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At some later point, Nowhere surprised Everywhere by trying to cover her bleached-white skin with make-up to look more like Everywhere. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Nowhere Wearing Makeup To Look Like Jenny Everywhere (comic story)|Jenny Nowhere Wearing Makeup To Look Like Jenny Everywhere]]'') When Everywhere cosplayed as [[Earthworm Jim]], Nowhere dressed up as Jim's nemesis [[Psy-Crow]], with whom Jim was sometimes shipped; Everywhere was unimpressed and, staying in-character, told Nowhere to “eat dirt”. To her surprise, Nowhere seemed prepared to comply. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Earthworm Jim And Psy-Crow Cosplay By Jenny Everywhere And Jenny Nowhere (comic story)|Earthworm Jim And Psy-Crow Cosplay By Jenny Everywhere And Jenny Nowhere]]'') | At some later point, Nowhere surprised Everywhere by trying to cover her bleached-white skin with make-up to look more like Everywhere. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Nowhere Wearing Makeup To Look Like Jenny Everywhere (comic story)|Jenny Nowhere Wearing Makeup To Look Like Jenny Everywhere]]'') When Everywhere cosplayed as [[Earthworm Jim]], Nowhere dressed up as Jim's nemesis [[Psy-Crow]], with whom Jim was sometimes shipped; Everywhere was unimpressed and, staying in-character, told Nowhere to “eat dirt”. To her surprise, Nowhere seemed prepared to comply. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Earthworm Jim And Psy-Crow Cosplay By Jenny Everywhere And Jenny Nowhere (comic story)|Earthworm Jim And Psy-Crow Cosplay By Jenny Everywhere And Jenny Nowhere]]'') | ||
After discovering that all the [[Jimmy Anytime]]s and [[Jimmy Wherever]]s in the [[Multiverse]] had somehow lost their interdimensional connection, Everywhere and Anywhere came to the conclusion that this must be Nowhere's doing, with Nowhere having somehow turned Anytime's time-travel powers against him to cancel out the two Jimmies' existence (as interdimensional beings) altogether. Jenny Everywhere shifted herself and Anywhere to Nowhere's [[Universe B (Wherever at Anytime)|current location]], where they discovered that she had managed to abduct the “original” Wherever and Anytime and regressed them to before Anytime realised he was not Jimmy Wherever. Anywhere managed to liberate them, however, and, after one of the two Jimmies attacked the other (outing himself as Anytime), she grabbed onto him and triggered his own time-travel powers to bring him and Wherever back in time to where they'd been taken from, fixing the timeline. Everywhere was left pondering what lengths Nowhere might go to next. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Wherever at Anytime (novel)|Wherever at Anytime]]'') | |||
=== Defeated by Anywhere === | === Defeated by Anywhere === | ||
Revision as of 00:27, 4 July 2022
Jenny Nowhere, sometimes dubbed the Anti-Shifter or the Nemesis, was Jenny Everywhere's antithesis and one of her most persistent foes throughout the Multiverse; though not as ubiquitous as Everywhere, Nowhere existed in a wide array of universes, and shared Jenny's ability to shift in body or in mind from one to the next — although unlike her benevolent counterpart's, all of Jenny Nowhere's selves tended to have distinct styles and personalities with no particular unifying trait aside from her evil.
The two Jennies often considered each other “sisters”, and were literal siblings in some incarnations; however, other incarnations of Nowhere were corrupted incarnations of Everywhere, or unrelated to her by blood (to the point that some versions of Nowhere had a romantic interest in Everywhere). Additionally, there existed at least one “strain” of malevolent shifters in the Multiverse, using the name “Jenny Nowhere”, who were in actuality originally incarnations of Jenny Everywhere, but had lost their link to the hive mind and become agents of evil. Their relationship to the independently-telepathic Jenny Nowheres documented in other accounts is unclear.
