Editing Endbringers (section)

==Trivia==
*[[Echidna]] was thought at first to potentially be a nascent Endbringer.<ref>“She’s a nascent Endbringer,” I said.<br><br>“Bullshit!”  Triumph shouted, not a half second after I’d said it.<br><br>“Fuck me,” one of the Wards said.  It was only after he opened his mouth again that I saw it was Weld.  “Please tell me this is another one of Tattletale’s mind-games.”<br><br>“Explain.” Miss Militia demanded.<br><br>“She’s ''maybe'' a nascent Endbringer,” Tattletale said.  “It’s one theory.  Her powers are transforming her, and she’s getting less human, getting tougher and more desperate every day.  Coil was keeping her contained, with heavy vault doors and promises of a fix.  Now she’s free and she’s ''pissed''.”</ref>
*A popular theory among some of the Worm fandom is that the Endbringers were once parahumans, who either snapped or couldn’t handle their powers, gotten out of control, transformed into gigantic monstrosities. With the full reveal of their origins this theory has been disconfirmed.
**The epilogue chapter [[Teneral e.4]], however, does introduce [[Broken Trigger|a similar concept]].
*It is speculated in-universe that some [[Tinker|tinkers]] ([[Bonesaw]], [[Rattenfänger]], [[Jamestowner]], Mosaic, Monstrum) and other non-tinker capes like Chrysalis or [[Nilbog]] may have the potential to create Endbringers,<ref name="18.1">“Someone’s doing their level best to make their own Endbringer.”<br>[...]<br>“Yes.  There’s also any number of megalomaniac tinkers out there who might have tried something. Bonesaw, Rattenfänger, Jamestowner, Blasto, Mosaic, Monstrum, some non-tinkers like Chrysalis and Nilbog, bunch of others.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/queen-18-1/ Excerpt] from [[Queen 18.1]]</ref> (or, given what we now know about their origins, beings of comparable power) if they could find some outside means for cooperation or a power boost/second trigger.<ref>They're explicitly stated as not being strong enough, but the theory goes that they could find some outside means for cooperation or a power boost/second trigger. - [https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?707142-Where-I-Read-Worm&p=17432017#post17432017 Wildbow on RPG.net]</ref>
*The Simurgh may have specifically prevented Victoria from setting up a situation where Damsel could deal her a killing blow.<ref>“There’s a truce,” I told her.  “The whole idea is we work together.  Let me help you kick ass.”<br><br>“What’s the point of stopping her if it costs me everything?” she asked. - [[Last 20.7]]</ref> During the last arc she preyed on Damsel's fears of being overtaken by [[Swansong]],<ref name="20.2 eDamsel">“Damsel of Distress,” I said.  She snapped her head around to glare at me.  “It means you’re more focused, and you can annihilate more chunks of Endbringers and Titans.  I saw you out there.  We all want you out there as long as possible.”<br><br>“You want me ''weak'',” she told us.  “So your dear Swansong can sneak in, blur the boundaries between me and her, take over, and then you’ll have her back.” - [[Last 20.2]]</ref> making Damsel uncooperative.<ref>“Doing this?  Not giving an inch?  It makes you weaker, not stronger.  It’s fragile, being inflexible.”<br><br>“Fuck you,” she said.  Uncharacteristically vulgar, blunt, with a minimum of pride or ''herself'' in the line.<br><br>I didn’t really have a response to it, either.<br><br>“You just want me to cave, so she comes out.” - [[Last 20.7]]</ref><ref>She wasn’t talking about the Simurgh.  She was talking about Ashley.  ''Our'' Ashley.  Breakthrough’s.<br>[...]<br>“That’s the vector the Simurgh chose to attack you through?” I asked.  “Swansong?”<br><br>“None of your business.”<br>[...]<br>“Will you let me help you?  Please?”<br><br>She scowled, and shook her head. - [[Last 20.7]]</ref>