The thing with Worm?
It's kind of a crap story.
I mean, make no mistake the world of Worm is fascinating in many ways, but the story itself is not that good.
But well, the spoiler material? I'll try to put it in as little spoiling manner as possible.
Brockton Bay, the setting of the story, is a degrading hellhole where the heroes are outnumbered at least three to one, and it pulls no punches the way hero stories usually do about the sort of consequences that likely results in. The gangs are major factors in the sociopolitical system of the city because quite frankly, that's where a lot of the money is, and the government can't break the gangs because there's not enough manpower to throw at breaking them that isn't already tied down holding the forts in the other cities around the US.
Coil is one of the leaders of such a gang, one which does a lot of its work with trained and well equipped mercenaries. Sending a mercenary to shoot up a hospital to kill someone he finds inconvenient would fit his MO.
Eidolon is one of the Triumvirate, the three most powerful capes in the US, and has Taylor's powerset except with a few differences.
Cauldron is a... morally ambiguous conspiracy at best that has been trying to stop an upcoming, earth destroying apocalypse. On the one side, they are absolutely right about it happening sooner or later, on the other, they've left all moral considerations behind in the face of answering the question 'what gets us the best odds of not having humanity die when there's no escape into space or other dimension?'
Contessa is Cauldron's primary asset, a woman who has the power of 'performing the steps needed to be victorious.' One of her victory conditions is 'keep Cauldron secret.' And she's very, very good at making that happen because of that power.
It's kind of a crap story.
I mean, make no mistake the world of Worm is fascinating in many ways, but the story itself is not that good.
But well, the spoiler material? I'll try to put it in as little spoiling manner as possible.
Brockton Bay, the setting of the story, is a degrading hellhole where the heroes are outnumbered at least three to one, and it pulls no punches the way hero stories usually do about the sort of consequences that likely results in. The gangs are major factors in the sociopolitical system of the city because quite frankly, that's where a lot of the money is, and the government can't break the gangs because there's not enough manpower to throw at breaking them that isn't already tied down holding the forts in the other cities around the US.
Coil is one of the leaders of such a gang, one which does a lot of its work with trained and well equipped mercenaries. Sending a mercenary to shoot up a hospital to kill someone he finds inconvenient would fit his MO.
Eidolon is one of the Triumvirate, the three most powerful capes in the US, and has Taylor's powerset except with a few differences.
Cauldron is a... morally ambiguous conspiracy at best that has been trying to stop an upcoming, earth destroying apocalypse. On the one side, they are absolutely right about it happening sooner or later, on the other, they've left all moral considerations behind in the face of answering the question 'what gets us the best odds of not having humanity die when there's no escape into space or other dimension?'
Contessa is Cauldron's primary asset, a woman who has the power of 'performing the steps needed to be victorious.' One of her victory conditions is 'keep Cauldron secret.' And she's very, very good at making that happen because of that power.