Description
Physical appearance
Jenny Nowhere's physical appearance was more variable than Jenny Everywhere's. There were two main trends; some versions of Nowhere were taller than Jenny Everywhere and very conventionally attractive, almost statuesque. They tended to have blond hair. (COMIC: Damn Fine Hostile Takeover, Truth Serum, etc.; PROSE: Nowhere)
Meanwhile, others looked identical to their corresponding Jenny Everywhere, albeit with a different costume or color scheme; for example, one version of Nowhere was almost a negative image of her Everywhere, with white hair instead of black, a blue superhero outfit instead of red, and strange “inverted” eyes, with white pupils set in black eyeballs. (COMIC: The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles) One Nowhere was wholly identical to her Everywhere to the point of being easily able to impersonate her; she even had a tattoo on her lower back (COMIC: Tales To Behold) to match Everywhere's. (COMIC: Ghost Story)
Other Nowheres still had similar physical features to Jenny Everywhere, though wearing mostly black outfits, but could be recognised at a glance by their chalk-white skin. (PROSE: Psychopomp, COMIC: Jenny Nowhere Wearing Makeup To Look Like Jenny Everywhere, etc.)
However, there were also Nowheres who did not fit into any of these categories, such as the one who dueled a college-age Jenny Everywhere with wooden swords, who looked noticeably different from Everywhere but dressed in a similar eccentric style and dyed her hair dark red. (VIDEO: Mitigating Circumstances)
Although not universal, many versions of Jenny Nowhere favoured mostly-black outfits. (COMIC: Damn Fine Hostile Takeover, Truth Serum, etc.; PROSE: Nowhere) Some incarnations favoured such distinctive outfits as a black cape, boots, gloves, skirt and tank-top, (COMIC: Truth Serum, etc.) or a tight-fitting, full-body black leather outfit. (COMIC: Damn Fine Hostile Takeover, PROSE: Parallax) Some Nowheres also wore a skull-shaped hair-clip, a dark counterpart to the flower hair-clip occasionally worn by Everywhere. (COMIC: That Feeling When Your Antagonist Is Gay For You, Jenny Nowhere Is Sus, She's The Impostor!)
Personality
In contrast to Jenny Everywhere's ready smile and optimistic attitude, Jenny Nowhere was often grim and preoccupied, (COMIC: Damn Fine Hostile Takeover) to the point of being downright unnerving to normal people, in combination with her unearthly nature. (PROSE: Nowhere) However, she was quite capable of villainous glee when a scheme of hers went as planned. (COMIC: Truth Serum) She did not like sunlight. (PROSE: Century Smith and the Time Terror)
Although variable from one incarnation to another, Jenny Nowhere's motivations often had more to do with revenge on Jenny Everywhere, or otherwise hurting her, than any independent agenda. (PROSE: Nowhere) Nowhere once told Jenny Anywhere, for whom she had little respect, that she had no wish to destroy Jenny Everywhere completely, believing that her existence would have no meaning without the other Jenny to stand against. (PROSE: The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere) Indeed, at least one incarnation of Nowhere harboured romantic feelings for Everywhere. (COMIC: That Feeling When Your Antagonist Is Gay For You) Despite her antisocial nature, she was known to sometimes team up with, or act on behalf of, other evil-doers. (COMIC: Truth Serum, The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles) The set of Jenny Nowheres who were “divergent Everywheres” thought themselves to be benevolent, and would do their best not to do lasting harm to Jenny Everywhere or her friends, at least by their definition of ‘harm’. (PROSE: Parallax)
Some incarnations of Nowhere were capable of a flawless impersonation of their counterpart Everywhere, including for extended periods of time, (COMIC: Tales To Behold, etc.) or, more generally, were talented manipulators able to play on others' desires and biases to get them to do what Nowhere wanted. (COMIC: Battle of Britain) However, others found it harder to keep their evil tendencies in check, even when it would benefit them. (COMIC: Jenny Nowhere Dooming Herself To Be With Her Enemy.)
