MULTIPLE MAN

MULTIPLE MAN Jamie Madrox enters the story helping Siryn look for the missing New Mutants. Duplication is a practical advantage in a search: one person can cover several places at once. The assignment also brings his different selves into separate experiences. The miniseries gradually makes that separation harder to dismiss. In #6, the question of recombining carries anxiety about identity and the experience of death. A familiar superpower becomes a problem involving what a particular self might lose. That concern fits a story full of people asking where they belong. For Madrox, membership and individuality can collide inside the same body. Cooperation involves a more literal question about surrendering independence than it does for most of his companions. This spotlight stays with how the 1987 miniseries presents him. The relevant experience is the one unfolding among these Angels: a search assignment becoming personal, and a power that creates company also creating disagreement over what togetherness should require. Issue anchors: #2, #6. My take: Multiple Man is one of the strangest characters, but there's a lot of cool storyline elements about him that I just found really fascinating. One thing is, if he splits himself up into multiple versions of himself, each one can live their life doing whatever it is they do, and when they recombine, they merge with each other again. There were a couple that got away from him, and they didn't want to come back, and he let them live their own life. It was really interesting, some of the dynamics you have with the character. There was a while in the older comics that he played a very big role in the X universe. They kind of toned it down and made him a side character for a really long time, but he had a lot of potential, and I've seen him in a lot of different unique scenarios. He was a really cool character.