From: tneeck@math.macalstr.edu (The sound of hoofprints 'cross the glade...)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: A new tack on the (Re: X-Men Traitor)
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:58:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: mac.1992Apr7.105810.2382
Reply-To: tneeck@math.macalstr.edu (Spamless Wonder)


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> rudeboy@wam.umd.edu:
> >>...the most likely traitor to the X-Men and would make the best story and 
> >>fitting ending would be Wolverine.
> 
> >My gut feeling tells me that Bishop is the traitor of the X-Men...
> 
> You're both ignoring the obvious, which is that the future from which
> Bishop comes is not going to happen.  For one thing, he comes from a
> world in which there was no X-Man named Bishop.  More to the point,
> there can only be a destruction of the X-Men of the sort which Bishop
> 'remembers', if Marvel cancels the title -- or at least the clocks of
> most of the money-making characters currently in it.  So we can take
> it for granted that either the treason will never happen in the current
> continuity (as in, the new team just ignores it) or it fails.
> 

	Actually, after some thought, I have some interesting ideas on the  
whole thing.  Hang with me as I ramble...

	Now:  Many readers will remember that Claremont seemed to like dropping  
Camelot references and parallels into X-stories, at least later on.  Drawing  
from the Arthurian references, we can see some parallels--Prof. X as Merlin,  
Cyclops as Arthur, Jean as Guenivere, and Wolverine as Lancelot to name a few  
possible parallels.

	Let's extend the parallel, shall we?  What follows probably ain't  
spoiler material, but here goes anyhow...



















	Extending the analogy:  at some point in the near future--possibly 
as a result of the Cyclops/Psylocke subplot, the final blowup in the  
Jean-Scott-Logan triangle takes place.  Considering Logan's state, the most  
likely result will have Logan leave the X-Men.  Such a shakeup would leave the  
team extremely vulnerable as the internal dynamics of the group start to come  
apart at the seams.

	Now if you're going to follow the Arthur analogy to its logical  
extents, keep in mind:  Arthur was killed at Camlann, in a mistaken battle with  
Mordred.  Thus if you follow the concept, perhaps what we are looking for is  
not so much an X-Judas as an X-Mordred...[further I-wish-they-were-spoilers]



















	...and since Mordred was Arthur's son, if we accept the already given  
premises, we are left with only one confirmable, solid suspect:

	Rachel.

	Look at the evidence.  A character is supposed to leave Excalibur in a  
few issues as a result of the X-Men's imminent guest appearance.  Scenario:   
Rachel goes with "Mommy and Daddy" to return "home".  Then she runs into  
Bishop--the confirmation that the very mission Kate Pryde sent her back to this  
time for FAILED.  Now considering that the Phoenix Force has been making here  
slightly loopy to start with, that revelation--combined with the Logan/Scott  
confrontation and aftermath--might just be enough to send her over the edge.

	Or worse--we know she was a "hound" in her own time, used to track down  
other mutants.  What if her masters KNEW about the full extent of her powers?   
It might be a logical idea to such people to program her into going back  
(perhaps manipulating the events that eventually had her do so) and killing the  
X-Men herself...thus facilitating that very future!

	I ask ye, gentlepersons [Gawd, I hate this PC-speak], what think 
you of this humble theory?  An idea--or just the mad ramblings of someone  
procrastinating on a paper?  What say you?
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