Wolverine gives credit where it's due...

[icon_uk]

One scan from X-Force V2 #27, one and a half pages from X-Men Legacy #237

A few weeks ago, this panel was published, as Cyclops explains that his plan to defeat the Super-Duper-Sentinels is to send Doug "Cypher" Ramsey into the future so he can hack their system and deprogram them all at the source. Wolverine points out a flaw...




At the time I noted, fairly vehemently, that comment came across as petty, spiteful, and basically a generally shitty thing to say about anyone, especially given the context that Doug had died due to a gunshot wound whilst saving Wolfsbane.

Now we see a nice moment of realisation....

In a longago post, I covered that when Doug was first introduced, the first thing we ever saw him do was cause the destruction of a Sentinel, when he and Kitty hacked a Shaw Industries system.

So in essence, Doug has come full circle. He talks one of the human guys battlesuits (Which looks sort of like the result of a one night stand between ED-209 and the Runaways Leapfrog) into helping them get into the complex, and whilst Cable runs interference, Doug confronts the Master Mold Master computer system, which engulfs him in a little light tentacle porn as it tries to delete his mind and assimilate him, but....




Doug's idea of improvisation is fairly.... destructive in Sentinel terms. Suffice to say, the San Fancisco scrap metal business is going to be in SERIOUS moolah when this is all over. But something like this comes at a cost, and when Wolverine and Domino, who have been keeping the Sentinels Distracted with X-23 and Warpath, rejoin Cable at the complex, we find this scene....



Aawww  Wolverine shows due respect in the manliest way he can...  You can practically hear the 1980's power chords playing as he carries his fallen comrade out into the light (and hope he doesn't wallop the poor guys head into the doorframe en route)

tags: char: wolverine/james logan, char: cypher/doug ramsey, char: wolverine/logan/james howlett, char: domino/neena thurman, char: cable/nathan summers, char: cyclops/scott summer, title: x-men legacy, title: x-force, creator: mike carey, creator: greg land

Comments

[nezchan]

These are the times we find out who we really are
This will be when a true friend stands at your side
One more like me
Who wants to believe in the truth of all we experienced
To live again to jump back into the fight
Someone like me who wants you to live

[selke]

"And I-I-I-I will alwayyyyyss lovveee yooouuuuuuuuuuuu!"

[foxhack]

Doug looks oddly feminine in that last panel.

[wcitymike.myopenid.com]

When and how did they resurrect Doug?

[icon_uk]

About four months ago, during the Necrosha event. Selene resurrected him with a combination of magic and technorganic virus to be one of her many minions. Given his powers, he tried to break free, but it was only thanks in the end to a combination of Warlock and Magik combining their powers, that they were able to break the spell and purg the rogue TO virus, leaving him, eventually, the only one of Selene's resurrections to not only still be alive, but be both sane and free from any outside influence at the end of the arc.

[wcitymike.myopenid.com]

Well, I'm glad to see him back, but must admit to finding it slightly amusing; he's been dead for a while.

I've afraid I've not been following comics for a while. Is there anywhere I could find a uber-brief description of what the heck the Necrosha event was (or might you be so kind as to abbreviate that as well)?

[icon_uk]

Yeah, Doug had the longest unbroken "deadness" of any X-character other than Thunderbird I.

And Necrosha wiki should be of some help.

[wcitymike.myopenid.com]

Yeep. That be one complicated plot. :) Anyway, I have to admit, I always liked Cypher's abilities. Good to see him back, although I hope the "let me rewrite you into an explosive fireball" doesn't become a trend ...

[icon_uk]

Yeah, something like that, though I was thinking more "Take my Breath Away", by Berlin.

[icon_uk]

If it becomes a trope, then yes I'd have a problem with it. If its against Sentinels, Cypher is the logical guy to undermine them.

I have more of a problem with Doug's new lack of concern about killing. He tells Warlock to kill most of the human members of the Right by infecting them with TO virus and absorbig them, and I imagine the deathcount in his little event in this post was considerable. This is the guy who couldn't kill Magus, but rewrote him back to childhood so he might have a second chance at life.