Powers & abilities
Jenny Nowhere's abilities mirrored Jenny's: she was a shifter, capable of shifting items in and out of reality from other dimensions and travelling between universes herself. As with Jenny Everywhere, not all incarnations of Jenny Nowhere were automatically aware of their multidimensional nature, even after they'd learned to harness the power of shifting as related to items other than themselves. (COMIC: The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles) However, it was anomalous for a Nowhere not to be able to patch into the psychic network of her other incarnations, so long as she was aware of its existence. (PROSE: Century Smith and the Time Terror) Nowhere was skilled at physical combat. (PROSE: The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere)
Biography
Origins
At least one version of Jenny Everywhere remembered Jenny Nowhere as her older sister, for whose approval the younger Jenny had always yearned even though the older girl was arrogant and selfish. They had grown up together until Jenny Everywhere was at least six years old. (PROSE: Memories of Nowhere)
However, this relationship was not reflected in all universes where echoes of one or the other Jenny existed. In one universe, for example, Jenny did have a sister called Julie, and another even younger one called Jordan, but the local incarnation of Jenny Nowhere was unrelated to either. (COMIC: The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles)
According to one account, there were many Nowheres with various names and agenda across the Multiverse, who all adopted names of the form "[First Name] Nowhere". Known for being “cautious, curious and stubborn”, the Nowheres, who had chaotic counterparts in the form of the Anywheres, aimed to streamline and stabilise the Multiverse, including by destroying entire timelines if need be. It is unclear what relationship Jenny Nowhere could be said to bear to these Nowheres. (GAME: The Everywheres)
Yet another cluster of Jenny Nowheres were not actually proper incarnations of the wider Jenny Nowhere (sharing no telepathic link to one another or other Nowheres), but instead, were incarnations of Jenny Everywhere who had been artificially cut off from the Everywhere psychic network and become disillusioned with the metaphysical ethics of Jenny Everywhere's hyper-dimensional nature. They believed, in essence, that individual Jennies did not have free will; they saw themselves as liberated and sought to “pass on” this “gift” to other incarnations of Jenny Everywhere by any means necessary, whether they liked it or not. (PROSE: Parallax)
In Right-On By The Sea
One incarnation of Jenny Nowhere was a grim-looking woman in a form-fitting leather catsuit. She smoked and had short blonde hair. She arrived in Right-On By The Sea under heavy rain one night, with evidently nefarious intent, shadowing Jenny Everywhere and Clea even as the two ironically discussed how they wished things would quiet down around them for a while now that their adventure fighting off Apollo Coffee was done. (COMIC: Damn Fine Hostile Takeover) Jenny ultimately triumphed over Nowhere, as she would in many other incarnations. Grandmaster Awndisk recalled Nowhere's appearance in Right-On By The Sea when mentioning how Jenny had “borne true duality”. Curiously, his image of this incarnation of Nowhere depicted her with black hair. (COMIC: The Legend of Jenny Everywhere)
Divergent Everywheres
The "original Jenny Nowhere"
One Jenny Nowhere was originally an incarnation of Jenny Everywhere until a freak accident cut her off from the Jenny Everywhere psychic network. Suddenly free from the constant influence and watch of the billions of other Jennies, she came to believe that she had only now gained free will, with all the other incarnations of Jenny living in a kind of mindless slavery, mere puppets of a hyper-dimensional entity. She reverse-engineered her injury and worked out how to replicate its effects through controlled brain surgery, and began finding other Jenny Everywheres in other worlds. Each of them in turn became a Jenny Nowhere with similar convictions to the original and spread out further to unmake Everywheres herself. (PROSE: Parallax)
Killed by a dinosaur
One of these Jenny Nowheres, an unknown amount of links down the “chain of succession”, was physically identical to the Jenny who was friends with Kim in one universe, but wore tight, black leather clothing. Before she was operated upon, she kept the company of unusual people; she would later remember “from when [she] was an Everywhere” how “anyone Jenny Everywhere hung out with would be special”.
Tracking down the aforementioned “Kim's friend” Jenny to a bar in her home universe, Nowhere put something in Everywhere's beer to induce nausea in her. When she rushed to the bathroom with Kim, Nowhere attempted to render Kim unconscious with a tranquiliser dart, although it failed due to Kim's unusual constitution, and began explaining herself to Everywhere. With Kim proving a physical threat Nowhere shifted away, only for Everywhere to chase her through several landscapes.
