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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Then there's Madelyne. Alex becomes involved with his brother's estranged wife. That's already complicated before Inferno adds demons, transformed personalities, and everything happening around Madelyne's son. The Goblin Prince version of A...
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The late-eighties team puts him through some pretty brutal decisions. He goes through the Dallas sacrifice with the X-Men in Fall of the Mutants. They come back, but the world believes they're dead, and Australia becomes their base. Then th...
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Alex and Lorna actually try leaving. After the Krakoa rescue, they quit the team and work toward a life together, including their geophysics work in New Mexico. That isn't a ridiculous ambition. The X-Men's idea of a normal week can involve...
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The Sentinel story gives him the Havok identity in #58, including that black costume with the circles across his chest. The costume makes sense for somebody frightened of how much energy he's holding. His powers need monitoring, and he isn'...
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Alex Summers enters X-Men #54 as Scott's younger brother, and almost immediately somebody wants to turn him into a power source. The Living Pharaoh material brings out Alex's ability to absorb cosmic energy and release it as plasma. His con...
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So, where I'm stopping, Lorna isn't back to her old self. Her magnetism is gone, her altered physical powers haven't given her a normal life, and the Muir Island situation is still unresolved. There's plenty here that makes her worth follow...
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Muir Island doesn't turn into a safe place for her either. By #269, the reader can see how wrong things have become there. Lorna is being held, and the Shadow King is involved. She's reached the place that's supposed to help her, and she's...
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By #249, Lorna manages to fight back enough to call for help. Then Zaladane gets her hands on her. In #250, Zaladane steals her magnetic powers. Alex is there and can't stop it. After everything involving Malice, the answer isn't that Lorna...
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She doesn't spend every appearance possessed. She and Alex help during the Proteus story, and their life away from the team includes studying geophysics in New Mexico. That's worth remembering because there's an actual person here with inte...
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Giant-Size X-Men #1 gives a good example of what Lorna can actually do when she gets to contribute. The rescue doesn't end with everybody simply beating Krakoa up. Her magnetic powers are part of the coordinated effort that gets the island...
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The Sentinel story brings Alex into her life. They're both prisoners, both dangerous enough that somebody wants to keep them under control, and neither one has much reason to trust what's happening around them. Bobby's interested in Lorna e...
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Going back through Polaris's appearances, one thing keeps coming up. Lorna has a hell of a lot of power, and the writers keep finding somebody else to decide what she does with it. She first shows up in X-Men #49. Bobby meets this woman wit...
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When I'm talking about the darkness in the house here, I'm talking about the corruption from Wonderland that's still attached to it. The looking glass is part of the connection, and leaving the building empty hasn't made that connection go...
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The 2011 annual has teenagers going into the abandoned house to explore. It's the same property, but now you've got another group of people deciding to go inside because of its reputation. They're coming at it differently from a family movi...
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The 2010 annual goes into what's happening around the house too. A neighbor tells several stories connected with it, including what followed the previous annual, trouble reaching the adjoining property, and attempts to sell the house again....
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The 2009 Wonderland Annual has a new family move into the house. The Liddles are gone, but the house is still possessed, and the old looking glass is still involved. These people haven't agreed to anything with Wonderland. They weren't ther...
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The Liddle house is still dangerous after Calie leaves. That gets picked up in House of Liddle, where other people end up dealing with the place after the family is gone. Back in the original books, Calie is living there with Alice, Lewis a...
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LIDDLE FAMILY TREE Howard Philips └── Alice Liddle ── married to ── Lewis Liddle ├── Carroll Ann “Calie” Liddle ── partner ── Brandon Price │ └── Violet Liddle └── Johnny Liddle SIDE BRANCHES Alice's brother: Drake Liddle. Alice's twin sist...
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Here's the family put together: Howard Philips is Alice's dad. Alice and Lewis Liddle have Calie and Johnny. Calie and Brandon Price have Violet. Drake is Alice's brother. Lory is Alice's twin sister. That makes them Calie and Johnny's uncl...
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For the older relatives, Howard Philips is Alice's father and Calie's grandfather. That comes up in the Beyond Wonderland material. Charles Dodgson is farther back in the family. He's the one connected to the sacrifice arrangement I went th...
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