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This is something I’ve been kicking around in my head the past couple months, posting it here, see if it makes any sense (please note, I’m typing this up at work from notes I scribbled out last night, so bear w/ me if this isn’t entirely [or at all] coherent, and I realize I’m making some good-sized leaps here in trying to connect all of this, but still)…
Cassandra Nova as Terrorism Metaphor
- Nova uses Sentinel technology to launch an attack on the center of mutant culture, Genosha, an Israel-like nation. Similar to the attacks on New York and DC, the ‘centers’ of finance and military culture in the US, if not the world.
- Sentinel technology is US military ordinance, Nova controls a long forgotten shadow gov’t operation, using highly adaptable sentinel technology, located in a third world country.
- That airplane-shaped Sentinel slamming into Magneto’s tower.
- Henry McCoy and Jean Grey afterwards at ground zero, searching for survivors.
- How Nova came out of nowhere, this huge and powerful threat that’s always been there but we didn’t know about.
- The nanoswarm superflu mirroring last year’s anthrax attacks.
- The Shi-ar, this baroque alien society, this ancient culture coopted by this ‘evil’ force, arguably similar to what the al Qaeda has done to Islam.
- And now this force is coming back to Earth, this strange force that’s coming to kill everyone.
And then you take into consideration the fact that Morrison wrote all of this months before the events of September 11, which makes me want to start a petition imploring him to only write about rainbows and little kitty cats from now on… |
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