I mean, yeah. I acknowledged this in my post with the suspicion that it's back, just not in Farouk. The nature of its last defeat being the catalyst for that. You don't open your narrative with a "there is good in him" stort just to have it go "turns out there isn't."
Seriously, watch that brain in a jar kid...
I think that sets up a longer story about how they *could* eventually separate Farouk from the entity, but it's been 500 years and multiple deaths with the two remaining as a single entity. They're not going to be separate.
I am talking about Farouk and we literally see the kids walk to his physical residence.
we see them walk into a cave where shadow king is. Again, I asked the question before. Farouk was known in life and with his hosts for a predilection to excess for food and luxury that was so uncontrollable his hosts all became morbidly obese very quickly. Why is he hiding out in a cave when anything he wants could be had easily in public? He would be in a beach house stuffing himself, not in a cave telling stories to children.
I mean, comic book super science by the single most advanced (or second most depending on how you rank The Jackal) geneticist on Marvel Earth. I'm pretty sure a sample with only decades of degradation is going to be useable for Sinister.
That seems unlikely, especially given that the marauders had degraded so badly that their original non modified forms aren't available anymore. Farouk would have been a thousand times worse.
I don't know how Farouk stacks up against Xavier + Cerebro as opposed to just Xavier. Moreover, after his corporeal death, given his connection to the Astral Plane, it's possible a back up of the original got yanked out of the Shadow King.
This doesn't make sense at all. Farouk and the entity are/were a merged mind and have always been portrayed this way, not two separate beings. "Yanking farouk out" of the shadow king is impossible.
But more than any of that is this: I don't think The Shadow King, the entity or Farouk, would put up a fight against being backed up. Why would it resist an avenue for revival of its host?
It's already immortal, it's been around since the dawn of time. Why would it cooperate with Xavier? The merged entity with Farouk's mind can inhabit any body it chooses at any time. It doesn't need a resurrection protocol, and it hates Xavier.
We'll have to wait for next issue, but these arguments don't make a ton of sense.
Occams razor says all things being equal, the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. Shadow King having returned from the dead but still a villain that is torturing Karma is a LOT more likely than:
1.) Sinister hunting down his decades dead corpse
2.) Xavier somehow separating Farouk and the entity off panel, or "backing up" the mind of a malevolent telepath more powerful than he is without resistance
3.)Farouk deciding a nice cozy cave is a more pleasant abode to tell children's stories than his own mansion.
4.) The entity coming back, but deciding "No Girl" is a more convenient host than the mutant it was combined with for 500 years
5.) Somebody else with no reason to hate Karma inflicting nightmares on her instead of the man who hijacked her body and hates her
