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| “ | You needed worthy opponents. | „ |
| ~ Scion to Eidolon, revealing to him the source of the Endbringers.
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Zion, incorrectly known as Scion, is the overarching antagonist of the web serial novel Worm by John C. McCrae. Initially thought to be the first parahuman and the most powerful cape in existence. Scion is revealed to be the avatar of The Warrior entity - a member of a species of unfathomably powerful and immense multidimensional colonial organisms who infiltrate planets containing sapient life, instigate conflict to gather conflict data, and ultimately destroy every iteration of the planet across all of existence to reproduce in what is called The Cycle. Scion is the source of most parahuman powers and the true and final enemy humanity must face.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Before the start of the main story, The Warrior and their partner, The Thinker, travelled across the cosmos, presumably destroying countless planets and killing trillions of sapient lifeforms to perpetuate their life cycle over the course of millions of years.
- They planned to do the same with humanity, but were sabotaged before they could get started, causing Eden to crash-land on an alternate Earth and be killed, leaving Scion with no goal in life and deeply depressed.
- After being prompted by a homeless man named Kevin Norton, Scion (in his new humanoid form) became a superhero. However, he only did so to deal with his ennui and took no satisfaction in his acts of heroism.
- In his dying moments, the psychotic super villain Jack Slash convinces Scion to abandon heroism and go on a rampage. Scion starts his global killing spree by completely destroying the United Kingdom.
- Scion escalated further with more attacks, unleashing devastating blasts across the eastern coastline of Canada and the United States. In Mali, he specifically targeted post-pubescent individuals, leaving an approximate 430,000 orphans. In Russia, he reignited fires he had once extinguished, cutting off escape routes and creating large rings of fire that encroached inwards and cooked anyone within. By the time Taylor recovered from the oil rig battle, Scion had killed about half of the population of Earth Bet and had started travelling between different earths in order to find more victims.
- He killed any heroes that tried to stop him. When the superhero Eidolon came close to defeating Scion, he mentally broke him in a way that caused him to give up and commit suicide by allowing Scion to kill him.
- During his attacks in alternate Earths, Scion began experimenting to find methods of killing that brought him the most satisfaction. He employed personal touches, such as simultaneously crushing the skulls of individuals and their closest friends with his bare hands. The death toll in most other dimensions was so intense that 500 million deaths on a single planet was considered mild.
- By the time Scion is finally defeated and killed, entire alternate Earths (including Earth Bet) were rendered completely uninhabitable due to global devastation caused by all the debris in the air. Entire continents were blown up, and everyone on Earth Bet who wasn't killed were forced to flee to scattered settlements on other Earths.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He genuinely loved his partner Eden/The Thinker and was left completely broken by her death. However, this does not absolve him as both himself and Eden were remorseless world-destroyers and Eden died while they were infiltrating earth, making this a hell of their own making.
- The culture of the Entities is essentially fight-or-die, over and over again. Scion's species is naturally parasitic and the only companionship he's had for his thousands of years of life has been The Thinker. From his perspective he's doing no more wrong than Cauldron or Taylor when he turns on humanity.
Trivia[]
- He is the only Worm villain to be NPE.