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) 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"
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)
Jenny later mentioned her encounter with Nowhere when she was interviewed by Jennifer Dao Chu, warning other, less experienced Jennies to beware anyone using the moniker. (PROSE: So You're Jenny Everywhere)
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. 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)
Declaring herself
When she first 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.)
Growing enmity with Everywhere
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)
The Jimmy plot
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)
Further schemes
Jenny Nowhere once wrote a “fanfic” about herself and Everywhere. In it, Nowhere lost her memories after being hit on the head with a mysterious glowing rock in the middle of a fight with Everywhere. Everywhere decided not to tell the amnesiac Nowhere that they were enemies, instead claiming that they were friends, and the two soon began kissing. (PROSE: Jenny Nowho?)
Everywhere's toaster was once “kidnapped” by Nowhere, who threatened to destroy the toaster by dropping it from a great height unless Everywhere complied with Nowhere's demands. When Jenny called her bluff, Nowhere went through with it, to Jenny's horror. (COMIC: Death of Jenny Everywhere's Toaster)
The Nowhere Spiral
One one occasion, Jenny Everywhere apparently sent Nowhere to Hell. However, she returned, surprising Jenny as the Shifter was “frolicking through a field of alien flowers” in one universe. They got to fighting, but after getting caught off-guard by her rival first punch, Nowhere started to spiral increasingly out of control as she loudly insisted that she wasn't getting weaker, only to keep taking hit after hit without putting up any effective defence.
A little while later, after a victorious Jenny has rejoined her friends — including versions of Jimmy Wherever, Michael Wherever and Kim — Nowhere walked up to her again, demanding a rematch and insisting she wouldn't lose so easily this time. However, in the face of Everywhere and her friends' casual skepticism about her ability to ever win against the other Everywhere, Nowhere went to pieces again, collapsing to the ground (and losing her skirt) from a single kick.
While a victorious Everywhere kissed Wherever and the friend group shifted to another universe to celebrate, Nowhere gathered her wits and hit upon the idea of allying with Jenny's ex Laura, who, having watched the fight from a distance, soon walked up to Nowhere to propose the same idea. The two of them travelled to Laura's laboratory, with Nowhere admiring what Laura had done with the place. Everywhere submitstedsurprisingly easily to Nowhere on their third encounter, and Nowhere brought her to Laura's lab as agreed. There, a disagreement soon broke out between the two villains when Nowhere made it clear that she'd want Jenny all to herself; Laura pulled out a steampunk gun she'd recently invented, but Jenny Everywhere kicked the gun, breaking it, before Laura could actually use it, revealing in the process that she had never been incapacitated and was just playing along to figure out what Nowhere was up to. They had yet another fight, with Jenny easily incapacitating both Laura and Nowhere. When Nowhere broke down crying, however, Everywhere helped her up, hugging her and comforting her; they even briefly kissed before Everywhere pulled away and skipped off, daring Nowhere to chase her.
Nowhere soon caught up to Everywhere and, in victorious glee, demanded that the other shifter agree to love her and only her. Jenny called her out on starting to sound evil and domineering again; at this point, Laura caught up with the two Jennies and, agreeing with Everywhere's judgment, pointed her repaired steampunk gun at Nowhere. Imitating Everywhere's earlier trick, Nowhere pretended to submit to Laura only to suddenly start struggling again, destroying the gun a second time. As Nowhere shouted at Laura in anger, however, Laura noticed that Nowhere's eyes had changed, becoming spirals. Nowhere's bravado gave out and she started to panic, asking Everywhere with feverish obsession if Everywhere would love her if Nowhere agreed to give up her evil ways. Though she didn't mean to harm Everywhere, her shaking Everywhere by the shoulders caused the other girl to hit her head against a rock and she fell unconscious.
Initially unsure of what to do, Nowhere dragged the unconscious Everywhere back to her home, and ultimately decided to take this opportunity to set up a date between them, tying Everywhere to a chair in her dining room and laying toast and tea on the table. After Everywhere explained that she could only love Nowhere if Nowhere renounced her evil ways, and demanded that Nowhere prove it by letting her go, Nowhere complied, untying Jenny, only for her to immediately shift away, telling Nowhere that she still didn't trust her.
After flipping the table, Nowhere followed Everywhere to the other universe, where, as they found themselves in the Naked Jungle, their powers adapted them both to their surroundings by making their clothes vanish, leaving them in their respective patterned underwear. After Everywhere tripped and hit her head again, Nowhere helped her up, but then demanded that they return to Nowhere's house to finish their “date”, once again dashing any illusion Everywhere might have developed that Nowhere was undergoing personal growth.
Nowhere shifted Everywhere back to her house and laid her out on the bed. With them both still in their underwear, she began to make out with Everywhere, but the other shifter shoved her off and tells her in no uncertain terms that her behaviour was only proving further that her “love” in no way made her a better person. She grabbed one of Nowhere's skirt and put it on before shifting away. Nowhere tried to follow her, though she realised that she forgot to get dressed again and had to waste time going back to her house again to grab another skirt.
As they chased each other shifting too fast and too clumsily, they “clipped through reality” and found themselves in the Backrooms, a “pocket reality between universes” where they were immediately menaced by a shadow-monster. They attempted to shift away together but only ended up on another level of the Backrooms, themed like a hospital corridor and teeming with yet more monsters. However, after another shift that took the two of them to a paradoxical space that is simultaneously indoors and outdoors, Everywhere managed to shift herself and Nowhere to the safety of an ordinary crowded street in an actual universe. There, they seemingly agreed to call it a day and part ways peacefully.
Some time later, however, Nowhere had returnd to stalking Everywhere. She took refuge in the Strange and Wonderful House where she was pursued by Nowhere whose eyes had once more turned into spirals. Everywhere tried to hide in a dark room, and, when Nowhere found her anyway, hit her over the head with a lamp before running out of the House. Still being chased by Nowhere, Jenny ran into the Infinite, with Nowhere hot her heels. She explained to her other selves that Nowhere had been chasing her for days and she was desperate to get some rest. A magician Jenny suggested a classic switcheroo, proposing that a number of Jennies from the Infinite take turns being chased by the focus Jenny's Nowhere. She volunteered to go first.
While the chased Jenny collapsed to the floor of the Infinite right there and then, falling asleep almost instantly, another Jenny who's been holding off Nowhere allowed her to fully enter the Infinite. The magician Jenny played around with Nowhere for a while, playing magical tricks on her, before “handing her over” to Bunny Jenny, and on and on. Nowhere, surrounded by Everywheres running literal rings around her, seemed to finally lose her mind completely to the “Nowhere Spiral”, her rational mind entirely consumed by her self-contradictory obsession with Jenny Everywhere. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Nowhere Spiral)
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 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)
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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