Dangling Plot Threads

[AppleJ]

Dangling Plot Threads - There are so many of these in ongoing, serial storytelling like superhero comics. Set ups that never got paid off. Questions that never were answered. Writers leaving a book before they were ready or a book getting canceled too quickly.

What are some of the dangling X-Men plot threads that you are hoping get picked up some day and answered, resolved, and/or put to rest?

They could be character specific or overarching themes.

[AppleJ]

Here are a few that I'd like to see addressed some day:

What was Rogue's surname from her biological family? What ever happened to her biological father?

Who are Gambit's biological parents?

Did Marrow ever find out about Gambit's part in the Mutant Massacre and her rescue?

How did Sinister block/remove the Death persona in Gambit and since it wasn't totally effective, how did Remy eventually overcome it himself?

How/why was the All-New X-Factor team dissolved? (Yes, I know the book ended, just mean in story closure)

[Will Evans]

What happened to Magda?

Was Bova telling the truth?

What happened the all the Askani infiltrators of the 20th century?

What happened to Jean’s brother-in-law? Doesn’t he care about his dead wife and children?

Why is Elizabeth Guthrie a mutant in Age of Apocalypse but a human in the main universe?

Who is Shinobi Shaw’s mother? Lourdes?

How is Zaladane related to Lorna?

Will Colossus ever learn he has a son in the Savage Land?

Why has Cannonball and Dazzler both been killed on separate occasions and immediate return back to life?

Don’t the X-men care that Toad and Frenzy killed Tanya Andersen and Sharon Friedlander?

[coveredinbees]

Why did the Siege Perilous show Dazzler her possible deaths and cut her hand in the same place twice?

[nandes]

Ernst being Cassandra Nova/Stuff after Xavier/Jean/Emma lobotomized her and kept her in the institute.

And then Tom Taylor brought Cassie back out of nowhere only to do the same exact thing to her 20 years later. lolz.

[houndsofluv]

The stuff Morrison set up for Cassandra Nova to be Ernst...Thinking about it bc of the NXM appresh thread

not sure if it counts is dangling anymore bc it was basically stomped over but I guess there are hints he wrote in that won't make sense now . would've been really interesting

Ernst being Cassandra Nova/Stuff after Xavier/Jean/Emma lobotomized her and kept her in the institute.

And then Tom Taylor brought Cassie back out of nowhere only to do the same exact thing to her 20 years later. lolz.

omg you beat me lol great mindss

[nandes]

The stuff Morrison set up for Cassandra Nova to be Ernst...Thinking about it bc of the NXM appresh thread

not sure if it counts is dangling anymore bc it was basically stomped over but I guess there are hits he wrote in that won't make sense now . would've been really interesting



omg you beat me lol great mindss

!! Justice for our girls :'(

[Su_Whisterfield]

My favourite, Kazar and Shanna end up in an Atlantean theme park, the theme of which is Dante’s hell.
Belasco has been living there since the 13c and wants Shanna to be his Beatrice and the bloodstones and all the crap he later put Illyana and the X-Men through.

While exploring the pipes and hydraulics and other things which make it work, they dislodge a body trapped in a pipe.

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It’s one of Belasco’s experiments or children, it’s blue, furred and has two fingered hands and feet.

Kazar 9 1982, Bruce Jones and Brent Anderson, the whole Belasco arc, from issue 8 to 12 is fabulous and leads into the events in Uncanny 160 and the damnation of Illyana.

Drat, it’s inverted, but you can see the panel.

[mikeb]

The dangling plotline I want to be answered is, where did Magneto get his information from about Remy's involvement in the Morlock massacre conspiracy. In other words, who ratted out Remy and WHY.
What is Rogue's last name and REAL natural family background? (If Wanda and Pietro's family background can be retconned several times, that goofy story from 2004 short lived solo can be retconned. Maybe Rogue's real last name is...DANVERS )