Insanova

**Insanova** is a minor character in the Candle Man franchise. He made his first appearance in the *Candle Man & Friends* episode, "Before War Story" as a cameo. He is Darwin's alter-ego who feeds on people's, most commonly Candle Man's, misery. He is the present form of Nova who became Insanova as a result of not being able to handle Mystic and Darwin's powers.

## Personality

Insanova, much like his main form given how Insanova uses Darwin as a puppet, has a lack of empathy for others, as he likes to bring people pain for his own benefits. As seen in his first major role "Inside the Candle Head", Insanova makes Candle Man suffer his worse nightmares of everyone turning on him just to fuel his own energy to create power, causing him to bring Candle Man to his breaking point. His psychopathic nature reveals that he has nothing but evil intentions, only caring to gain more power for himself.

Insanova is shown to be nothing more than an extremely dark soul, as he calls himself more evil than UCP himself. He is evil, diabolical and possesses seemingly no motive other than feeling the personal sadistic pleasure of watching others suffering. He treats everyone as his own personal plaything, an easily replaceable toy that can be controlled and broken to his heart's content. Whenever he believes someone might be considered as useless, he uses his black hole in order to "erase" that person from existence, as they are left to die in his chamber within the black hole.

It is shown that Insanova could destroy the lives of people quite easily if he wanted to, though his insistence on playing mind games with the Candle Friends to make things entertaining for himself is always his downfall as he has a bad habit of underestimating the group's willpower and overall resourcefulness as a unit, as seen whenever he gets defeated. Though Insanova has quite a dark and twisted sense of humour, he is significantly more serious when ruining the lives of his victims.

Insanova's villainy is evident, as he is seen using Darwin to do all of his dirty work for him, treating his split shard like a soulless puppet for him to use to work with his schemes to try and succeed in his plans. When a plan does not go as he had once planned, he gets angered and will attempt at anything in order to make it the right way again in hopes of making sure his plan is not foiled, making Insanova seem to be also incredibly intelligent and manipulative yet desperate for death and destruction.

## Appearances

### *Candle Man & Friends*

#### Season 1

* "Before War Story": His debut. He appears as a cameo.

#### Season 2

* "Inside the Candle Head": His first major role. He causes Candle Man's nightmare of everyone turning on him.
* "Behind the Mystical Mask": He helps the Candle Friends by sending them to Galaxia Omega.

## Abilities

### The Shard Missile

Originally under the name of the Shard Bluster, Insanova launches shards like the ones on his wings which can cling his foes to walls, suck the energy out of the victims and even explode. When Insanova is defeated, they turn grey and powerless, making them as worthless as his limp body. These can also leave trails when Insanova flies quickly out of the scene, leading the witness onto Insanova's tracks.

### Cresent Cutterblades

Insanova sends out four crescent-shaped blades from his body that all circle back to him much like boomerangs. He may perform this move of his twice in a row in order to get full affect.

### Seed Rainer

Insanova is seen flying off screen to drop five to seven small spiky seeds, much like hedgehog spikes, that disappear into the ground. As large, thorny, plant-like growths will rise upwards from where ever the seeds have landed, trapping or blocking the victim in their path.

### Shadow Uppercut

Insanova is seen appearing on the ground as a shadow, after a bit of time, the shadow doubles in size and Insanova flies out of it, in a attempt into to ram into his foe.

### Ice Bomb

Insanova floats to the top of the screen and drops a large ice ball, which may be spiked like a tip of a mace, that explodes into two and spreads out horizontally based on the foe's position; they freeze the foe when in contact.

### The Beam

Insanova spews out a massive, large beam out of his mouth as it takes up most of the area around him, though it can be avoided.

### Black Hole

Insanova is seen turning into a simpler form of himself before splitting into two halves and forming his black hole in the center where it begins to suck the victim in. Anyone caught in it are sent to his dimension where all of the people he has ruined the lives of and or murdered are seen. The only way out of it is to wait until Insanova opens the hole again.