Just to be clear where applying real world sicence to a medium where a random gene can let you shit out black holes.
Also I might be confusing mitochondria with another cell, was never good in biology
Last edited by Dthirds3; 09-25-2020 at 04:59 PM.
Yes, it was damaged, and they were repairing by mapping to Logan's genome and reconstructing on it's most basic level; she duplicated the X-chromosome for the explicit purpose of fixing the damage quickly while keeping it all Logan's DNA. Even if she were going to use her own genetic material, it would have been broken down to it's base components so that it wouldn't have any impact on her at all, or it would defeat the point of doing all this in the first place; and you don't even require genetic material, you can just construct genes out of basic chemical elements.
It doesn't matter if her physical characteristics don't completely work when real world science is applied; this is a fantastical setting, real world science does not matter at all, unless it is brought up and incorporated as an element of the plot, and even then it doesn't have to aheare on a 1 for 1 level, it just needs to make sense in regards to the internal logic the narrative has established. Fiction needs to make sense in relation to narrative, not in relation to science; your idea does not work, because it is completely at odds with the underling narrative point of making her female in the first place. If they choose to explain that she did a little genetic spackling on a level that is basically immaterial to save time, fine; but they have not done that, they have explained nothing.
Which brings me back to the point of my initial statement; which is, that it is an unmoored plot point.
It was not explained, did not lead into anything, was in any way followed up on, or really serve any narrative point; it just contradicted stuff, and was tacked at the end of a forgettable tie in mini she wasn't even advertised as being in, and can simply be dismissed as "Tony only had a second, and read it wrong."
There is nothing affixing it as a staying or essential element going forward, they're basically ignoring it at this point; maybe they'll do something, maybe just dismiss it, it's schrodingers plot point at the moment. (I honestly don't care what they do, so long as they explain how it fits within the established narrative.)
Last edited by Nazrel; 09-25-2020 at 07:01 PM.
Context is king.
X-23's most basic surface level characteristic that any idiot should grasp: Stoicism.
I don't demand that her every minor appearance be a nuance in-depth examination of her character, but is it to much to ask she be written in Archetype?! This is storytelling 101! If you want people to stay invested in a character, you need to, at the bare minimum, write them such a way that they can plausibly be believed to be the same character!
As I said, Magistrate had someone who had ability to deactivate powers - Wipeout was his name now when I checked - who stopped both Wolverine's and Rogue's powers working. But he couldn't do anything to Madelyne. He said she did not have any kind of powers. Now, of course you can always assume that Phoenix was just too strong for him to affect, but easier explanation is that Wipeout was right, and Madelyne had no powers of her own. By time of Genosha incident, Inferno storyline was in full swing and Madelyne had already become Goblyn Queen.
Any way, I don't have particular bone to pick here, I'm just saying that up until Inferno it was played that Madelyne was not a mutant. That was the original intent, yes, but later developments did not need to overwrite it. If Madelyne had an X-gene, even latent one, one would have expected Sinister to discover it. He was really good at that, cutting mutants up and finding what makes them tick...
And of course this is the sort of thing which gets retconned all the time so maybe she now is a mutant. It's like Cloak & Dagger, they were mutates first, then retconned to latent mutants because mutants were suddenly trendy, then retconned again to mutates.
Last edited by Ikari; 09-25-2020 at 05:59 PM.
Because they don’t like Mandy I assume. They should’ve shown us the vote because I wanna know what Jean and Emma voted.
That was literally the only scene of NXM her eyes were brown. Every subsequent appearance they were green (also, Logan's eyes are BLUE so there's frankly nothing to read into this panel). And her eyes were green in most of NYX when she first appeared. It can be hard to tell in some panels because of the muted color palette, and a lot of her scenes (especially in her first few panels) have sort of an overall sepia wash, but it's there.
And her brown eyes in Claremont's run of Uncanny are just as irrelevant as the REST of what Claremont did with her. Maybe once in a blue moon there will be a nod to her wearing the Fang suit, but otherwise Uncanny has been virtually ignored.
We don't know the status of Bellona's nanites after Kimura got hold of her, but her claws were artificial implants so they could frame Laura for massacring the town she and Gabby were hiding out in at the beginning of EotSII. She's at no point been indicated to have a healing factor, natural or otherwise.
Gabby's nanites have never been turned off, (it's been a plot point a couple of times) and she developed her healing factor and claws in spite of them. The other Sisters hid Gabby's mutation from Alchemax to protect her so they never learned about it. PRESUMABLY her healing factor keeps the nanites from killing her, though whether they will have an accumulative effect over time (like adamantium poisoning often does for Logan in various AU continuities) is unclear.