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Well, um, who actually is Nimrod?
Mutant-hunting robot from the future. Work with me here.
In a possible X-Men future, mutants have been exterminated or interred by armies of mutant-hunting robots - sentinels - who have taken over the US. We first encounter this future when Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat)'s spirit is sent back in time by the telepathic mutant Rachel Summers (both of whom you may recall from the comic Excalibur - we'll get to that) to possess her younger self and persuade the X-Men to avert the assassination of the mutant-hating politician Senator Kelly, one of the key events in the history of the sentinel programme.
However, we don't stop there. Later, we find that Rachel has arrived in the canon X-Men universe (Earth 616, in case you're keeping track). She wanders about a bit, and is very nearly enslaved and lezzed up by Selene, the Black Queen. This was during a time when pretty much every female mutant was at some point enslaved and/or lezzed up by Selene, the Black Queen. It was a thing. Anyway, she is rescued by the X-Men, and taken in by them, ultimately taking on the powers of this universe's equivalent of her mother, Jean Grey (again) and becoming Phoenix II. When the X-Men were presumed dead, she joined Excalibur with Kitty Pryde, whose future and parallel earth equivalent, it turns out, sent her back in time in the first place. And probably lezzed her up. This bit of X-Men history is mainly Chris Claremont.
Meanwhile, Nimrod, an experimental sentinel, has arrived in pursuit of her. Nimrod is unlike the normal run of sentinels in a number of ways. Most obviously, he is about 7 feet tall rather than 30, and is also a rather shocking shade of pink for reasons that I don't think were ever satisfactorily given. He terorises the X-men for a bit, while adopting a secret identity as a construction worker and living with a human family (thus inspiring the tendency for introspection that Jack Davenport expanded upon). He is eventually destroyed, but crops up again later as a human, the only clue to whose identity is the remarkable pinkness of his skin, who is seeding people with nanobots in order to turn them into mini-sentinels activated by the presence of mutancy.
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, Devanfeld. |
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