From: dhenry@plains.NoDak.edu (David Henry)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.xbooks
Subject: Re: Dampening Rogue's mutant power
Keywords: Oh, JOY!
Date: 7 Oct 92 22:32:53 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <BvrEys.IKy@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> chak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
(Buckshot Willie):
>>I may be going out on a limb here, cause I don't have the issue to 
>>refer back to handy, but didn't Rogue still have her flying (& strength)
>>although weakened, after H.P. Gyrich hit her with Forge's Nullifier?
>>I know he said it wasn't a full-strength shot, but I don't remember
>>all the details...
>>Anyone?
>>
>   At the time she was struck with the power-destroyer gun, she had already
>Storm's powers.  I believe that they were the ones that dissapeared.  So, at
>the time she was flying, she was riding the winds (god that sounds bad), so
>she lost that ability and started flying like she normally does.  I think   
>this is correct, anyone know different?

Oh, JOY! Rogue questions! Nope, the only reason Rogue was still up was
because:

1.	"My mistake was in not using the maximum setting!" -- Gyrich
	(Cheap author trick #1 to keep heroes alive:
		Villains, tone down your weapons!)

2.	She had Storm's powers along with her. Note that after the
	blast, it was HER powers she lost (at least, the Ms. Marvel
	ones), in that it hurt her to fall into the tree, and that
	she had a hard time flying away because she had to rely on
	winds, instead of her own unspecified flight mechanism, to
	escape.

3.	She most DEFINATELY kept Storm's powers, since by the next
	page or so she raises up a tornado, turns over cars with wind,
	summons lightning, the whole nine yards. And, it was this storm
	she rode up that necessitated her and Storm to go save that
	barge full of lonely fishermen, leaving Storm open to Gallantly
	Offer Herself as target instead of Rogue for Gyrich's second shot.

As for why Forge, et al., has not come up with a power dampener for Rogue,
Cyclops, or any other mutant with personal problems... well, let's rephrase
that shall we, by definition ALL Marvel Mutants have personal problems...
heck, you know what I mean.

The real reason, of course, is that any invention of this sort would cut
down on the MAL (Minimum Angst Level) of the title, thereby not letting it
get by XEditor Bob Harras' exacting standards. The "in-Universe" idea that
I always thought worked best was to assume that genetic supression of this
sort would cause biochemical damage to the mutant in question over the long
term (special cases like going through a mystical plot device like the
Siege Perilous are not applicable to this case). Therefore, when the bad
guys have the X-folke chained up against the wall again, with those bulky
power-stopping handcuffs, they're never in their long enough to cause any
long-term damage. Give Rogue a tight bracelet or torc, though, to control
her power, and maybe after a month or so she starts suffering some form of
cellular deterioration, because the technological "fix" is interfering with
the way her body is supposed to "be."

No, it ain't canon, but it's always worked for me. How about you all?

-- 
David R. Henry - Rogue Fan Club - CTHULHU in '92! Why vote for LESSER evils?
"Boy, do I love PLASTIC!" -- TJ Teru // What was your question? --Kate Bush
"All you of Earth are IDIOTS!"-P9fOS // Thanks... for the memories.--Rogue
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