Jenny Elsewhere

Jenny Elsewhere
Character Information
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Residence	Various
Behind the Scenes
First seen in	COMIC: Elsewhere… (first recorded appearance; preceded by a “lost” story of unknown title in one cool word.)
Also seen in	See list
Copyright	Open Source
Index	See category

The name of “Jenny Elsewhere” was used by several shifters in the Multiverse. According to one account, Jenny Elsewhere was traditionally Jenny Somewhere's nemesis. She somehow never seemed to be around, even though people were aware of having met her at some point.

Description

Physical appearance

The “mixed-up-clone” version of Jenny Elsewhere was physically identical to her corresponding Jenny Everywhere, but wore a mixed-up version of her outfit. This included pink-tinted goggles worn around her neck and a red scarf worn over her forehead as a bandanna, as well as green trousers, a gray T-shirt, and a brown jacket with a beige stripe around the waist. (COMIC: Elsewhere…)

Another Jenny Elsewhere had a more distinctive appearance. She had light brown skin, a purple-dyed afro, and wore a rainbow-striped tie, a blue shirt, and a purple skirt. (PROSE: The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There)

Personality

Being “Jenny Somewhere's nemesis”, some Elsewheres at least assumedly had some kind of a villainous streak. (PROSE: Family Business) The “mixed-up-clone” version of Jenny Elsewhere, however, was completely benign. Her behaviour far exceeded Everywhere's in eccentricity, however, seeming to pick up strange new whims every day. (COMIC: I did NAWT) Aware of her own status as a living mistake, she was somewhat timid and unassertive. (COMIC: After the Party)

Powers & abilities

The “mixed-up-clone” version of Jenny Elsewhere had the ability to shift, but didn't know how to control it — not only was she unable to aim, but she had no control over when she shifted, disappearing and reappearing at random. (COMIC: Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye)

Biography

Somewhere's nemesis

As known to the 38167th Universe's Jenny Everywhere, Jenny Elsewhere existed, implicitly in a arbitrary number of incarnations, as the nemesis of Jenny Somewhere. Upon mentioning her to Lord Thymon, Everywhere realised to her mild puzzlement that she “didn't see her around much”. (PROSE: Family Business)

Mixed-up clone

See main article: Jenny Elsewhere (I.M. Hip)

One individual who took the name of Jenny Elsewhere was a “mixed-up” clone of the version of Jenny Everywhere who went to school with I.M. Hip. (COMIC: Elsewhere…)

Phoning the M.F.S.

See main article: Jenny Elsewhere (The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There)

One version of Jenny Elsewhere once phoned the M.F.S. from the middle of a tropical beach upon which it was snowing, where Jenny was standing holding and holding a red fish (possibly a red herring). This Jenny Elsewhere had a thin face, tan skin, and a purple afro, and wore a blue shirt, a rainbow-striped tie, and a purple skirt. (PROSE: The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There)

Behind the scenes

Jenny Elsewhere is peculiar within the Jenny Everywhere recurring cast as a character who was created twice. On April 24th, 2013, Carter-Ethan Rankin introduced a listing for the character to the Public Domain Super-Heroes Wiki. Although extremely vague, the profile postulated the character as a nemesis for Jenny Somewhere, and proposed that she “may exist wherever Jenny Somewhere doesn't”.

The name “Jenny Elsewhere” should be available for anyone to use in any way they see fit… but the character herself is 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 Elsewhere from the ground up. I'd imagine that — whatever she is — she functions in some way as a "prime antagonist" to Jenny Somewhere; the yin to her yang and all that. This can obviously work in all sorts of ways. With Jenny Somewhere not existing in all universes (like Jenny Everywhere does), I'd imagine that Jenny Elsewhere would exist wherever Jenny Somewhere doesn't. In a nutshell: Use the name, make up the rest. Of course, one is not required to follow the “Jenny Elsewhere” name and scheme, but it should be a fun idea that people can play with.

—Carter-Ethan Rankin

Like most Jenny Everywhere variants, she was given her own version of the Paragraph:

The page was updated that same day with a claim that the character had debuted that same month in a story printed in the Vancouver art magazine one cool word, though no title was given.

The character subsequent fell into disuse. On February 24th, 2018, as part of I.M. Hip, Thomas Fay reinvented the character altogether, with his “Jenny Elsewhere” being a non-malicious “mixed-up clone” of Jenny Everywhere. After introducing her in one strip, he posted a picture of the character with an explanatory blurb, releasing her under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Fay's commentary makes it clear that he had no awareness that a character by that name had been previously posited.

If you know your Jenny Everywhere, chances are you know all those different variations scattered all over the internet, like Jenny Somewhere or Jenny Anywhere or (gulp) Jenny Nowhere. Here's my Jenny I'm throwing into the ring, complete with a coveted Creative Commons license! Jenny Elsewhere (first appearing in I.M. Hip Strip #398) is a seriously f***ed-up clone of Everywhere, made entirely by accident by Everywhere while sleeping on a broken cloning machine in a darkened alley one night. The clothing colors are all mixed up, the goggles are in place of the scarf and vice versa, and half the time she utters non-sequiturs and “shifts” into something random (Everywhere can choose what to “shift” into at will). Seriously f***ed-up indeed.

—Thomas Fay

Elsewhere made a few further appearances in I.M. Hip.

In 2022, PROSE: Family Business became the second known story, and the only one currently available online, to make use of the “original-flavour” 2013 Jenny Elsewhere, albeit only in the form of a name-drop. She would then get a visual cameo on the header illustration of the 2024 rerelease of PROSE: The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There, while not appearing in person within the story itself — playing into the gimmick of her never appearing on-page. This introduced a new design for Elsewhere, giving her purple hair and a distinctive outfit including a rainbow-striped tie.

Open-source elements making up the core Jenny Everywhere mythos

Characters Protagonists Jenny Anywhere • Jenny Everywhere Companions & associates of Jenny Everywhere Jimmy Anytime • Laura Drake • Jenny Elsewhere • Bunny Everyhare • Sophie Everytime • Hakhe • Julie Jacobs • The Man in Grey • Neeta • Octobriana • Jenny Over-There • ShatterScreen • Jenny Somewhere • Jimmy Wherever • Michael Wherever Villains & enemies of Jenny Everywhere Chaos • Death • The Devil • Cardinal Dracula • Laura Drake • Lord Grallyx • Jenny Nowhere • Bunny Nullhare The Abstracts Chaos (Chaos) • Illumination (Lit) • Knowledge (Lailoken) • Luminance (Rae) • Misfortune (Odious) • Terror (Strach) Concepts The Infinite • The Multiverse • Shifting • The Unfinite