Suggested Tags: char: goblin queen/madelyne pryor, char: cyclops/scott summers, char: marvel girl/phoenix/jean grey, creator: chris claremont. There's no Gateway tag, so I guess he's out of luck.
Is being a clone really that different from being a 'shard' like Hope?
YES. Because clones exist in real life, and there is a word (okay, phrase) for them. It is "monozygotic twins". Sorry, but it really gets on my nerves when people treat "clone" like another word for "carbon copy", when that's not how genes/cloning/people work.
If Maddie and Jean were twins separated at birth, and Scott behaved the way he did, would anyone attempt to claim that he was in any way exculpated because Maddie was "just" Jean's second-born twin? Of course not! But that's what cloning is.
Sometimes I feel that anyone writing SF needs to get hit with a large stick labeled "CLONING DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY". It would have a nail in it.
That's really why the clone explanation didn't work. Maddie was really more like Jean's twin. With no memories. She wasn't identical to Jean (at first any way, I remember it being a thing that they just looked a lot alike), she had different interests, friends, a job.
Clones are people too and the fact that she was created to be a brood-mare doesn't make how Scott treated her any less awful.
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YES. Because clones exist in real life, and there is a word (okay, phrase) for them. It is "monozygotic twins". Sorry, but it really gets on my nerves when people treat "clone" like another word for "carbon copy", when that's not how genes/cloning/people work.
If Maddie and Jean were twins separated at birth, and Scott behaved the way he did, would anyone attempt to claim that he was in any way exculpated because Maddie was "just" Jean's second-born twin? Of course not! But that's what cloning is.
Sometimes I feel that anyone writing SF needs to get hit with a large stick labeled "CLONING DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY". It would have a nail in it.
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Clones are people too and the fact that she was created to be a brood-mare doesn't make how Scott treated her any less awful.