X-Men Blue #25

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[nyadnar17]

Can someone explain Ms Sinister to me again?

[long_silence]

Mr. Sinister had a couple of backup plans in place in the event someone managed to successfully kill him.

She is a female clone of Sinister with his powers and his intelligence. But she doesn't have his memories or his accrued knowledge.

She was supposed to just be a vessel for his own consciousness to take over after he died, but she managed to avoid that and he found other clones to carry on through and now they both exist.

[cainofdreaming]

I seem to recall Mr. Sinister actually taking her over at some point. Is there an explanation of how she's back, or did she just get better?

Or I might be misremembering it. It's always possible.

[long_silence]

I don't think he actually managed to take her over. He was in the process of it but she fought against him, tried to switch bodies with X-23 (which obviously failed) to avoid it, and then somehow he got redirected into an empty clone body of a girl named Alice while Miss Sinister was unconscious.

I think Mister Sinister next showed up with that whole Sinister London schtick where he had an entire city populated by clones of himself but Miss Sinister hadn't appeared anywhere until X-Men Blue

[captainbellman]

So how's that "call me Alex" stuff workin' out for ya?

[nyadnar17]

Well he got inverted and no one seemed to notice or give a damn, not even his wife so........

[berani00]

After first reading this two thoughts immediately jumped into my head. One was "Alex is with the obvious bad guys. Something's wrong." And the other was of course "Has the Call Me Alex thing been working out?" I don't know why, that's literally what happened in my head.

[donnblake]

"When the dust settles, Alexes shall be the dominant species!"

[coldfury]

It feels really jarring to see a thought bubble again. I don't think she was telepathically emoting, right?

[icon_uk]

If definitely had the vibe of thinking it to herself.

[lucean]

I legit burst out laughing when I saw that. Not just the thought bubble, but the writing of the thoughts.

[mastermahan]

What the hell happened to Emma's face?

[starwolf_oakley]

Magneto hasn't really moved past "Mutants in charge of the world with me in charge of the mutants," has he?

[icon_uk]

Yes, several times, I'd say.

And in this case, he seems to be turning Alex down because he doesn't agree with his principles, not just his methods.

[gnarll]

Well, he has kind of evolved his position. Now there are acceptable setups with mutants in charge and unacceptable ones. The latter seems to involve large amounts of unnecessary mutant or human suffering.

Of course, what he'll accept probably varies with the desperation of the mutant position.

[icon_uk]

But he has such an honest beard...

[crabby_lioness]

This is a man who saw medical experiments being forcibly carried out on his people during his childhood. I think he might be a bit -- touchy on that subject.

[zachbeacon]

Welp, time to make a fresh batch of "Magneto was right" shirts. Seriously, why would anyone of ANY species ever trust Bastion?

[mizerous]

#Magneto was in the right

[q99]

The fact that he's glitchy and thinks mutants need to exist or he doesn't have a purpose still doesn't endear him, does it?

Magneto's right, there's only a single person there who's not an 'I'm on the wrong side' warning bell.

[zachbeacon]

I have to say I'm a little curious if you're talking about Alex or Emma. Putting aside the recent nonsensical push to make them both villains, they both tend to make some questionable decisions.

Personally I see Alex as someone who tends to do a lot of stupid things with good intentions and Emma as someone who does morally dubious things for the greater good.

[q99]

-I have to say I'm a little curious if you're talking about Alex or Emma. Putting aside the recent nonsensical push to make them both villains, they both tend to make some questionable decisions.-

I was thinking from Alex's PoV. He should look around and go, "Ok, Emma, and then....... oh."

-Personally I see Alex as someone who tends to do a lot of stupid things with good intentions and Emma as someone who does morally dubious things for the greater good. -

That's a good summery.

Like, if Emma's on team bad, I expect it's because she's up to something that'll help the good side. If Alex is on team bad, I expect it's because he did something dumb he'll regret later.

[lucean]

The outfits for g for both Emma and Ms. Sinister are so... questionable? Also after all the work with Emma, we get this. I don't even mind her being on the bad guys side, but she's the sidekick to Alex?

[mastermahan]

Once you go Summers, you'll never have others?

[silverhammerman]

I mean at least with Emma Frost there's the excuse of it looking like her traditional getup, but Ms. Sinister is peak Drawn By A Male Artist.

[randyripoff]

My faulty memory is suggesting to me that Magneto basically interrupted a Hellfire Club party, so perhaps that's why they're dressed in that manner.

[q99]

Emma's thought bubble shows her old characterization peek through... I hope they get over this villainization thing quick.

[cainofdreaming]

I'm really not up to date with my X-Men, so forgive me a silly question, but what's up with Havok's eye and the gem on his forehead?

[long_silence]

His face was badly burned while fighting the Apocalypse Twins and the Celestial Destructor during Uncanny Avengers.

Now it's basically just shorthand for signifying that he's still morally inverted

[kore]

WELL that was such a surpri....no not really.

What is up with the art? The men look OK, but the women are awful.

[wizardru]

"You'll have to abandon about 30 years of character development or a functioning brain to join us."

Like, you're not even going to try to answer his objections other than to say 'you'll have to get past it'? Like, was Alex inverted during Axis? And no one ever noticed since then? Poor Havok, always the Summers brother to get kicked in the gut for decades.

[shadowpsykie]

so... alex is evil? is this a flash forward? what is happening?

[starwolf_oakley]

The "inversion" from AXIS is apparently still in effect.

[shadowpsykie]

ugh...

[thenicochan]

I haven't kept up with X-Men much outside of Jean's return, but I'm not really digging the idea of Emma and Alex suddenly being For the Evulz again.

Also, Emma looks awful.

[shadowpsykie]

well apparently Alex is still inverted... Emma, I am hoping, is secretly trying to bring him down.

[shadowpsykie]

so the team on the cover is Lorna, Wolverine's sons, the good Xorn, Vampire Storm, and Jubilee?

[silverhammerman]

Blindfold instead of Jubilee, actually.

[long_silence]

Neither. A relatively new character named Gazing Nightshade.

She's one of the mutant heroes of Madripoor, the Raksha

[zachbeacon]

As stupid as I think Alex's team is, I have to say it's more interesting than Lorna's. I mean she's working with Bloodstorm (but not the established Mutant X one for some reason) and a bunch of characters most I either dislike* or have never heard of. This just screams "placeholder team until next relaunch".

*I mean they even picked the two worst Wolverines.