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Title: Chikara Postseason Thoughts: Does Mantis Have the Best of Intentions?
Date: 11/28/11
Author: TH



Far be it from me to question the motives of the great and devious UltraMantis Black, but things seemed to have wrapped up a bit too conveniently at High Noon. Mantis and Hallowicked cornered Ares. They shooed Tim Donst from the ring, ensuring that the prize won would be Ares' precious family heirloom, the Eye of Tyr. The promise all along has been that Mantis would claim the Eye to release Delirious from his spell and return him to 'Wicked and Frightmare. This was set in motion at Cibernetico the night before High Noon, when in the titular main event match, Delirious turned on his owners and became a free man... err demon... err, whatever he is.

Completely happy ending, right? Yeah, well, that's what doesn't really make sense to me. Ever since I started following Chikara, there have been a scant few things that have remained constant. One of them has been that Mantis always has something up his sleeve. It just feels too convenient that he has in his possession the most powerful artifact known to the wrestling world. He already used it once, and that's what got Chikara into the mess with the BDK in the first place. Who's to say he wouldn't use it again?

That's where the argument comes in that maybe Mantis did change. He led the charge to expel the BDK, and he struck the death blow at High Noon. Right? Right? Well, that seems like there's a touch of revisionism. For the first couple of months, Mantis wanted nothing to do with the BDK AT ALL. He ran from them. Tried making peace offerings with them. IT was only when they stole Delirious from him and injured Crossbones that he had a change of heart. He didn't have his Temple anymore. He didn't have power.

Wouldn't the perfect plan to get that power back be to do the same thing that was done to him and the rest of Chikara? The BDK slowly infiltrated all levels of the company, burrowing into the Colony, gaining the trust of Mike Quackenbush, fooling Mantis out of the Eye, waging secret battles under the guise of friendly competition, with unwitting pawns like Bryan Danielson and Squire Dave Taylor used as weapons. So, in order to get what he wants, maybe he did the same thing, starting with renting the Batiri from Sinn Bodhi, thus unleashing them unintentionally into the Chikara wild, then by organizing the Cibernetico team and then finally gaining the trust of his Spectral Envoy teammates to help him fight a two-pronged war. It all just seems so befitting of the only man in Chikara who makes being evil look so damn good.

Then again, I could be reading too much into this. Maybe it's my imagination running wild on me, but I saw the way he looked at the Eye of Tyr after winning it. I saw the glimmer in his eye. It seems too perfect.

Besides, who wants to see UltraMantis Black as just a bit player in Chikara? Right now, his wars with the Batiri and the BDK are finished. He needs to stir things up. Otherwise, things would be very boring, and if there's one thing Chikara ISN'T, it's boring. The year 2012 might be a shock to the people who have come to expect this kinder, gentler Mantis, but to the real fans of our Evil, Insectoid Overlord, that shock will be a welcome sight.

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- TH
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