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scans_dailyThis issue closes the miniseries, and looks over the motivation for the four final candidates.
Cable, Forge, Mirage and Cypher
Write: Steve Foxe
Artist: Netho Diaz
Cable was chosen because Apocalypse knows he will ALWAYS resist him, and that's not always a bad thing. Cable wanted it because that level of power would ensure his future never happens. This is hardly news though.
Forge was chosen because he could bring so much to the world, he has a vision of the fully environmentally sustainable super-habitats he was going to launch at the final Hellfire Gala until it went to literal hell. But the fact he also created the mutant neutraliser, which makes him doubt he deserves MORE power.
Dani is an interesting case, Big A see's potential in her that she's never tapped into. She's always been happy to NOT join the X-Men even though trainees from teams after the New Mutants have. She counters that fostering the next generations of mutants is not a failure, and her reason for taking him up on his invitation is also entirely pragmatic, and very Dani.
And that leaves Cypher...
Apocalypse had noticed that Doug builds and maintains trust, but is not above disobedience if he feels it is the right thing to do, and even defied the Quiet Council when he through they were wrong, no matter the power imbalance. And that might be useful...
Doug is pissed off that Krakoa failed (That's the illusion he's seeing). He'd lived there longer than anyone else and resents losing what it represented at a very basic level.
And so... soon...
Oh dear God, he's been 90's-fied! (And I can imagine Doug risking his humanity, but sacrificing his hair?? That's an offence against Nature!)
I have… feelings about this as an idea as you might imagine, and regrettably few of them are especially positive, but in an effort to hold on to optimism at some level, I shall wait and see where this goes.
I mean, I like the reasons Apocaypse chose Forge, Dani and Doug as possible heirs: those with not the greatest power levels, but a new way of looking at things which might proves useful.
The final narrative decision to take a mutant whose whole point was how lowe powers and even baseline human they were and amping them up into… Revelation… It’s going to take a lot of very good writing to make me invested in this. I hope there is plenty of that at least.
I might have expected this to be the end of part four of a five part story, and Doug turns it down in the finale because that’s not how he operates, but, well, this is the end of the series.
Oh well, let’s see what comes next.
Cable, Forge, Mirage and Cypher
Write: Steve Foxe
Artist: Netho Diaz
Cable was chosen because Apocalypse knows he will ALWAYS resist him, and that's not always a bad thing. Cable wanted it because that level of power would ensure his future never happens. This is hardly news though.
Forge was chosen because he could bring so much to the world, he has a vision of the fully environmentally sustainable super-habitats he was going to launch at the final Hellfire Gala until it went to literal hell. But the fact he also created the mutant neutraliser, which makes him doubt he deserves MORE power.
Dani is an interesting case, Big A see's potential in her that she's never tapped into. She's always been happy to NOT join the X-Men even though trainees from teams after the New Mutants have. She counters that fostering the next generations of mutants is not a failure, and her reason for taking him up on his invitation is also entirely pragmatic, and very Dani.
And that leaves Cypher...
Apocalypse had noticed that Doug builds and maintains trust, but is not above disobedience if he feels it is the right thing to do, and even defied the Quiet Council when he through they were wrong, no matter the power imbalance. And that might be useful...
Doug is pissed off that Krakoa failed (That's the illusion he's seeing). He'd lived there longer than anyone else and resents losing what it represented at a very basic level.
And so... soon...
Oh dear God, he's been 90's-fied! (And I can imagine Doug risking his humanity, but sacrificing his hair?? That's an offence against Nature!)
I have… feelings about this as an idea as you might imagine, and regrettably few of them are especially positive, but in an effort to hold on to optimism at some level, I shall wait and see where this goes.
I mean, I like the reasons Apocaypse chose Forge, Dani and Doug as possible heirs: those with not the greatest power levels, but a new way of looking at things which might proves useful.
The final narrative decision to take a mutant whose whole point was how lowe powers and even baseline human they were and amping them up into… Revelation… It’s going to take a lot of very good writing to make me invested in this. I hope there is plenty of that at least.
I might have expected this to be the end of part four of a five part story, and Doug turns it down in the finale because that’s not how he operates, but, well, this is the end of the series.
Oh well, let’s see what comes next.
