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OK well first off this isn't firsthand information - the source is the CBR forum. The rumour has been mentioned in passing on this board before ... I'll assess what I make of it after the alleged spoilers.
WARNING potential spoliers for Planet X as well as the final arc.
Please note this is totally unsubstantiated... And English is not the first language of the poster who supplied these alleged spoilers - which seems to make it less likely they're true - so they're slightly confusing to follow.
Planet X ends with Esme fighting the remaining three Cuckoos who realise her plan is to take over earth with Magneto. The psychic battle creates a time portal - Wolverine, the Cuckoos and John Sublime jump in and are scattered across the USA 180 years in the future.
Magneto has frozen (cryogenically?) himself and the New Brotherhood - so he can be reanimated once the earth has been remade (presumably to escape the after effects of reversing the poles).
But in destroying the mansion he somehow allows Cassandra Nova to escape her psychic prison and take control of Stuff's mind and body. By the time Magneto is revived Nova is strong enough again to oppose him and take over.
The Nightclops and other Nightcrawler variants are supposedly mutant/sentinel hybrids created by John Sublime. Nightcrawler is the base mutant type used because his DNA is so maleable.
As the Phoenix, Jean has become an elemental being/force that exists inside all mutants.
At some point Wolverine has grown a new body back from just a leg.
The story covers five years as the X-men gather recruits to take out one remaining time portal. Wolverine finally escapes back in time - due to Beak sacrificing himself.
This resets the clock back 181 years (the start of Morrison's run?) - and the arc closes with the New X-men team going their separate ways with Xavier thanking them for their help and making some remark about is the future something he is protecting or hiding.
My initial trection is to dismiss this as fanboy rumour based on the preview pages we've seen so far. But even though the signs were there all along I missed that Xorn was Magneto.
HOWEVER ... a few things seem to go against what we've been told about the final arc.
1. The Phoenix - Morrison says the final arc is his final word of the Phoenix and explores the responsibilities of the wielder of that power. He has also mentioned showing what happens if Jean becomes a goddess. So I envisaged her as some sort of cosmic guardian of earth/mutantkind, perhaps having to the wrestle with the decision to unmake the future because mutantkind has become so aggressive.
There's a big hint in NMX148, which I've read, that the final arc involves a struggle between Jean's human side and her Phoenix self. And as Wolverine says in NXM148 the power of the Phoenix could remake the universe - presumably this is what happens at the end of the future arc if history is remade/unmade, rather than someone going back in time to change the future.
I suppose it's possible that the dissinfection of mutantkind the Shi'ar have mentioned involves the Phoenix buring out the kick in mutantkind and leaving some of its essense in the drug's place. But how can Scott chose between Jean and Emma if Jean is now an elemental force inside the whole population of earth?
2. Cassandra Nova - how does she break free of the psychic prison? Isn't she being reprogrammed by the Cuckoos' telepathic classroom? I wondered whether, now reprogrammed, she is might be helping the X-Men rather than trying to conquer the world.
3. The time portal - I know this is meant to be Grant's Days of Future Past, but wouldn't that involve someone travelling back from the future rather than being flung into the future ... which seems more like the Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix. Although that mini-series had a very similar sounding story. And I can somehow imagine Morrison using a psychic battle to explain a time portal opening.
4. John Sublime - where does he come from in Planet X to get flung into the future? Presumably he is the mysterious figure we see on the screen in the Weapon Plus HQ - Dr Sublime - in NXM145? Has he been using Magneto as much as Magneto appears to have been exploiting Weapon Plus?
I'd envisaged the end of Planet X being Jean/Phoenix burning the kick out of mutantkind. (And perhaps preventing magneto from reversing the poles.) And I imagined the future arc to explore the final days of humanity, but show how the U-Men have evolved into fusing different types of mutants together rather than grafting mutant bodyparts onto humans.
However, I could be wrong... I have no explanation as how some of the X-Men are still alive 180 years in the future, unless it has something to do with the Phoenix. Time travel is certainly one explanation.
So what does anyone else think of these rumours - does any of this seem likely or just fanboy bollocks? |
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