The Official X-Men Dangling Plotlines List Part 2 of 4
Robi Karp
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The Cannonical List Dangling X-Men Plotlines, Claremont Era.
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The Quick and The Dead: Wrapped Up Plotlines
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These are the plotlines that earlier versions of this posting
have included and that Claremont et al have resolved or the
Net.Uni-Mind has declared answered satisfactorially.
>X-Men 102: Storm's lost years in Africa; did she suffer amnesia that
made her forget about the outside world and its customs?
#186: page 30. Storm had to inhibit her feelings and
"awareness of herself as a woman" because they were connected with her
power, which had to remain controlled.
> Annual(?): Storm and the Black Panther?
This was pretty much resolved when they met up. Besides, Storm now
has Forge, if she ever bothers to pick up on this romance now that
she's no longer jail bait.
> Does the USSR know about Peter?
Handled in the Classic X-Men #29 backup.
>Can Nightcrawler stick to walls?
Yep, he can. Or at least do something which strongly resembles this.
See also #130 (Dazzler intro) and #137. Also probably listed in his
Marvel Universe Handbook entry. But whether he'll remember it in any
given storyline.....
>Do the Prydes know why Kitty is now in London?
In a recent issue of Excalibur, Kitty reveals that her parents are in
a Witness relocation program, so she has decided against joining them
in hiding.
X-Men 150: Storm cutting the throat of someone as a child to save her
life. (To head off discussion: She has a thought balloon as she's
contemplating killing Magneto.)
We've got a solved one here. Just this last May, Storm was
reminiscing about her childhood.
X-Men 171: Is Rogue ever going to come to terms with the the Carol
Danvers inside her head, and the one without? (The last is included
since it now appears that Carol can takeover at will. What happens if
Carol-prime meets up with a Carol-dominated Rogue?)
Well, it appears Rogue has finally been exorcized of her
Carol persona. So we'll never find out...
#184: Is it just me, or does Valerie Cooper look more than a little
nervous when Forge announces his mutant detector has detected a mutant
in the room (on page 6) -- like for instance *she* was afraid of being
detected? Just a random thought...
Net consensus was that it was just bad art... sigh.
>Annual #4/X-Men #206: And whatever did happen to Amanda?
#252 gave us the answer to this. She is presumably still at Muir
Island as of this writing, presumably still mind-controlled by the
Shadow King/ influenced towards evil by Lorna Dane's new power.
[ So what happened to Amanda after the Shadow King thing - Robi ]
>Illyana and the Demon, Illyana not in Russia, Peter telling the
>folks about Illyana
Wonder of wonders, these were actually resolved. Well, mostly. And
unsatisfactorily. But they were either resolved or rendered
irrelevant.
[ They are particularly irrelevant now - Robi ]
>183: Is Rachel's face tattoed or just made up?
Laura Burchard's original posting read: "Here Rachel's
hound-face is described as a Maori mask, but in Excalibur it is
described as tattoos. Which is it?"
Consensus seems to be that she is psychically disguising the
tattoos on her face: they only show through when she is really
stressed. The tattoos are in the style of a Maori mask.
[ Haven't we seen Rachel deprived of her powers in issues of
Excalibur, and her face was still unblemished? - Robi ]
> Mastermind's power increase re defeating the White Queen. And
> his ability to influence dreams and operate on all levels of space
> and time
The implication is that he kept some of the power from being
exposed to the Phoenix force.
> Mastermind and Maddy re faking the date of a plane crash.
> Xavier not be able to read her thoughts or trace her history
> before the crash
See above comments re Illyana.
>Annual #8: Ellen Eades pointed this one out. Since Amara had eaten of
>fairy food and drink, how could she come back to earth? Are we sure
> Loki didn't send a substitute?
(from Subrata Sircar): Loki said "All magics and enchantments you have
received here shall be stripped from you" and then went on to list
Sam's weapons, etc, and then added "Thou shall be returned to thy
normal stature. Though thou makest a most appealling daughter of
Faerie." Faerie food and drink could certainly be considered an
enchantment, and Loki is, if nothing else, a past master of magic and
enchantment. Also, he swore an oath to return them safely, and while
he's a slimeball, he keeps his sworn word.
