Yes. *nods solemnly* The world needs more people like us. I’m sure.

Dormouse: No, actually, I wouldn’t.

I thought that comment would provoke some reaction from you, dearie! Snark.

No, actually, I wouldn’t.

*grin* I am all for a Wolverine spin-off. What can I say? I love Wolverine. In every way imaginable.

Also, I really enjoyed the ending of the movie. B/c I felt like it drove home a really key point–mutation cannot be cured, which, in my mind, indicates there’s nothing wrong there to begin with.

Besides, Rogue’s tragedy really compels me, and I hate the idea that she could just cure herself.

On the other hand, I CAN tell you that Jamie was born with his multiplication ability (it took several years for him to figure out subtraction, of course) instead of developing his mutant ability as an adolescent. He grew up on a Midwestern farm and his parents died in a farm accident that left a young Jamie to take care of the whole place by himself and himself and himself and himself… until he was found alone (sort of) months later. Jamie actually lived with Moira on Muir Island as a lab assistant (Moira and Muir island both were seen in X3) for several years before he joined X-Factor.

Y’know, I’d like to know why Locke needed a wheelchair… oops, that would be LOST.

By the way, how did he come to need a wheelchair? Did it have anything to do with how he and Magneto became not-friends?

Okay. That made me laugh out loud… I’m going to apologize straight off…*sorry* … but really, until Patrick Stewart, I was usually happier when Xavier took coma naps or just stayed out of the way. With all the internal strife (not to be confused with Stryfe) bouncing around with the X-Men’s agendas/politics… I usually didn’t see things eye to eye with Xavier. Maybe he did hold the rest of them back!

I trust you mean the cartoon from the 90’s right? Not X-Men Evolution which was put together by people who were living in my brain because I really think they stole my ideas.

As for Jamie Madrox… they at least got his personality right which made me glad. Flippant on the outside, gooey caramel on the inside… except when his duplicates decide they have minds of their own (which is when things get interesting). Right now in the comic word Jamie’s running his own detective agency and is the star of his own noir comic–as it should be.

Which leads me to your question… MOST of my devotion to comic books back in the 90s was directed toward the misc teams outside of the main school of X-Men (which were known as the blue and gold teams, I think…). I really enjoyed X-Factor, who, along with Jamie, were the government employed mutants. eXcalibur, which were the mutants across the pond, including Kitty Pryde aka Shadowcat and Nightcrawler. And Gen X, which were the younger generation of students–’younger’ or later pupils than even the cast that you see in the movies. I still collected X-Men and Uncanny X-Men (the main titles that more directly impact the movies)… but mostly because of how they impacted the series that I enjoyed for their quirky misfit personalities–crossovers and such.

The big catalysts that would rock through all the series when I read it were usually Magneto, Apocalypse, Mr. Sinister and his designs on Scott/Jean, Legion caused some trouble (–uh, I think he was Xavier’s son), the Legacy Virus (think mutant AIDS.. Jamie actually died of this.), the Phalanx which were some computer alien entities that liked to absorb people. And somewhere in there Prof X died. (At the time I was morosely ‘good riddance’…) I’m a bit rusty on the main plots… just how they impacted my little c-team characters that I adored.

Now if you want to know how not to design a Mutant Killing Robot or about Rachel Summers as the Phoenix (aka Scott/Jean’s daughter from one future possibility) or about how Kitty was much better off with Pete Wisdom from the W.H.O. (Weird Happenings Organization)… I sort of liked the humdrum misadventures of the mutants on the sidelines.

The problem I had with MI:3 was that the personal stuff felt forced (except for Billy’s scenes) and I kept wishing they’d get to the action. I am sort of inclined the other way with X-Men… I like the action okay, but I don’t mind just seeing them ice skate or take their classes or playing chess. As for Xavier being the catalyst… I think that it works so far as explaining why Wolverine doesn’t just wander off or after Jean and why he now feels responsible for the school.

Now I think I need to pull down my comics again…

Anyway, since you know the X-Men world much better than I do, can you weigh in on something else? Porpoise’s complaint with all three X-Men movies is that no significant action takes place until Charles Xavier is somehow incapacitated. Now, he’s read some of the comics, but he can’t remember if that’s also the usual plot device within them. Is it?