I was thinking...
If we know that Nate Grey is one of the O5 in Age of X-man but on the other hand it implies that Cable existed in that reality just like Hope Summers and ended up dying ..
What the fuck is Nate Grey? Is he even Nate Grey?
Who deliberately chose to put queer characters in charge of policing and repressing the sexuality of an entire world. "Creepy asshole" is a massive understatement.
Living for this moment, ngl.
Amen. Along those lines, I hope it also shows the readership isn't afraid to be presented with some concepts that make us think a bit. One of the aspects about AoXM that makes it so deliciously unsettling is how close to the bone some of these ideas hit.
This is the beauty of this event: the X-Office is treating us like adults by giving us these uncomfortable and creepy stories that are also wonderfully thought provoking and clearly well put together.
But it is also so much fun to have the Horny Police and the Apocalypse sex cult.
What an amazing time to be alive and reading X-Men comics.
Bamfing this in from a discussion elsewhere, where someone was wondering how sibling relationships even exist in Nate's utopia.
The way I think it works in AoXM is that people have their memories of canon up to a point (albeit tampered with by Nate), and now they believe that society has reformed and is moving past the (in Nate’s view) selfish chaos of personal attachments. So there would still be families - in that there are still people around who were born to parents, have siblings, remember that sex is a thing, etc - but those relationships are a distasteful remnant of the old age and are supposed to be downplayed as much as possible until they eventually die out. Or else Nate or Dept X mind-wipe you and/or excommunicate you from society.
Which means Nate's X-Men, for the most part, are themselves relics of a time he'd like society to move past. I wonder how long it would take him to supplant them with pod-grown mutants if this universe were to have a longer run.
I do wonder if we'll get Nate's actual reason for this? and why he didn't just leave one Cuckoo standing? or split the extermination twins?
Honestly seems like he just left himself a vulnerability in his system by not allowing people to just bang Jean... I mean, just bang in general.
Apocalypse and the X-Tracts #2 variant by peach MoMoKo:
Some more info on the whole sibling discussion. It seems like the Cuckoos are a special case, with Nate prioritizing their mutancy over his desire for a world of isolation:
Q: Does Northstar remember Aurora? And if so, does that mean she's 'dead' in this reality?
Williams: He doesn’t–not yet, anyway. She’s not dead though, he just has no memory of her. “All love is forbidden love” covers way more than romance, so most people have had their familial memories taken from them as well. (Department X gets away with…holding onto quite a bit of stuff, but there’s a reason for that.) In Marvelous X-men you see Laura dealing with her memory of Gabby starting to resurface, and she even pops her claws and gets angry at Nate right before Nate takes it from her again.
McGuire: The only real exception to the “we take your family, too” is the Cuckoos, because they don’t function when separated. And I’m honestly surprised and delighted that I was able to get away with dealing with that.
Williams: It totally makes sense tho! Like, AoX is all about celebrating and uplifting mutant ability so if someone’s mutatism ties them to another mutant…he’d probably have to make an exception. It’s why having the Cuckoos in AoX is so great.
Last edited by Anduinel; 03-05-2019 at 07:27 AM.