#194: Gospodin Colonel Vashin is talking to Sasha at KGB HQ about the
X-Men on the last page of this issue. It must be important: Claremont
gave it a whole page. But we've never followed this one up yet...
Newsflash! Gospodin Colonel Vashin (with his hench-cutie Deb
Levin) showed up recently, warning Valerie Cooper about a threat known
as the Shadow King...
>200: What's Fenris up to these days?
See Acts of Vengeance issues of (The Mutant Misadventures of)
Cloak and Dagger. See also the recent issue where they thought they
blew Banshee and Forge's plane up.
>X-Men 205: Are we finished with Lady Deathstrike?
See X-Men #248-252. She's hooked up with the Reavers now.
(How do these people find one another? Classified ads???)
[ She escaped the "Death of the Reavers" and hasn't she reappeared
lately in the pages of Wolverine? - Robi]
> X-Men 206: Is Nightcrawler ever going to see Judith Rassendyl again?
See the Excalibur Special #2: Mojo Mayhem. Judy is the
princess bride.
X-Men 207: Rachel projecting to Wolverine. Why did he try to kill her?
(Ryan Matthews: 'Cuz he's a bastard. Seriously, reading this
issue had me almost losing my touch with reality and getting mad at
Wolverine! Wolverine's high-handed holier-than-thou morality said that
you didn't go and sneak up on enemies and kill them; that was murder,
and the X-Men don't murder. So he killed Rachel to prevent her from
dragging the X-Men down to Selene's depths.
Of course, this in no way prevented him from taking part in a
sneak attack on the Marauders and supposedly killing them all. Cruddy
writing, I'd call it.")
>X-Men 208: Nimrod is worrying about the Rodriguizes and feeling emotions.
>He's also not been heard from in a while (one would have expected an
>appearance during Inferno)
Issue #248, I think (might have been #249). Now that he's
become one with the Master Mold, we at least have a concatenation of
plotlines.
> Wolverine knowing about Jean, Marauders after Maddy, and what ever
happened to the formerly nameless Summers baby who now has more names
than anyone this side of Prince Charles John Paul George Ringo Mick
Keith etc.
Pretty much resolved or irrelevant.
X-Men 219: Are the X-Men going to rescue Polaris from the Marauders?
See X-Men 252. Something else resolved, but in the process
leaving _new_ threads unresolved...
Inferno: Why did Mr. Sinister destroy all the documentation referring
to Maddy?
Resolved.
Inferno: When will Maddy and Jean meet, Scott and Maddy and Alex,
the little Maddy from Avengers Annual and is Maddy from Genosha?
Ditto. Not that these were resolved very well, but they were
resolved.
X-Men 227:Will anyone other than X-Factor and Polaris and maybe the
New Mutants be told that the X-Men are alive? How about Storm and
Forge?
Well, they had to "die" again, but yes, the word is out that
at least some of the X-Men survived the Dallas incident. Especially
Dazzler, who'd better cover her cute little amnesiacal ass. Because
word has gotten out to the X-Men's enemies, too....
[ All the good guys have met one another again, if not sooner, then at
Illyana's funeral - Robi ]
X-Men 229: Pretty Boy, Bonebreaker and Skull (three of the Reavers)
disappear, with knowledge of the X-Men and their location.
Well, they turned up again, #248-252 or so. And it turns out
they dropped a dime or two and hooked up with Donald Pierce _and_ Lady
Deathstrike _and_ some disgruntled ex-Hellfire Club employees.
X-Men 239. Where did the Reavers come from?
Donald Pierce claimed ownership, but I wonder. However, the
question of where their complex came from is still open.
[ And pretty much irrelevant now - Robi ]
>From Inferno: How did Xavier "steal" Scott from Sinister? Possibly
related; how did Sinister know Scott's experiences with him would need
to be suppressed so that a telepath couldn't detect them?
