Alex Peckover (alex@SPAMOFF.uklinux.net) wrote:
: > Are you familiar with Mimic and Synch? THey have the mutant power to
: > have other people's mutant powers. Hell, that would even make a bit
: > of sense with his ability to come back from the dead. His body can
: > work around wounds, if not healing them, finding a way to keep him
: > alive. Sort of like how they brought Marrow back to life.
:
: So, we have a mutant who can A) copy another mutant's powers and their
: physical form (we've had both of these concepts for a long time - Rogue and
: Mystique, anyone ?) and B) survive mortal injuries such as being
: decapitated. Wolverine can survive being decapitated, can't he ?
Well, we don't actually _know_ they have the ability to come back from the
dead. It could have been some sort of taunting. (I mean, if you assume
he was telling the truth about everything, you could have both being
true... it _was_ the real Magneto, but when he died he created a new body
in Genosha which either had partial amnesia or is just plain lying).
And of course, as to mutants who can copy powers and physical form, we
have Copycat. Dead, supposedly, but only 'Marvel dead', especially since
it only happened in a satellite title. She also had the problem of
thinking she was the person she was copying. It's probably not her (she
doesn't really have any motive that I can see), it does set precedent.
Could be some sort of astral entity like the Shadow King, I suppose,
infiltrating some mutant.
Could not be a shapeshifter at all, but a reality-manipulator. In fact,
this would solve one of the annoying danglers in Morrison. The Cuckoos
sensed there was something wrong with the Universe. This was before
Magneto died, before Jean died. The 'reset' only took them to Jean's
funeral, so what the Cuckoos sensed, a wrongness to the universe, still
existed. Maybe they were sensing Xorneto's reality manipulation powers at
play.
Maybe it's... (duh-duh-dahhh) Cassandra Nova herself! After all, she
survived once, when Xavier killed her in the womb. She survived again
when she jumped into Xavier. Her whole goal was to destroy Xavier's
dream, and being Magneto while destroying New York would do a hell of a
lot of damage to it. Sure, she was trapped inside Stuff and became
Ernst... or was she? After all, the X-Men just let her walk around free,
she was in Xorn's class. Maybe she somehow survived again and made a
switch... she became Xorn, and Xorn's passive helpful nature was stuck in
the Stuff body, which couldn't contain his whole mind, so he didn't know
who he was. He was the one who was eventually 'redeemed' (but never
quite figured out who he was), and Cassandra took up her old tricks in
the Xorn body. Fueled by Kick, she used Xorn's nascent
reality-manipulation powers and turned from Xorn into Xavier's greatest
enemy, as Cassie already saw herself, and set about destroying his
dream.
(Okay, this really only works if they also didn't find another Xorn, but
it does have a sort of thematic resonance, and reforming a 'pure evil
force of nature entity' was pretty iffy)
: Would it not make sense to hand this mutant over to SHIELD (assuming that's
: possible, a mutant that can copy Magneto's powers would have to be pretty
: powerful) or whatever other authorities Xavier chooses, thus clearing
: Magneto's name so that he and Xavier can get on with the business of
: rebuilding Genosha in the open ? The Claremont Magneto actually seemed so
: disgusted that he might even use his own powers to help undo what his
: impostor had done.
This assumes there's any biological way to tell that he's not actually
Magneto.
Incidentally, this brings up another point.
Let's just say, hypothetically, that the _Excalibur_ Magneto is false, one
of the above examples, some Copycat like mutant who realized that Genosha
not only needs a leader, it needs _its_ leader, Magneto, and sets about
becoming him. Maybe it was a confidant of Magneto and got close enough to
copy his personality, memory, and powers but is only using that now.
Maybe down the line he _becomes_ Magneto in the whole 'the actor becomes
the role' (maybe his powers are such that if he doesn't give up a role
by a certain time, he can no longer resume his shape) type plot.
How would people feel if this was the case?
: It's irritating that Morrison's work is being retconned like this only a
: few months later.
Yeah, I was hoping Morrison's work would be retconned by him right at the
end of his run. But, better late than never.
Peter Dimitriadis
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