Varan’s struggle for survival and self-acceptance as a mutant, caught between identity erasure and violent rebellion
Varan’s struggle for survival and self-acceptance as a mutant, caught between identity erasure and violent rebellion
Events in This Arc
The Doctor neutralizes Varan’s resistance with a brutal display of Venusian karate, forcing the rebel into temporary submission. By leveraging Varan’s warrior pride and the looming threat of Overlord guards, …
The Doctor and Varan follow Ky into the mines, where they shelter Jo from the mutant attack and Ky reveals his alliance with the rebels. The Doctor presents Ky with …
Betrayed by his warriors and abandoned to the creeping horror of Solos’ toxic atmosphere, Varan confronts the first signs of his own physical transformation—scales forming on his hand. As despair …