From: [p--b] at [festival.ed.ac.uk] (Paul O'Brien)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks
Subject: X-Men Danglers FAQ - Part 6
Date: 27 Dec 1995 17:05:15 GMT
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The X-Men Danglers FAQ, Part 6: X-Force
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Last updated: 21 December 1995
Issues covered: #1-49
Closed Danglers
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1. #1, p.31: Nick Fury sends GW Bridge to arrest X-Force. Yes, I
know Bridge made an effort, but the government appears to have
given up. Are X-Force still wanted?
No. Xavier appears to have sorted things out with Valerie
Cooper.
2. Annual #1: What happened to Artie, Wiz Kid and Leech after this
story?
Artie and Leech are over with Generation X nowadays. Wiz Kid
isn't, but let's be honest - who cares about Wiz Kid?
Danglers
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1. #5, p.1: Was there any particular reason why Tyler wanted to
get the services of Black Tom Cassidy and the Juggernaut?
2. #5, pp.12-13: One of many examples of Feral's flirting with
Shatterstar and getting extremely negative signals from him. A
long-running subplot, this was dumped without any apparent
resolution.
3. #5, p.18: "Project: Wideawake is ready to go back online",
according to Henry Peter Gyrich. And "we've recently reacquired the
financial backing we've needed since Shaw Industries collapsed."
Who from?
This probably ties into the later Nimrod storyline, and to
the discovery of Sentinels in X-Factor. However, the financial
backing remains unrevealed.
4. #6, p.5: Who is Phantazia?
Some background details can be found in X-Men Unlimited #2, but
not a great deal.
5. #6, p.7: Cable has been dealing with AIM. Is this still ongoing?
Do X-Force know about it? Vanessa suggests that they wouldn't be
very happy to find out.
6. #7, p.9: The Toad suddenly displays a new superhuman power to
secrete resin from his hands. Where did he get it?
J Wilson points out that the Toad has, in the past, used a
clinging power from time to time, and this might be a variation
on that.
7. #8, pp.16-17: Cable is looking for Externals in the hope that
they can be used to overthrow Apocalypse. But why Externals? Why
not just get lots of very powerful people to fight them? Other
than being immortal, the Externals aren't all that powerful - so
why is Cable so convinced that he needs an External?
8. #10, p.7: Gideon claims that Nicodemus has endured "centuries
of hardship." Details?
9. #10, p.12: Cable says that he has fought the Externals in the
past. Again, what are the details?
10. #10, p.21: What happened to Rictor between his leaving the New
Mutants and resurfacing in Toronto?
He was supposed to be going to Genosha to rescue Wolfsbane,
which makes one wonder how he ended up in Canada.
11. Annual #1: What is the history of this alternate future? Is
it what will happen in our reality? If so, how did Illyana become
Darkchilde? Is Cyberlock the same being as Douglock? (Cyberlock's
description of himself is not consistent with Douglock's.) Who is
Powerpax?
12. #11, p.19: Garrison Kane says that the first line-up of Weapon:
PRIME all have an interest in taking Cable down. As far as Kane and
Rictor are concerned, this is fine. But why do Tygerstryke and
the Wendigo have an interest in Cable? For that matter, is that
thing really a Wendigo? If so, who is it?
13. #12, p.2: How is Gideon married to Crule?
14. #12, p.4: What was Crule doing in Nazi Germany? When did Gideon
have the opportunity to kill Crule, and why did he pass it up?
15. #14, p.5: Why did Crule want to kill Cannonball? That wasn't
his mission. Gideon sent him to stop Cable.
16. #15, p.11: Why did Gideon want Cannonball to stay out of
External affairs?
17. #17, p.6: Stryfe produces a knife to attack Apocalypse. The
knife is covered in carvings related to Apocalypse and appears to
have been some sort of religious artifact. Apocalypse identifies
it as the knife that he once used to kill Stryfe. How and why?
This is particularly important given that Stryfe's body was
destroyed at the end of the X-Cutioner's Song, or so it would
appear. So who did Apocalypse kill? Was it another temporal
counterpart of Stryfe? Or was it Cable?
18. #17, p.11: Cable says that he first encountered Stryfe about
eight years previously. Obviously there's a lot of unrevealed
stories there.
19. #21, p.11: Why does Gideon consider X-Force a threat to the
Externals' existence?
20. #22, p.19: Who is Sluggo? What was his connection to the
Weapon X project?
21. #23, p.7: Who are Killjoy and Double Trouble?
22. #23, p.11: Tygerstryke declares that Weapon PRIME will track
down Domino, Grizzly and Hammer. Obviously they haven't got around
to it yet. Are they planning to?
23. #23, p.18: Deadpool says that he "never liked what you and her
[Vanessa and Tina] had together." What's he referring to?
