From: [p--b] at [festival.ed.ac.uk] (Paul O'Brien)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks
Subject: X-Men Danglers FAQ - Part 5
Date: 27 Dec 1995 17:04:23 GMT
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The X-Men Danglers FAQ, Part 5: The New Mutants
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Last updated: 21 December 1995
Issues covered: #1-100
Danglers
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1. Graphic Novel #4, p.46: This is one of the rare mentions of
Wolfsbane's healing power. Last mentioned, as far as I can see, in
around 1984. Whatever happened to it?
2. #2, p.7: Gyrich says that "We're establishing a facility for the
containment and extermination of mutants." Is he talking about
Project: Pegasus, or is this something that's been totally forgotten
about?
3. #6, p.12: Well, I mean, where to start? Why did the Viper want to
get that crystal from AIM? What caused the explosion? Who was the
mutant who attacked Lilandra and Xavier? How did Team America survive?
[Owen Erasmus tells me that this is picked up on
in Marvel Team-Up #82-86, but the plot is still
unresolved. Claremont wrote MTU at that time, of
course - Paul]
4. #9, p.11: Why isn't Amara affected by the drugged wine? (And no,
I refuse to accept that it's a side-effect of her mutant powers.)
It's been suggested that she just drank less. But even
so, the dialogue suggests that there's something more.
5. #12, p.4: Roberto asks Emmanuel da Costa why he wanted to get "the
riches of the fabled Madeira", and suggests that it was money and
power he wanted. Emmanuel replies that "my reasons are my own."
So if he didn't want money and power, what did he want?
He could, of course, be lying.
6. #13: Why doesn't Professor X notice that Amara is under Selene's
mental influence?
7. #16: Tarot appears to be in love with one of the New Mutants.
Which one? And how _do_ her powers work?
Jeremy Bottroff's extensive research over on Genie suggests
that Empath made Tarot fall in love with Magma. But no
conclusive answer has ever been given.
8. #20, p.20: How and why were Dani's parents transformed into the
demon bear?
The Adversary (from the Fall of the Mutants storyline)
apparently had something to do with it, although I've been
unable to trace the reference. The details and background
remain unrevealed.
9. Annual #1: Where did Lila Cheney's Dyson Sphere come from? How
did she find it?
10. p.39: Lila says that "Earth sold me." What does that mean?
11. #23, p.10: Magneto and Lee Forrester discuss whether their island
base was built by aliens. This is never resolved.
More on this plot can be found in Marvel Fanfare #33 (also
by Claremont, natch), but it doesn't resolve anything, and
readers should be prepared to wade through a load of
nonsense about the Chief Examiner and the Questprobe stories.
12. #26, p.1: Our attention is specifically drawn to the fact that
Tom Corsi and Sharon Friedlander have developed borderline
superhuman strength. This has been mainly forgotten about.
13. #29, p.16: Lila alludes to having participated in bloodsports.
Details?
14. #31, p.22: The White Queen gives a hazy recount of Catseye's origin,
leaving lots of gaps. Since Catseye is pushing up daisies, we're
unlikely ever to see this resolved, but it's still a dangler.
15. Annual #2: Leong, Nga and the Bratpack seem to be mutants. This
is never referred to again.
16. #43: This is the last appearance of the several hundred ordinary
human students at the Massachusetts Academy, to the best of my
knowledge (although there might have been a few in New Warriors).
So this is as good a place as any to ask: where are they all?
17. #44: Rev. Craig makes veiled comments about Rahne's mother and
implies that she was a prostitute. Details? (And what's Craig
doing in Ullapool, anyway? It's miles away from where he lives!)
Recent issues of Excalibur suggest that Rahne's mother
was a woman with whom Craig had an affair, although Craig
seems to deny this. Whatever, Rahne's mother seems to
have been a more or less normal person.
18. #46: Who kidnapped Leong and Nga?
One correspondent says that it was Nanny. Most references
suggest that it was Nguyen Ngoc Coy, attempting to blackmail
Karma back into servitude.
19. #50, p.39: What happens to Magus now that he's been returned to
infancy?
20. #53, p.5: Cypher is infected with the transmode virus. Now, our
attention has been specifically drawn to the fact that Douglock
is _not_ Doug Ramsey, he's a genetically engineered being with
some elements of Doug's memories. So what happened to Doug?
