volume.

It isn't until much later we find out that one single choice separated Antimato's world from ours. This one simple alteration (which I won't go into just yet... however, it sets up a whole string of delicious anti-verse related subplots and crafts "reversed" versions of all five protagonists) created a butterfly effect on the rest of the universe, causing none of the other members of Influx to arrive on Earth when they were supposed to. And without Ch'nybe there to suggest forming a team of their own, Tomato would instead work with his former friends from "Freedom Fans," a website that had dedicated itself to supporting superheroes even prior to EF's original defeat of Randy Ripoff. Because of the member's close ties to the superhero community, several members (including Tomato himself) had gained powers of their own.

These super-powered "Freedom Fans" would turn out to be an incredibly successful team, even more so than Influx. Perhaps too successful... the team soon discovered a plot ((Hint: Villains Reborn)) that shook the superhero community, turning heroes against one another. The resulting war left the hero community decimated, and the populace disheartened. Driven insane by the carnage, Antimato resolved to "save" the world by becoming a villain capable of uniting it, as Randy Ripoff had once done. He then set about creating a device to bring the one person capable of realistically stopping him (a heroic version of himself) and spared former-villain-turned-freedom-fighter Tobias Rhied (Teknos) to trick him into using the device for its intended purpose.

In the end, Antimato would apparently perish at Rheid's hands (Rheid would "kill" Antimato with a stolen weapon after his defeat at Tomato's hands). His arc would serve a threefold purpose for the series: To open things up for other Antiverse fun later on, to start the ball rolling on the Villains Reborn sub-plot, and finally to introduce the lethal application of Tomato's abilities... See, the reason Antimato would remain pretty much unstoppable was that he could kill an opponent regardless of his defenses, merely by focusing all the heat from the air around him/her to one specific point. Tomato himself would be forced into using this ability on a certain green haired antagonist at the very end of the volume.

That about wraps it up for Antimato's past... so onto the design itself. The idea is that in his insanity, Antimato would alter his appearance to reflect his own twisted vision of himself. Because he sees himself as the villain, the "Antiverse" Tomato, his costume and overall look reflects that... thus why you see elements from both Trek's "Mirror Mirror" and DCAU's "Justice Lords"

I've got a finished version of Anti-Peter coming up after this, and Antiverse versions of some of the "Warriors of Light" are already sketched for tomorrow.