The words "Mystique and Destiny" spring to mind, for some
strange reason.
24. #24, p.8: Rusty Collins and Skids were being sent by Valerie
Cooper to the X-Men's mansion. Why?
25. #26, p.21: Reignfire refers to Wildside's "oh-so-proper
upbringing." So what is Wildside's origin story, then?
26. Annual #2: What happened to Neurotap after this story?
The story leaves her fate open, as she elected to stay with
Martin Strong and X-Force made all sorts of comments about
not trusting him to go through with his side of the deal.
I regard this as being deliberately left open, which is why
it's here.
27. #27: Who is Locus?
Much speculation has it that she's Illyana Rasputin, or a
counterpart. However, Fabian Nicieza is apparently quite
convinced that she isn't.
28. #27, p.11: Moonstar says that she "fell screaming from the skies,
an angel cast out of a heaven I didn't belong in." Lovely poetry, but
what on Earth is she talking about? For that matter, what happened to
her horse? [Annual #3 confirms that it's Brightwind.] And how did her
powers change?
29. #28, p.23: What happened to Locus and Sunspot after they
disappeared?
30. #30, p.7: Windsong is introduced as Shatterstar's wife. What
are the details?
31. #30, p.8: What happened to Tempo after leaving X-Force?
Again, a whatever-happened-to, but I got the impression that
we would be seeing her again.
32. #30, p.18: Arcade identifies the people who hired him to attack
Shatterstar and X-Treme as "Milbury" and Major-Domo. Why did they
do it?
Note that "Milbury" is usually an alias for Mister Sinister.
33. #32, p.10: Domino mentions that she is married.
34. #34, p.12: Allison Crestmere heads off to England to find her
parents. Did she? Meanwhile, Manuel de la Rocha stalks off on
his own, muttering about how this being nice business isn't all
that it's cracked up to be.
35. Ann #3, p.3: Moonstar observes that there doesn't seem to be
any particular reason why Forearm joined the MLF. He doesn't really
like the other members and he isn't all that committed to the ideology.
So why is he there?
36. Ann #3, p.32: How did Sunspot become Reignfire?
In issue #50, Cable's comments seem to suggest possession.
This still leaves the question, "who by?"
37. #37, p.6: Why is Apocalypse partly mechanical? What happened to
him in the Celestial ship?
38. #37, p.7: Absalom has the Legacy Virus. Will he die of it?
God, I hope so.
39. #37, p.16: Burke - a precognitive - has predicted that Cannonball
will save the Externals from the Legacy Virus. How will he do this?
40. #39, p.21: What happened to Prosh after leaving Earth?
Yes, I know - another whatever-happened-to. But they devoted
an entire issue to turning him into Prosh. I doubt they'd do
that just to write him out.
41. #40, p.15: How did Cable become a lawyer?
He says he graduated in the class of 1988. That seems awfully
recent. How does it fit into his chronology? (In all fairness,
Marvel claim that Fantastic Four #1 took place circa 1985, so
Cable would have graduated contemporaneously with comics published
in the late 1960s and early 1970s.)
42. #42: What's Emma Frost playing at? She seems to be trying to
undermine Warpath's self-confidence. But why?
43. #42, pp.16-17: a subplot about a ninja trying to rescue his son
Asahi from a biochemical research plant, and a reference to the Clan
Yashida.
44. #43, p.12: Where have Locus and Sunspot been? How did he abandon
her? Where did she learn D'Barian and Shi'ar?
Shi'ar isn't too difficult to envisage. But the only inhabited
planet in the D'Bari system was D'Bari IV, the home of the
Asparagus People, killed by Dark Phoenix in issues of Uncanny
published some fifteen years ago. Locus's comments on p.13
suggest that she can travel through time, which would explain
a lot.
45. #43, p.14: Some effort is put into introducing Priscilla Cole.
So what's the story?
46. #43, p.16: Why is Reignfire attacking the MLF? And did Forearm
survive?
47. #44: What happened in the last two weeks?
48. #45, p.14: The first of many hints that Shatterstar's origin
is false. See also #46, where a man very similar to Shatterstar
can be seen in the files of the Weisman Institute.
49. #45, p.21: What happened to the tracking station in Siberia
and why does the survivor blame Professor X?
50. #45, p.21: How did the Mimic end up in Siberia and back in his
original-X-Men form?
51. #46, p.19: What happened to the Mimic after his fight with
Sunspot?
52. #47, p.22: Why does Jeremy Stevens appear with the Gamesmaster's
shadow? And is anybody ever going to go and rescue Deadpool?
53. #48, p.13: Where has Sebastian Shaw been hiding all this time?
54: #49, p.2: When did Tessa become telepathic? (She describes herself
as a novice in issue #50.)
55: #49, p.19: Marty Smith reveals that Boomer's mother is still
alive.
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