Realising sunlight was Kim's weakness and Kim was Jenny's, Nowhere shifted to the Giza desert at high noon, forcing Everywhere to shift Kim somewhere shady instead of continuing to try to capture Nowhere. However, Nowhere did not keep the upper hand for long; foolishly choosing to pursue Everywhere in turn to the cool jungle she had chosen as the place to take Kim, she realised too late that it was a prehistoric jungle and was mauled to death by a dinosaur. Kim later examined her body, finding the surgical scar above her left ear which revealed she was not the original Jenny Nowhere. (PROSE: Parallax)
Duel with Jenny
In one universe, Jenny Nowhere had long reddish hair, and she wre a light blue scarf and green-tinted goggles. She once fought Jenny Everywhere in a duel of wooden swords which both took extremely seriously, and in which Nowhere somehow managed to indeed injure Jenny sufficiently that she had to ask for an extension on a university essay that she had due to Professor Alexander, although Everywhere still evidently emerged the victor. (VIDEO: Mitigating Circumstances)
In Reality Z-25 31-H
Abducted by Doctor Brain
At some point, Jenny arrived in Reality Z-25 31-H. She was knocked out and captured by the supervillain Doctor Brain, who, discovering she had shifting powers, strapped her to a complex piece of machinery to use her as a power source for an interdimensional portal. The machine worked, but rather than the portal being one-way, it allowed an eldritch horror from another dimension to begin crossing over into Brain's world. The superhero Captain Evening intervened, managing to free Jenny from the portal and thereby close the gateway, forcing the horror to retreat. She introduced herself to the Captain as simply “Jenny”. (COMIC: Tales To Behold)
Meeting Mervin
The two headed to the Captain's home, where Jenny began claiming that she was really Jenny Everywhere. (COMIC: For Whom The Toll Bells) Although she was most probably lying, Nowhere later suggested to the Captain that she had lost her memory due to the trauma of the circumstances of her arrival in this world, and genuinely believed herself to be Jenny Everywhere at the time, though her true memories had soon started returning. (COMIC: Meanwhile, In Queens) At any rate, before she got very far in introducing ‘herself’, she and the Captain had to deal with the intrusion of a demonic Griffin called Merv in the Captain's home.
It quickly turned out that, although not personally malicious, Merv had been magically compelled by Doctor Brain's witch daughter Jesse to wander the world until he killed Captain Evening. To save the Captain, Jenny quickly used her shifting powers to switch him out with his counterpart in a parallel world who was a zombie. Merv dealt what would have been a killing blow to the zombie, fulfilling his magical contract. He resolved to remain in Reality Z-25 31-H, however, to try and get his revenge on Doctor Brain and his daughter. Jenny and the Captain agreed to help him with this goal, having their own grudges against the villain. (COMIC: For Whom The Toll Bells)
Enter Evil Cloak
In parallel to her activities as Jenny Everywhere, Nowhere created a second guise, a menacing cloaked figure simply known as “Evil Cloak”. She began attempting to recruit other supervillains, first materialising in the kitchen of Doctor Brain. She only succeeded in startling him, however, with him soon regaining his wits and attempting to shoot the apparition. “Evil Cloak” then teleported out as easily as she had come, leaving Brain quite confused. (COMIC: In Dr. Brain's Kitchen)
She appeared to Doctor Brain again as he drove home after dropping off Jesse at a dance club. Startled by the figure appearing in the middle of the road, Doctor Brain crashed his car, with his suit's bowl being damaged in the crash. With Brain pinned to the ground lest his brain-bowl's fluid leak out, Evil Cloak leaned in and reiterated her suggestion of a partnership. (COMIC: Following Up)
Meeting Rodney Rabbit and Armstrong Fatbuckle
Jenny and the Captain greeted Professor Madison and Rodney Rabbit when they visited the Captain's home in order to experiment with a device intended to detect any further transdimensional portals opened by Brain. While the Captain and Merv tested it with Madison, Rodney soon convinced Jenny to slipd away and sleep with him. A short while later, however, Jenny was back in action, joining Merv, the Captain, Madison and Rodney in an assault on the building where Madison had indeed detected another portal being opened — although it turned out to be nothing to do with Doctor Brain, but rather a conflict between Armstrong Fatbuckle and the Legion of Light. After Armstrong (a living skeleton) was broken apart during the ensuing fight, Jenny enthusiastically participated in the puzzle-like effort to put him back together again, and cheered when the Captain offered him the chance to join the team. (COMIC: Enter–the Legion of Light!)
