Who Could Have Taken Moira's Place In HOX/POX?

[CoCoBandz]

She's dead.

So was Moira.

Am I doing it right?

[Omega Alpha]

Considering the concept requires that the person had to be born early enough to have some kind of influence on Xavier and Magneto in their early days (in particular Xavier forming the X-Men), the only character I can think of is Amelia Voght.

The same people complaining about Moira being ruined would complain about her. Plus, she had a much smaller role in X-men history and wasn't a brilliant scientist.

They should have used Destiny instead of Moira. Destiny's powerset would allow her to watch all possible futures and even experience all potential lives. She could have been manipulating both Xavier and Magneto all this time, and reveal herself to them only now, showing Xavier what she knows about the future and provoking Xavier and Magneto to create the new nation...

Seeing a possible future is a very different idea than living the past, and there are many other precogs with opposite views. Plus, Xavier and Magneto had no reason to trust her, ever. She is also not a scientist like Moira, which would limit what could be done with her.

[Marvell2100]

So was Moira.

Am I doing it right?

[Captain Nash]

Larry Bodine from New Mutants 45. His suicide was staged to put him in hiding. He was a one and done character, so it would have been easy to retcon everything.

The "one and done" comment made me think of Astra for some reason. Not the Imperial Guard member. The one that "raised" Joseph and was a secret retcon BOEM member.

[Omega Alpha]

Not as underused as Moira. Moira was dead for 20 years and never coming back but here we are. The only way to avoid complaining would be to create someone new and try to Sage them into a fake history but that would’ve been far worse from a storytelling purpose. Picking someone like Moira who was prominent in the past, older, sketchy, and permanently off the table was a good choice.

Exactly. It's pretty clear Moira was really the only choice that fits in that role and doesn't lead to questions like "Who?" and "Where was this character throughout X-men history if they know so much?".

[Marvell2100]

Exactly. It's pretty clear Moira was really the only choice that fits in that role and doesn't lead to questions like "Who?" and "Where was this character throughout X-men history if they know so much?".

Not necessarily. Just like the tweaked Moira they can tweak other characters.

Layla Miller could have worked.

[Alan2099]

Exactly. It's pretty clear Moira was really the only choice that fits in that role and doesn't lead to questions like "Who?" and "Where was this character throughout X-men history if they know so much?".

Instead we have countless instances of "If this character knew so much the whole time then why did they _____?"

Having a character that was off screen most of the time would have actually worked better. It would have meant they things they were doing weren't contradicting the things we were seeing them do.

[Psy-lock]

The Phoenix Force.

[Frobisher]

Nurse Annie.

[Rev9]

Astra, in fact her knowledge of cloning and history with Magneto would be analogous to Moira's history with Xavier. With Astra you just have her recruit Magneto first and then they both go to Xavier. It would also be fun to explain how her own power was incorporated into Krakoa to make jump gates and her cloning knowledge gave impetus to the resurrection protocols. I think Astra would be a good fit(on the downside the conspiracy theorists claiming she killed the real Xavier and Magneto..to start with ,and everyone is just a clone would never cease )

[sunofdarkchild]

Any mutant with time traveling powers could go back to the past, meet Xavier, and say 'look at all this crap that happens in the future. We can only fix it by starting to make changes now.' Even the 10 timelines aspect works just fine with a time traveler.

[BobbysWorld]

As far as I'm concerned, there's really only one clear choice here:

Doop.

[Factor]

Even if they changed the character, they’d still need to explain why someone with her endgoal would help make mutants stronger than ever.

[LordUltimus]

Even if they changed the character, they’d still need to explain why someone with her endgoal would help make mutants stronger than ever.

Except it turns out that wasn't her goal, it was to take away mutants powers.

[jwatson]

We still can't say what moira resolve is or that she is 100% evil though. she was placed on the spot with a lot of truths but moira is at a point where she can go either way. I know people are claiming hickman ruined her but as far as the story the only thing that makes her evil is her truth not her actions but she hasn't acted on that truth to our knowledge yet.