Legacy Virus.

Christian Smith <christian.DeleteThis@jasdigital.com> wrote in
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 > On 09 Mar 2004 19:51:09 GMT,blksupermn@aol.com (BLKSUPERMN) wrote
 >
  >>I have not read an X-book for a while so I have a few questions about
  >>the legacy virus. Did they evey find a cure? Which characters died
  >>because of it? What was the cure? Thank you.
 >
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 > The cure to the Legacy Virus was finally discovered by Moira after
 > Mystique modified the disease to attack humans. Though Moira was
 > killed in Mystique's attack on Muir Island, she lived long enough to
 > transfer her discovery to Professor X, who in turn, transmitted it to
 > Beast.

Which begs the question: When did Mystique become a biochemist or a
geneticist?

 > Beast was soon able to synthesize a cure, but refrained from using it,
 > as it was reasoned out that to do so would cost the life of the person
 > who hosted it.

Let's reason this out - he doesn't want anyone to die to end this but is
willing to let *lots* of people die so one person doesn't have to die?
He could have just used it on himself.

 > Colossus, however, could not bear to think of other innocent children
 > (like his sister) who migth die while they searched for a "safe" cure,
 > so he injected the serum into himself, and released the cure into the
 > atmosphere, dying nobly in the process.

IOW, he showed the heroism that Beast didn't have. Of course, I blame
Lobdell for that rather than Beast.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: Legacy Virus. 

On 10 Mar 2004 04:29:41 GMT, Dan McEwen <dannyboymcny.RemoveThis@hotmail.com>
wrote:

 >Christian Smith <christian.RemoveThis@jasdigital.com> wrote in
 >news:oh8s4090qv069sqak0mj2td2gfk48rg7dt@4ax.com:

  >> The cure to the Legacy Virus was finally discovered by Moira after
  >> Mystique modified the disease to attack humans. Though Moira was
  >> killed in Mystique's attack on Muir Island, she lived long enough to
  >> transfer her discovery to Professor X, who in turn, transmitted it to
  >> Beast.
 >
 >Which begs the question: When did Mystique become a biochemist or a
 >geneticist?

Don't try to apply logic to that story, because it won't work. I've
spent 3 years pondering it. The Brotherhood was unbelievably fucked
up in that crossover.

Obviously the logical answer is that she hired someone to bio-engineer
the virus, but there was never a hint of such a thing mentioned.

  >> Beast was soon able to synthesize a cure, but refrained from using it,
  >> as it was reasoned out that to do so would cost the life of the person
  >> who hosted it.
 >
 >Let's reason this out - he doesn't want anyone to die to end this but is
 >willing to let *lots* of people die so one person doesn't have to die?
 >He could have just used it on himself.

This is kind of par for the course with the X-Men. They had potential
cures before, and destroyed them---they destroyed the Elixir Vitae
controlled by Sebastian Shaw, rather than let the potential cure into
'the wrong hands' (frankly, I'm sure Legacy sufferers wouldn't care
who had the cure). They destroyed Sinister's database of research.
Legacy could have been cured *long* before it was.

Yeah, I'm bitter

  >> Colossus, however, could not bear to think of other innocent children
  >> (like his sister) who migth die while they searched for a "safe" cure,
  >> so he injected the serum into himself, and released the cure into the
  >> atmosphere, dying nobly in the process.
 >
 >IOW, he showed the heroism that Beast didn't have. Of course, I blame
 >Lobdell for that rather than Beast.

Ditto...

Lia


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 >> Stay informed about: Legacy Virus. 

rook1.DeleteThis@sympatico.ca (Lia Brown) wrote in
news:404ebc80.8788607@news1.on.sympatico.ca:

 > On 10 Mar 2004 04:29:41 GMT, Dan McEwen <dannyboymcny.DeleteThis@hotmail.com>
 > wrote:

  >>Which begs the question: When did Mystique become a biochemist or a
  >>geneticist?
 >
 > Don't try to apply logic to that story, because it won't work. I've
 > spent 3 years pondering it. The Brotherhood was unbelievably fucked
 > up in that crossover.
 >
 > Obviously the logical answer is that she hired someone to bio-engineer
 > the virus, but there was never a hint of such a thing mentioned.

