From: dmcclue@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Patrick McClue)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.xbooks
Subject: Orgins of Apocalypse, Mr. Sinister, and Technovirus
Date: 24 Nov 92 04:49:51 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

This is just a silly idea...please no flames about how stupid it is...
you never know when it comes to marvel...they might have already 
thought of it :) :) :) :)


It seems like everyone is wondering "who is Nate/Stryfe/Cable" that no one 
seems to care who the other two baddies are and how they got (and know so
much about) the technovirus.  But fear not, for I can explain it all!

The reason why Apocalypse knows so much about the virus is because he is no
other than.......MAGUS!  Warlock's long lost father!!!  When Doug and Warlock
"reprogrammed" Magus' genes to regress to an enfant state (don't know what
number of the New Mutants it was), it not only regressed him, but the energy
involved caused Magus to go through space and time where he ended up in ancient
Egypt.  There he bonded with some Egyptian (in the "Douglocke" fashion).  The
bonding caused him to be stuck to a more human form (no more stellar sizes--
remember when he tore a star in half just to kill Warlock?) but made the
human form very malleable.  That explains Apocalypse's shape-shifting powers.
Somewhere in his reprogrammed mind, the reformed Magus remembered that his
spiecies used "survival of the fittest"...the scion must kill the sire in
order to survive...added to the remnant, vague, memories of the Mutants who
bested him (the New Mutants and the X-Men) he thought himself a mutant also
and begin weeding out the weak mutants.  The life-span of Magus' race is
unknown so it seems likely that he could survive the time between ancient
Egypt and today.

Remember, when Apocalypse was weak, *energy* was needed to make him stronger.

As he aged closer to our time, Apocalypse begin remembering what he was before.
He remembered his defeat at the hands of mutants; he knew that he wasn't as
powerful as before.  So he finds Celestial technology in the hopes of augment-
ing his strenth and later uses other mutants to hunt down those who hurt him
and all those connected to him (like the orginal X-Factor)

From then you have the rest of his appearances...

So who is Mr. Sinister?  why he is obviously Douglocke!  In the future,
Apocalypse takes Doug and Warlock's remains in the hopes of making himself
more powerful.  Apocalypse messes around with the genetic material and 
presto!  Mr. Sinister is created.  That explains his matalic look and the
T2 rip-off when his head was blown away.

But why would he be after Cyclops?  Well Sinister learns about Stryfe's plan
to go back in time to kill his 'daddy' Apocalypse.  Sinister tries to stop him.
After all, Sinister must kill Apocalypse in order to continue to live...so he
goes back in time and tries orcestrate Stryfe's birth.  He goes back in time
and does his mucking around but is forced to hide in defeat. (he has also
inherited Apacolypse's desire for the strongest mutants to survive..that is why
he caused the Inferno).

This is all silly like I said before...so I'd better stop before I make myself
ill... ;) ;) :) :)

Have fun!

Patrick










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