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I guess that's why right now I find him boring. He's basically the template for a Wolverine villian.
Have adamantium/unbreakable weapon/claws? Check
Be a distorted reflection of Logan to show either how bestially, evil, cruel or civilized he could be? Check.
Have him show a superior skill the first time they meet either by beating him handedly or defeating someone he didn't? Check.
All of these equally apply to Sabertooth, Silver Samurai, Razor Fist, Cyber, Albert, Romulus, Daken, Lady Deathstrike, etc.
If they confirm he has a healing factor too then he is even more just the basic template Wolverine villain.
I don't know maybe there will be more to him later but right now he's just the standard Wolverine villain to me.
100 percent agree. See that's the thing they did this smartly and not rushing it. They had all the comics pretty much not start any grand storylines before this and ended the ones they are on right before it and didnt feel rushed. I dont think ive ever seen an event where the tie ins are not bullshit or the event is short with very little tie ins. This is a 22 issue event through an entire line of comics. Chapters 1-5 so far have felt like chapters from a book vs 5 issues of different comics. If the quality holds, i dont think I can give an example of a better executed event.
Did I miss the resolution to the Children of the Vault plot line? Like what happened to Darwin, X-23 and that other mutant stuck in the vault?
The other guy was Skin and we haven't heard back from them at all. It's up there with Mystique as one of the bigger shoes to drop I'm assuming, since a whole issue was used to set it up.
Edit: Or was his name Sync? I don't recall.
Wolverine & co are still in there. It's probably been a thousand years for them.
And it's modular enough that could skip all the "X-Men going on a quest to get their swords" issues and still be able to understand what's going on in the next X of Swords issue, I think.
That's going to be resolve some time in the future they're still in the vault for now
The Children of the Vault thing is just one of the many dangling threads the X line has going on. Just from the Hickman written books you also have a situation with the Brood, whatever deal is going on with Cypher/Warlock and Krakoa, Moira, Mystique righteously fucking shit up, maaaybe if I'm right Exodus getting the spotlight with it being hinted at via all the scenes he got telling kids mutant stories by the fire (I've been getting huge Xorn in New X-Men vibes from those) and then on top of that you have stuff going on in other books.
Seems like Hickman is trying to emulate some of the feel of Claremont's run. And getting it right so far.
Seems like Hickman is trying to emulate some of the feel of Claremont's run. And getting it right so far.
Well that and it's a Hickman thing in general just now extend to an entire line
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Yeah, Storm should've expected that going to Wakanda and saying "we're on the cusp of some world ending shit" would get T'Challa to show up in hours rather than days if he wasn't involved in some world ending shit himself at the time.
But for the latter point, we don't exactly know how long each person has been waiting. For all we know, it's a matter of several minutes.
I highly doubt this spoils anything. Saying "It was me all along Austin!" is a much easier sell to the public than a woman who is secretly a mutant dies and starts the timeline over again to gain more memories to stop the collective intelligence of humanity from merging with machines in the future to become dense enough to collapse into a black hole and escape space-time in order to become a god.Some potentially pretty big spoilers out there from outside the comic books, be careful.
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That sentence is ridiculous as fuck.
Both!
I don't understand how he got Adamantium when he was locked up in an alternate dimensional prison for centuries and was only out on Earth for a day at most.
Wonder what it means for Laura. Darwin isn't going to age since his body is going to adjust to the Vault atmosphere. Synch is going to copy his powers and not age.
So that just leaves Laura, who, even though she ages slower, isn't going to look and be dubiously "late teens" forever once inside. Unless the Darwin/Synch combo somehow allows them to extend some weird ass energy field to Laura that also makes her immune to the temporal field thing, so she biologically progresses based on regular physics instead of super science time manipulation.
Or they escape, die, and just get resurrected and make it a moot point.
I don't think there's actually much to Exodus, but you did forget Vulcan!
I think it's his mutant power though its convenient one
Would people from ancient know what Adamantium is?
Admantium is a post-WWII invention, so they shouldn't know it.
It would make sense if Solem had Adamantine, since that shit is old and indestructible. But I guess Solem fighting the Olympians long enough to steal it wouldn't jive.
So i guess Solem the Wolverine rival has a really convenient mutant power
Ahah yes, you're right. Exciting times, I really hope Hickman stays on board for a looooong time.
