From the tie-in comic that came out today
Woo woo woo Wolverine
The final panel also teased spoilers:end of spoilers
The Maraurders and Sienna Blaze
The agreement also provides Disney with the opportunity to reunite the X-MEN with the Marvel family under one roof and create richer, more complex worlds of inter-related characters and stories that audiences have shown they love. It only makes sense for Marvel to be supervised by one entity. There shouldn't be two Marvels.
This was another superb episode. It's amazing how much they're packing in each one while at the same time giving us plenty of character moments.
It was hard not to feel Madelyne's pain as she found out she was a clone - I found myself wishing it was the other way around at the start of the episode even though we all knew the switch was coming. The moment Maddie succumbs to rage and fire was just masterfully crafted and her Sailor Moon transformation, extremely accurate down to the hands movements, was just the icing on the cake.
Then the episode takes a horror turn and does it very well - Sinister is genuinely scary here. I think the ending with Bable going into the future with Bishop is just perfect and a great way to streamline all the possible alternate futures.
And am I the only one who just freaks out (with joy) whenever Morph transforms? I love how they're giving us a large number of cameos via their shape-shifting, I was x-static when they turned into Psylocke last week and I literally screamed when they morphed into Magik in this episode... and even moreso when they changed to her Darkchylde persona. Even though that's never been shown in the show so I guess there's a story to be told there.
Yes, but Cyclops could have taken Bishop's place instead. My main issue is how Cyclops reacted. In the original story he understood the sacrifice he had to make handing Nathan over to Askani. Turning away from it like he did in the show was not true to character in my opinion.
But again, since the plots are all rushed and fused together there is little weight to any of the scenes. It's like watching a Wikipedia article made into a show.
"Dear World: the nation of mutantkind is watching you. Do not #$%& with us." -Cable-
I'll admit that this made me laugh out loud."Rogue's really training her stamina with the new boss"
Anyway, while I agree this could have been a two part episode, with only 10 episodes it makes sense that we would get the cliff notes version.
Quick question, would Scott even know where to go in the future? Could Bishop come back or send Nathan back when the problem is solved?
I think on this specific problem it was assumed that it needed to be Bishop to survive in the future, find the guy and convince him to help cure Nathan. That Scott couldn’t be given directions and a note/story to vouch for him. But as you say it was rushed and it will probably make a really good wiki summary.
Why did Maddie's powers become pink when she and Scott were fighting Sinister?
He wouldn’t but that doesn’t mean he should just give up and not try. I expected he or Maddie to make the case for them leaving with him only to have Bishop reason with them that Nathan’s best chance of survival is with him. The way the show presented it, there was no discussion. Both parents just gave him away without even offering to go with him
Maddie could have used TP to get that info from Bishop
The amount of X-Men slash fiction on Ao3 that starts with Wolverine in the shower after a danger room session.....I see you, Beau
Morph is really growing on me. I'd love to see this version of him in 616 comics.
I don't mind so much that Cyke didn't take Bishop's place in the future. Bishop's the one that knows who to ask and where to go. We can play this game and ask why didn't Maddie go instead of Bishop?
My bigger problem is, as you've pointed out, Cyke running away. I get it-- I understand '97 Cyke felt distraught by the thought of having to "abandon" his child, and it resonated with him deeply given his own situation. But I felt one of the defining characteristics / moments of (comics) Cyke was he'd still make the best choice, even when he knew it was the unpopular one or one that'd torment him. Making and executing the difficult choice was Cyke's schtick. So, yeah, I felt that scene wasn't true to Cyke's character as well.
All that aside, I'm really going to have to find time to rewatch TAS one day. I feel like I've mis-remebered or confused with the comics a lot of things. Weren't Bishop and Cable at odds some point?
Let your wallet talk.
Never forget, Cyke fans~ https://twitter.com/i/status/1246248602768486402
Jean had more presence in death than Cyke in Hickman's entire run.
Hickman succeeded where 2010s Marvel didn't: make the X-Men villainous and irrelevant.
Hilariously, the X-Men have now fully embraced mutant supremacy and racism against humans.
For other Cyke-centered stories by a Cyclops fan: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1008144...ffle-or-Boogie
The current comic Sinister is Hickman's creation; KG's version from his Uncanny X-men run was Prime Minister Sinister of Sinister London. The two are nothing alike. Hickman is the one who reinterpreted Essex as a gadfly dandy while Prime Minister Sinister was far more in line with the animated version.