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In which history repeats itself; Senator Kelly prevaricates (and then dies); Magneto keeps the cape on; Mystique does evil science; Post remains irrelevant (and then dies); Pyro saves the day (and then dies); Cable is a large man; Moira MacTaggert does the astral nasty (and then dies); and we really, really, really want to go to Froggy World.
X-PLAINED:
- Moira MacTaggert’s mutation
- A dubious plan
- Evidence that we are in the wrong universe
- Other crossovers named “Dream’s End”
- A significant disclaimer
- Uncanny X-Men #388
- Cable #87
- Bishop: The Last X-Men #16
- X-Men #108
- A surprise presidential platform
- Sir Gordon Phillips and his guests
- The new Brotherhood of Mutants
- Cable’s hair
- A lot of movie allusions
- An ambiguous explosion
- A deeply pointless retcon
- An illusion
- Cable’s psimitar
- Pyro’s last stand
- Dickalogue
- Astral sex
- The (apparent) death of Moira MacTaggert
- A weird bonding moment in a cemetery
- How to identify a time traveler
- The (actual) death of Senator Robert Kelly
- Mutant-free parts of the Marvel Universe
- Froggy World
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All these years and it never occurred to me that “St John” was a pun.
Same! Which is weird since I’ve seen a lot of adaptations of Jane Eyre….
Given the transmission vector of the Legacy Virus makes stoned sloths look sprightly, why did Mystique thing setting it loose on huimans would be remotely effective? If the human version is as infectious as the mutant version, she’d have a better mortality rate carrying a hammer and casually braining people at random as she goes about her daily life.
It struck me as odd, if not a little selfish, that as Moira was dying, Charles took the opportunity to engage in some psychic snogging rather than, say, making sure that her new and apparnetly unprecedented realisations about the Legacy Virus were properly recorded.
Mark Gruenwald’s Quasar series was a fun alternative for of those of us who in the 90’s were not particularly enjoying the testoterone fuelled big pouches and bigger guns. Also gave Marvel’s biggest on-staff geek (Which I say with utter respect to Mr Gruenwald) to play in Marvel’s oft-neglected at that point, cosmic sandbox.
Also, Quasar’s full real name is Wendell Elvis Vaughn, which always tickled me.
I don’t think Toadland was in Latveria, it was a property owned by Doctor Doom, but I don’t think it was ever said where it was in FF #5 or MTiO #68, but I think it would have been somewhere near New York.
Closer than Croatia for Americans: https://wistariahurst.org/about-wistariahurst/holyokes-frog-circus/
Halloween scene from X-Animated https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQeT2jvkfMR/?igsh=ZzEzYjN6M2sxa3o5