X-Force #16: Into the Deep

[superboyprime]

Comments

[laughing_tree]

I feel the opposite. Telepathy and telekinesis are such ubiquitous, overdone powers -- I think Jean Grey's a cast member in this exact same book? -- that I appreciate how the Green Lantern-y twist makes Quentin's more distinctive.

[silverhammerman]

I think that in the specific context of X-Force pure telepathy could feel unique, since it's not traditionally action oriented and characters like Emma Frost and Professor X aren't usually in those kinds of scenarios. Even Jean Grey tends to lean on telekinesis during action scenes, at least in my encounters with the character. I just think of something like the psychic paintings from Jupiter's Legacy that shows that there's so much more to be done with a psychic character than mind bullets OR standard telekinesis.

[bruinsfan]

One thing I *really* liked about Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run was the story in which the entire Hellfire Club that beat that team of X-Men was revealed to be Emma Frost acting under Cassandra Nova's influence and fooling everyone into thinking they were fighting multiple opponents. (Including Sebastian Shaw winning a fight with Colossus—did Peter only think he was beaten up, or did he do it to himself in the grip of Emma's mental illusions?)

[icon_uk]

We get into a weird overlap between telepathy and illusion casting, if Emma could do all that with her telepathy, why did the Hellfire Club keep Mastermind around as their resident illusionist?

And I think, to Emma, making Colossus feel the pain of his illusory injuries would be the more straightforward approach (Which again, would make her pretty unstoppable in any situation, but that's a common issue with telepaths)

[scorntx]

Thought the Emma / Jason team-up was so they had a better chance of wearing down Not-Jean's mind than they would alone?

[icon_uk]

Maybe it's changed, but from what I recall, Emma designed and built the psi-amplifier which Wyngarde used to be able to influence Not-Jean's mind.

So it was all Wyngarde's powers with a bit of a nitro-engine-boost from Emma-designed hardware, rather than her powers.

[donnblake]

Emma has had years (how many? Hard to say. But certainly *some*) of practice with her powers between the Dark Phoenix storyline, including several stints working with other telepaths, either as partners or a teacher, so it's possible she's just picked up some new techniques by the Perfection story.