So maybe Our Lady In Darkness wanted to get a police investigation to start, demonstrating Gibblet and Rogue to be the 'folie au duex' spree killers they literally are, presenting a bunch of basically disposable tempting victims to the serial killer couple, plus a 'wealthy and well-respected statesman', whom, ahem...
"had been kidnapped at the hands of the 'Notorious Criminals', Gambit and Rogue, who apparently double crossed their fellow conspirators in a criminal bloodbath"...
at least, according to what the Authorities might have issued in the preliminary press release by viewing the available evidence of the victims and blood splatter left at the crime scene from a certain...
perspective
I doubt Magik left any prints or video of Herself at the scene, just an anonymous phone call to the Daily Buggle as an 'Exclusive Scoop' about those 'wanted fugitives from justice', but She did allow Gibblet an easy shot at Rogue's restraints (rather than dropping through the floor etc randomizing every 'port, with multiple intermediate jumps forward and back from other galaxies and centuries to rest and have lunch or a nap before arriving on the other side of each and every solo jaunt as per the movies 'Groundhog Day' and 'About Time'.)
For those of you familiar with the 'caper/heist/impossiblemission' role-playing game 'Paranoia', the apotheosis of a perfect ending to a scenario is the soul survivor of the day's play session making a report,
"I can give my testimony without fear of contradiction by any living person for I alone have lived to tell the tale, not including wicked traitors who have gone into hiding, to try to escape their most certain and deserv'd punishment at the gentle hands of our most benevolent and infallible Authority."
Gambit entered the stepping disk freely and of his own will (thus damning himself by willingly entering one of the planes of Judgement to pursue Sin), and Rogue was being pre-punished for dating to lay her hands on Het Most Regal Mutant HellLord, Justice and destined Sorceress Supreme of the Omniverse, according to tarot readings and divinations by competent practitioners of the Arts, plus Tempus and the Watcher.
The clue that Illyana didn't even bother to draw the SoulSword demonstrated that it was just an attempt to escape Her Endless boredom, like when She pwned Black Widow, or tried to get Piotr to stop calling Her 'Snowflake' without understanding Her Long Winter when Old Woman Storm's domain Froze over in the Garden.
After all, taking the title 'Magik' means Illyana declared herself Omniversal Champion of the 'Esoteric Artes' and is dating all challengers to take the title from Her (like the sniveling little coward Dormammu who begged for his life on his knees), which is what being a HellLord is all about:
declaring Oneself as Protector and Ruler of the Splinter Realms
(If you've read the 'Magik' miniseries, [ the story when the pretender Amanda Sefton temporarily claimed the title while dating the temporary SoulSheath Nightcrawler, Excalibur's SoulStone being unavailable ], Limbo is the Throne of the Omniverse and Final Gate against the Elder Gods, which was why Doom attempted to take it while Illyana 1.0 was playing Dead, and why Illyana 2.0 hired Legion 0.0 to clean the upholstery and fumiGate), before Belasco bitchslapped Amanda to take Limbo back after Eric Lenshier's crybaby daughter had that silly 'No More Mutants' attempt to get attention from the Grown Ups of Marvel, including such as Eternity, Illyana 1.0, the Living Tribunal, Owen Reece, and the Phoenix Force, to clean up the mess Wanda caused, like when when Daniel Haller temporally killed his perverted child-molesting deadbeat dad, and little girl illyana had to put the pieces back together, and again when little girl illyana became God Doom's first Swan, or when Illyana 1.0 did the TemporoSpacial Claudication to undo Kulan Gath's use of the Master Spell in 'The Age Undreamed Of'.
Illyana 1.0 also finally took Responsibility of ending Inferno, committing pseudocide to clean up the mess Magus, S'ym, and N'astir made when She abandoned the Throne, and has been lurking behind ever since, using the puppet Illyana 2.0 as Cat'sPaw to avoid being appointed nursemaid for Magneto's unbalanced daughter.
For that matter, in recent Ghost Riders, Belasco currently holds the title, and has knighted one of the former Ghost Riders as his version of Limbo's catspaw in the current Splinter Realm-wide Hell War, after Mephisto's casino in Vegas went bust in the crossover ''DamNation'.
Illyana probably hasn't showed up to this current HellWar because Belasco is a creep and a stalker, and She's probably blocked his number, and because Kulan Gath has been Devouring a few thousand years worth of Sorcerer Supremes for the rematch with Her, in the current run of Savage Avengers, so Kulan might end up rechallenging Her, or maybe even asking Her to make out.
Last time we'd seen Belasco, he'd been stabbed by Pixie's SoulShiv probably as a humiliation, since getting a child molester's ichor on the SoulSword would have been a compliment to Belasco, and was probably what he had been stalking Her for in the first place.
(Recall that Illyana 1.0 specifically DID NOT harm Belasco at the end of Magik and Storm, which had been Old Woman Storm's fatal mistake when young woman Orroro was young and foolish, which Illyana never was, not even when She tempted Piotr into stepping in front of a tractor so She could get a good first look at Her minor annoyance, Charles Xavier, whom She no longer has use for (as Doug figured out when Selene reanimated all the Dead Mutants last time, in Necrosha.)
The video above demonstrated how She is a Major Player, 'doing a Fisk', just by inviting and providing transportation to some people for a 'friendly game of high-stakes poker'.
(Note for the less perspicacious: my writing 'dating' not 'daring' was not a typo, just Illyana following the secret dictates of the Krakoan Council to Make More External HellLords.
(Nor was my use of 'Het' a typo, because right now She is 'trying real hard' to find someone to make out with.
I'd put money on Conan as Her beard, which is probably why She brought him to 'now', just to stage-kiss the Cimmerian beefcake in front of Doom, Strange, Kulan and the External formerly known as Apocalypse, plus maybe Shuma-Gorath and Azathoth, and of course the peeping nick Fury, current holder of the title 'Watcher'.
(Do you think Illyana has read Archie Comics to learn about rom-com's?
(She looked like She already learned a lot about the romances of lesser mortals from Her Playgirl collection to prepare for the post Demon-Bear Slumber Party, and more recently when She broke up the Katherine/Piotr nuptials.
(I'm not yet certain what She remembers from God Doom's reign, but given that She was His Gosling, I suspect She remembers Everything, especially 'making out with' Leah.) |
Team Yana Bachalo Fanboy Cyclops Was Right
Originally Posted by pandafarmer
