Madelyne was tricked into choosing the Goblin Queen. She didn't judge people by their appearance; S'ym didn't look any more demonic than Nightcrawler; and his arguments would have seemed reasonable to many people: "Think about it--what better way to exorcise the arts you detest than by confronting them. And where better to yield to temptation? Hey--if you can't indulge your wildest fantasies in a dream--then where?"
X-Man's Madelyne felt real to me,especially in the Blood Brothers crossover. She risked her life to help Nate and Cable defeat Stryfe. The three of them were bonding on the last page.
Unfortunately ,Counter-X ruined that. My own theory is that Evil Jean replaced Maddie sometime between X-Man #47 and X-Man #50, where she's shown standing over Ness and wielding a large knife.
In Madelyne's defense, in this case she was striking out at the people who'd been torturing her.
Why not her primary mutation? Healing was the first power the showed; and since the Firefountain worked only on ordinary people, it shouldn't have affected Maddie if she was really Jean's clone. What if she simply didn't realize that the power was hers--telekinetic healing for physical problems, psychic healing for mental problems?
Agreed. Except I'm not convinced Anodyne's powers really came from Loki, as I said above.I would however enjoy some character development. I know that is hard to do in a limited series, they have stuff to do and not much time to do it. However the stuff that made Maddy my favorite female X-character, the scene when Alex talks her off the ledge or the dream when mannequin Jean takes everything or how slowly but surely she and Alex were drawn together while in the middle of an impossible situation they see something in each other or the drive to find her son, that kind of stuff you can't get in a four issue mini. So I want Maddy (and Alex) featured in an ongoing so I can get more of the Maddy I truly enjoyed. I loved Mutant X but that self adjusted Maddy was the Maddy that I wanted the 616 Maddy to eventually become. I bought all the early issues of X-Man because "Maddy" was in it, but was she that Maddy was highly manipulative and might have just been a figment of Nate Grey's imagination. Dark X-Men Maddy is a little blood thirsty which I don't mind per-se but as of yet she hasn't been shown with very much nuance. I want to revisit the Maddy that remembers her time as an Asgardian enhanced healer and enjoyed her time as Anodyne. Maybe she can strive to reclaim that power to heal Alex. Speaking of Havok one of the best things to happen to Alex was Mutant X a trip to another dimension. Not that I want Maddy gone but what was great about it was it removed him from Scott's shadow. Maddy as a character with distance from Jean and Scott. I still do not know if she actually has a place on an upcoming ongoing yet however seeing as how I have waited since Inferno for this I can take solace that the distance between a quality ongoing featuring Maddy and Alex is as close now as it has ever been.
Proof that Madelyne didn't need to bare her skin to be beautiful.
Happy New year. I hope to have more to say in a 2024 thread.