If I understand correctly, Jean absorbed her mainline connection to the Phoenix from Maddy via the Wrath of Khan-style suicide mindmeld the latter shared with her at the end of Inferno.
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 29, 2004 8:18:10 am PDT #4301 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
DavidS - Jun 29, 2004 8:20:02 am PDT #4302 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Rachel also gets thrown way into the future along with a rescued Nate, who she raises, and then he comes back into our present and becomes Cable.
Cable is the son of Scott and Maddy (who is the evil-raised clone of Jean?)? And raised by his half-sister (genetically full sister since Maddy's a clone) from an alternative future. Huh. See what happens when you don't look at comics for a decade. So, didn't Cable and Storm have a thing? If they'd married then Scott would be her father-in-law. Is Maddy gone now?
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2004 8:21:36 am PDT #4303 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, yeah, and Sinister cloned Jean to make Maddy so she could be the Goblyn Queen who also apparently dies (along with other X folk) and then goes ballistic and tries to kill everyone. She may also sleep with Scott's brother at this time.
Madelyne also comes back as a psychic projection of Cable's, becomes independent of him, goes evil, goes good, ages when Cable weakens, and was killed by another version of herself.
Or something.
DavidS - Jun 29, 2004 8:23:38 am PDT #4304 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I thought Cable was native american. Where did I get that idea?
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2004 8:23:49 am PDT #4305 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jean absorbed her mainline connection to the Phoenix from Maddy
How did Maddy get it, though? They kinda made that messy. If Jean was never Phoenix, why did Maddy get a connection?
didn't Cable and Storm have a thing?
I hope not. Not while I was reading, anyway.
Cable is the son of Scott and Maddy (who is the evil-raised clone of Jean?)?
Ayup. It's a family affair, for real.
Theodosia - Jun 29, 2004 8:24:14 am PDT #4306 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
There is a whole section of X-Men history, in the post-Claremont years that I sincerely close my eyes, put my fingers in my ears, and hum loudly. Except that I have to know about the White Queen....
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2004 8:25:28 am PDT #4307 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought Cable was native american. Where did I get that idea?
You may be mistaking him for Forge, who is Native American and did have a thing with Storm (he made the gun that mistakenly took away her powers).
DavidS - Jun 29, 2004 8:28:17 am PDT #4308 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You may be mistaking him for Forge, who is Native American and did have a thing with Storm (he made the gun that mistakenly took away her powers).
Aha! There's the confusion. Yes, Forge. Okay, that's different.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 29, 2004 8:38:24 am PDT #4309 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
How did Maddy get it, though? They kinda made that messy. If Jean was never Phoenix, why did Maddy get a connection?
When the faux Jean killed herself on the moon in X-Men #137, the Phoenix force tried to return all its memories of walking around in Jean's form to her, along with an unintended sizeable dollop of cosmic power. It missed her coccoon under Jamaica Bay and instead slung 'em into Mr. Sinister's artificially-aged, not-yet-programmed Jean clone. Sinister implanted fake memories of a life as Madelyn Pryor and manipulated her into meeting Scott as part of a big byzantine scheme. The rapport to the Phoenix power apparently went dormant upon her initial awakening (with a few subtle hints that it was working in the background), then activated when Maddy got corrupted by demons.
They NEVER explained exactly what the deal was with an elementary school aged Maddy Pryor appearing in Avengers Annual #10, which is listed as Maddy's first appearance.
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2004 8:41:12 am PDT #4310 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
(with a few subtle hints that it was working in the background)
Like the flames in the plane crash, IIRC.
So .. in Rachel's future, the Phoenix force finds the right chick, I guess.