Because randomly throwing in a reference to a past sexual encounter with a major heroine makes the male hero cooler. Especially awesome when the relationship is treated as just another notch on the character's belt.
Why do they always make the X-men look sooo bad So this means Rogue was the other woman when the Sentry was with Lindy? I wonder what Mike Carey thinks of this Stay Classy Marvel
Um, Rogue? What about that dude that Mystique was trying to set you up with? The one that could cancel out powers? The one you dated for a bit when Gambit went evil? Or that time you lost your powers and got all of those tattoos for awhile? Or when you dated Magneto for a while and could touch him for some reason?
I get that they were going for dramatics, but geez...
2) Wait - if she did meet him, was it ever established that her powers didn't work on him? After all, in her very first appearance, she drained Thor's powers just fine.
3) Wait - what about the other people in X-continuity that she can touch without her powers hurting them? There are a few...
Brought to us by the writer who thought Captain America was out of it for not having a MySpace page! Thanks, Paul Jenkins! I haven't been this pleased since you decided that Two-Face's bad side was named Murray! Way to goooooo!
So, was that one story with a pre-Ms. Marvel Carol Danvers as "The Sentress" in continuity as well? Because if it was, then for all we know, he's "known" Carol too.
This is gross. It's out of nowhere and it doesn't resemble the Rogue who Carey's been writing for how long now? And did those ever even share a panel together previous (not that they are now)? Who at Marvel OKed this? WTF?
Sir, if you want me to feel bad that this guy is dead, dropping an out-of-nowhere secret love-affair on a character who's finally been taking a fairly sensible approach to her love life over in her own book is NOT the way to do it! It does not make Bob look more studly, magnanimous, or Christ-like for bringing sex to the unfuckable, it's just random and rather juvenile. I don't even like the Sentry and he rated better than being tied to that ridiculous bit of mischaracterization in his own send-off comic.
Putting aside my strong urge to vomit, I can see tenuous two reasons for this bullcrap, one for Sentry and one for Rogue.
For Sentry: So that there would be one person at his funeral genuinely upset while the rest of them sighed in relief.
For Rogue: I've known since her Dazzler appearances that her first affair was going to be a train wreck. Now the train wreck is over and the recovery can begin.
That's me, ever the optimist. It still stinks to High Heaven.
I mean, aside from what everyone else has posted, I'd like like to point out;
So she had sex with him. And what? Never talked to him again? Or was she pinning for him all this time, and it was NEVER mentioned? Did they hang out in secret? I have a few notches in my belt too, these two weren't even close friends after the fact and she's running away, ~*dramatically*~, while crying?
Was is a romantic relationship? Not just some cheap bang? And everyone else here is saying he was with someone else at the time, why would you cry over that? "oh no, now I can't continue to ignore that guy who cheated on his s.o. with me years ago *CRRRRRY*"
I totally don't buy it, even after all the other crap you have to wade through to get there.
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Date: 2010-05-12 06:29 pm (UTC)Totally not sexist at all.
*cough*
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Date: 2010-05-12 06:31 pm (UTC)that said... wasn't Bob married?
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Date: 2010-05-12 06:34 pm (UTC)So this means Rogue was the other woman when the Sentry was with Lindy?
I wonder what Mike Carey thinks of this
Stay Classy Marvel
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Date: 2010-05-12 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-12 06:35 pm (UTC)I get that they were going for dramatics, but geez...
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Date: 2010-05-12 06:47 pm (UTC)2) Wait - if she did meet him, was it ever established that her powers didn't work on him? After all, in her very first appearance, she drained Thor's powers just fine.
3) Wait - what about the other people in X-continuity that she can touch without her powers hurting them? There are a few...
So... huh?
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Date: 2010-05-12 07:26 pm (UTC)How exactly did this gibberish make it past an editor?
Plus, everyone knows the X-Men aren't allowed to spend any time with the characters of wider Marvel Universe unless they're Wolverine or Beast.
This isn't canon, it's just nonsense.
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Date: 2010-05-12 06:58 pm (UTC)BLAUGHGAUGHHHHHAUGHHsplatter splatter splatter.
Sugah. No.
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Date: 2010-05-12 07:06 pm (UTC)Makes me glad the Sentry is dead
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Date: 2010-05-12 07:31 pm (UTC)(I'm sorry, but that's the impression I'm getting from these pages. Bob was married and he boinked her? Skeevy as hell. You suck, Jenkins.)
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Date: 2010-05-12 07:44 pm (UTC)Sir, if you want me to feel bad that this guy is dead, dropping an out-of-nowhere secret love-affair on a character who's finally been taking a fairly sensible approach to her love life over in her own book is NOT the way to do it! It does not make Bob look more studly, magnanimous, or Christ-like for bringing sex to the unfuckable, it's just random and rather juvenile. I don't even like the Sentry and he rated better than being tied to that ridiculous bit of mischaracterization in his own send-off comic.
Tsk.
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Date: 2010-05-12 08:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-12 07:46 pm (UTC)For Sentry: So that there would be one person at his funeral genuinely upset while the rest of them sighed in relief.
For Rogue: I've known since her Dazzler appearances that her first affair was going to be a train wreck. Now the train wreck is over and the recovery can begin.
That's me, ever the optimist. It still stinks to High Heaven.
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Date: 2010-05-12 08:08 pm (UTC)>:(
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Date: 2010-05-12 08:17 pm (UTC)I mean, aside from what everyone else has posted, I'd like like to point out;
So she had sex with him. And what? Never talked to him again? Or was she pinning for him all this time, and it was NEVER mentioned? Did they hang out in secret? I have a few notches in my belt too, these two weren't even close friends after the fact and she's running away, ~*dramatically*~, while crying?
Was is a romantic relationship? Not just some cheap bang? And everyone else here is saying he was with someone else at the time, why would you cry over that? "oh no, now I can't continue to ignore that guy who cheated on his s.o. with me years ago *CRRRRRY*"
I totally don't buy it, even after all the other crap you have to wade through to get there.
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