Classic #41, #42: Mr. Sinister, apparently masquerading as a
fellow orphan named "Nathan," works to make Scott's life as miserable
as possible, including driving a fellow member of the orphanage to
suicide, mind-raping a nice lady doctor and killing prospective
adoptive parents. Professor Xavier and Jean intervene at the last
moment, evidently as Jean is practicing Telepathy 101.
Inferno: In some letter column (I don't know where) a reader notes
that if you combine "Sym" and "Nastirh" you get something close to
"Sinister". Is this meaningful?
The net consensus was just about universally positive that
this was just a stupid coincidence or a purposeful red herring. Carl
Rigney: "It means some X-Men readers have too much time on their
hands."
238: When are they going to do something about Genosha?
It turns out that the question was more like... "When are the
Genoshans going to do something about the X-Men?" We know now.
245: How did Lorna know to call Australia to ask the X-Men for help?
Newsflash: When I [ Tom that is ] bumped into Claremont at Lunacon
I didn't have my list ready, but the first question that popped into
my mind, for some reason was this one. Claremont said "She didn't
call Australia. She called Westchester. The Mansion forwarded the
call." !*!*!*!*!*!*!
X-Men 242: Wolverine finds something familar about the "new" Angel's
scent, in such a way that it seems that it's the difference he finds
familiar rather than the base. Where had he met up with Apocalyse
before?
(In the Jungle Adventure graphic novel [which I haven't read]
it is evidently suggested that Wolverine may have gotten the
adamantium skeleton from Apocalypse. Then again, maybe not. Sigh.)
(Anybody who can better summarize what happened in the GN in a single
paragraph is encouraged to come up with an answer to the above.)
[ There is no answer to where Wolverine got his skeleton from. Not yet
anyway. - Robi ]
#256: What happened to Rogue/Carol Danvers? Why did Psylocke's
hallucination reveal them as both dead?
Answered in #270, 'way ahead of schedule. The Siege
Plotdevice evidently split them up, but neither could survive without
the other.
[ How does Binary fit into this? - Robi ]
#259: What happened to Callisto? Last time we saw her, things were
not looking good: she was in the clutches of Masque and he was doing
presumably horrible and unspeakable things to her.
The "Beautiful Model" really was Callisto, horribly, cruelly
(;-)), deformed by Masque. Currently living in New York with
Peter-the-artist, doing whatever it is that fabulously beautiful babes
do.
[ More recently, she took on the Morlocks again became "healed" and
got her charming looks and personality back too. - Robi ]
#254: Are Amanda Sefton and Alisande Stuart (Mandy and Sandy, for
short) still prisoners of the Reavers? And do they still have all
their original parts?
Answered, though not well. Mandy and Sandy are still part of
the Muir Island gang, presumably dressing in black leather and
spandex.
[ Not anymore, although what's happening to them now is unknown - Robi ]
#255:What happened to Nanny and the Orphan Maker? How did Storm Jr.
escape from them?
See #'s 266 and 267 for details.
X-Men 104: As various mutants escape during the fight on Moira's island,
we are specially directed to note that "the bug-eyed broad" (Dragonfly) has
escaped. She hasn't been seen since.
Quasar #15 revealed that she'd been taken prisoner by The Stranger.
She's now back on Earth.
9) What is the source of the enmity between Carol Danvers and
Mystique?
Carl Rigney: "Nasty breakup."
Revealed in the latest Marvel Superheroes which printed the
previously unprinted Ms. Marvel #25, along with extra material.
Mystique was essentially doing a self-fulfilling prophecy involving
Carol possibly screwing up Rogue.
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The Quick and The Un-Dead:
Plotlines unlikely to ever be resolved
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Then there are the plotlines that the Net.Uni-Mind is forced
to conclude have been dropped for good. At this point, we may as well
write these questions off....
> Giant-Size X-Men #1: Who's responsible for Wolverine's admantium skeleton?
