I think there are "maintainance" characters in the Parodyverse too. I claim responsibility for codifying them as the Triumvirate etc. a long time back when we had a good half dozen posters with "ultimate power" characters that needed some context as we moved to a tighter shared continuity. However, I think it's dramatically important that such characters can be thwarted so there's a genuine peril for our heroes to overcome. If there's always somebody to backtop them if it goes wrong then there's no real danger.




Ultizon is my final simplification of a complicated and long-running PV villain. First there was poster character Baron Zemo, a brilliant, mysogenistic meglomaniac. Virtual Zemo was a HALLIE-style artificial intelligence based on his engrams. VZ first challenged Hallie for control of the virtual realm via the Movie Gun and later returned in robot form to threaten the "real" world with an army of killer robots. After being defeated by Zemo and the LL he returned merged with the Resolution Prophecy, the force acting to bring about the "proper" end of the Parodyverse and eventually mutated into the adamantine Ultimate Ultizon who came close to destroying the entire Lair Legion. Ultizon remains one of the few beings with the combat strength and skills to stand off against a full Legion roster.

All this means that Ultizon probably doesn't need Anna but his robot superiority messianic complex would probably lead him to try and "convert" her, by unpleasant means if neccessary. In any case, I expect Hatman in particular would be uncomfortable sending Anna into conflict against someone who could theoretically corrupt her and who would definitely add her to his agenda.