[lencannon]

I suppose being dead gives you a good insight into whether or nto making someone else be dead is actually bad or not.

[stig]

Appropriate Avatar is Appropriate.

[stubbleupdate]

Doug Ramsey is Canadian?

[icon_uk]

Is that a cause for respect these days? (innocent whistling..)

[stubbleupdate]

Well, he's referred to as Canadian by the original poster, but I couldn't find anything in his wiki to say that he was.

[icon_uk]

Ummm.... I am the original poster and I said no such thing. And Doug definitely wasn't Canadian. He was born and raised in Salem Central, his Dad was even Charles Xaviers attorney and helped him establish the Xavier Academy in the first place.

[stubbleupdate]

Wolverine shows due respect in the manliest way he can... You can practically hear the 1980's power chords playing as he carries his fallen compatriot out into the light


Assuming that Wolverine is still Canadian, and I don't think that there's been any retcon to that effect, Doug Ramsey, if he is his compatriot, is also a Canadian.

[icon_uk]

By cracky you're right... My apologies!

Hmmmm... so what was the word I was trying to think of.... Colleague? Cohort? Something like that. I'll edit it now to avoid further confusion

[icon_uk]

COMRADE! That's the word I was looking for... icon_uk feels silly....

[nezchan]

DA, KOMRADE!!

[blackruzsa]

Now you have 1980s powerchords playing in my head.

..... and now, the guitar solo from the Bohemian Rhapsody.

[skalja]

According to Merriam-Webster, "compatriot" is an accepted synonym for colleague, which Cypher certainly is to Wolverine.

[foreverrhapsody]

A++++++ use of song. I thought I was the only one who knew any of Styx's newer stuff.

[nezchan]

Well, as a Canadian I've known and loved Larry Gowan for a LONG time, and I was exposed to Styx at an early age. You can imagine how excited I was to find out about Cyclorama (I haven't heard the other album except the I Am the Walrus cover), and to find a good, old-fashioned power ballad in the grand style on it.

And a man Gowan's age really shouldn't look *that* good in leather pants.

[proteus_lives]

Logan is such a softie.

[magus_69]

You'd think that Land would go to the gay porn for a bit like that.

Of course, then Doug would be carried over Logan's shoulder, his taut, spandex-clad ass sticking up in the air, practically begging all who see it to--

Oh my, it seems to have gotten awfully warm. And what were we talking about again?

[magus_69]

BEELZEBUB HAS A DEVIL PUT ASIDE FOR ME,

FOR MEEEEEE,

FOR MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAH!

[icon_uk]

As Doug might say, you're talking my language! ;)

I confess a small practical part of me was thinking that that's about the LEAST useful way to carry someone when you're in a warzone, as it occupies both your arms, throws your centre of balance off (and makes you more likely to drop the person as well as the head-bashing into doorframe problem I mentioned)).

A fireman's lift (over the shoulder, with the aforementioned... posterior positioning as a bonus) is a far more practical and safer way to transport someone who's unconscious.

Mmmm, mental images of firemen and cute spandex clad heroes... this is shaping up to be a decent Monday morning after all. >:)

[blackruzsa]

I blame you. =_=

[pyrotwilight]

Doug: Damnit Wolvie, I just got her to hold me!

[taggerung301]

Wolverine: I'm the best there is at what I do, and what I do best . . . is cock-block

[icon_uk]

He's never forgiven Doug for dating Kitty, when that's HIS job...

[shadowpsykie]

ROFL!!!!! both you guys hurt me with the funny! some one needs to do a fanstrip ala batman/pokerface

[janegray]

Depends on how hurt the unconscious person is, though. If he is badly injured, carrying him over the shoulders could kill him (a broken rib could pierce his lung, for example, of he could drown in his own blood or vomit), carrying him princess-style is much gentler and less likely to do harm.

[terrykun]

Ahh, Kitty, the first of Logan's ethnic-but-not-too-ethnic female teenage sidekicks.