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Ugh! No Wolvie and Rogue show! The team won't care if Piotr dies, nobody gives a flying fig about anyone else anymore. Nobody on the team will even notice he's gone...they'll just go party in New Orleans again. Kurt will go pray.
Colossus was never one of my favorites so I don't think that would bother me too much. Except that he is one of the new X-Men and so is Elf. I really hope Kurt doesn't bite it...unless he can live on in a better form in Ultimate and Evolution.
I am still upset even though I haven't read the comic. Collosus was one of my favorite X-men. He might have even been in the top three when you get right down to it.
I know he's not gone ,but He will be gone for at least a year. I don't think you have too worry about Nightcrawler being one of the casualties though. My guess on the other mutant's they'd kill off would be Cyclops, yes again just because he has been there so long so much has been said ,and done with this charecter. I mean wouldn't it be shocking for him to be the one too die, since it would be again. Even though the Search for Cyke isn't over with I think that's how it will go down. I'm also looking for Archangel to bite the bullet. I don't think CC broke up Psylocke just for the express purpose of making him look like a dork by losing his girlfriend to a lousy 5th rate charecter with overused powers ,and name. I think He's gonna edge him off also.
That's just my opinion.
I'm fairly certain that Morrison wants to use Scott heavily in his title. Also, Angel is getting a limited series, and that would be odd if he were dead. Wizard didn't leave his mini off the list > http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/frown.gif Someone mentioned that Rogue's stressing out about something happening to Gambit could be a bit of nasty foreshadowing for the Cajun, and Morrison has expressed his dislike for Gambit, but he's too popular a character for Marvel to let go of.
-Rex
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And now introucing the WOLVERINE and ROGUE show! Starring WOLVERINE and ROGUE! And this months episode co-stars some other folks. But they don't make as much money as WOLVERINE and ROGUE so lets not talk about them and get on with the WOLVERINE and ROGUE show!!!!
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*shudders*
You're gonna give me nightmares about that Mit...
Methinks these be some very grim and troubled times for our merry band of Mutants...
I also heard about the news over at the WW thread (There's also one in fandom) and posted in 'em exclaiming my EXTREME displeasure.
'MIT youre last post sums up a lot of my feelings on the matter.
Instead of killing off the traditionally underused and underappreciated X-characters, why not take the time and effort to find new and exciting ways of interpreting them?
Piotr was actually one of my favorite x-characters.
As much as I've been screaming all of my comic-reading existence about Kurt continually getting shortchanged in the X-universe, poor Colossus has had it even worse.
Suffice to say I am extremely saddened by his impending death and wish that Marvel, Quesada and the x-offices would have found a better and more creative way to get the fans talking than the TIRED 'Death of a major character' angle...
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by BAMF!:
Instead of killing off the traditionally underused and underappreciated X-characters, why not take the time and effort to find new and exciting ways of interpreting them?
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I have a hunch that's what their doing with the Ultimate titles. They might be killing off some characters in the main titles, and then reinterpreting them in the Ultimate title. I am basing this hunch mainly on what they have done with Colossus. He has a different background in Ultimate, more modernised I think, but he's still essentially the same character. I'm thinking Nightcrawler can be reinterpreted in the same way. His background has bacome rather dated, and also people are confused about whether he was raised by gypsies in a circus or lived in a monostary. Both scenarios are so last century. Its not very belivable for a guy perpetually in his early- to mid-twenties. So I wouldn't be surprised if NC gets killed off, but shows up in Ultimate, pretty much the same character but with a more contempory backstory. I actually won't be very upset if they do this.
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Death of major characters (in comics) don't matter any more. Back when Gwen Stacey and the original Phoenix died, death was real. Now..."It wasn't really Wolverine who died at all, it was a skrull!" (Like they'd ever kill off a popular character like that) Secondary character deaths don't matter, it's just "Oh they aren't popular anyway, no one'll notice, we can't think up anything new about them, if fans get angry, we'll say it was a clone or something." That's what really grinds me up.
Ditto X-GIRL85!
