From: jelmore@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Elmore)
Subject: Re: the X-Traitor
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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 05:21:52 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.212840.13137@ncsu.edu> rmaddy@eos.ncsu.edu (RICHARD M ADDY) writes:
>
>In article <1992Dec11.110517.18390@husc3.harvard.edu>, rramirez@husc9.harvard.edu (Robert Ramirez) writes:
>
>|>
>|>>I'm still of the opinion that Psylocke is being possessed by the White
>|>>Queen.  As someone mentioned a while back, after that incident, Psylocke
>|>>no longer had any thought bubbles (well, until Executioner's Song, anyway).
>|>>
>|>>
>|>>Let's see ... "More so than any of your students, I understand what you're
>|>>going through.." she thinks at the unconscious Xavier.  Could be a remark
>|>>about the Hand, as Robert Ramirez points out, but could equally apply to
>|>>the White Queen.  Besides, I still cluth the shreds of hope that the Hellions
>|>>will be back.  After all, Tarot died twice, didn't she?  She could come back.
>|>>Really!  
>|>
>|>Wait a second!  When was PSYLOCKE possessed by the White Queen?  I thought
>|>the White Queen's host was JEAN GREY (back in Uncanny X-Men #282).  I don't
>|>recall Psylocke even having _encountered_ the White Queen.  Can someone
>|>confirm this?
>|>
>|>(Not to burst your bubble or anything, Richard!  :)  )
>|>
>|>Peace,
>|>
>|>R ^ 3
>|>(otherwise known as Brass Cajones)
>
>Well, someone else started this theory, and it still makes sense to me.  I mean,
>as a recap, both the White Queen and Jean get blasted by the Sentinels, and
>both apparently die. Jean transfers her consciousness into the White Queen's
>body.  Prof X, on hearing that Jean is dead (again) scoffs, as he would have
>felt it through the mind link.  He also mentions that it's strange that he
>hadn't felt the death of the White Queen, which he thought he would have, since
>she was so powerful a telepath.  The X-Men recover Jean and Prof. X performs
>the brain (or is it personality) transplant, so that Jean is back in her
>regular body.  During the process, Forge sets up a screening device to keep
>any pesky espers from interfering, but it overloads, so he can't so much as
>detect intervention during the operation.  Afterwards, Prf X says something
>along the lines that he could have sworn he felt something else, but nothing is
>resolved.  Anyway, Psylocke begins to act strangely and looses the thought
>bubbles. 
>
>Probably, it's just my unwillingness to lose the best dressed telepath on Earth
>that keeps me clinging to this theory.  After all, Jean transplanted herself
>what, five feet? into the White Queen's body.  The White Queen would have had to
>go a bit further to get to Betsy.
>
>Anyway, has it been established who would win a contest between Jean and the
>White Queen?  Phoenix beat Emma hands down, but I don't rememeber the toned-
>down Jean ever fighting the White Queen.
>
>Still hoping!
>-- 
>---------------------------------------------
>Richard Addy
>NCSU
>rmaddy@eos.ncsu.edu
>
>"One Objects! 
>   One is miffed in the extreme!"
>           - Eupathic Impulse
>                  _Jack_the_Bodiless_
>                      Julian May


When I was starting to post this, I was going to suggest that the White
Queen's psyche was involved with the transfer of Jean's mind into her
body. It makes sense, of course; Prof. X didn't sense her death, so she's
not dead -- plus the remark about the White Queen possibly residing in the
body of someone else. I never thought of Psylocke as a candidate.
	Here is the exact text from UNCANNY X-MEN #295:
Betsy:	"More so than any of your students, I understand what you are
going through."
	"I, too, had my mind and body -- heart and soul-- sculpted into
another form entirely."
	("sculpted", I believe, is supposed to be a reference to her transform-
ation by the Hand. But it could be a somewhat vague reference to Ms. Frost
being forced to pretend to be Betsy.)
	"I will not stand by and see it happen to someone else."
MOIRA: "ALL HANDS TO THE WAR ROOM -- STAT!"
Betsy: "I will be back, Professor."
	"If necessary, to complete the task that technology could not."

The two things I can see that provide evidence that Emma Frost is not
residing in Psylocke's body are the use of "sculpted" and the use of
"Professor." "Professor" implies the student-teacher relationship; Frost
would be more likely to refer to him as "Charles", of maybe "Xavier."

Just my 2 cents...

Jay (=
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