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Spawn’s most mysterious enemy has finally had its origins explained, and they make the Plague Spawn even scarier than it already is.
WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for The Scorched #1, available now from Image.
The much anticipated team-up series The Scorched has finally arrived, bringing together some of the most terrifying heroes of all time to confront an enemy somehow even worse than they are. It isn’t just superpowered soldiers that the titular team is up against this time. In fact, there is another Spawn for the hellish heroes to confront. The Scorched might think they know what they’re dealing with when it comes to the Plague Spawn, but the oldest of them all is harboring dark secrets that could change everything they know about their powers.
Jessica Priest, King Spawn, Redeemer, and the Gunslinger Spawn have all been brought to Russia in their search for the Plague Spawn. During the course of their mission, the team has found themselves acting as the protectors of two young women who were unfortunate enough to stumble upon the Plague Spawn while escaping a ruthless military force. Their run-in with the creature wasn’t just a harrowing experience for Odessa and Natasha, though. It also served as an eye-opening moment for readers, as The Scorched #1 (by Sean Lewis, Stephen Segovia, Paulo Siqueira, Ulises Arreola, Nikos Koutsis, and AndWorld Design) has just revealed what makes the Plague Spawn so much more dangerous than its brethren.
It turned out that the Plague Spawn isn’t just some enigmatic force for destruction. Rather, it was the very first prototype of the symbiote suits that would adorn the rank of Hell’s army. To no one’s surprise, this initial iteration of what would eventually become the K7-Leetha suit that fans know best would prove to be “defective” in ways that the legions of Hell hadn’t anticipated. As such, the suit was ordered to be destroyed. Obviously whatever steps were taken to obliterate the Plague Spawn didn’t take, but the creature itself is hardly as bad as what its reemergence in the present has led to.
Colonel Kruschev, the military commander leading the hunt for Odessa and Natasha, has apparently made some use of his failed attempts to cage the Plague Spawn. The rumors of soldiers who are no longer quite men are revealed to be truer than anyone could have expected with the appearance of lupine assailants alongside the rest of Kruschev’s army. These literal dog soldiers amongst the battalion were intimidating enough on their own, yet it is their origin that carried with it the scariest implications. If Kruschev’s attempts to contain the Plague Spawn were tied in any way to the nightmarish experiments that have resulted in his superpowered army, it would open up a whole new dimension of what the various Hellspawn are capable of. Al Simmons has never had any problems raising the dead to fight on his behalf, but never before have any of his kind transformed the living into something other than themselves.
There is always the possibility that Plague Spawn is unrelated to Kruschev’s more nefarious efforts, but two events seem too closely related for that to be the case. Even if that does turn out to be true, the Plague Spawn’s place as the original Spawn suit elevates it from another eerie threat to something much more important, especially considering how long it has survived on its own without a host to feed on. The secrets that the Plague Spawn continues to hold onto are innumerable, but there is no doubt that they will continue to rock the Spawn Universe to its core as they are unveiled.
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