From: asoto@dacapo.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Anthony Soto)
Subject: Re: Alex & Lorna, or a very Sinister child....
Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Urbana Design Center
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:34:22 GMT

In article <BvovD4.IEq@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, jng53092@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Gad) writes:
|> 	<stuff deleted>

|> So, in summery, the relevant premises that provide evidence for the truth of theconclusion (ok, I'm taking Phil 102, Logic and Reasoning.  Sue me!) are as 
|> follows:
|> 
|> 1)  Mister Sinister has cloning technology which in the Marvel Universe MIGHT
|>     be able to have altered Lorna enough to ensure his own birth later on.
|>     EVIDENCE:  Madelyne Pryor, various ressurected Marauders.
|> 
|> 2)  Mr. Sinister had access to and control of Lorna for an extended period of 
|>     time.
|>     EVIDENCE:  Malice-Possesed Polaris led the Marauders from about X-Men 219
|> 	       to 260-something 
|> 
|> 3)  Mr. Sinister has the ability to alter people's memories.
|>     EVIDENCE:  Implanted Jean Grey memories in Madelyne Pryor, and attempted 
|> 	       removal of Madelyne's memories from Jean at the end of Inferno.
|> 
|> 4)  Lorna's "escape" to South America seems very much like an arranged one.
|>     EVIDENCE:  No mention from Lorna of the location of Sinister's base that 
|> 	       she escaped from.  (memory-editing, perhaps?)  Furthermore, no
|> 	       REAL explanation why Malice's hold really loosened.
|> 
|> 5)  Mr. Sinister has a reason to keep Alex and Lorna alive.
|>     EVIDENCE:  Previously mentioned quote from X-Factor 79(?)
|> 
|> 6)  Mr. Sinister is a Time Traveller.
|>     EVIDENCE:  In X-Factor 77 or 78 Saffron says: "...its like the future is an
|> 	       open book to you."  To which Mr. S replies "Let's just say its
|> 	       on permanent loan."
|> 
|> CONCLUSION:  Mister Sinister is the as yet unborn child of Alex Summers and
|> 	     Lorna Dane.
|> 
|> Any questions?   ;)

IF (notice a big if) Sinister is the child of Alex and Lorna, the "logic" that
you used would not support it at all! If Sinister is anyone's child, the most
logical choice is Scott and Madelyne. That's right, I believe that he WAS 
supposed to be Nathan Charles Christopher Summers. His "origin" might have
changed recently, but the evidence still supports this theory.

	1) He was in Scott's childhood. He did not allow Scot to be adopted
	   while Scott was in the orphange, but he allowed Alex to be adopted.

	2) He created a genetic clone of Jean Grey (Madelyne), this clone had
	   Scott's child.

	3) Do you think it might be possible that he didn't want Alex and 
	   Lorna to be killed because he might be their... NEPHEW??

	4) Only Scott's optic blast was able to hurt Sinister.

	5) For some odd reason, Sinister wants to save the Professor. Could it
	   be because Scott thinks so much of him, and Scott's little boy
	   would do anything for "Daddy"?

	6) Sinister keeps saying that everything he does is because of
	   Apocolypse. Could this be because when Sinister was a child
	   Apocolypse did something to him, like oh, sic the tehno-virus on
	   him? The child was sent into the future; this also explains
	   Sinister's apparent time-travelling.

	7) Rachel did not remember having an older brother. Could this be 
	   because he was sent into the future, and Scott didn't want to mention
	   it to her because he became a villian??

With all the evidence (I'll agree that some is cicumstantial) out there,
Sinister's logical choice of parents is not Alex and Lorna, but Scott and
Madelyne.

One other thing as far as Sinister having Lorna on his team for some time, SO!
He could not make a child with JUST Lorna. He would need to have Alex there
also! There has not been any tampering by Sinister in Alex or Lorna's life
to get them together to have a child. The only tampering he did in their lives
was to make sure they don't die, and like I said, this could be because he is
their nephew. However, Sinister DID make sure that Scott and Madelyne got
together, and he DID try to get the child once it was born.
					Tony