21. p.12: Strong hints are dropped of mutual attraction between Mirage
and Thunderbird. Now that they're both appearing in X-Force, perhaps
this should be picked up on?
22. p.15: Selene claims to be Amara's ancestor. This is still consistent
with the Nova Roma retcon over in New Warriors, so what's the story?
J Wilson points out that Kulan Gath recognised Selene from
before the fall of Atlantis. That would make her over
twenty thousand years old, in which case she could be the
ancestor of pretty much anybody on the planet.
23. #55, p.8: Lila tells Raek that she won't throw him out of the party
for old times sake. Details?
24. #56: Why does the White Queen want Amara to join the Hellions?
It's consistently implied that she wanted more than just
a powerful mutant.
25. #60: What happens to the Ani-Mator after Illyana dumped him in
Limbo? (Hey, he _could_ have escaped during Inferno.)
26. #63, p.5: Why does the Soulsword affect the transmode virus?
27. #63, p.12: Why doesn't the cloned Wolverine have claws?
Yes, I know that plot wasn't going to start for another
few years. I don't care, I'm asking anyway.
28. #63, p.23: What happened to the cloned X-Men after Magik left them?
29. #67, p.3: Why did Spyder go to all that trouble just to get legal
title to Lila Cheney?
30. #69, p.9: The Bauble of Bable looks awfully similar to the Jewels
of Ikerno (which we saw in issue #55). Any significance?
31. #70, p.20: How did Lila survive teleporting Gosamyr's family into
the sun?
Actually, a better question might be "what on earth happened
at the end of issue #70?" Lila couldn't have transported the
aliens directly into the sun because she can't go to places
that she hasn't been. So what exactly did she do?
32. #70, p.21: Gosamyr says that her family are in their penultimate
form. What on earth comes next?
33. #73, p.38: What happens to Illyana at the end of Inferno? She
can't have erased herself from history retroactively, because the
Soulsword still exists.
34. #74, p.12: X-Factor's Ship tries to scan the child Illyana but can't
be more specific than "my sensors do not indicate that she is not
a mutant." Nobody ever had this problem before. What's up?
Actually, in X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills, the Purifiers had
the same problem.
35. #74, p.20: What happened to Gosamyr after she left Earth?
36. #75, p.20: What is Selene planning in the Amazon?
37. #78, p.7: Destiny predicts that arresting Rusty Collins will lead
to survival for Freedom Force "and some of our kind." Why?
38. #78, p.16: Trying to persuade Rusty to come quietly, the Blob lets
slip that the US government has been looking after little mutant kids.
Rusty and Skids conclude that this must be the kids from Inferno,
whom X-Factor turned over to the government after rescuing them
from Nanny. Mystique seems to confirm this. What happened to
them?
The biggest dangler on this list. When is it going to be
dealt with?
39. Ann. #5: Whatever happened to SURF? (Closely followed by: who cares?)
40. #87: Why did Stryfe want to capture Rusty and Skids?
Addison Godel suggests that he wanted to keep them away from
the Acolytes. Being from the future, Stryfe knew what was
likely to happen to them. Seems a bit tenuous to me, to be
honest.
41. #88: Cable talks about having worked as a government agent and fighting
elements of the US government. Details?
42. #89: How did Moira MacTaggert get inside Ship? She isn't a mutant.
43. #89, p.20: How does Cable know Moira?
44. Ann #6, p.9: Franklin creates counterparts of the New Mutants of
his timeline. Shouldn't these guys have counterparts in the
mainstream reality too?
45. #93, p.8: How did Cable know Sunfire's father?
45. #93, p.22: Why do Cable and Wolverine hate each other?
46. #99, p.7: Why on Earth is Gideon monitoring a Central Park cafe?
Bit of a coincidence that Cable should choose to meet Warpath
there, isn't it?
47. p.9: Gideon says that he's been "busy getting my own house in order
after mom died." Since Gideon has been alive since Columbus landed
in the USA, this has obviously taken him a while.
In all fairness, this might be part of his cover identity.
48. p.13: Who killed James's tribe? Why? Why did they frame the
Hellfire Club?
49. #100, pp.14-16: Shatterstar tells the New Mutants at some length
that he has come to Earth to get help in overthrowing the government
of Mojoworld. Everyone sympathises and then forgets all about it
for the next five years. Shouldn't Shatterstar be getting a bit
annoyed by now? They did promise they'd help, after all.
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