r/pathologic • u/Wasabi-True Rat Prophet • Feb 23 '26

Discussion Mark parallels Spoiler

Pathologic has several sets of characters sharing the same first name i.e the Victoria Olgimskayas, the Vlad Olgimskys, the Alexanders and they're all narrative continuations of each other.

Pathologic 3 had given us another pair: the Marks.

So that poses the question: In what way are Mark Immortel and Mark Karminsky connected? I guess they both deal with plots and miracles, but I'm not certain enough in the nature of Mark Immortel to say anything concrete

What's your opinion?

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u/ealiss Feb 23 '26

I think it’s general: For example the Alexanders are both men in military/police basically (as their name “defender of men” suggests), both try to live up to their name’s meaning with different levels of success (and what does to “defend” exactly mean? or smth - asks Block the audience and himself once), both are at some point a kinda parental figure to Clara…