Wednesday, April 23, 2025

"Passing."

I'm mildly dismayed I was able to spell "gann josin" effortlessly...in 90's Avengers, the Black Knight was, possibly against his will, Sersi's special favorite--er, gann josin, her beloved soulmate, up until he wasn't. Like, for even less time than I would've figured: I would've thought Dane would've lasted until he started showing signs of age. (BTW, The Eternals movie does have Sersi and Ikaris as a couple, although I don't think they ever were in the comics, but the guys playing Ikaris and Dane are really similar, indicating Sersi has a type!) Sersi and Dane (and possibly Adam Warlock) were maybe the last people to see the Ultraverse, too. 

Despite being an altered timeline, the Age of Apocalypse was later seen as its own thing (Earth-295) but it and AoA Kurt were both apparently killed in the X-Termination crossover. Which I hated, but it did what it was probably meant to do; namely clearing the decks: every so often, Marvel will decide there's too many alternate versions of characters and try to pare things back to the core, then remember wait, guys like War Machine or Beta Ray Bill are actually cool...It's kinda the same way DC will every few years be like "no, Hal Jordan is Green Lantern, and that's it," and that'll last like five months before everyone remembers why they liked the other GL's. Anyway, despite being supposedly gone, like so many other timelines it was seen again in Secret Wars, but in an altered form, as Magneto was married to Emma Frost instead of Rogue...for reasons? And AoA Iceman was alive again, despite being one of AoA Kurt's sickhouse vengeance murders in Uncanny X-Force #24. 

So, we'll be playing pretty loose with the continuity, but honestly the sacrifice of AoA Kurt and his world was supposed to be noble but also vague enough to be reversible as needed. And the AoA is kind of like the Inhumans: all the writers have read the core texts, but not every little in-continuity story afterwards, so a lot of them contradict or step on each other. We just got that AoA Gambit figure; and I feel like we've seen him killed a couple times? Cloak might've got him once...

1 comment:

Mr. Morbid said...

Hmmm, well this should certainly be an interesting storyline as to why AoA Kurt was randomly (?) in a Celestial’s & what he was doing there other than possibly just respawning there like in a video game.
Also, as seriously committed to each other as Kurt & Sat clearly are towards each other, could be Sat ever be attracted to other alternative Kurts or is our main one THE only one?

I do remember the whole Gathering storyline & ending to it. I’m still not sure why Harras decided to write Dane off other than to let Crystal & Pietro have a chance at fixing their relationship? Always figured her & Johnny should’ve ended up together in the end.