> Annual #4 Is Wolverine referring to World War II when he talks about
> being at Monte Cassino?
Hey, if they haven't told us by now... And the "origin" of
Wolverine just puts in one place what they've already told us (in the
bookshelf format at $3 a pop. Right.)
And while I'm on the subject: Raised by wolverines? Yeah,
right.
>(from David Goldfarb): _Giant-Size X-men_#1-~102: Colossus' love for
>Storm. This was built up in some detail, then completely dropped. If
>you want to specify one issue, in #99 when Storm is swept into space
>and Colossus is really bummed, Nightcrawler has a thought balloon
>something like "He's so emotional...like--a man in love!".
> X-Men 98: Why are Wolverine's readings entirely different from Jean,
>Sean, and Xavier's?
Because the first version Wolverine origin had him as a
wolverine evolved by the High Evolutionary. This has been scrapped.
>(From David Goldfarb): #122-124 Scott Summers and Colleen Wing.
>Colleen went so far as to give Scott the key to her apartment. Then
>the Dark Phoenix storyline came to a head and this relationship got
>lost in the shuffle.
> Also, the romance hinted at between Wolverine and Snowbird never
>came to pass.
Given that Snowbird isn't around anymore, I don't think
these'll come up again.
>The jealousy Ororo felt for Kitty's dance teacher, Stevie Hunter,
never really went anywhere
Stevie Hunter suddenly turned up in X-Men #270, no explanation
as to where she's been given. Since Kitty is firmly out of the
picture, and it seems unlikely that Cable will involve Stevie with
X-Force, this probaby won't come up again.
>X-Men 145: Storm's initial interest in a Dr. Doom robot. (Yes, I
>consider this a dangler mainly due to the retconing of it being a
>robot. Think what it would do to somewhat anti-techno Storm to find
>out that she'd been attracted to a robot)
From what we know, the robot has been destroyed, and Storm's
got too much on her mind to even think about it.
> X-Men 158: Sure, they've destroyed the computer records the
> government has on the X-Men, but what about the paper ones?
When they were in Genosha, mention was made about how nobody
in America could find any record of these people existing. I guess
the U.S. Government just doesn't refer back to the paper records
anymore, huh?
> X-Men 160 And what about Storm's magic necklace and silver arm cuff she
>picked up in Limbo?
Illyana is currently 6 years old and living with her parents
in Siberia. It doesn't seem too likely that we'll see much plot
involvement with Limbo and the denizens and artifacts thereof.
[ Then again you never know? - Robi ]
> Why could Rogue absorb Thor's powers (Avengers Annual #10), but
> not Loki's (not sure of the source -- X-Men/Alpha Flight #2?)
Ryan "No Prize and no dangler either" Mathews: Plot hole, not
a dangler. Besides, Thor doesn't have any mystical powers, he's just
real big and strong and immortal and has a mystically powered hammer.
Loki, on the other hand, has powers comin' out his butt. He's just too
strong for Rogue to absorb him all.
[ Rogue's power fluxuates it seems, see a later dangler about draining
Magneto's power - Robi ]
> What happened to Aletys Forrester? And what does she think of Scott's
> marriage?
Well, the marriage bit is null and void. And it appears that
she's been pretty totally written out. Yet another plotline/character
we'll never see again.
>Why was Kitty nearsighted here and far-sighted in the New Mutants?
She needs bi-focals? :-) According to Ryan Mathews, this was
cleared up in a letter column in _Excalibur_. She *is* far-sighted.
> X-Men 213: The last mention of the Betsy Braddock/Doug Ramsey
> romance. Is Betsy ever going to react to him dying?
By this point, probably not. Since she's been back with the
New Mutants and the others for several issues, presumably she's heard
about it at least.
>Rachel & Scott & Jean: Odd that Rachel acted so freaked when she
>sensed that Maddy was Jean-like (although they'd met before) while
>she didn't even bat an eye when she discovered that the real Jean was
>still alive).
