Not a lot of success with the latest villains

JLB <barnett.DeleteThis@shentel.net> wrote in
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>> They're going to have to negate it somehow -- at least part of
>> it. There wasn't really any explanation for the change in Wanda's
>> powers. At first I thought they had some larger story in mind
>> that would explain how and why her powers changed, as well as
>> explain the increase in the number of mutants that occurred
>> during Morrison's time. But apparently they didn't have anything
>> in mind after all. They were just trying to "shock" us and turn
>> over the internet or something.
>
> Nah, they just didn't realize that with no more mutants ever the
> X-men no longer have a legitimate reason to do anything.

It seems as though they're beginning to realize the dead end they've
set up. Or Carey is, at least.

Dan McEwen <ferroboy.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in
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> Billy Bissette <baines.DeleteThis@coastalnet.com> wrote in
> news:Xns9946BB87FF6ABwhatcholookinat@207.217.125.201:
>
>> mimf <mimf.DeleteThis@nospam.com> wrote in
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>>
>>> On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:13:57 +0000, Billy Bissette wrote:
>
>>> Wanda did a sloppy job for creating House of M world too. But
>>> Sinister probably wouldn't even need actual blood samples if he'd
>>> already mapped the X-gene. As long as he could recreate the gene
>>> using recombinant DNA or something, he could probably insert it
>>> into an ex-mutant.
>>
>> We don't know that it is possible anymore to even artificially
>> reproduce the X-gene. That would probably be the most sensical
>> way to implement Wanda's mass change, that she rewrote reality in
>> a way that the X-gene just can't be created or recreated (while
>> simultaneously removing it from almost everyone.)
>
> If she had done so, there wouldn't be any mutants left. If reality
> says the x-gene doesn't and can't exist, then it doesn't and can't.
> That's obviously not what she did.

And if she wiped the X-gene from 99.9999% of the planet, from the
belief that the world would be better for it, then she shouldn't have
missed several of the highest profile mutants. Particularly when
several are villains.

When you ramp Wanda to such a high power level, you can claim
pretty much anything. Someone wants to claim that those that remain
mutants have a botched alteration that lets their X-genes exist in
a reality that otherwise doesn't allow it? Well, someone could
claim it.

Or what if reality does not allow the creation or duplication of
the X-gene (preventing things like clones,) which was combined with
Wanda removing the X-gene from the vast majority?

Or she just removed the gene and removed what causes it to appear
in the first place, but you can still clone or artificially create
it.

If you want to go with what has been said in the books as well as
what Marvel management has said, M-Day removed the potential
for new mutants. Depending on how you want to take what management
said, you might want to claim that they implied no new mutants would
be created by any means outside of some already planned stories.

Mind, we've already had a variety of dodges. And at least some
of the higher ups were probably already planning different returns...

>> That is why Exodus went to Sinister in the first place. His
>> original
>> plan was to knock down the humans and let the mutant population
>> regrow. But then he found out what apparently everyone else
>> already knew, that there are no new mutants being born. Nor
>> presumably even the believed potential of new mutants being born.
>
> Except Sinister and Exodus are both under the impression that this
> can change.

Exodus just hopes that Sinister can do something.