(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.
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§ ita § - Jun 29, 2004 8:41:12 am PDT #4310 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 29, 2004 8:47:42 am PDT #4311 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
Actually, I think Rachel's future is one in which Xavier's psychic dampeners hold and "Jean" never powers up again on the moon. The original Claremont/Byrne take on the story goes forth, with "Jean" surviving to have a kid with Scott. Meanwhile, I guess the real, original Jean Grey stays cocooned underneath Jamaica Bay forever.
Michele T. - Jun 29, 2004 8:59:16 am PDT #4312 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I miss Rachel Summers. The Summers family reunions must be like The Ice Storm, only with superpowers and aliens included.
To be fair, The Ice Storm does have an extended protagonist-family/The Fantastic Four metaphor going on. No aliens, though.
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2004 9:12:32 am PDT #4313 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The original Claremont/Byrne take on the story goes forth, with "Jean" surviving to have a kid with Scott. Meanwhile, I guess the real, original Jean Grey stays cocooned underneath Jamaica Bay forever.
Doesn't the original take not have "Jean" just Jean? So no cocoons?
victor infante - Jun 29, 2004 10:01:08 am PDT #4314 of 10000
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
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.
And somewhere in there, Jean and Scott travel to the future and have a hand in raising Cable, too.
It's all very confusing.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 29, 2004 10:17:17 am PDT #4315 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
Doesn't the original take not have "Jean" just Jean? So no cocoons?
True, but so did the version that actually got printed—until Jean popped up in that issue of Fantastic Four many years later. I assume that the reveal about our Jean would hold true for Rachel's as well, since the two timelines supposedly diverged in X-Men #137.
DavidS - Jun 29, 2004 10:32:51 am PDT #4316 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I think I need a rundown of all the Jean Grey iterations (including clones and Phoenix force fakes) and their current status?
I'm afraid the original is still in a cocoon. Or is that only in the alternafuture timeline?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 29, 2004 10:35:31 am PDT #4317 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
That'd be (I think) the Days of Future past alternate future that Rachel vacated to come back in time. Our Jean that just died (yeah, right!) was supposedly the genuine article. Though I suppose there's a conga line of Jean Grey clones out there somewhere that the Phoenix could be playing shell games with.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 29, 2004 10:41:07 am PDT #4318 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Though I suppose there's a conga line of Jean Grey clones out there somewhere that the Phoenix could be playing shell games with.
Now I've got a mental image of a whole bunch of Famke Janssen's doing the conga. As these things go, it's not unpleasant.
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2004 10:51:57 am PDT #4319 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does anyone know, when Maddy killed her almost-real self, which reality alterna!Maddy (as opposed to psionicmanifestation!Maddy) came from?