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The Incredible Future Basilisk No-Prize Thread!

19:00 / 04.04.04

In 'Planet X', Magneto kills Basilisk.

But in the last issue of 'Here Comes Tomorrow' the One-Eyed Pink Monster is upright again, sitting in a class at the Xavier mansion and being taught by Beast!

So - how did this come to be the thing it came to be to come to be? Is it Basilisk's twin brother? If so, what's his name? Did Jean put right Basilisk's death, creating a Dreaming style fissure in the reality of the comic which may expand and imperil the world?[1] Did he fall through a great big hole in the plot? Or is there another, even more convoluted, explanation?

This is where we try to find one. If Marvel won't award a No-Prize for the best, stupidest, most ridiculous explanation of how Future Basilisk comes to be the thing he's been to came, then we will, goddammit! Face front, true believer, and explain how such a thing can happen in the ever-lovin' Marvel continuity!

And don't even think of mentioning either Hypertime or Silvestri fucking up as an explanation, because that'll getcha a slap...This is a good, old-fashioned Silver Age Ludicrous No-Prize discussion, and no mistake. It's Quibblin' Time!

19:26 / 04.04.04

I shall maintain that the Basilisk that died was not the "true" Basilisk, but rather a clone constructed by Mr. Sinister. Sinister foresaw (or was possibly clued told outright by Sublime, since they both have a Weapon X connection) that, left to his own devices, Basilisk would join up with Sublimagneto and be killed.

Sinister could have just abducted Basilisk to keep him from the fight, but that would have aroused undue suspicion too early in the game. Thus, he sent a clone off to do what the original would have done and spirited the true Basilisk away.

After the events in Planet X, Sinister arranges for the real Basilisk to re-appear at the school. Either the X-Men assume his resurrection is "just another one of those things" (after all, mysterious resurrection and the X-crew go way back) or that he has some kind of latent secondary mutation that brought him back from the brink of death.

Why would Sinister go through this much trouble? Quite simply, it's because Basilisk is...

[SPOILER SPACE]

...The Third Summers Brother! This is going to be a huge revelation in Joss Whedon's Astonishing run. Sorry to have spoiled it.

Dan Fish - @Fish1k

13:02 / 05.04.04

While John was correct, he forgot to mention the following:

It was new pupil Basilix, Basilisk's cousin, an exchange student from France. He fell into a cauldron of gamma-irradiated magic potion as a child.

Meanwhile, the real Basilisk fights time-lost Roman soldiers, in a small village that still holds out against the invaders.

20:54 / 05.04.04

It was all an elaborate plot to get Scott and Emma hitched so they can have demon carrying children...

Hyuk.

Spyder Todd 2008

18:51 / 07.04.04

In the dark apocalyptic future of Cable, Nathan Summers exists in a world where Apocalypse has conquered the planet and turned it into a desolate waste land. However, thanks to the long lost M’Kraan, it is revealed to Cable that Apocalypse would have been stopped in the past… if only Basilisk hadn’t been killed by Magneto!
So, the time traveling Cable traveled to the past of “Here Comes Tomorrow” and steals Basilisk DNA from the Subliminated Beast! Then, after cloning Basilisk, he time travels to just before Magneto killed Basilisk, and replaced the real Basilisk with the clone! Then Cable drops Basilisk off to just after the Manhattan events to save his own future!

Of course, then Phoenix goes and changes the whole future again, so it turns up doing nothing. Oh well.

19:15 / 07.04.04

Belated footnote:

[1] A reference which probably only makes sense to me and the other five people who read the dreaming, I suppose...

20:53 / 07.04.04

He got better.

Sorry, only old-school Claremont fans will get that one...

-Jeph!