(from Raleff): Rachel didn't freak out because Maddie was like
Jean, rather she freaked because she knew that Scott and Jean were
married and her parents. And the fact that Scott married to Madelyne
was what freaked her. This also explains why she wasn't surprised to
find out that Jean was still alive.
> Where was Longshot during the Alice's Restaurant, er, Mutant Massacre?
He's left the book anyway....
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Still dangling (renumbered)
1)Why did Xavier and Moira break up? How did they become friends again?
No-Prize Time: X-Men 114: Why the heck didn't Xavier use Cerebro?
2) Annual #12: Is Colossus ever going to figure out that he and Nereel
have a son?
3) Wolvie's chronology: How do Japan, his skeleton implant, and
Carol and him in Russia fit together?
(This is separate from the dropped danglers in Part One. All
I'm asking for is a Little Picture, not the Big One.)
4) WAAAAY Back, the Shiar agent who mind-controlled Havok and Polaris
and tricked Firelord into attacking the X-Men turned up in a suit of
armor that Scott had worn, calling himself Eric the Red, which was the
pseudonym that Scott had used previously. Has there ever been any
real explanation for this bit of weirdness?
5) Henry Peter Gyrich and his involvement with the neo-Sentinels by
Shaw Industries?
Shaw was kicked out of the Hellfire Club by Magneto with the
consent of the two Queens at the close of Inferno. Nothing was said
about Gyrich's involvement pro-or-con. Still open.
6) X-Men 143: Are there still more N'Garai out there?
7) X-Men 149: Magneto's power damper. While perhaps not as relevant to
Rogue, it's still a dangler that something such as this deus ex
machina is existant.
8) #152: Nasty Forgotten Widget Department: The White Queen's persona
exchange gun. Whatever happened to it?
10) Were Mystique and Destiny lovers? If not, what *is* their
relationship?
(See Marvel Fanfare #40 for some pretty strong hints. On the
other hand, can someone who can change shape between the senses be
considered to be heterosexual *or* homosexual?)
11) X-Men 169: Why *was* Mastermind interested in Mystique and Rogue?
Carl Rigney: "Poor taste in women."
12,13) X-Men 171: What is Rogue's real name? How did she meet up with
Mystique?
We had a very inconclusive backup story in Classic X-Men that
did *not* answer these questions. Still open.
14) X-Men 172: What about Storm and Yukio? (or just Yukio period.
We've seen precious little of how the previous supporting cast
reacting to the "deaths") (Yukio appeared in the Kitty/Wolverine
miniseries, about 2 years more recent than #172.)
15) X-Men 173: Viper and Silver Samurai exit uttering threats. (no way
do I believe the Hellions beat them off-panel in New Mutants...)
[ Viper has recently appeared in Captain America and the Silver
Samurai in our very own x-pages - Robi ]
17) X-Men 176: Mariko and her ties to Clan Yashida and the Yakuza. Has
she (and their adopted daughter) ever been shown reacting to Logan's
"death"?
Pretty much wrapped up now with Mariko's death in Wolverine, but
I don't know if the adopted daughter was mentioned there.
18) Where did Colonel Rossi go since X-Men 182?
19) X-Men 183: Selene and the X-Men. (Hey, why should the X-Men just
wait around for *new* villains to show up? Why aren't they going
after the ones they know about?)
20) #191: When last we saw it, that evil possessed necklace of Kulan
Gath was lying in a puddle in the bottom of a subway tunnel.... Can
you say "Dark Ed Norton?"
21) X-Men 200: Will we ever find out what happened off-panel in Paris?
(I'm not placing any bets on it, but...)
23) Also 200: What is Magneto's real name? (Gee, he goes on trial,
gets his background exhaustively examined, and they can't manage to
turn up his real name?)
(Xavier and some others use "Magnus" but OHOTMUDE does not say
if it's a first or last name, or if it's even the real one.)
[ This has been cleared up in Magneto #0, his real name is Eric Magnus
Lehrnerr (sp?) - Robi ]
24) Are the X-Men still wanted by the government? Or, more
specifically, will they be wanted again if they reveal they are alive?
