Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly The Non-Legion Comics Trivia Thread Pt 5

Selene?

A demon bear thing?

Emma Frost?

That's three nopes.

Professor X?

The kid from the Hellions who could manipulate people, Empath?

No.


This is kinda right, but he wasn't the "foe" behind the attacks.

Rats. I thought I had it there. The one I'm trying to remember the name of was possibly an Egyptian. My memory cell tells me he was part of an XMan plot involving Storm at some point. I think by that stage only Claremont could follow the plot. Something Farouk, but he might have had a proper villain name?

hmmm Mesmero?

Think Thoth has it. Commonly referred to as the Shadow King?

Nope.



This is an awesome, well-informed guess, but it is incorrect. Farouk/Shadow King took possession of Xian Coy Manh's (Karma) body at the end of New Mutants #6, right before the Silver Samarai triggered an explosion of the compound he and the Viper had been using with the intention of killing the New Mutants. Sam, Rahne, Dani and Bobby survived but feared Xian dead, but no body was found. As readers, we were privy to a threatening psychic contact she had with a mysterious entity, but he was only identified as Farouk around 2 years later when Xian finally reappeared and was shown to be under his possession. Farouk himself was a pretty deep dive, returning from a flashback confrontation shown in Uncanny X-Men #117 with a younger Xavier that supposedly left Farouk dead and showed Xavier the necessity of training mutants to confront evil ones.

But, again, it was NOT Farouk who manipulated Dani's powers in some of the NM's earliest adventures!

Phoenix?

Brood Queen?

YES! Some of you may recall the Brood saga, which which ran thru most of the 160s in Uncanny X-Men. Clearly inspired to some degree by Alien, it pitted the X-Men against an alien race that planted eggs inside other beings . When hatched the host would die and become a Brood. The X-Men were particularly appealing as hosts because their hatchlings would inherit their mutant powers. The Brood kidnapped the X-Men and impregnated them with their eggs. The X-Men were able to avoid their fate, or we wouldn't still be talking about these classic Claremont-era characters in the present tense, right?

Meanwhile, Charles Xavier was left on Earth but was also impregnated, unbeknownst to him or anyone else. Inside of him, the incubating Brood was able to manipulate Charles, using his own psychic powers. The Brood manipulated Charles into forming the New Mutants in order to set up more powered hosts to begin their conquest of Earth. The Brood realized that Dani was somehow subconsciously aware of her and used Charles' powers to manipulate Dani's powers to first alienate her from her friends and then to confuse them all when they all realized something else was going on. By the end of New Mutants #3, they thought their foe vanquished, as they didn't suspect it was inside Xavier. Then, the X-Men returned from space in Uncanny #167 and, having been clued in on what happened to Charles, they confronted the now-hatched Brood and managed to save Charles by cloning him a new body because his mind was still alive.

So that's how Xavier was "kinda" right, but he wasn't the foe behind it all.

I can't wait to see what question Ann comes up with! I can't remember her ever participating in this thread when I've been doing so!!!

Well done Ann! And thanls for all the background info Paladin. I must have read these at some point, but I"ve no memory of it. Clearly being suppressed by my Brood implant.

nicely done Annfie!

Thanks, guys.

Staying with the New Mutants, my favorite issue of that series, Annual 2 (pencils & inks by Alan Davis) guest starred Captain Britain and featured his sister Psylocke's first appearance in an American comic. One other Marvel UK character made an appearance as well. Who was this character?

Courtney Ross?

Slaymaster? in a flashback.

Not Courtney Ross.


Not Slaymaster.

When you said Who was this character, I was thinking it was a background appearance by Doctor Who.

Braddock is invariably shown leaving his partner, to fly off into danger. I'll go with Meggan, even if I haven't got the spelling right.

I haven't gotten to this one yet, so I'll guess from my memory of Captain Britain comics (though Meggan may very well be correct)...Saturnyne?

I've got an Alan Davis X-Men issue where Psylocke might have joined. I don't remember reading a New Mutants one.

The Fury?

Thoth has it. The character is Meggan, and it's a silent, blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo (though she is called by name.)