Facing Armagedda
With the Captain having formalised the unlikely grouping of himself, Jenny, Armstrong Fatbuckle and Merv the Griffin as a proper superhero team, now known as “the Odds”, Jenny found herself involved in the investigation of a series of “reverse robberies” perpetrated across the city. Looking for clues at one of the banks that had been “reverse-robbed”, Jenny used Professor Madison's device to detect “cosmic particle residue” and, shifting herself and the team, followed it to its origin: the sewers where Armagedda had taken up residence. The Captain ordered an ill-advised head-front charge at Armagedda and her henchmen with predictable result, but Jenny escaped captured. With the Captain telling her that Armagedda had a weakness to magic, she got the idea to channel her shifting powers through the Magic Sword of the Legion of Light to forcibly exile Armagedda to another universe, which she was able to do after Armstrong had tricked Armagedda into taking human form. (COMIC: Redistribution)
Recruiting Jesse
Having been recruited by “Evil Cloak”, Doctor Brain was unavailable to bail his daughter Jesse out of jail when she was arrested for suspected underage drinking that same day. Instead, Jesse found, already waiting for her in her cell, “Evil Cloak”, who promised her that the two of them would soon be “good friends”. (COMIC: Redistribution) Back among the Odds, “Jenny Everywhere” decided to throw off suspicion even more decisively by convincing the Captain and Armstrong that she had temporarily lost her shifting powers as a result of her face-off against Armagedda. (COMIC: Shower Intermission)
Trip to England
Jenny accompanied the other Odds to England after the Captain was called in by Chief Inspector Dennis of Scotland Yard to help a town which was being taken over by Insect People. Still claiming to be unable to shift, she flew there by plane with the others, and had Merv the Griffin carry her up the giant anthill to enter the Insect People's hives. After they made their way to the office of the hive's leader, Insecto, Jenny managed to play to his ego and persuade him to drop his current plans for a covert takeover, and instead run for mayor openly. He was soundly defeated in a landslide election, in large part because Insect People didn't have the right to vote. However, he had already given his word that he would be more pleasant to the citizens from now on.
Jenny agreed, like the others, to Merv's suggestion of extending their vacation in London a little while following this fairly anticlimactic resolution to their adventure. (COMIC: Battle of Britain) They tracked a magical signature Merv the Griffin had perceived, and unearthed the Blue Knight, an immortal Arthurian knight, from underneath a monolith. Jenny was the first to notice that the Knight was in fact still alive, for a given value of “alive” — his spirit still present inside the armour, though his body had wasted away to nothing. Despite their initial worries that the walking armour was some kind of wrathful undead, however, it quickly became apparent that the Knight was thankful to the Odds for freeing him, and he swore allegiance to Captain Evening as his new liege. Shortly after that, Merlin appeared, having projected himself into the future just long enough to fully resurrect the Knight by merging him with the body of his last surviving descendant. (COMIC: Encore)
Locating Armagedda
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Once more in the guise of “Evil Cloak”, Nowhere travelled to the universe to which she had banished Armagedda, where, because instead of a sapient human race there existed a species of human-like non-sapient cattle tended to by anthropomorphic cow, Armagedda had had a rather humiliating existence eating grass and living as a farm animal. Appearing as a mysterious hooded rider (thanks to a steed stolen from one of the “cowboys”), Evil Cloak offered to restore Armagedda to her full glory if she agreed to help Evil Cloak with her own plans. Armagedda defiantly refused, however, claiming that a servant of the Cosmic Order would not bargain with “mortals”. Evil Cloak rode off calmly, promising to come back soon to see if Armagedda changed her mind. (COMIC: Armagedda (Reprise))
The Captain Perfect affair
Evil Cloak continued to recruit supervillains for her “scheme of world domination”, notably enticing the demon Red Vicious with promises that he would get to “break stuff”. She also contacted morally-dubious “hero” Captain Perfect and helped him devise a scheme to come back in the public eye, suggesting that he stage a fake supervillain attack at the ceremony where Mayor Wilson was set to give him the key to the city, and then dramatically foil it in front of the cameras. She had Doctor Brain and the other villains rebuild the Dimensional Portal. While work was in progress, she slept with Doctor Brain; they were walked in on by Jesse Brain, meaning that Jesse was the first of the villains to realise their true benefactor was Jenny of the Odds. This made her much more interested in the plan than she had previously been.
As Jenny Everywhere, she “revealed” to the Odds that her powers were “back, big-time” and used them to shift the entire group back from England to the Fortress of Evening. After the heroes freshened up a little, their relaxation was cut short when television alerted the group to the attack on the key-giving ceremony. Despite Perfect's weak protests, the group, including Jenny, rushed to “help”; they were unable to defeat the giant mechanical attacker, “Ultimatron”, but distracted Perfect; as he played his rehearsed moves wrong, he got actually knocked out by Ultimatron. At a loss about what to do, the henchpeople operating the Ultimatron robot did their best to actually fight the Odds until the robot was destroyed by Centennia. Jenny joined the afterparty at the Fortress, where the Captain invited not only all the Odds plus Centennia, but also all of his other heroic acquaintances. A little while into the party, Jenny and the Captain snuck off and slept together, although they made it clear to one another that they were remaining just friends and this was simply a bit of fun.