Well, they've revealed they're alive, in a most dramatic way.
So what's the reaction of the U.S. Government, Chrissie?
Apparently acceptance, given that Val Cooper knows how to contact them
and Havok is leading X-Factor.
25) X-Men 208: Nimrod is worrying about the Rodriguezes and feeling
emotions. (Is he a robot? This was before he was melded with the
Master Mold, who at least has the excuse of having some human brain
patterns...)
26) What happened to Phoenix between X-Men 209 and Excalibur?
(We need details. We were supposed to get graphic novel sized
_details_. Like any self-respecting mutant fanatic, I want my
details. Preferably with pictures by Arthur Adams.)
27) X-Men 215: What happened to Sarah Grey and her children?
Halfway resolved. The kids are now living with their
grandparents. But we still haven't learned what happened to Sarah....
28) X-Men 222: Is Sabretooth related to Wolverine? It's been hinted
at, but not defined.
[ This will be cleared up when they tell us about Wolverine's past.
Probably the same time they reveal the chemical structure of the Super
Soldier Serum and Cap's shield. We do know that they worked together
in Germany in the 50's. - Robi ]
29) X-Men 227: Does Psylocke have real eyes or the mechanical ones?
(We don't know -- Mojo gave her mechanical ones, through which
he could spy on Our Heroes, but when Roma remade the X-Men, she
*could* have removed them, but then again. And since Psylocke is
supposedly immune to mechanical and magical spying... It's a plotline
dangler, in this fuzzy's opinion.)
[ The first appearance of Kwannon (or is it Revanche) shows her with
metallic looking eyes - Robi ]
30) 229: The Siege Perilous: Dangerous Widget or Evil Artifact? Roma
hands it over to the X-Men, wishes them well and beats a hasty
retreat. With artifacts like this, who needs enemies? At any rate,
we still don't have the full story as to what's going on with this:
consider for example the way it tends to show up by "accident" at
important points. And could Donald Pierce really destroy it by
crushing it in his hand?
31,32) X-Men 234: How about the two Brood left active in Denver? (Two
separate danglers since one presumably stayed there and the other is
travelling) Josey Thomas (the female paramedic) definitely survived,
and seems to have implanted the preacher's wife. (Although Brickbat,
Lockup, and Spitball are not dead for sure).
#236: (No-prize Time) If Wipeout 'erased' Rogue's powers, how come her
eye color changed from brown to blue when her Carol Danvers
personality took over?
33) X-Men 238: What incident is Wolvie referring to when he talks
about being a slave?
Carl Rigney: "His stint on the Roman galleys. (Just kidding
about this one.)"
34) Mr. Sinister. As said by Wolverine, "Who *is* that dude?" Where
did he come from? What are his powers? His motivations?
(If anything, the biggest flaw in recent writing is to have
such a central villain so completely undefined.)
Well, he's moved over to X-Factor, so we may eventually see something
here.
[ Nice try, but he's moved back to the X-Men, and we didn't find out
anymore, apart from the fact that he know's about Scott and Alex's
other brother(s) - Robi ]
35,36) The Marauders. Where did they come from? In X-Men 239, Sinister
says to the possessed Polaris, "Unlike the Marauders, you are now
unique". In 240, it's implied that those that died in the Massacre did
in fact die in some sense. Maybe they do all have 6 clones...And did
all of them except Polaris/Malice get killed by the X-Men in 241? It's
sort of implied, but not actually stated, and it all happened off
panel if indeed it did.
37) Who built the Reaver's complex and the computers/monitors? Donald
Pierce claims he's responsible for the Reaver's cyborg components.
But he and the rest of the Reavers seem pretty unfamiliar with the
complex. Remember they kidnapped Jessan Hoan due to needing a
financial expert, and seemed to have problems with the computer
console when they raided the place.
