So, what do we figure will happen in the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl finale? Issue 49 ended with Doreen appearing to take to the full brunt of Doom's quantum inversion bomb. Considering Doom intended to kill everyone present with it, including Dormamu and Fin Fang Foom, I'm dubious her body could shield everyone, but her tail could be super-tough and good at absorbing radiation. Maybe that's a new squirrel power?
There is the possibility that Ryan North is going for the big twist ending where Squirrel Girl is finally defeated. . . by death. But I can't really see him going that route. So she has to survive, somehow. I have four possible answers.
Solution 1: Loki gets involved. Loki was not one of the reformed villains that showed up to help Doreen, but it's hard for me to believe he's not going to make an appearance. How could he pass up the opportunity to make the big dramatic save? Plus, Melissa blew up Nancy and Doreen's apartment? Who knows how much Cat Thor fanfiction Nancy hadn't gotten around to posting yet? So Loki shows up, does magic to transport the bomb elsewhere, or transport Doreen elsewhere, or shield her, or intercepted her soul on its way to the afterlife. Something.
Solution 2: Melissa steps in. This whole thing is her fault, because she couldn't handle Doreen being around to potentially mess with her ruling the world, so she was dumb enough to team-up with Doom and think she was prepared for his double-crosses. Then when he double-crossed her ahead of schedule, she basically gave up. But Squirrel Girl didn't give up, and that convinced Melissa to command the Iron Man armor she's wearing to encase Squirrel Girl. Which protects her just enough to survive the blast.
Solution 3: Brain Drain. Tomas chucked Brian into the sky to keep him safe and allow Tomas to continue fighting. Brian had not come back down as of the end of the issue. I am not sure what a nihilistic brain in a jar could accomplish, but I feel confident he'll do something. Yeah, that one is really thin, but it feels significant he isn't back yet. Unless North and Charm are going to do a joke about Brain landing in some random spot because the Earth continued to rotate beneath him as he fell.
Solution 4: Something to do with the acorn necklace. The one Nancy gave to Doreen as a gift in the present, but Old Lady Squirrel Girl gave to her 20-something self at the tail end of the battle with Kang. The one where, if Nancy writes a message in hers, will show up in Doreen's somehow because it's from the future. So Nancy, at some point after this battle, after the bomb, writes a note in hers warning Doreen of what's coming and what she'll do. Doreen checks the thing periodically for messages, found that warning, and came up with something. Don't know what. Maybe Tree Ultron helped somehow? Things went as far as they did because the timeline had to reach the point she falls on the bomb, or you get a time paradox. Then Immortus shows up complaining, or the Time Variance Authority, or who the hell knows what, and nobody what's to deal with complainy old men or government bureaucracy.
So that's what I've got. Now watch it be something entirely different from all of those.
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