From: teo33398@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Doctor Zero)
Subject: A Coupla Thoughts...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 05:22:07 GMT

	A few things that would be cool...

	Cable:  The only way that could tidy this mess up without making oh-so-
cliche.  Cable is a robot created by Mister Sinister.  Actually, android would
be a better term, since he would be a machine with a cybernetic brain and
skeleton, covered in organic human tissue.  He was programmed to beleive that he had come back in time from a very dark future where he was programmed to find
and train the "Highlords", which Sinister knows as The Twelve.  Cable's actual
agenda (a sub-program by Sinister) is to find and gather as many of the younger
Twelve as possible.  He is programmed to do this by using "noble" means, or by
using the "this is war" pretense.
	What Cable doesn't know is that he and Stryfe are BOTH creations of 
Sinister, programmed with the same goals, but to accomplish them by different
means.  This is why Cable and Stryfe look alike, act alike (sometimes the even
talk alike!!!  What a crazy pair!!!), and hate each other so very very much.
	Sinister had this whole scheme of rooting out the Twelve a loooong time
ago (a la the Jean Grey thing.  Though I hated that explanation, Cable is so
silly that I don't mind this retcon.).  Strangely enough, even though Mister
Sinister is Nathan Summers, Cable and Stryfe beleive that they are.

	Cypher/Warlock:  I _really_ dislike the thought of bringing the two
back as an amalgam of each other.  What I would do (What If #76, not on sale
now!!!), is explain it this way.  The bit of transmode virus in Doug's eye had
started to change him in the grave, and preserved most of his brainwaves.  When
they sprinkled the last of Warlock over Doug's grave, the leftovers found their
way into the newly transmoded, but immoble, Douglas.  Once there, they fused
into one being.  They could have emerged then, but realized that they would
have real trouble relating to the real world and vice verse.  So they pooled
their abilities.  Cypher really stretched his mutant launguage ability to
accurately understand the remnants of his gentic code, as given by his decaying
corpse, and Warlock used his body as a body rebuilder and incubator.  Warlock
absorbed the lifeglow of nearby plants to maintain his energy during this time.
	When they finally emerge from the grave, Cypher is fully back to his
age at death, though much older mentally, and Warlock is also more mature.
	(Yes, I loved Tribute the First, and it doesn't have to be invalidated
by this.  Doug could say that he only had one rememberence of being dead, and
it had to do with Rahne...)

	X-Men Judas:  #1 I think it's a silly A:2001 rip-off, #2 I don't
particularly see anything interesting about Gambit, zo...
	Hasn't anyone noticed that Gambit is ALWAYS trying to touch Rouge???
He knows what her powers can do, or at least has a good idea. And for your 
typical "I'm too cryptic for this mag" type of guy, this would be like suicide.
So why does he persisit on trying to touch her???  Because he knows that some-
how his will is stronger.  And what happenes when Rogue touches someone whose
will is stronger???  The stronger willed one takes over Rogue's body, and has
the powers of both.  Given surprise, this is MORE than enough power to take out
the X-Men!!!  Why he wants to do this (other than to fry Bishop's chicken) is 
unknown.


	Anyway, those are MY theories.  I like 'em, mostly because the ways
the mentioned storylines seem to be leaning are lame and boring.  Take for
the price you paid for 'em....









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