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[QUOTE=silvercover;5250084]I also took it that if its suicide they just put you in the last queue, since the goal is to bring back every mutant anyway, and the Crucible is just a way for people to get priority in resurrection.[/QUOTE]
No, the crucible was to instill a cult-like fanaticism to their new culture. They were to believe that they had to earn the gift that was taken from them, and it was through this trail they were to be reborn as "worthy". It was two bird with one stone. They get to slow down the resurrection queue and do some peer pressure by holding the happiness of their people hostage. It's messed up. Imagine telling a black person that you had to earn your freedom you once had by dying for it....oh, and it was other free black people telling you this.
It's wrong, considering how many mutants have their sense of self defined by their powers. It's akin to breathing for them, and yet here's Apocalypse telling you to earn your right to breath.
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[QUOTE=TooFlyToFail;5251219]No, the crucible was to instill a cult-like fanaticism to their new culture. They were to believe that they had to earn the gift that was taken from them, and it was through this trail they were to be reborn as "worthy". It was two bird with one stone. They get to slow down the resurrection queue and do some peer pressure by holding the happiness of their people hostage. It's messed up. Imagine telling a black person that you had to earn your freedom you once had by dying for it....oh, and it was other free black people telling you this.
It's wrong, considering how many mutants have their sense of self defined by their powers. It's akin to breathing for them, and yet here's Apocalypse telling you to earn your right to breath.[/QUOTE]
I really wish we could have see. The PowerPoint presentation apocalypse did to convince the rest of the QC that out of the thousands of possible solutions to this problem the answer they all agreed on was ritual murder
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[QUOTE=Gigantor;5251261]I really wish we could have see. The PowerPoint presentation apocalypse did to convince the rest of the QC that out of the thousands of possible solutions to this problem the answer they all agreed on was ritual murder[/QUOTE]
That would've been a better version of X-Men #7. Hearing the debate that came from such a proposal.
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yeah sure in the meta aspect it looks to be to induce more cultish behavior and maybe for --|A|-- and some Council members like Exodus have that kind of reason, but they already said the practical reason is they don't want to promote people giving up just cause they don't have their powers, on top of easing the burden. nothing's stopping these guys anyway if just the technicality of committing an action as "suicide" would bar them from resurrection, all that they just need to do is get into some "accident" or do stuff like fight against murderous villains. you guys also talk about it as if its their fault that they lost their powers.
also trying to make a real life comparison as taking it as literal death doesn't work here, since you come back anyway so your death practically never happened. if there was a comparison, id say its akin more to if some guy lost their limb and there's this miracle operation to give you back, but you have to wait for a long time to get it... unless you can convince the doctors you actually deserve it more than the others.
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One thing I wonder is how often (or if at all) 'ex-mutants' get updated to Cerebro's psychic library.
If the answer is 'not at all', would a resurrected Sofia remember absolutely nothing of her life after No More Mutants? And even if Cerebro did keep updates on 'ex-mutants' (perhaps checking every now and then, whenever they were in range, to see if they had mutant brain patterns again...), she still wouldn't likely remember anything from her time in Mojoworld, since I doubt very much Mojoworld has a Cerebro update station over there backing up the brains of local mutants.
So many fuzzy bits for this series to explore.
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It would stand to reason all of anda's victims get3 updated