Iceman Appreciation 2020

[NewMutant]

It's a cute scene, for an AU. I'm not instantly against it, like I thought I'd be.

I think its good exposure for Iceman, confirms Deadpool's queerness, and is mainstream LGBTQIA representation. Can't be too angry about. Especially for a one shot.

[Storm17]

I think its good exposure for Iceman, confirms Deadpool's queerness, and is mainstream LGBTQIA representation. Can't be too angry about. Especially for a one shot.

This does bring up one of my many questions. What is deadpool's sexuality? Pan? Bi? Anything that has a hole?

[Otto Gruenwald]

This does bring up one of my many questions. What is deadpool's sexuality? Pan? Bi? Anything that has a hole?

Whatever happens to be funny at the moment.

[CellarDweller]

This does bring up one of my many questions. What is deadpool's sexuality? Pan? Bi? Anything that has a hole?

It's so difficult to tell, the way continuity changes so often, one can never know.

I do know that in December 2013, Deadpool was confirmed as being pansexual by Deadpool writer Gerry Duggan via Twitter. When asked about Deadpool's sexuality, co-creator Fabian Nicieza stated, "Deadpool is whatever sexual inclination his brain tells him he is in THAT moment."

[Storm17]

I can't be the only one who thinks Bobby doesn't get enough "screen time". Can i?

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

X-Factor #50 Jan 1990
Judgement War Part 7 of 7: "Judgement Day"
As the Celestials stand over the city of the Chosen as part of their final judgement of this alien world,
the combined forces of X-Factor, the Rejects and the Beginagainst battle against the soldiers of the Chosen.
As the battle rages, Lord Rask clashes with Princess Seera, who is aided by Lev.
However, the two women are blasted back and after a brief clash with Archangel, Rask blasts the winged mutant aside as well.
Rushing to Lord Palik, Palik reveals that he had figured out Rask's plot to use his winnings from the battle between Archangel
and Iceman to buy a place as one of the highest of the Chosen and reveals his part in causing this plan to come crashing down.

He then goads Rask to once more jump into the battle and fight Iceman, who easily knocks him aside.

As the battle rages on, Cyclops leads another group of Rejects and Beginagains through the city
in the hopes of finding Marvel Girl and Christopher and a means of shutting down the Chosen's power supply.
Blasting their way into a science lab, they force a science robot to tell them where they might find the two Scott is seeking.
The robot briefly reactivates the memory banks of the ruined robot Zee-Zee
to show where MG is being kept and provides them with a map of how to get there.
While back at the arena, the Reject/X-Factor/Beginagain coalition is gaining the upper hand
forcing the Chosen to order their Dueler cast to enter the arena and fight on their behalf.

At first the Duelers comply, but they are convinced by Lev to turn against those
who have treated them as secondary citizens and help fight their rebellion.

This earns the ire of Lord Palik who orders everyone in the arena to be eliminated once and for all.

Meanwhile, Scott and the others find Christopher and Marvel Girl.
Upon freeing Jean, Scott finds that her Phoenix/Madelyne Pryor personalities are dominant,
with Jean's mind being submerged following her run in with a jammer.
However, Scott's love for Jean manages to help her push her personality out of hiding
and she joins the group in finding the power supply for the Chosen's city and shut it down.
This causes the grid that keeps everyone in the arena to shut down and chaos to explode in the arena.
As the battle rages on Dykon manages to climb up into the stands
and battle Palik who uses his powers to partially blind the Beginagain.
This doesn't stop him from grabbing Palik and threatening to kill him when Seera
convinces him to spare Palik because if Palik is killed Dykon's vision can not be restored.
Dykon gives Palik a choice: restore his and Archangel's vision or die.

With his vision restored, Archangel renews his attack on Rask and in the moment of fury,
slays the would-be ruler of the Chosen with his razor sharp feathers.
Scott and the others arrive at the scene as well as Zharkah with a group of Reject warriors and Reyest with the other Beginagain Elders.
With the leaders of all three races gathered, they all begin to realize that the Celestials are beginning to make their final judgement.
With Arishem preparing to give his thumbs-up/thumbs-down judgement, Ship arrives to take X-Factor to safety.
However the group refuses to abandon this planet or its people for their own safety and turn Christopher over Ship to take away just in case.

Seeing that strangers from another world would be willing to sacrifice their lives to save their world,
the leaders of the Rejects, Beginagains and Chosen all agree to work together to try and stop the Celestials.
When Reyest detects a great cosmic power in Marvel Girl, she tries to use the remaining power of Phoenix Force in her to channel against the Celestials.
Afraid to unleash this power alone, MG channels it through Cyclops who fires a massive optic blast at Arishem's hand, obliterating it.
This seems to be the course of action the Celestials were hoping for, as as soon
as Arishem was made incapable of judging the planet, the Celestials flee the scene.
Marvel Girl is happy to find that the two other personalities had merged with the rest of her mind leaving her fully Jean Grey.
As the Celestials leave in their massive ship, they drop another device like X-Factor's ship to record this world's progress.

With the road to peace beginning between the three tribes of this world, X-Factor bids farewell to their leaders.
Before they leave, Archangel and Ship have a gift for Seera: Zee-Zee, repaired and restored to her former sentient glory.
X-Factor then heads off into space, glad to be heading back home.
Just before they shoot off into hyperspace, they pass the Starjammer. Not recognizing the ship, Ship speeds off,
unaware that its passengers were in close proximity with their former leader Charles Xavier on the other ship.
Despite Xavier's deathly state, he detects his original students.
However when Lilandra and Sikorsky come to his aid, they wonder if Xavier truly did connect with his
former students or if they were merely just hallucinations brought on by his continued deterioration.

Story by Louise Simonson. Art by Rich Buckler and Al Milgrom.

[Confuzzled]

I can't be the only one who thinks Bobby doesn't get enough "screen time". Can i?

Bobby and Storm need way bigger roles if they are going to appear in only one book regularly.

[JB]

Bobby and Storm need way bigger roles if they are going to appear in only one book regularly.

Well it seems they may be getting their chance considering #11's cover.

[DragonKent17]

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Art drawn by Phil Cho
https://www.deviantart.com/phil-cho/...sion-830884359

[NewMutant]

Oh man Iceman was badass in Marauders. Watch your arms people!

[JB]

Oh man Iceman was badass in Marauders. Watch your arms people!

Seriously! At first I was like "this is going to be cool", and then more like "Oh @&!#!"

[Veitha]

Duggan is definitely showing us what mutant powers at their fullest can do. He showed Bobby and Kitty using their powersets in a lethal way, now I can't wait to see what he does with telepathy eheheh

[stormphoenix]

AYE!!! Bobby can Teleport, Bobby can Teleport!!

[NewMutant]

AYE!!! Bobby can Teleport, Bobby can Teleport!!

I don't think I agree with that. That needs some clarification.

[Veitha]

I don't think I agree with that. That needs some clarification.

Yeah I think it was The Mercury teleporting them out of there.