Nah. I think the *logical* answer is what Mystique has been saying in
her own book: it wasn't her. (I never read the story, nor do I intend
to, but I've heard about it.)

 > This is kind of par for the course with the X-Men. They had potential
 > cures before, and destroyed them---they destroyed the Elixir Vitae
 > controlled by Sebastian Shaw, rather than let the potential cure into
 > 'the wrong hands' (frankly, I'm sure Legacy sufferers wouldn't care
 > who had the cure). They destroyed Sinister's database of research.
 > Legacy could have been cured *long* before it was.
 >
 > Yeah, I'm bitter

Stories like this seem to imply that maybe it's the X-Men who are the
villains. After all, they seemed to be trying their best to prevent a
cure from being released. Hmm...I'd love to see a story like this told
from the perspective of someone who was suffering from Legacy and
discovered the X-Men's actions.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: Legacy Virus. 

On 11 Mar 2004 07:04:45 GMT, Dan McEwen <dannyboymcny.DeleteThis@hotmail.com>
wrote:

 >rook1@sympatico.ca (Lia Brown) wrote in
 >news:404ebc80.8788607@news1.on.sympatico.ca:

  >> Obviously the logical answer is that she hired someone to bio-engineer
  >> the virus, but there was never a hint of such a thing mentioned.
 >
 >Nah. I think the *logical* answer is what Mystique has been saying in
 >her own book: it wasn't her. (I never read the story, nor do I intend
 >to, but I've heard about it.)

She said to Shepard she wasn't the one who slit Banshee's throat,
referring to the X-Corps story (and this claim is doubtful once you
take the crappy Draco story into account, in which she's spewed out of
Abyss...remember, he sucked her in at the end of her X-Corps scheme).
She made a vague claim to a government man that someone might have
been impersonating her recently, and said to Xavier that she wasn't
responsible for "that terrorist stuff that happened overseas"; since
the destruction of Muir and the X-Corps story both happened in Europe,
that could refer to anything. She never said anything specifically
about the events of Dream's End or the Legacy Virus. She might not be
denying *that*.

Like I said, the whole Brotherhood was messed up in Dream's End. It
had them attempting to commit genocide with Legacy; not only is that a
bit extreme for most of them (and why would Avalanche of all people
want to use the disease killing his best friend to kill off the entire
human race? No wonder Pyro was mad at them), but of course it begs
the question of where they got the re-engineered version. Mystique
stabbed Rogue, and Sabretooth was there even though Mystique hates
him, and...ugh, I hate that story so much. It's still screwy even if
you retcon her out of it---which believe me, I'd like.

  >> This is kind of par for the course with the X-Men. They had potential
  >> cures before, and destroyed them---they destroyed the Elixir Vitae
  >> controlled by Sebastian Shaw, rather than let the potential cure into
  >> 'the wrong hands' (frankly, I'm sure Legacy sufferers wouldn't care
  >> who had the cure). They destroyed Sinister's database of research.
  >> Legacy could have been cured *long* before it was.
  >>
  >> Yeah, I'm bitter
 >
 >Stories like this seem to imply that maybe it's the X-Men who are the
 >villains. After all, they seemed to be trying their best to prevent a
 >cure from being released. Hmm...I'd love to see a story like this told
 >from the perspective of someone who was suffering from Legacy and
 >discovered the X-Men's actions.

Yes, I'd pay good money to read a story about that. At the very least
it's a good topic for fanfic, if I ever get off my lazy ass

Lia


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your jump?" ---Turin
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 >> Stay informed about: Legacy Virus.