Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11169242-20130907142333/@comment-241978-20140723222326

Let me get this straight: Osmosians are human mutants characterized by the ability to absorb and manipulate matter and energy. When the Rooters discovered them, they covered up the the truth and fabricated a story about Osmosians being aliens from the planet Osmos V. That explanation makes little sense. Why would the rooters go to the effort of covering up the Osmosian's true origin?

I offer an explanation off the top of my head that makes more sense: Osmosians are humans who were transplanted from Earth to Osmos V by Galvans thousands of years ago and then experimented on to give superpowers. Then some Osmosians joined the Plumbers and returned to their ancestor planet Earth.

The Omniverse writers think about these things too hard and end up creating baroque conspiracy theories that only raise more questions. I can accept the Amalgam Kids being the result of artificial attempts to crossbreed humans and aliens and that their parents were all killed by the conspiracy, but that also raises questions about whether the Albrights are Alan's real parents, members of the conspiracy, or patsies with their memories altered.

Who was Kevin's real father? Did Devin really exist or were the memories and photographs of his existence fabricated? Is Mrs. Levin Kevin's real mother? Is Aggregor Kevin's real father (Star Wars joke)? Why did Kevin live in Bellwood as a child before running off to New York if Devin wasn't affiliated with Max and had no reason to live there? If Ragnarok was a member of the Rooters who was tasked with maintaining the charade, why did he try to steal the Sun twice? How did his ship's key end up as the picture frame of the photograph of Kevin and Devin? Who really sent Ragnarok to the Null Void? If the Rooters gave Max false memories of Devin being his protege so that he would take care of Kevin, why did Max never recognize Kevin or form a fatherly relationship with him due to his guilt over Devin's death (which, IMO, would've made the reveal much more shocking: by that point the viewers would've been invested in the relationship only to be told it was part of the villain's plot)? Who broke the news to Kevin and his mother that Devin died (was it not Max)? How did Kevin know his father was a Plumber and receive a his badge if this was fabricated?

The retcon only raises more questions, which I think is the reason why people seem to be having a problem with it. The writers aren't really explaining this very well despite the huge complexity it entails. Telling us that everything we believed to be true were actually false memories years after the fact when we've already become invested in the characters is just plain bad writing unless it's pulled really, really well. Which it wasn't because there are still dozens of plot holes.

On the upside, the Amalgam Kids have their badass potential shot through the roof after being mostly ineffectual during the UAF era and we have an explanation for why Michael and Cooper have powers: they're both osmosians.

This still doesn't explain why Elena Validus sought Ben to help stop the Decoy Queen from taking over the Earth if she was the real queen all along (my hypothesis is that she's an osmosian with technopathy who was able to resist the queen's control after nanochips infected her and her father, then her powers drove her crazy jealous), why the plumbers suddenly graduated from a retired branch of the US government to an intergalactic police force (my hypothesis is that the rooters took over and expanded the operation), why Azmuth prematurely aged and became crochety after one year (my hypothesis is that dealing with Ben's annoying behavior caused this a la Spongebob annoying Squidward), or any number of other retcons introduced by UAF.

Plot holes galore and I don't think we'll ever get an explanation for them.