Mother's Day: Mystique and Rogue

[flint_marko]

Rogue has been infected with the Strain 88 Virus, which enhanced her powers so that she instantly kills whoever she touches and is causing her immune system to collapse. Meanwhile, the X-Men and Sinister's Marauders are fighting over the first mutant baby that has been born since Wanda's decimation.

This is from New X-Men #46, by Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost, and Humberto Ramos, and X-Men #207, by Mike Carey and Chris Bachalo.

Comments

[starwolf_oakley]

Nice continuity nods to the deaths of Destiny and Moria MacTaggart.

Destiny was killed by Legion while the Reavers were attacking Muir Isle. Exactly why Legion did it, I don't think we ever learned.

[flint_marko]

I believe he was possessed by the Shadow King.

[obsidianwolf]

IIRC there have been several explanations. At the time they implied it was the Jack personality simply doing it cause he could planning to blame the reavers.

Then it was implied the shadow king was behind it. Then in X-men forever it was implied he sensed Destiny having a vision about the age of apocalypse and that it was his fault so that's why he killed her.

[starwolf_oakley]

Mystique somehow found out Legion killed Destiny in the lead-up to AGE OF APOCALYPSE. Exactly how Mystique found out, I don't think we were ever told.

Uh, which X-Men Forever? There have been 2 or 3 such series.

[obsidianwolf]

The one with Prosh and the minds of several x characters jumping through time. During one of the time jumps Mysitque in her past selves body was told by legion why he killed Destiny and he asked her to kill him. She didn't cause she didn't want to change history.

It was one of the dangling plot threads that mini resolved such as how it was the time travelling mystique that assasinated Graydon Creed using her past self's body. which is how past mystique could truly say she hadn't been the one to kill him and didn't know who did.