Sorry to keep going on about this Rogue thing but it's all sort of coming from leftfield. I thought Rogue was this confused young woman who had been traumatized and exploited all her life. She's always been portrayed as this "Woman of Mystery"; from the day, she arrived on the scene. I thought because of her having all these random memories lodged in her consciousness she wouldn't be able to recall any past memories, that she wouldn't be able to differentiate between which ones belonged to her and which ones were Miss Marvels and those she had come into contact with. This was cemented by the fact that she's always just been known as Rogue and nothing else. If she knew her true identity, I doubt she'd insist on making such a production out of not talking about it. I mean, wasn't there this thing where she didn't remember where she got her super-strength and flight and then she started having Miss Marvel day-mares.
What I'm getting at (crazy theory alert) is that I think Xavier took Rogue and rebuilt her from scratch. He broke the person she was apart, a person that I think may not have been as innocent as she believes, and he remade her into his own distorted vision of what a benevolent mutant idealist is meant to be. He achieved this by using the spare parts he found in her head, those spare parts being the huge chunks of Miss Marvel she had absorbed. He used Ms. Marvel's character, personality, ext as the template for the New Rogue. She used to be a girl who robbed banks and attacked Avengers, now she would be her own exact opposite. She had been so corrupted by Mystique and her abusive (assuming) step-father, she had no proper "upbringing" and moral or ethical framework to guide her, that Xavier jumped at the chance to make her think like Carol Danvers. With his modification she would think and act like Miss Marvel, thus making her a hero and perfect X-Men material.
He's a mutant who can reshape and rebuild minds as easily as Magneto can an ocean liners and she was a girl whose mind was in serious need of an over-haul. Xavier sees himself as this god-archetype Dr Frankenstein. Wouldn't he also want to play god with a monster of his own? Is this not the curse of all power-mad madmen? (Closest similarity I know of is when Ultron used Simon Williams brain structure/psychometric to create the Visions mind. This caused Vision to think in the same way as Wonder Man would. He even fell in love with the same woman (Wanda) that Simon had a thing for. This is also why he started out as a villain and became a hero, just like Wonder Man. It was like two identical minds running in two different bodies.)
Please don't attack me because of my questions. I'm an honest to Godness Rogue fan. I've loved her for reasons that seem to have been wrong. I loved her because she was the one, truly dysfunctional X-Man. She was a woman who didn't know where she was from and she didn't know where she was going. She was the ultimate walking contradiction; a woman powerful enough to punch a hole through solid steal but yet she's powerless to take control of her own life and her own fate. If this is not who she is and that the only reason for her sometime brooding nature is because she can't get layed, then I'm horribly disappointed.
If Illyana is still alive then I'm ecstatic. She was really one of my favorites for the longest time. What was the deal with that whole Darkchylde thing? When she was first introduced, was she rocking that one arm armor, sword in hand ensemble? What was her gift apart from opening rifts and teleporting through them?
I have a question about Ms. Marvel and Phoenix. Is it true that the Phoenix Saga was originally going to be an Avengers arc but got transferred to the X-Men? Miss Marvel was going to get Phoenixed but the big wigs thought she wasn't popular enough. I thought that this was bullshit but then I saw the two images of Ms. Marvel and Phoenix next to each other and I started wondering. Ms.Marvel's costume looks exactly like the Phoenix uniform, except for the colors (but the outfit is green and gold only because that's Jean Grey's trademark colors). Ms. Marvel used to be an astronaut or a jet pilot or whatever so the storyline would have fitted her better then Jean's impromptu spaceship piloting and the X-Men sudden space rescue. |
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