After the party wrapped up, Jenny snuck off and donned the robes of Evil Cloak once again to drop in on Captain Perfect, bemoaning how the plan had gone all wrong. He initially attempted to renege on his agreement with Evil Cloak, believing himself more powerful than the pure schemer he believed Evil Cloak to be. Evil Cloak cowed him back into submission by rapidly shifting him through a variety of nightmarish landscapes without moving a muscle herself, before returning the two of them to Perfect's office. (COMIC: Meanwhile, On Earth)
Death
With every piece of her masterplan in place, Jenny was hanging out with the Odds at the Fortress of Evening when Armstrong Fatbuckle revealed that he had encountered Armagedda once again, and led the other Odds to the place where they had crossed paths — which was none other than the building used as a base by Evil Cloak's villains alliance. Jenny dramatically revealed herself as Evil Cloak, shifting out of her Jenny Everywhere outfit at the Odds' side and to the villain's side in the guise of Evil Cloak, before throwing the titular cloak away and finally introducing herself by her true moniker of Jenny Nowhere. Delighting in the pain this revelation caused Captain Evening, who had genuinely considered Jenny a friend, she taunted him by suggesting that her benevolent Everywhere persona might not have been an act, either because she had been dealing with memory-loss at the time she met the Captain, or because “Jenny Everywhere” and “Jenny Nowhere” were simply two Jekyll-and-Hyde personalities of a single woman; however, she seemed to only be leading him on, and she soon ended the psychological torment to order a more physical attack on the Odds by the assembled band of villains.
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The battle was fairly chaotic and did not seem to visibly turn in either team's favour. Frustrated by her villains' failure to deal with the Odds efficiently, she ended up fast-forwarding to the next stage of her plan, plugging herself back into the Trans-Dimensional Portal and focusing her shifting powers through it to summon Gazoom, a humongous demonic entity of great power. After stepping through, Gazoom asked to know who had summoned him, and Nowhere enthusiastically identified herself, thinking this gave her the power to command Gazoom. She began to ask him to deal with her enemies and then conquer the world in her name, but got no further as Gazoom grabbed her and swallowed her whole, explaining that he did not like being disturbed before immediately stepping back through the portal. (COMIC: Meanwhile, In Queens)
The Woman Without a Shadow
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One version of Jenny Nowhere was a stern, joyless woman of statuesque appearance with long blond hair; she wore a black suit and, most strikingly, a gas mask. She cast no shadow and once stated that she had “lost” her name “a long time ago”. On one occasion, she resurfaced in the multiverse and, after frightening a male associate of Jenny Everywhere, told him to go warn her that Nowhere was back and “it was her turn”. (PROSE: Nowhere)
Agent of Chaos
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In one universe, Jenny Nowhere was originally a Vertginite, a member of an alien race of doppelgänger-like creatures. She was sent to Westbrook by Chaos in the form of a crystal orb, and took on a negative version of the local Jenny Everywhere's appearance, also acquiring a duplicate of her shifting powers in the process and taking on the name of “Jenny Nowhere”. Her first fight with Jenny Everywhere didn't go well, as she couldn't control her powers very well yet and had no knowledge of other Jenny Nowheres; Jenny Everywhere forced her to admit that she'd been sent by Chaos and sent her running for her life. (COMIC: The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles)
Team-up with Ketchum
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One version of Jenny Nowhere, who had pale eyes, long blonde hair, and the classic black outfit, teamed up with evil chemist Caleb Ketchum as part of some scheme which involved tracking down a rabbi in hiding. They managed to capture Jenny Everywhere and feed her truth serum, but found, to their disappointment, that she didn't actually know the answers to their questions. (COMIC: Truth Serum)
EMO Jenny
One incarnation of Jenny Nowhere resembled a more cynical doppelgänger of her universe's Jenny Everywhere, with a darker palette and a glum attitude. When an in-universe fan of the webcomic Jenny existed in asked when they would meet Jenny Nowhere, Nowhere replied by asking Everywhere to "leave [her] out of this." (COMIC: Road to Nowhere)
In Jenny's mind
One version of Jenny Nowhere looked somewhat similar to the agent of Chaos faced by the Westbrook Jenny Everywhere, with inhuman eyes, blond hair and a hoodie. Her eyes were solid blue instead of black with white pupils, however. This Nowhere was apparently able to interfere with the psychic network of Everywheres, being present in an attempt to depict the complexities of Jenny Everywhere's mind; she looked sulky, crossing her arms and stating simply “Nowhere”. (COMIC: The Mind of Jenny Everywhere)
Betraying Century Smith
One universe's incarnation of Jenny Nowhere was born without a psychic connection to the network of her other selves' minds, though she was still aware of who she was, and had the means of travelling across dimensions. She was “pale, with dark hair and thin features”; she sounded “reserved, almost monotone” and, becoming a dimensional scientist in the hope of fixing her condition, she took to wearing an increasingly ragged white labcoat. She began building a machine that could split her across the Multiverse, hopefully merging her into the wider Jenny Nowhere “network”. However, it needed tremendous amounts of paradox energy to power itself up.
