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From: ph@wucec2.UUCP (Paul Hahn)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: The Jean Grey Shuffle
Message-ID: <1152@wucec2.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 09:31:56 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  2 09:31:56 1985
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Reply-To: ph@wucec2.UUCP (Paul Hahn)
Organization: Washington U. in St. Louis
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Keywords: Phoenix

In article <284@dspo.UUCP> tallman@dspo.UUCP (Charles David tallman) writes:
>					      You are saying in one world
>Phoenix appeared as the simulacrum of a cosmic being.  In the other, Jean
>gained exactly the same powers through radiation.  Both later became Dark
>Phoenix and behaved exactly the same way (as shown in Rachel's flashbacks
>in X-Men #199).  This is asking for a lot of coincidences.  The simplest
>explanation is that the events creating Phoenix were the same in both worlds.

	    First, a small quibble--Rachel's "flashbacks" in #199 are
	from BOTH universes.  Although I believe that Claremont's
	alternate timeline is just what would have happened without
	Shooter's interference, that issue is not the reason why.
	    Now, to the main issue--of course it's a ridiculous number
	of coincidences.  Don't blame Claremont for that; blame the
	X-FACTOR people.  Put it this way--do you really think that
	Claremont buys any of that stuff about Phoenix duplicating Jean?
	The simplest explanation in my opinion, which I am fairly sure
	is what Chris is going to do and which I KNOW I am going to do,
	is to simply ignore the X-FACTOR stuff as much as possible.
	That means Claremont's version of the origin of Phoenix still
	holds in Rachel's universe.
						--pH
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 *	    "She is her mother's daughter, and she has the Phoenix
 *	power."
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