Jimmy Wherever
Jimmy Wherever, sometimes nicknamed the Shiftee, was a muscular, blond Canadian man who acted as a boyfriend to many versions of Jenny Everywhere. There existed several Jimmies in the Multiverse, all involved with Jenny; although they were in some cosmic sense bound together in the same way as the many versions of Jenny Everywhere, Jimmy did not possess shifting abilities of his own, only becoming able to travel the Multiverse when Jenny took him along on her own trips.
Description
Physical appearance
Jimmy Wherever was a pale-skinned Canadian man with short blond hair. He was clean-shaven. Broad-shouldered, he classically wore a red sweater adorned with a white maple leaf, in allusion to his origins. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere and Friends, When She's Gone)
Personality
Jimmy was highly supportive of Jenny, and the two loved each other deeply. He sometimes felt depressed when she left him behind to go on adventures of her own. (COMIC: When She's Gone)
Biography
Original Jimmy Wherever
According to one source, there existed an “original” Jimmy Wherever, to whom something happened in his adult life to make his template resonate across the Multiverse, bringing into existence the network of Jimmies who all considered themselves to be equally the boyfriend of any one Jenny Everywhere. Prior to this happening, Wherever was captured by an unknown party and a full-grown clone of him, with temporal powers, was created. Upon coming out of the cloning tank, this Jimmy believed himself to be the original, having all of Wherever's memories, but a form of mind control was implanted in his brain to make him want to kill Wherever once he realised his own true nature. After overcoming this control, the duplicate chose the alternative name of Jimmy Anytime, started dyeing his hair and wearing different clothes from Wherever, and ended up dating Jenny Anywhere.
At some point, a version of Jenny Nowhere who wanted to be Jenny Everywhere's only equal tapped into the time-travel powers of one version of Anytime to go back to the original two Jimmies and extract them from their timeline, thus cancelling out the existence of the network of subsequent Jimmies: although these other Jimmies did not disappear, they no longer had any sense of their multiversal existence, and no longer had a bond with the Jennies unless they had personally met them. Nowhere took Wherever and Anytime to her space station in one universe, and stripped them down to their underwear as well as washing the dye from Anytime's hair, making it impossible to distinguish them. She also reinstated Anytime's mind-control. Anywhere rescued the two Jimmies from the acid pool over which she was dangling them, only for Anytime's programming to kick in, making him try to kill Wherever. However, Anywhere was able to do the same thing Nowhere had done, tapping into Anytime's own powers to return him and Wherever to their home dimension and time and undoing Nowhere's meddling. (PROSE: Wherever at Anytime)
In Reality Z-25 31-H
- See main article: Jimmy Wherever (Reality Z-25 31-H)
A verson of Jimmy dated the version of Jenny often associated with, though not native to, Reality Z-25 31-H. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere and Friends, Jenny Everywhere And Iothera)
A new beginning
Jimmy Wherever dated another version of Jenny, but started feeling blue due to her always being off on impossible adventures where he couldn't follow her. Overhearing Jimmy singing to himself, Jenny replied, in song, that she would be glad to take him along on her next trip. (COMIC: When She's Gone)
High-schooler in the 1980s
In one universe reminiscent of a clichéd 1980s high-school movie, Jimmy Wherever attended high school alongside Jenny Everywhere and Jimmy Anytime. This incarnation of Jimmy wore a wearing a varsity jacket. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell)
Trapped in a “Very Ordinary” world
One incarnation of Jimmy Wherever dated Jenny Everywhere, who promised to keep him safe when she took him along on adventures. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Very Normal Story, Jenny Everywhere and the Nowhere Spiral)
In the 38167th Universe
- See main article: Jimmy Wherever (38167th Universe)
A version of Jimmy Wherever existed in the 38167th Universe, briefly dating the local Jenny Everywhere. He was cloned into, and killed by, Jimmy Anytime at the instigation of Jenny Nowhere. (PROSE: Family Business)
Jimmy Westeron
- See main article: Jimmy Wherever (775th Universe)
In the 775th Universe, Mystepolia, home to the local Jenny Everywhere and Laura Drake, was also home to a muscular young man with blond hair known as Private James “Jimmy” Westeron, who belonged to the Mystepolian army, operating a tank. (COMIC: The Demon and the Butterfly)
Later, when Laura started getting messages on the Interdimensional Ham Radio from “interdimensional busybodies”, she talked Jimmy into agreeing to answer any questions that were directed to him. (COMIC: The Demon and the Butterfly: Special Q&A)
Behind the scenes
Genesis
Jimmy Wherever was unveiled by Carter-Ethan Rankin in February 2013 on the Public Domain Super-Heroes Wiki, using the same open-source license as Jenny Everywhere's, as part of an effort to create a recurring background cast for Jenny that could be used as freely as the Shifter herself. Rankin created Jenny Anywhere and Jimmy Anytime around the same period.
The public-domain blurb written by Rankin to introduce the character included many details which were only translated into narrative media years later.
| Jimmy Wherever is a love interest of Jenny Everywhere.
Code-named "The Shiftee," Jimmy, himself, is non-powered but, may shift wherever Jenny is headed by simply holding her hand. Thus, he can easily be "wherever" Jenny Everywhere is. Being a top journalism student, he has excellent detective skills. He is Canadian with blond hair, blue eyes, and an athletic build. Where he came from or what his up-bringing was like is, as yet, unknown. In contrast to Jenny Everywhere's favourite food being toast, Jimmy's is bread... un-toasted. He has a genetically modified clone known as Jimmy Anytime. |
| —Carter-Ethan Rankin |
External links
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