From: cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Craig Welsh  )
Subject: Re: The DARKFORCE (was: Fallen Angels)
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:57:19 GMT

In article <Bw3A3n.At6@ns1.nodak.edu> dhenry@plains.NoDak.edu (David Henry) writes:
>>Wait, wait, wait.  Obscure Trivia Lad is confused.  Since when is
>>Vanisher's powers Darkforce-related?  Obscure Trivia Lad remembers
>>Vanisher once being trapped in mid-teleport by Darkforce (he was
>>hit by Darkstar, Obscure Trivia Lad thinks), but doesn't remember
>>any reference to Vanisher's powers being Darkforce-based.  But,
>>then, that could just be Obscure Trivia Lad.
>
>Hmm... once again, I find myself in the position of assissting Obscure Trivia
>Lad. You ask me, I should start getting part of the merchandising royalties.
>
>No, the Vanisher's powers are not Darkforce based. Neither, for that matter,
>are Nightcrawler's. And I don't believe that the Vanisher was stuck in
>Darkforce, oh lo, those many issues ago, but a certain incarnation of the
>Well of Worlds (see the Nightcrawler limited series for more info on that).
>
>In fact, the Vanisher's power of teleporting is "purely psionic," whatever
>that means. He was always a more dangerous teleporter than NC because he
>could psychically see where he was going, even if he'd never been there, and
>thus could teleport anywhere within his range of power and not worry about a
>blind 'port sticking him in a wall, toilet, New Kids concert, or other
>embarassing places.
>
>-- 
>David R. Henry - Rogue Fan Club - CTHULHU in '92! Why vote for LESSER evils?


Not so fast, my friend. There was indeed an issue where Nightcrawler and
the Vansiher were mixed up with the Darkforce. It was #27 of Bizzare
Adventures. Featured three X-Men stores. An Iceman one (fairly lame), a
Phoenix story (not bad) and the Nightcrawler one. In it the X-Men
investigate when Cerebro detects half a mutant. When they get there they
find half of the Vanisher.

It appears that he was in some kind of fight with Darkstar (I think. she
was with the Soviet Super Soldiers anyway) and when he was telporting
away she hit him with a shot of the darkforce. Therefore half of him
popped up in the States and the other was whereever.

Nightcrawler investigated, but when he touched him they both disappeared
and ended up in an alternate dimension, the one that appeared in the
Nightcrawler mini-series. the Vansiher was using some of the darkforce
he took with him for varying effects during the story, but lacked the
mental ability to use it right. It seemed to disappear at the end of the
story. Of course that may have changed.

Wow. I helped David and Obscure trivia Lad. Does this mean I get a kick
back or anything?

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