It's rather clear to me now how central John Sublime has been to this entire NXM run. He, to our knowledge, has been involved with...1) the U-Men, 2) Sublime Pharmaceuticals, and 3) Weapon Plus (Dr. Sublime?).
The U-Men had access to, or perhaps created, the nano-Sentinel enriched liquid. I'm assuming Sublime provided the nanos to Cassandra Nova. Martha Johansenn also arrived via the U-Men and she is pumped full of nano-Sentinels, right? Aren't those the needles coming out of her?
Sublime Pharma is probably responsible for Kick. Why? To kill/craze mutants into a frenzy, producing war. And, of course, to make cash. Kick was arguably the cause of the Riots (further fanning of the flames of war), prodded by Esme who is connected to Sublime Pharma through Kick. She was probably getting it directly from the source. Let's not forget that she somehow managed to get a diamond bullet and knew to aim for the nose. My guess is the diamond bullet definitely came from Sublime also, maybe the bullet was actually a piece of Emma that Sublime got from the Germ Free Generation arc.
Weapon Plus. Dr. Sublime? Hmmmm. This is either John Sublime, or Sublime has been an alias for someone else all along. Weapon Plus is responsible for the Super-Sentinels, the forgotten Master Mold (?), and probably nano-sentinel technology, strengthening the theory that Sublime provided Cassandra with it and not vice versa.
Nova is connected to Weapon Plus through nano-sentinels and the forgotten Master Mold. She is also a new species that Beast never saw before. Sublime has been responsible for all new species' in NXM thus far, so why not Cassandra? I think she's Weapon 14, a gene-mimicking Sentinel given a false history. It's all about illusion, misdirection.
Weapon Plus might also been connected to Magneto, as Asteroid M swung into place after the WP HQ blew up. Magneto and Weapon Plus are also connected through the nano-sentinels. Cassandra and Magneto could be connected through the nanos, or Mags could have just sensed them inside the X-Men and used it to his advantage after the fact. Mags is also connected to Sublime through the Feng Tu incident. Who played who? Did Sublime know Xorn was Magneto all along? Were they in it together? I think so, but Mags didn't know he was a pawn too. I think Sublime was playing everyone in the Feng Tu story, even though Mags was using Sublime to get inside the X-Men.
My point? Martha, the Riots, Esme, Kick, Cassandra, the Master Mold, nano-Sentinels, Magneto, the Super-Sentinels, the U-Men, Xorn, Weapon Plus...it all comes back to Sublime. Sublime was trying to start war and using Magneto as his predictable pawn. I'm guessing Sublime is En Sabah Nur. Hell, an already dead Sublime had a virtual presence online. He too, like the Beast in Here Comes Tomorrow, was experimenting with creating new species on earth, both through the U-Men and Weapon Plus. It seems like Fantomex in the next arc is a) in cohoots with the Beast, and b) sporting a U-Men symbol. Fantomex, not a mutant, not human, like the U-Men and the Super-Sentinels, pieced together from parts.
We know that En Sabah Nur (if GM goes by previous history) at least has the knowledge of adamantium grafting, and was probably involved with Weapon Plus from the get-o to create the final cleansing war. Double hell, John Sublime even sounds roughly like En Sabah. |
