AdHoc's debut game, a superhero workplace comedy called Dispatch, released its first two episodes earlier this week, and they present a pretty standard comic-book story: Robert 'Mecha Man' Robertson vying for revenge against the villain who killed his father, Shroud. But fans are convinced that there are other evildoers lurking within SDN, and that things are much more complicated than they first appear.
Light spoilers for the first two Dispatch episodes.
The most popular suggestion right now is that Phenomaman will pull the wool over our eyes like Omni-Man, pretending to be a noble, kind-hearted, and naive Boy Scout of a hero akin to Superman before unveiling his true machinations to conquer Earth and subjugate humanity. With a love triangle brewing between him, Blond Blazer, and Mecha Man, and his striking resemblance to the Viltrumite, it's easy to see how fans have jumped to this conclusion. But I'm not convinced.
It's a little too obvious with how oversaturated the evil Superman trope has become. Throwing another into the mix would be trite, and I imagine that AdHoc feels the same and is using Phenomaman as a red herring. But, if he's the distraction, who's the real villain...
