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Os anos noventa na Marvel em que até edições especiais com personagens em trajes de banho tinha... falta de democracia no fan service...
Originally Posted by FUBAR007
It came up in a podcast interview with him and Louise Simonson a while back. While I don't recall them discussing Scemma at length, the tone of Claremont's voice suggested it only reinforced his dislike of Cyclops.
IIRC he jokingly refered to Scott and Emma as true love based on mind control or something like that. Would have to listen to it again but I remember laughter. I got the impression he prefers Scott to be with anybody except Jean.
Originally Posted by Havok83
Had Jean not returned in X-Factor, I wonder if they eventually would have revealed that Maddie was in fact Jean reborn
Claremont swears up and down that they wouldn't have. He insists Madelyne was just supposed to be a coincidental lookalike to Jean, nothing more.
BUT.
For years before X-Factor, he dropped little hints here and there that there was something more going on.
1) In the arc that introduced Madelyne, Scott tried to investigate her past but found there was no record of her prior to the date of Phoenix-Jean's death on the moon. She claimed to be the sole survivor of a plane crash that supposedly occurred the instant Phoenix-Jean died.
2) Claremont never introduced any relatives or old friends of Madelyne's. No siblings, no parents, no extended family, no old neighbors, no old college or high school friends. Nada.
3) Later on, in the X-Men/Alpha Flight mini, Loki gave Maddie superpowers and their visual signature was a flame aura (just like Phoenix).
4) As I mentioned upthread, there's a scene in one story where Rachel called Scott and, when he picked up, she heard Madelyne talking in the background and thought it was Jean. This meant Maddie didn't just look like Jean, she sounded like her, too.
5) Madelyne was immune to telepathy. Xavier couldn't read her mind.
I don't know if Claremont has just forgotten all of that or if he's just kept it in his back pocket, so to speak, in the hopes of using it in a story someday (though a lot of it did end up in Maddie's retconned origin in Inferno). To me, that's just too many coincidences seeded over too long a period to be red herrings or misdirection.
On a related note, I also suspect he didn't intend for baby Nathan to be Rachel's cross-time brother, but rather her male counterpart in the 616 timeline.
Last edited by FUBAR007; 02-12-2018 at 05:49 PM.