Josh V
07-16-2008, 03:18 PM
From CBR:
The last question of the day is perhaps the longest we’ve ever had. That said, we had to pass it along to our guests due to the level of details it included…and the fact that it made us laugh loudly. And, truth be told, this is a damn good question.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present WorstBlogEver giving the BestQuestionEver:
We've been discussing this in the X-Forums of CBR. There have been two references that Santa Claus is a mutant. The first, which was dismissed, was in the "Generation X: Holiday Special” #1 where Jubilee sees St. Nick and just wonders if he is, in fact, a mutant. We dismissed that as, "Well, Jubilee is a moron."
However, in the "Marvel Holiday Special” of 1991, there is a story apparently written in continuity as right after "Uncanny X-Men” #97 and before the Christmas issue of "Uncanny X-Men” #98, where Cerebro detects a new highly powered mutant and Xavier sends out Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Storm, Banshee, and Colossus to try and recruit the person. Simultaneously, the Brotherhood (Toad, Mastermind, Blob and Unus the Untouchable) sense the mutant as well, and both groups go and do battle with the prize being this new mutant as a member of their team.
Said powerful mutant is revealed to be a reality-warping mutant...who also happens to be Santa Claus. At the end of the battle, Santa explains that Christmas isn't a time to be worried about recruiting mutants, and uses his reality-warping powers to turn the naughty Brotherhood into action figures and teleports the X-Men to a location where they were supposed to meet Cyclops and Phoenix to go shopping.
Now, I ask you about this in hope that it will be rendered “not canon,” because if it is...
Santa Claus is not listed as one of the 198. Therefore, he lost his powers on M-Day due to the Scarlet Witch's magic. And if he lost his powers, well...Wanda Maximoff killed Christmas in Marvel-616. And I don't think that's an act she'll ever be redeemed of.
Hopefully, you can give us a straight answer to end this hilarious debate...we're running out of jokes to tell about it in the thread.
NL: We’ve been dreading the asking of this question. Now, please pledge that you’ll keep the answer of this confined to the CBR Boards. You make very good points, WorstBlogEver. But there’s a book that takes a lot of initiative when avenging things that has been dropping hints of another mutant that is “off the books.” I can’t rule out that Mutant Zero and Santa Claus aren’t two different people.
Is it true Dan have we finally found out the identity of Mutant Zero?
http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=17245
The last question of the day is perhaps the longest we’ve ever had. That said, we had to pass it along to our guests due to the level of details it included…and the fact that it made us laugh loudly. And, truth be told, this is a damn good question.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present WorstBlogEver giving the BestQuestionEver:
We've been discussing this in the X-Forums of CBR. There have been two references that Santa Claus is a mutant. The first, which was dismissed, was in the "Generation X: Holiday Special” #1 where Jubilee sees St. Nick and just wonders if he is, in fact, a mutant. We dismissed that as, "Well, Jubilee is a moron."
However, in the "Marvel Holiday Special” of 1991, there is a story apparently written in continuity as right after "Uncanny X-Men” #97 and before the Christmas issue of "Uncanny X-Men” #98, where Cerebro detects a new highly powered mutant and Xavier sends out Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Storm, Banshee, and Colossus to try and recruit the person. Simultaneously, the Brotherhood (Toad, Mastermind, Blob and Unus the Untouchable) sense the mutant as well, and both groups go and do battle with the prize being this new mutant as a member of their team.
Said powerful mutant is revealed to be a reality-warping mutant...who also happens to be Santa Claus. At the end of the battle, Santa explains that Christmas isn't a time to be worried about recruiting mutants, and uses his reality-warping powers to turn the naughty Brotherhood into action figures and teleports the X-Men to a location where they were supposed to meet Cyclops and Phoenix to go shopping.
Now, I ask you about this in hope that it will be rendered “not canon,” because if it is...
Santa Claus is not listed as one of the 198. Therefore, he lost his powers on M-Day due to the Scarlet Witch's magic. And if he lost his powers, well...Wanda Maximoff killed Christmas in Marvel-616. And I don't think that's an act she'll ever be redeemed of.
Hopefully, you can give us a straight answer to end this hilarious debate...we're running out of jokes to tell about it in the thread.
NL: We’ve been dreading the asking of this question. Now, please pledge that you’ll keep the answer of this confined to the CBR Boards. You make very good points, WorstBlogEver. But there’s a book that takes a lot of initiative when avenging things that has been dropping hints of another mutant that is “off the books.” I can’t rule out that Mutant Zero and Santa Claus aren’t two different people.
Is it true Dan have we finally found out the identity of Mutant Zero?
http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=17245