For some reason Moira's power is still so wacky for me, at first (back at the beginning of HoX/PoX) I actually believed that her power was simply resetrection and just going back to stage 1 on a new "timeline" and the one in which she just died just keeps going as it's, doomed for Mutankind and what not.
But "resetting" the whole timeline seems so... crazy, as in the whole 616 Universe is pretty much tied to her.
"I wish I could live life five times over!
Then I’d be born in five different places,
and I’d stuff myself with different food from around the world.
I’d live five different lives with five different occupations...
and then, for those five times...
I’d fall in love with the same person..."
- Orihime Inoue
Maybe because it sounds too "out there" to be believable as that's a magnitude of power no other mutant or otherwise powered being seems to have, not even the reality warpers. Infact it sounds a lot more like she is highly overestimating herself for some reason.
It's also very convinient how her claim involves that no traces of the previous timeline can exist anymore to proof that they actualy ever existed in first place. Like someone trying to sell you an anti-dragon stone, claiming it works because there are obviously no dragons around.
How does one even proof or determine that their powers are "erasing the universe and setting it back to the point of my birth"?.
Meanwhile there is a whole selection of much more believable explanations of how her reset powers could actualy work.
Oh and across the Marvel Multiverse no Moira MacTaggert with this kind of powers has been shown so far. Infact the multiverse versions of Moira actualy contradict her being this kind of person. So there is more reason to belief that this might not actualy be the "real" Moira.
Last edited by Grunty; 12-08-2021 at 05:20 PM.
I have been thinking... do you think the "Trickster Titan, the betrayer and coward of its kind" could be future Douglock...?
I think that, in the long term, her power will be retconned as her mind just moving to a parallel universe. But they won't reveal it until much later, to keep the feeling that the stakes are high...
Last edited by Habis; 12-08-2021 at 05:35 PM.
Destiny and Mystique are horrible. Sheesh.
Just my 2 cents, but when OS said “mutants always win” I saw it as not referring to multiple futures, but multiple events that occurred within the same timeline where mutants come out of the conflict on top.
“There is no defense against the Scarlet Witch's HEX!”
I just hope it turns out Moira isn’t really a mutant and these 10 lives are not accurate and she’s just been a puppet. Yeah, I still hate what Hickman has done to Moira. Poor Claremont.
The cover to this issue is misleading because Nimrod only appear at the end and the battle hasn't started yet.
Will Doug send some reinforcements to help Xavier since he knows everything that is going on?
The variant cover to Inferno #4 seems to be more telling.
Last edited by ericng; 12-08-2021 at 06:19 PM.
So are Doug and Warlock going to save Moira now that we know they know what's going on even in No-Places? Find out when Inferno #4 comes out... when does it come out again?
"Danielle... I intend to do something rash and violent." - Betsy Braddock
Krakoa, Arakko, and Otherworld forever!
No I don’t think that they meant that Karima had been taken over by her future counterpart the whole time we’ve known her but rather that it was a recent happening in tune with the formation of Krakoa. This does however add another wrinkle to her situation as she’s now a victim in this, basically possessed by an evil version of her. The fact that Omega Sentinel referred to her as a host, I don’t think it’s a case of being permanent and that there could be some way to sever the connection between the 2. Of course the X-Men would have to first remember that she’s their friend and thus want to save her.
"Danielle... I intend to do something rash and violent." - Betsy Braddock
Krakoa, Arakko, and Otherworld forever!
The main thing this issue emphasized is that Doug is the true power on Karkoa. Everyone else can plot, scheme, blackmail and attempt to manipulate but ultimately our boy Doug holds all the cards. He sees all, hears all and practically knows about all, and best of all he knows to keep it all to himself and move in silence. Doug, Warlock and Krakoa, the real trinity of the Krakoan age.