Jordan: Here’s another one that I’m going to tell you to go talk to the writer about. But Ben Percy, upon hearing about resurrection, had an idea for a story right off the bat that we were like, “Oh, Ben, that’s a really awesome story and we love it. But that is exactly the kind of story we don’t want to do with resurrection at the beginning of this. Like, that is the kind of story that maybe you can do like two or three years into it once we’ve already established the rules of how that works.” This was an X-Force story he wanted to do. And as we moved forward through it, that story morphed beyond all recognition into X Lives and X Deaths of Wolverine. So basically, it was completely unrecognizable. The actual thing that he pitched was super cool, it just never ended up being used, and instead, a totally different story happened. I’m sad we never got around to it. Ask Ben about that.
And also, X Deaths of Wolverine — that name came from a pitch that I think was from Jonathan, going, “Hey, we should do a story like this.” But again, it morphed into something completely different. That initial story was the 10 deaths of Wolverine being the 10 secret kill missions that he was sent on that he doesn’t know about because he was killed and resurrected every time. That would’ve been a really fun story, but again, it never fit with what we were doing at the time. Jonathan wasn’t going to write it — he thought Ben should do this story. But yeah, it just never fit in with the plans.