Spoilers to Spoil the Final SSA Ending... Spoil-ishly

... or maybe not.

These may or may not be the ACTUAL way the Who Will Die? story arc will end... but they ARE some of the ways it WOULD end if I were the one writing it...

You may begin reading as soon as the uncontrollable shivers at the very thought of it pass...

* Darrin Wade uses the Obelisk to siphon YOUR powers away! However, since this turns you into a civillian... and since civillians are the most indestructible and powerful beings in the game... you trounce him easily.

* The Obelisk backfires and instead of siphoning powers it spreads its stored powers across the entire planet. The only powers it had in it at the time were those of Sister Psyche... so every person on the planet is now able to read the thoughts of every other person... twenty years of intense fighting later the last two people on the planet kill each other over the "honest" opinion of how one of their rear ends looked in their new pants.

* Darrin Wade sees the flaw in his plans when he is attacked by an army consisting of nothing but Natural and Technology heroes... since they don't HAVE powers to steal... just lots of training and gadgets.

* You wake up to discover it was all just a dream... unfortunately so were the 174 Hero/Villain Merits you earned on all your characters farming the SSA...

* Blue Steel frowns slightly in disapproval... Darrin Wade gives him all his powers immediately and apologizes.

* Praetorian Wade shows and steals Primal Wade's powers... Dimension 124's Wade steals Praetorian's powers... Hyperion Prime Wade steals them from 124... etc... etc... until no one is entirely sure WHO has which powers and they all die from old age trying to track down which one of them should be ruling the world..

* Darrin Wade is about to kill Positron with a single blow when a small child walks from the horrified crowd... in his arms is an adorable puppy... the child walks fearlessly up to Wade and holds out the puppy which stares up at the villain with huge, irresistably adorable eyes... Wade lets go of Positron and... with trembling hands... takes the puppy... then cuddles it against his face as it begins to lick him... having a sudden and incredible change of heart.... unfortunately it's too late as it is discovered that he also inherited Statesman's most secret and horrible weakness... his intolerance of puppy saliva being roughly x100 Superman's to kryptonite... and his face melts off...

* Manticore... having gone completely insane after being forced to kill his wife... shoots Wade during the transfer of Psyche's obelisk-stored powers into Darrin... the transfer goes awry and suddenly Manticore is able to absorb and keep ANY power from ANY hero or villain... he rushes immediately to Atlas Park but despite his repeated efforts... can't absorb Atlas's powers from a mere statue of him and is STILL short..

* Wade completes his deal with the dwellers of the Shadow Shard and they invade Earth... suddenly every where you look there are Rularuu... everyone gets very upset about it for about a week... then... being apathetic Americans... we get used to it and go back to complaining about the economy...

wait, I thought stateman already died

The scary thing is that I now can imagine the story ending with an alternate universe Hero version of Wade showing up to take down Villain Wade.

Praetorian Wade will curb stomp Primal Wade with a ritual he's been planning for 20 years and then go take down Praetorian Hamidon and Tyrant. Primal Wade will then pop out of the shadows screaming "You fool, you've activated my trap ritual that I've been planning for 30 years!" as he takes all of Praetorian Wade's powers.

The Battalion pause their invasion while they /popcorn.

Uber-incarnate Wade will get smacked down by level 10 toons sidekicked up to 50.

Wade gets curbstomped by Emperor Cole, who brought an unstoppable army of Pretorian citizens with rocks.

Wade discovers that he also drained Sister Psyche's... psyche. Begins to cross dress and tries to "go back" to Manticore. Synclair marriage becomes even more awkward.

Darrin Wade completes his plan to absorb the powers of every super in Paragon City. Unfortunately, due to having Sister Psyche's powers, he also inadvertently absorbs some minds with those powers, and we end up with Darrin Wade in his underwear wearing fake cat ears and a tail flying around Paragon screaming "I'M SUPERMAN!".