Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: re: Reed and WWII Message-ID: <5044@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 01:36:40 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.5044 Posted: Sat Feb 9 01:36:40 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 01:36:40 EST References: <492@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 26 > ... Wolverine has never been said to have served in > WWII, though [Claremont was thinking about it] Wolverine has explicitly referred to having experienced "that winter under Monte Cassino", or something along those lines (my X-Men back issues aren't where I can check them quickly). Monte Cassino was a major battle/campaign in Italy in WW2. This can be explained away, but only in the most ad-hoc and unsatisfying manner. It has also been established -- I think -- that Wolverine has seen active wartime duty as a soldier. That, too, tends to pin things down. If one assumes that his military service was in the Canadian Army -- it's hard to reconcile anything else with his history -- then that means WW2 or Korea, period. Canada hasn't been involved in that many wars, guys... I also see no reason to stamp your foot and insist on explaining these things away in some odd fashion. Wolverine is not young, and he has a complicated history and a mutant metabolism. Giving him a WW2 background doesn't cause any problems, because he's too obviously a special case for any troublesome conclusions to be drawn. Incidentally, saying "Xavier was in Korea, not WW2" doesn't help all that much. Those two wars were only a few years apart, and they were both a long time ago. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry