From: dhenry@plains.NoDak.edu (David Henry)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.xbooks
Subject: Re: Rogue fans! A question to y'all.
Date: 31 Aug 92 18:28:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.20008
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

Oh, JOY! More Rogue questions!

>Okay so I'm reading the Classic X-Men that came out last week, and while
>Wolverine is going out for revenge against the poisoners of the X-Men,
>Rogue mentions the the reason the poison didn't effect her was because
>she's HALF-ALIEN! Needless to say this took me by surprise.

How do you think her mother felt?

>So what's the scoop? Is this true, or is this something that was written
>away in later issues?

More ignored, but then with Claremont's plots you could often rank the move-
ment of glaciers by his finishing a plot line, so maybe he was just in his
perpetual state of getting around to it.

And, no, technically, she's not "half-alien." Technically... well, hell,
let's just give you the whole story and let you decide for yourself. Listen
closely, kiddies, I ain't gonna repeat myself...

First off:  Carol Danvers who, in the vastness of Marvel Back Issues, was
once a supporting character in a storyline dealing with Captain Marvel
(the original Kree Mar-Vell, not Monica Rambeau), fell in love with Mar-Vell.
Mar-Vell's arch-enemy, the vicious Yon-Rogg (!), captured Ms. Danvers one
fine day, to hold her hostage against the valiant Mar-Vell. The fiendish
Yon-Rogg tied Carol up to some alien Kree torture doo-hickey, the (deep
breath of wonder) Psycho-Magnetron! Oh, horrors!

When Our Hero Mar-Vell eventually freed Carol, there was the usual comic
book "mishap at the lab," whereupon Carol was bombarded by the Psycho-
Magnetron Kree-rays, connected to Captain Marvel. This changed her
metabolism and body chemestry to the same as Mar-Vell's, thus making her
in all ways, EXCEPT genetically, a Kree. It also granted her all of Mar-Vell's
powers to boot.

Flash forward ahead:  Rogue (as we all know) permanently steals Carol
Danvers', now Ms. Marvel's, powers. Since those powers work by boosting
human metabolisms to Kree levels, Rogue (technically) now has a partial
Kree-metabolism and body chemistry. The trouble here is:

1.	Rogue's a lot more powerful than any wimpy Kree (Spider-Man
	can whup on your average Kree -- no insult to Spidey, btw, either).

2.	Rogue's a lot more powerful than Ms. Marvel ever was, although
	she technically never got a "power boost" (cf. Beast in early
	X-Factors).

3.	Rogue was never exposed to the dreaded Kree Psycho-Magnetron
	rays, which would do the actual job of transforming her
	metabolism into Kree metabolism.

4.	Rogue is a mutant (while Danvers never was). Claremont has
	established that mutants have an usual body chemistry to start
	with, so any further "Kree-izing" of her metabolism had
	funkier effects than just on plane-gene-jane Carol -- like,
	I've always found easy to think, Rogue's subsequent power boost
	over Ms. Marvel/Kree folk.

So, technically, her body, by using its native power, is duplicating the
effects of a Kree metabolism/body chemistry without the actual partial
genetic change that Carol Danvers underwent via the Psycho-Magnetron. Add
her natural mutant biochemistry to that, and you end up with a really
odd cocktail of blood, which basically means very few Earth venoms are
nasty enough to figure out what to do when they get inside of her.

And, you see, all in all it's probably just easier to say she's "half-
alien," rather than going through all the above, within the constraints of a
comic book.

To finish up, while not one to openly recommend it, a recent issue of
MUK's Hell's Angel actually made reference to Rogue's immunity to poisons.
So did the TSR Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book which had Rogue as one of
the four X-folk you played throughout it. And, aside from that, I am aware
of no other examples in the Canon where this particular power has shown
itself.


-- 
David R. Henry - Rogue Fan Club - CTHULHU in '92! Why vote for LESSER evils?
For Kate is a jealous God, and requires sacrifice./What was your question?--K
"All you of Earth are IDIOTS!"-P9fOS // Thanks... for the memories.--Rogue
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