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Barbelith Superhero Dead Pool 2005

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A

13:25 / 22.01.05

Diz- apparently, Psylocke is coming back in Uncanny X-Men #455. please PM me if you need my address to deliver my congratulatory ham.

I said THE winner will recieve a ham. That is- whoever most accurately predicts the death/s of superheroes by the end of the year.

Superhero reincarnations aren't covered, but feel free to treat yourself to a ham, if you feel so inclined. That is a lot of meat, though, so maybe just some ham. Or a ham sandwich. Or some ham flavoured crisps.* Or maybe just nod and smile at a pig. Or a guy who looks like a pig. The ball's in your court.

Nonexistent Man- My money's on Nightwing, probably will get killed in some big DC event, probably Countdown or Crisis 2.

Maybe I'm underestimating DC's stupidity, but we're talking about Dick Fucking Grayson here. Only a braindead, mouth-breathing troglodite would consider killing off Dick Grayson (the only superhero whose secret identity is a household name, but whose superhero name isn't) to be an intelligent business move.**

(*- I used the term "crisps", instead of "chips", in recognition of the fact that most of you seem to be Limeys.)

(**- Fuck, who am I kidding? Comics don't deal in logic. He'll be dead by May.)

rabideyemovement

14:58 / 22.01.05

What's the difference between crisps and chips?

Pooky Is Just My Pornstar Name

20:20 / 22.01.05

Crisps = Potato Chips

Chips = French Fries

09:23 / 23.01.05

Love, Ringo.

19:08 / 24.01.05

Enough people like Beetle to make D.C. think killing him off will make a decent event. I pity Keith Giffen though. Sue Dibneys death impacted on the second J.L.I. mini, and now Ted too? Shame.

21:08 / 24.01.05

Millar has said that evil brainwashed Wolvie is killing an X-Man in WOLVERINE #25. Will it be someone we care about? Will it be reversed in 2 issues? Who knows...?

21:28 / 24.01.05

I bet Wolvie kills Wolvie.

Sean the frumious Bandersnatch

22:16 / 24.01.05

Maybe Wolverine kills "beloved" X-Man Maggott? Is Maggott even still alive? And, if so, why?

22:25 / 24.01.05

Is Maggott even still alive?

Nope. He was killed in a concentration camp over in WEAPON X. (I couldn't make this stuff up.) And I always liked Maggot -- well, when written by Joe Kelly, anyway. It was pretty clear that no other writer could even start to think of something to do with him. Scott Lobdell has admitted the creation process for Maggot was just "Uh, he's got these maggots, and they eat stuff. Who cares, I'm gone in three issues anyway!"

If Millar's hype-quote can be believed (and it really can't, since he is who he is), then Gambit and Bishop are the obvious frontrunners. Of course, both have their own ongoing titles (Though Gambit's is probably on the chopping block, and DISTRICT X isn't far off), and are both on active X-Men teams under other writers right now, so who the hell knows. I can't believe ENEMY OF THE STATE isn't over yet, it feels like it started a bajillion years ago.

00:55 / 25.01.05

/it feels like it started a bajillion years ago./

So true and I didn't read more than three issues.

03:12 / 25.01.05

"Millar has described his X-death in Wolverine as that of 'possibly the most important character in the last 10 years of X-Men'"

Gambit, Bishop.... possibly Jubilee?? 'Bout time she kicked it.

BTW: Blue Beetle is described by Didio as "the most important character of 2005"... with his death as a catalyst, perhaps...?

XXII:X:II = XXX

05:31 / 25.01.05

My money's on Beast or Kitty. That's be a mindfuck on Logan, if he were to be forced to kill his own pupil, hah? But no, they'll probably make it someone like X-23 or Wolfsbane or Polaris, that'll carry little true emotional impact but will be played up as though it did.

/+,

05:56 / 25.01.05

hey, i'd be a little upset if Rahne died.

16:42 / 25.01.05

X-23 or Wolfsbane or Polaris

IIRC, Millar said it would be male. But I'd be all too happy to see X-23 or Polaris bite it -- the former because she's a rotten stupid cash-in character (although her miniseries is selling out, so I guess she's cashing way the hell in and has no chance of being offed), the latter because Chuck Austen has pretty much poisoned her forever.

18:55 / 25.01.05

Someone theorized on some message board somewhere that it would indeed be a major X-Men character who was killed by Wolvie -- and then resurrected by the Hand a few issues later in an attempt to turn them evil. Said character would be evil for about 5 seconds and then somehow become all nicey-nicey again. Therefore you have the story with the major death but it doesn't actually mean anything.

I thought that was a pretty good theory, knowing how X-Men comics work. I doubt we'll have a real, "lasting" death in the pages of Millar's WOLVERINE.

I would like to be proven wrong, though.

A

06:10 / 22.04.05

Wow. That didn't take long. Sometimes it sucks to be proven right. Now I have to buy myself a ham, and I don't even eat meat.

08:23 / 22.04.05

You must change your name to Countadam to Infinite Crisis.

15:15 / 25.04.05

So, does Northstar getting skewered out of nowhere lend his death emotional resonance? Or is it the fact he was gay? Or that no one knew what to with him, so he's been totally off the radar? I am at a loss to explain the depths of my apathy here, people. Well at least Millar killed off a rilly important X-type-person...

Jake, Colossus of Clout

17:07 / 26.04.05

Good job, Millar!

Northstar is obviously the most important X-Man of the last ten years, because of three little words: "I... am GAY!"

Millar is such a fucking moron. My money was on Cable, incidentally.

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