Mal Underwood/Theories

==Mal is Matt==
Could Mal and Matt Underwood be one and the same?
Evidence
*Matt appears to have had similar regenerative abilities to Mal's. When his body is found, it is covered in fresh scars and wounds in various stages of healing, although Tygr had kidnapped him only hours earlier.Bad Things Happen
*Marshal is not simply surprised when he first witnesses Mal's healing — he is genuinely horrified. His eyes go "wide with horror" and he backs away from Mal, hands shaking.Origins, Issue #7, p. 351 When Marshal later tells Ellie, "he can heal," he is alluding to something specific from their childhood, thinking that although "[Ellie had] been young ... she still had to have remembered."Origins, Issue #8, p. 384 The implication here seems to be that Mal shares Matt's power.
*Mal bears a strong physical resemblance to Matt — right down to his scars, although this may be coincidental.
*We know that Mal's regenerative powers are blue-band in nature: his body doesn't heal itself so much as it rejects and overwrites any reality involving physical harm. Kitty has also said that the full scope of Mal's abilities has not been revealed. Could Matt's posterpower have gone so far as to rewrite the reality of his own death— to resurrect or reincarnate him as Mal?
*In one of Mal's nightmares in Origins, he recalls a meeting with Sal Santini that took place in Bad Things Happen.Origins, Issue #6, p. 269 Mal was not present in this scene — he was not even alive yet — but Matt was. It could be that Sal often trots out that same line — "Just call me Saint Sal... Mama was a wishful thinker" — but Mal's confusion over the memory ("He doesn't know this man ... his brain is a liar") and Amira's sharp response to his question about Sal both seem to suggest that he shouldn't be remembering this.Origins, Issue #6, p. 286
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