Jenny Nowhere
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, This Might Happen Someday) 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, This Might Happen Someday) 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) In one universe, Jenny Everywhere described Nowhere as "kinda like [Everywhere] but[...] evil. Probably.". (COMIC: The Curse of a Fairly Normal Halloween) 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) and another was a “friendly rival” to the other Jenny, holding no actual animus against her but merely enjoying the ruthless competition that existed between them to mutual benefit. (PROSE: This Might Happen Someday) 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"
- See main article: Jenny Nowhere 2 (Parallax)
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
- See main article: Jenny Nowhere 1 (Parallax)
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 the Parallax Universe, but wore tight, black leather clothing. She was eventually killed while trying to turn the Parallax Jenny into another 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
- See main article: Jenny Nowhere (Reality Z-25 31-H)
One version of Jenny Nowhere looked identical to the Jenny Everywhere often associated with Reality Z-25 31-H. After arriving in this reality, she was captured by Doctor Brain and briefly used as a power source for an interdimensional portal; after Captain Evening rescued her, she claimed to be Jenny Everywhere, and joined his superhero team the Odds for some time, (COMIC: For Whom The Toll Bells) though she also began to build up an alternative identity as the supervillain “Evil Cloak” to advance her true plans. (COMIC: Following Up, etc.) After revealing herself to the Odds, she was ultimately eaten by the demon Gazoom. (COMIC: Meanwhile, In Queens)
The Woman Without a Shadow
- See main article: Jenny Nowhere (Nowhere)
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)
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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
- See main article: Jenny Nowhere (That Feeling When Your Antagonist Is Gay For You)
One universe's incarnation of Nowhere had chalk-white skin and short black hair. Her eyes were peculiar, with the shape or presence of her pupils seemingly altering from day to day based on her mood. (COMIC: Death of Jenny Everywhere's Toaster, Earthworm Jim And Psy-Crow Cosplay By Jenny Everywhere And Jenny Nowhere, etc.)
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. (COMIC: That Feeling When Your Antagonist Is Gay For You, Death of Jenny Everywhere's Toaster, etc.)
This version of Nowhere was obsessively in love with Jenny Everywhere, who did not return her feelings. (COMIC: That Feeling When Your Antagonist Is Gay For You)
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
- See main article: Jenny Nowhere (Jenny Nowhere Is Sus, She's The 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 Anywhere 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 the 38167th Universe
- See main article: Jenny Nowhere (38167th Universe)
The 38167th Universe's version of Jenny Nowhere was a woman with waist-length blond hair. She was orginally the (adopted) sister of the local Jenny Everywhere, who played an unfortunate part in turning her innocent sister into the monstrous Nowhere, which was the source of their enmity. (PROSE: Family Business)
Jennifer Nolan
In one universe, “Jenny Nowhere” existed as a fictional character alongside Jenny Everywhere. By 3001, there also existed a woman named Jennifer “Jenny” Nolan. She was a pale, short-haired blonde who often wore a black jumpsuit. Making use of the wide range of available, safe body-modification options in her native era, she had modified her eyes to be pitch-black and ringed with stars. Notably, “Jennifer Nolan” may only have been a localisation to give an equivalent name by 21st century standards to how her actual, potentially more exotic-seeming name might have come across in her native society — such as “Jenifa Luĉjo”.
Either way, she was a self-confessed adrenaline junkie, often going on adventures in virtual worlds with her friend Jenny Evans (with whom she shared a home “overlooking the rings of Saturn”), acting as her rival. She was highly driven during their games, slipping easily into the part of a ruthless villain. The other Jenny was a fan of Jenny Everywhere fiction, and completed a 25-year effort to read or otherwise experience all surviving Jenny Everywhere fiction on August 13th, 3001, which was close to her birthday. Jennifer gifted her a pair of goggles and a scarf to mark the occasion. This prompted both girls to realise that they could, by this point, consider themselves the closest thing their world had to proper incarnations of Jenny Everywhere and Jenny Nowhere, with knowledge of all Jenny Everywhere fiction acting as Jenny's way of tapping into her counterparts' experiences. Although neither took the idea wholly seriously, they soon departed for another virtual adventure and it may or may not have prompted Jenny to discover right there and then that she had real shifting powers. (PROSE: This Might Happen Someday)
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)
On Mystepolia
- See main article: Jenny Nowhere (775th Universe)
When the Interdimensional Ham Radio allowed “interdimensional busybodies” to ask questions to the Laura Drake and Jenny of one universe, who lived on the island of Mystepolia, one of the questions concerned Jenny Nowhere, asking if “when she showed up”, she would have a moth motif to match the main Jenny's mysterious association with butterflies. Jenny was merely confused by the question and moved on. (COMIC: The Demon and the Butterfly: Special Q&A)
In the 925th Universe
- See main article: Jenny Nowhere (925th Universe)
A version of Jenny Somewhere existed in the 925th Universe and was present at the Dibbsy Store on December 24th, 2022 alongside Jenny Everywhere, Jenny Somewhere, Laura Drake and a few other notable individuals. (PROSE: A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas)
Miss Erehwon
Also active in the 925th Universe, but apparently not the person seen at the Dibbsy store, was a woman who called herself Miss Erehwon. At some point she became aware of Dynamite Thor. One day she appeared unexpectedly, gave him a flimsy story and a lot of explosives, then sent him off to the Kablamazon offices in search of a villain, in the hopes that Thor would not recognize Jenny Everywhere until it was too late. (PROSE: Set Up to Blow Up)
A prequel story related how she acquired her transportation by travelling to a distant universe and seeking out an old man at just the right time, though she did not outsmart him by as much as she'd hoped. (PROSE: How to Steal Timeships & To Influence Time Lords)
Dastardly sorceress
- See main article: Jenny Nowhere 2 (To Hell With Good Intentions)
A dastardly sorceress, opposed to Ser Gennever, resided the keep of Nowhere. She had gathered seven gems for an unknown, but probably nefarious purpose. (PROSE: To Hell With Good Intentions)
Lady Erenow
- See main article: Lady Calpernia Erenow
Reality 45's version of Jenny Nowhere resided in Castle Erenow under the pseudonym Lady Calpernia Evernow, which she had inherited from Carmilla la Fanu. Concordat Agent Michael Béliveau noted that she smiled as though she was in on a private joke, and suspected that she had acquired a love of anagrams from the vampire. She had a romantic relationship with her universe's Jenny, who she described as “halfway to Nowhere” due to her weakening connection to the mental link. She was aware that the Concordat was monitoring Jenny Everywhere's activities, and taunted them with a wink before destroying their Grigori. (PROSE: To Hell With Good Intentions)
As a Halloween costume
- See main article: Jenny Nowhere (Halloween Preparations)
In one universe, the resident Jenny Everywhere dressed as Jenny Nowhere for Halloween one year, describing her as "kinda like [Everywhere] but[...] evil. Probably.". (COMIC: The Curse of a Fairly Normal Halloween) This occurred after she found a black wig while staying at 31 Spooner Street. (COMIC: Halloween Preparations)
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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