38) X-Men 239: Rogue's body, with Carol Danvers in control, has
flesh-to-flesh contact with Psylocke with no apparent effects. [Tom
Galloway's theory on this is that Rogue has control over her powers,
except that she was traumatized by her first activation being at the
same time as her first kiss, so we get into all sorts of fun
psychosexual overtones. This is also evidenced by Carol suddenly
popping up after the fondling in Genosha. Claremont has been heard to
state that this incident was _not_ an art mistake.]
39) Not Inferno, but not covered already. Who is Gateway, and what can
he do besides teleport and play the flute?
No-Prize Time: And why didn't Logan take him out on the town? :-)
No-Prize Time: Why couldn't Mr. Sinister cross Scott's genes and
Jean's genes directly, considering his expertise in cloning and
genetics? Mr. Sinister wants their child because that child would
have a lot of power. Has the presence of Rachel changed this, and is
it therefore Rachel who has the power and the child is just an
'ordinary' mutant? In this connection, note that Claremont claimed
there's only one Phoenix for the multiverse, which seems to suggest
that this is so. Of course, this could all be incredibly sloppy
writing (odds, anyone?),which is why this is ripe for a proper
no-prize explanation.
40) What are the changes in the X-Men caused by Inferno itself, and
why did they stay around after it was over, unlike the other changes?
The X-Men all became much more demonic looking, and unlike other
changes they hung around after Inferno was over. They even commented
on this. Of course, this was ignored after about 3 issues.
41) #244 (last page): Why can't Psylocke detect Jubilee?
42) #245: Dazzler's "basic luminescence has been upshifting
along the spectrum as well from yellow into white." Significance?
(I should probably move this one over to "Closed" but the
Dazzler storyline has at least one more issue to run before Alison
gets shipped off to Elysium for Happy Mutants. Who knows, it *could*
get answered. And I *could* become Queen of Rumania....)
43) #245: What happened to Malice? (the psychic entity who possessed
Lorna, not Polaris-with-a-different-name) We are led to believe she
didn't survive Zaladane's Mutant Power Converter. Did she?
44) X-Men #246,247: What's up with Nimrod/Master Mold?
(I'm informed they _did not_ go through the Siege Perilous,
despite appearances to the contrary. According to Claremont. Really.
I heard it with my own two ears. But he may have changed his mind
since I heard it.)
46) #249: Zaladane claimed to be Lorna's sister, but offered no proof
beyond her assertion. Moira MacTaggert later claimed that no one
without a highly related genetic structure could have switched powers
like that. (With siblings like these....) What's the story, Chrissie?
Carl Rigney: "They have the same last name (Dane)."
47) Who killed Jubilees parents and why? (X-Men Annual backup story,
unrelated to Atlantis Attacks!)
#251: (page 6): Why can't Jubilee be detected? (Again!)
48) #251: Was Psylocke under some sort of control when she talked the
remaining X-Men into the Siege Perilous?
Her hallucinations under reprogramming by the Hand seem to
lend some credence to this assertion.
49) #252 (page 18): What's this about the computer being alive?
(we've also seen it repair itself before) Did even the Reavers
understand it? Last page: Why did the dogs not react to Jubilee?
(Wolverine's explanation sounds bogus in light of earlier inabilities
to track Jubilee).
50,51) #253: Is Magneto telling the truth when he tells Moira he's
going to pretend to be bad? Can't a guy supposedly this smart come up
with a better plan -- like, for instance, moving to Muir Island for a
couple months? What of his position as the Hellfire Club's "Grey
King"?
52) #255: Destiny foretells that Forge and *Mystique* are going to be
an item. Pretty interesting, considering that they could hardly stand
each other at the time....
[ Well, this is already beginning (if not full blown already). - Robi ]
53) #256: Was the appearance of Mojo and Spiral in Psylocke's
hallucinations really just more hallucinations?
Mmmmm... could be.
54) #257: We knew Carol was important to Wolverine. But his
hallucinations reveal that Nick Fury is an important figure to him
too. How did they meet? What was their association like?
[ Like how did Wolverine meet anyone? This guy probably knows more
people than anyone else in the Marvel Universe. Furthermore, his
memory is good enough to determine whether or not he's come across
that scent before, but not good enough to remember who it belongs to.
