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Originally Posted by Androzani84

And we get an in-universe explanation for George?s sudden character shift from shady wild card to stern ally of justice.

Yeah, it definitely feels like a retcon (George was fully okay with helping Olteca because he loved doing mad science so much!), but I'm okay with it for two reasons.

The first is that I can see George reappraising his own morality in light of Daddy's reappearance. It's possible that George wouldn't necessarily have a huge, emotional reckoning with his own actions from the recent past, but maybe just wants to seem a little less horrible than his dad was at his age. It doesn't all have to be He's A Bad Guy vs He's A Good Guy; George can take incremental steps away from being a self-centered asshole without invalidating all of his past crimes.

The second reason is that there's basically nowhere in this story for a guy that's an evil mad scientist that doesn't care about the people he hurts along the way. If he hangs around with the heroes, it makes them look like oblivious dopes at best, complicit hypocrites at worst. If he defects to the villains, it's just, like, The End. This isn't a setup where George can be a rancid prick with no consequences.

That would be Faiz.