And to think that DC passed Hickman's Legion of Superheroes pitch in favor of Bendis.
Geez.
At least we got this awesome run as a trade off.
There's also some sort of AI inside The World that Cypher talked to.
"Be seeing you, too"
Yeah it's crazy. While 2020 has been bad in a lot of ways. At least we got Dawn of X.
There is some alternate timeline where shit is all bad and the X-Men comics are still just spinning their wheels.
She could've made a bench to sit on with the wood from all those burned bridges
I haven't kept up with mainstream comics this much since like, Blackest Night - in the contemporary state of the industry how long is something like Hickman's run on X expected to last? I'm aware it seems to be pretty popular and selling well, what kind of length could we expect?
After all this talk about Storm being changed after X of Swords, I'm predicting that she will die in Otherworld and, after a lengthy discussion and mourning period (and maybe even an attempt to bypass the Otherworld consequences) she will be resurrected and be different...
Also, those resurrection ceremonies and rituals where they ask the reborn how we can know they are the same have a very interesting impact now that we know what Otherworld does to those who die and come back...
Also, those resurrection ceremonies and rituals where they ask the reborn how we can know they are the same have a very interesting impact now that we know what Otherworld does to those who die and come back...
This idea has been on my mind since the last issue of X Factor. Some of the Mutants *will* die in Otherworld and come back "different." It's going to be an opportunity to revamp those characters at least for while. Who do you all think is at risk here from a creative standpoint? Who does Marvel want to "relaunch"?
Unless Marvel has balls
It won't be:
- Storm
- Wolverine
- Probably not Magik
- Probably not Cable, he's still too new
- Betsy just became captain Britain
Based on Polaris prophecy and the interpretation given in like chapter 2 (Xfactor 4) of x of swords
Wolverine
Storm
Magik
Cipher/warlock
Young Cable
Either Brian or Betsy Captain Britain or both
Gorgon
Apocalypse
Thanks.
None of those characters need a reboot or are suffering any lack of popularity whatsoever. I don't think that's the move here. There are going to be losses and Storm could still be one of them given they're still talking about big stuff happening with her next year, but I think the protocols are going to be fixed.
The reason they're "broken" is because the team doesn't yet understand how/why Otherworld is affecting them and that's not just going to be a question with no answer, solving it is going to be a top priority. If not during this event, than in Excalibur and X-Factor afterward, or so I would guess. Rockslide can't even speak straight, so there's definitely more to it than a somewhat clever excuse to introduce alternate takes on certain characters.
Mojoworld is just another dimension whose people have advanced to get people from other universe for tv
Otherworld is basically the nexus of the Multiverse as in its connected to every universe plus its magic
Yeah, Gorgon is probably going to bite it here. I like him, but he really feels like the least important person in this list.
Also I'm not at all surprised Hickman is using him here after the way Hickman used him in Secret Warriors.
Also I'm not at all surprised Hickman is using him here after the way Hickman used him in Secret Warriors.
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There's also the scientist who's husband was killed on Sol's Anvil/Hammer. In X-Men #1 the final page was her holding a crystal and saying that she has a way to resurrect him. Either the crystal is a shard of the M'kran Crystal or she want to convert the resurrection protocol to work for humans.
My best guess is because while Mojo World is connected to all dimensions its not a literal nexus. Mojoworld actually remains unaffected by dimensional and timeline changes. Otherworld is where all those dimensional and timeline changes flow through.
I got the impression it was a shiar storage crystal and she was going to upload her husband to Nimrod.
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But his role is taken over by his sister and there's no Captain Britain tv show or movie coming
He's getting a new role and, if they'd wanted to kill him because Betsy's Captain Britain now, they'd have just left him dead at the end of Excalibur's first arc.
Also, who else loves this cross-over format where each issue ISN'T some crappy tie-in that only covers the book's primary characters, but just another chapter in the story that can involve anyone, including those not seen in the book at all, and exclude anyone, including those who "own" the book?
Huh, I wonder if what might happen is the older scientist ends up being the one to implant his consciousness into Nimrod, maybe even stabbing Dr Gregor in the back to it. The old guy has a personality closer to Nimrod The Greater than Dr. Gregor's husband did.
I feel like that Nimrod stuff will be the endgame for whenever Hickman passes off the X-titles
Yeah, I read that as some kind of Nimrod data crystal or whatever Nimrod wears on its chest.