Aww SPATS, I understand how upset you are over reg. continuity Kurt's training for the Priesthood, but i'm sorry to hear that! http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/frown.gif
I want the old Kurt back too, but Ultimate Nightcrawler or no, I cant bring myself to wishing our 20+ yrs in regular Marvel continuity fuzzy elf dead http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/frown.gif I CAN relate though, to feeling betrayed and disenchanted because of not liking a direction a beloved character is currently taking.
I remember for YEARS I couldnt STAND the fact that Peter Parker got married! Before the miracle of puberty I was pretty much your average, bookwormish, comic geek. I think that was a large part of the reason why I identified so much with the perpetually down-on-his-luck-always-the-underdog Peter Parker. As I grew up this was the Spider-Man that i'd become attatched to.
Once he got married I just couldnt relate to Spidey anymore. Now i've always liked Mary Jane, but something about Pete having this Drop-dead gorgeous, Supermodel wife just made Spidey lose a lot of his 'everyman' appeal to me.
Although I kept on collecting, for 10+ yrs I kept wanting for Marvel to bring back the 'Real' Peter Parker!
(Now this is going to sound SSOOOO corny SPATULA!) Ya wanna know what was a BIG reason that I kept on following Spidey's adventures, even though I didnt recognize him as the character i'd grown up following anymore?
I KNEW PETE WAS HAPPY. (What with Spider-Man being a fictional character, whose fate is decided by a bunch of editors and writers I know how silly that sounds!)
I actually took solace in the fact that even though the character had grown in a direction that I didnt really agree with, at least I knew the character was happy. ( Plus there was always the chance that Pete would come full circle back to the Spidey i'd known and loved! http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/wink.gif )
It's kinda the same for me with Kurt now. Right now he's not the Happy-go-lucky , charming little flirt I grew up reading about, but Kurts' doing something that really and TRULY makes him happy. Kurt's faith has almost always been an integral part of his character.
Like a lot of us I dont agree with CC taking him so deeply into that facet of his personality during his run. But it's a journey i'll take with Kurt knowing that #1: it IS an established aspect of the characters' personality that hasnt really been tapped before, and #2: I FULLY expect for Kurt to come full-circle back to the fun-loving, mischievious little Elf that we all know and love! (ie: Kurt leaves the Priesthood behind, without sacrificing the fact that he continues to find strength and happiness in his love for God!)
Hang in there SPATS, our Elf will be back before ya know it! http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
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Oh mah GAWD. 10+ years?! I only lasted 1 month after Claremont started writing Kurt as a priest. And most of it is because I just can't relate at all to him being happy as a priest. Being an athiest, I find it very difficult to believe that anyone could be happy in a life of God. So, I basically see him as delusional, which contrasts with my view of him as basically intelligent.
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Unglaublich!! 10+ years?! I only came back 1 month after Claremont started writing Kurt as a priest. And most of it is because I just can't relate at all to him being happy as a priest. Being an young man, I find it very difficult to believe that anyone could be happy in a life of God. So, I basically see him as depressed, which contrasts with my view of him as basically happy.
I guess I just have waaaay too many hormones to relate. I still think something happened that we didn't see that really shook him to his core. I realize that he was always very religious, but most people who are don't go into the priesthood...and besides that, as others have mentioned before, there are strict rules to becoming a priest. Like you have to be a virgin, etc, that Kurt just doesn't fit into. Besides that fact that he is very very clearly a mutant, and with the ramant predjudice that is supposed to be present in the MU, he wouldn't get accepted to the priest school because he's a mutant. And who's he kidding? If he actually got accepeted and passed and everything (very very very unlikely) and he became a priest, does he really think that people will go to listen? Normal people almost surely wouldn't, and if he's preaching to only Catholic Mutants, then he's going to have a grand total of about 5 people to preach to...okay, and that's all my opinion on being a priest...but he also has lost sight of himself in chasing the priesthood...he's not the same person...or at least is trying not to be, since there ARE flashes of his old self that surface every so often. I hope that he realizes that he's denying himself who he is by evoting himself to God.
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