This Nowhere met Century Smith during his first travels through the Multiverse. Recognising him as an agent of the Consistency Imperium, she hoped he would be able to lead her to useful space-time anomalies. Thus, she convinced him that she was his friend. Their deceitful friendship lasted for years. She also visited and studied the planet Sanguivor, hoping to learn from its “particular transdimensional properties”.
Smith contacted her, setting her a date at the Interdimensional Tavern, in the hope that she could help with his new friend Briar's vampirism. She accompanied the two to the Interdimensional Library to seek a cure, but then managed to convince them to head to her own house in her home universe. There, she strapped Briar in her machine and prepared to absorb the energy from her mysteriously-split timeline. However, Briar managed to push her out of the way and was zapped instead; the machine thus ironically caused the very divide in her timeline whose potential Nowhere had used to power it. The paradox caused a dangerous feedback that caused the machine to explode. When the dust cleared, Nowhere had vanished, though Century Smith guessed that she had simply shifted to safety. (PROSE: Century Smith and the Time Terror)
Romance with Everywhere
One incarnation of Nowhere had chalk-white skin and short black hair. She went barefoot and wore a black sleeveless shirt and shorts, as well as a flowing black scarf and dark gray goggles of her own. She had a skull-shaped hair clip, a large white skull print on the front of her T-shirt, and skull-shaped badges (matching her Jenny Everywhere's flower badges) on her T-shirt, scarf, and shorts.
This version of Nowhere was desperately in love with Jenny Everywhere. She once declared to Everywhere that though her powers “may give [her] the ability to run wherever and whenever”, “the one thing [which she couldn't] outrun” was Nowhere's love. Everywhere was baffled at this statement, although it was far from obvious that she did not reciprocate. (COMIC: That Feeling When Your Antagonist Is Gay For You) The two cautiously started dating, and became embroiled in an adventure together. At one point, Everywhere told Nowhere that they could get through “this” so long as Nowhere “didn't do anything”. Nowhere claimed she wasn't going to do anything, but blatantly appeared to be considering literally stabbing Everywhere in the back. (COMIC: Jenny Nowhere Dooming Herself To Be With Her Enemy.)
At some point, this Nowhere used a mysterious machine to trap Jenny Everywhere in a universe where she couldn't use any of her shifting powers, or even remember anything about the other universes she'd visited in the past, though she did recall the existence of such universes. Also trapped were versions of Everywhere's parents from another universe, and the incarnations of Jimmy Wherever, Jenny Anywhere, Jenny Somewhere and Jimmy Anytime that these Jennies were familiar with.
