Post by sps1000 on Mar 30, 2007 3:32:51 GMT
Since Marvel is finally dealing with this in the core books I figured it's still fair game to attack Decimation in the X-books. This is what I would've done to deal with Decimation:
The after effects of House of M: When Wanda utters "No more Mutants" she only eliminates half of the 16 million mutant population (Going by Morrison's New X-Men here he claimed Genosha's 16 million mutants was half of the mutant population) but instead of completely eliminating the mutant gene she reduced the probability of them being born to 1 in every 250 million. So it is still an event when a new mutant is born.
But the big effect is that Wanda makes the entire Summers clan (including Rachel and Cable), Storm, Emma Frost, Nightcrawler, Moonstone, Karma, Polaris, Iceman, Gambit, Prof X, Pietro, herself, some of the B and C list characters and Beast human in the M-wave. This leaves the X-Men without any suitable leadership. Storm remains an X-man as does Nightcrawler. With Nightcrawler running the school and Emma going off to not give a damn with Cyclops. To fill out their ranks the X-Men have to bring back people to their fold and find new mutants to fill out their ranks. This would allow plenty of room for creativity as the little guys would feel a need to help out the people who've represented them for so long. It would also allow ugly mutants like Beak to take center stage.
Long term effects: The government wouldn't see mutants as much of a threat anymore with their primary figureheads replaced with what they consider loosers they don't feel a need for the Sentinel Squad and let the X-Men be. Apocalypse would still resurface and showcase a couple of very shocking new members. After that the new members would grow into their own and possibly be spread out among the X-books
When would this happen? Immediately after HoM was over and it wouldn't just be mentioned. Maybe give the current teams an arc to tie up loose ends and then deal with it. But no later. I think someone like Milligan would've had a ball with this.
I realize this is late but Marvel really dropped the ball on getting to Decimation in a timely manner. Not wait almost two years since it happened to deal with it.
The after effects of House of M: When Wanda utters "No more Mutants" she only eliminates half of the 16 million mutant population (Going by Morrison's New X-Men here he claimed Genosha's 16 million mutants was half of the mutant population) but instead of completely eliminating the mutant gene she reduced the probability of them being born to 1 in every 250 million. So it is still an event when a new mutant is born.
But the big effect is that Wanda makes the entire Summers clan (including Rachel and Cable), Storm, Emma Frost, Nightcrawler, Moonstone, Karma, Polaris, Iceman, Gambit, Prof X, Pietro, herself, some of the B and C list characters and Beast human in the M-wave. This leaves the X-Men without any suitable leadership. Storm remains an X-man as does Nightcrawler. With Nightcrawler running the school and Emma going off to not give a damn with Cyclops. To fill out their ranks the X-Men have to bring back people to their fold and find new mutants to fill out their ranks. This would allow plenty of room for creativity as the little guys would feel a need to help out the people who've represented them for so long. It would also allow ugly mutants like Beak to take center stage.
Long term effects: The government wouldn't see mutants as much of a threat anymore with their primary figureheads replaced with what they consider loosers they don't feel a need for the Sentinel Squad and let the X-Men be. Apocalypse would still resurface and showcase a couple of very shocking new members. After that the new members would grow into their own and possibly be spread out among the X-books
When would this happen? Immediately after HoM was over and it wouldn't just be mentioned. Maybe give the current teams an arc to tie up loose ends and then deal with it. But no later. I think someone like Milligan would've had a ball with this.
I realize this is late but Marvel really dropped the ball on getting to Decimation in a timely manner. Not wait almost two years since it happened to deal with it.