We know that he knows Cap from waaaay back and the Thing too. Maybe
they met at some poker game in East Germany 1949 or something. - Robi ]
55) #258: Where did that photograph of Logan and Ruby in a futuristic
city come from?
56)#260: Who tipped Fenris (those lovable Strucker twins) off that
Forge and Banshee were on that particular flight?
57)#261: How was Donald Pierce tipped off that Cylla -- the pilot on
the doomed flight last issue-- was in need of cyborg parts? Does he
know that she used to be friends with Banshee and Forge?
No-Prize Time: Are those photos of Psylocke and Wolverine (who hasn't
gone through the Siege Plotdevice) on page one?
No-Prize Time: Has Masque *really* never met Colossus? Or is this
just Claremont's faulty memory speaking?
58,59)#263: We get a smidge more of Forge's background in this issue,
but it leaves out a few real important items, like: Forge's real
(well, legal) name. (The U.S. Army is an organization that is highly
unlikely to accept simply "Forge", after all.) Also, just *how* did
he lose that hand and leg?
No-Prize Time: If Forge can regrow Jean's arms and Banshee's jaw and
voicebox, how come he doesn't regrow his own hand and leg? A desire
to have spare widgets, er, "handy"?
61)#266: Okay. So *who* is this Gambit? Where did he come from?
Where did he get this strange assortment of powers? Does he really
have a thing for jailbait?
[ More, but not much, is revealed in later pages of X-Men - Robi ]
63)#268: Just what kind of alliance *did* the Hand and Fenris strike
while Wolverine and company were chasing around after a fake meeting?
64)#269: Rogue absorbs Gateway's memories into order to teleport
herself and escape the Reavers. She promises to come back to free
him. Any bets on how long this will take?
65)#269: Just *what* is Magneto doing in the Savage Land, anyway?
Building a winter vacation home, maybe?
66)#269: Since she seems to be joining the X-Men storyline, it seems
appropriate to ask just how did Lila Cheney escape "sure death" in
_New Mutants_ #80?
67)#270: Just where did Dazzler go, anyway? (Notice she left before
Lila showed up, btw)
No-Prize Time: Just when *did* Wolverine meet Rictor and Boom-Boom so
that he could explain to Jubilee just who they are???
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Tom Galloway
>245: How did Lorna know to call Australia to ask the X-Men for help?
> Newsflash: When I [ Tom that is ] bumped into Claremont at Lunacon
I'm the one who proposed this dangler, but Connie's the one who asked
Claremont about it.
>#254: Are Amanda Sefton and Alisande Stuart (Mandy and Sandy, for
>[ Not anymore, although what's happening to them now is unknown - Robi ]
Amanda is unknown. Alisande was killed off in a Davis Excalibur.
>5) Henry Peter Gyrich and his involvement with the neo-Sentinels by
>Shaw Industries?
>
> Shaw was kicked out of the Hellfire Club by Magneto with the
>consent of the two Queens at the close of Inferno. Nothing was said
>about Gyrich's involvement pro-or-con. Still open.
I'd say this one is now dead due to Sebastian's "death" (I still maintain that
explosions don't kill kinetic energy absorbers) and Shinobi's ascension.
>10) Were Mystique and Destiny lovers? If not, what *is* their
>relationship?
>
> (See Marvel Fanfare #40 for some pretty strong hints. On the
>other hand, can someone who can change shape between the senses be
>considered to be heterosexual *or* homosexual?)
According to Katie Schwarz, Claremont's origin for Nightcrawler had Kurt as
the son of Destiny (mother) and Mystique (father). Mystique was in male form
and traumatized into amnesia due to events occuring during WWII.
"In this issue we are shown an alternate universe in which Marvel decided not
to spin off X-Factor or Excalibur, and in which New Mutants was discontinued,
rather than handed over to Simonson.
As the premise indicates, it breaks with previous What-Ifs by having a
happy ending." --Dani on What If #12
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