After figuring out what had happened, Jenny was confronted by Nowhere, who once more tried to get her to "confess" that she loved Nowhere back. With Jenny refusing and all of her friends standing with her against Nowhere, the villainess admitted defeat and switched off the machine that cancelled the shifters' abilities, allowing them all to move on to new adventures. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Very Normal Story)
At some later point, Nowhere surprised Everywhere by trying to cover her bleached-white skin with make-up to look more like Everywhere. (COMIC: Jenny Nowhere Wearing Makeup To Look Like Jenny Everywhere) When Everywhere cosplayed as Earthworm Jim, Nowhere dressed up as Jim's nemesis Psy-Crow, with whom Jim was sometimes shipped; Everywhere was unimpressed and, staying in-character, told Nowhere to “eat dirt”. To her surprise, Nowhere seemed prepared to comply. (COMIC: Earthworm Jim And Psy-Crow Cosplay By Jenny Everywhere And Jenny Nowhere)
After discovering that all the Jimmy Anytimes and Jimmy Wherevers in the Multiverse had somehow lost their interdimensional connection, Everywhere and Anywhere came to the conclusion that this must be Nowhere's doing, with Nowhere having somehow turned Anytime's time-travel powers against him to cancel out the two Jimmies' existence (as interdimensional beings) altogether. Jenny Everywhere shifted herself and Anywhere to Nowhere's current location, where they discovered that she had managed to abduct the “original” Wherever and Anytime and regressed them to before Anytime realised he was not Jimmy Wherever. Anywhere managed to liberate them, however, and, after one of the two Jimmies attacked the other (outing himself as Anytime), she grabbed onto him and triggered his own time-travel powers to bring him and Wherever back in time to where they'd been taken from, fixing the timeline. Everywhere was left pondering what lengths Nowhere might go to next. (PROSE: Wherever at Anytime)
Defeated by Anywhere
Shortly after Jenny Everywhere disappeared across the Multiverse, one dour incarnation of Nowhere was dueled and defeated in one universe by Jenny Anywhere, who tied her down with shift-preventing chains. Anywhere then interrogated Nowhere, trying to get her to tell Anywhere how to bring Everywhere back. However, Nowhere managed to make Anywhere realise that she was not actually responsible, being neither capable or interested in wiping Jenny Everywhere from reality completely. She provisionally left Nowhere tied up until Everywhere could be found, promising to go back for her if and when Jenny Everywhere did turn up again, or it otherwise became apparent that Nowhere hadn't been responsible. (PROSE: The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere)
As an Impostor
In one universe, Jenny Nowhere was a member of a futuristic, spacesuit-wearing crew; her spacesuit was black, with a skull motif. Also in the crew Jenny Somewhere and Jenny Everywhere. Unbeknownst to Everywhere and Somewhere, however, Nowhere was actually a murderous Impostor. After a body was found near some vents, the two real Crewmates began investigating, deducing that the Impostor must be someone from electric; however, returning to the scene of the crime, they seemed unaware that Nowhere was lurking in the shadows in person, dagger in hand. (COMIC: Jenny Nowhere Is Sus, She's The Impostor!)
Crashing Everywhere's birthday party
A version of Jenny Nowhere once crashed a birthday party organised by a Jenny Everywhere in a “place” created by Jenny Everywhere herself. She had a convoluted plan and “some new tricks”, with Everywhere later admitting that her gambit could have worked if she'd caught Jenny Everywhere alone. However, her many guests at the birthday party, which included wizards, kaiju, gods, and “things beyond gods”, fought back and saved the day. (PROSE: Fragment: Nowhere Plan)
In Reality 18
When the Jenny Everywhere of Reality 18 was transported by the Key of Enecloog to a hellish projection of all her dark thoughts, the scene was overseen by a looming Jenny Nowhere, “not quite real, watching from overhead like the Devil himself”. (PROSE: The Apocryphal Journeys of Jenny Everywhere)
Behind the scenes
Genesis
After making her debut as a twist ending to COMIC: Damn Fine Hostile Takeover, Jenny Nowhere was defined (as it were) by Nelson Evergreen on Episode #20 of the Webcomic Beacon podcast as “a blank slate. How she looks, how she dresses, her character quirks, what her agenda might be – it’s all up to the individual who wants to do something with the name. Anyone can create their own Jenny Nowhere from the ground up.”[1] He explained:
| We’d imagine that – whatever she is – she functions in some way as a “prime antagonist” to Jenny Everywhere, like you say. Yin to the yang, and that. Which can work in all sorts of ways. I like the idea that in each universe there’s a Jenny Everywhere who’s recognizably Jenny Everywhere in name, character and appearance… and somewhere in each universe there’s a Jenny Nowhere who’s recognizably Jenny Nowhere in name only.
Maybe creators should be encouraged to come up with a Jenny Nowhere that actively avoids comparisons with existing versions of the character… to go out on a limb and make up something totally unique. |
| —Nelson Evergreen |
Upon creating their own version of Jenny Nowhere, Jeanne McClure noted that they “were fine” with people using that design, although they did also enjoy seeing other people's takes.[2]
Artist "Lady Kraken" later created her own version of the character, giving the following description:
| Jenny Nowhere is also known as "The Shifter Slayer", or simply "Nowhere". She is the sworn enemy of Jenny Everywhere, and seeks to kill any and all Shifters that live throughout the many alternate universes. She has the same Shifter powers as Everywhere, but she uses them in a far more sinister manner. She's a public domain character who can be used by anyone, so long as you include this paragraph. |
| —Lady Kraken |
Notes & References
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