Hand, HYDRA, what?
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I've been trying to figure out who killed Northstar.
Okay, no; obviously Wolverine killed Northstar, but I've been trying to work out who exactly was controlling Wolverine, and who subsequently brought Northstar back and sent him on a killing spree, whereupon he was apaprently "killed" by Wolverine again, while actually being taken by S.H.I.E.L.D. to be deprogrammed (which didn't work, and he was then stolen and brainwashed by Serafina and her bunch).
I've seen it said that it was the Hand. I've seen it said that it was HYDRA. I've seen the phrase "Dawn of the White Light" thrown around.
I'm very confused, so of course I turned to Google.
So, according to Wikipedia, "The Hand is a cult of evil mystical ninjas who are heavily involved in organized crime and mercenary activities such as assassination plots. The Hand covets power above all other objectives. They are primarily based in Japan, but operate internationally."1. (More pages from various sources here and here.) Apparently part of their dealing is killing people and bringing them abck as servants of the Hand.
Which would work pretty well in the case of Northstar, maybe?
So the Hand are mystic ninjas, whereas HYDRA are sort of Nazi international terrorists formed in Japan and Germany during the second World War 2 3 4 5 HYDRA has it's fingers in all sorts of pies. They recently kidnapped and brainwashed Jamie Madrox, and one of the various branches that split off and became independant are the sods that captured and tormented Kyle Gibny when he was a young teen (and he always did have that fixation on Northstar).
Still confused.
Marvel.com, a summary of "Enemy of the State", the story in which the event in question took place, it says: "Hydra, The Hand and a mutant group known as the Dawn of the White Light formed an alliance in order to execute their plan. The plan was to kill and resurrect super heroes under their control."
But - why were they working together? I mean, wouldn't it have been obvious how they were going to inevitably turn on each other? Were they planning to merge? Technically, who was controlling Northstar when he came back, the Hand or HYDRA?
Okay, no; obviously Wolverine killed Northstar, but I've been trying to work out who exactly was controlling Wolverine, and who subsequently brought Northstar back and sent him on a killing spree, whereupon he was apaprently "killed" by Wolverine again, while actually being taken by S.H.I.E.L.D. to be deprogrammed (which didn't work, and he was then stolen and brainwashed by Serafina and her bunch).
I've seen it said that it was the Hand. I've seen it said that it was HYDRA. I've seen the phrase "Dawn of the White Light" thrown around.
I'm very confused, so of course I turned to Google.
So, according to Wikipedia, "The Hand is a cult of evil mystical ninjas who are heavily involved in organized crime and mercenary activities such as assassination plots. The Hand covets power above all other objectives. They are primarily based in Japan, but operate internationally."1. (More pages from various sources here and here.) Apparently part of their dealing is killing people and bringing them abck as servants of the Hand.
Which would work pretty well in the case of Northstar, maybe?
So the Hand are mystic ninjas, whereas HYDRA are sort of Nazi international terrorists formed in Japan and Germany during the second World War 2 3 4 5 HYDRA has it's fingers in all sorts of pies. They recently kidnapped and brainwashed Jamie Madrox, and one of the various branches that split off and became independant are the sods that captured and tormented Kyle Gibny when he was a young teen (and he always did have that fixation on Northstar).
Still confused.
Marvel.com, a summary of "Enemy of the State", the story in which the event in question took place, it says: "Hydra, The Hand and a mutant group known as the Dawn of the White Light formed an alliance in order to execute their plan. The plan was to kill and resurrect super heroes under their control."
But - why were they working together? I mean, wouldn't it have been obvious how they were going to inevitably turn on each other? Were they planning to merge? Technically, who was controlling Northstar when he came back, the Hand or HYDRA?
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Date: 2007-02-07 02:27 am (UTC)Why's that? :D
You know, I have to wonder sometimes what comic writers do, sitting around their little table, when they come up with things like "her family is made up of cyber ninjas."
I think in this case it was a
"Quick! How can we get rid of her?"
"Well, since she keeps saying she just wants to be normal -- obviously she must have something truly bizarre in her background!"
"Cyber ninjas!"
"Brilliant!"
It was a really obvious getting-rid-of-girlfriend ploy, though, particularly since there was that corollary of never seeing her again on pain of death.
Who's dressing Colossus now? Have you seen his uniform? Half of it appears to have gone missing.
Kitty, I would guess.
...I did actually mean that it was Bobby in the skater jeans. That wasn't very clear, sorry.
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Date: 2007-02-09 03:31 am (UTC)2. It seems to me like comic book writers do a lot of really obvious things like that. It bugs me. I wonder where the subtle genius is?
3. Ohhh! My bad. But you know, a lot of artists draw Bobby with really poor fashion taste. (Um, leather pants and Hawaiian shirts anyone?) so it doesn't really strike me as odd. ^^;;
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Date: 2007-02-09 06:34 am (UTC)His costume has changed like 4 times since Emma joined. X| So I want to blame her.
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Date: 2007-02-10 06:47 pm (UTC)I love that they brought Northstar back in his old costume. It was SUCH a cool costume!
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Date: 2007-02-11 12:15 am (UTC)Then again, Cloud went into battle nude. So. Whatever, I guess.
(It's not like Bobby's going to get cold.)
Northstar's original costume has a great design. I'm glad he keeps going back to it, and even the thing he's wearing in my icon does have it as the inspiration, with the star on the side and all.
*shakes head* Oh, Kiya Asamiya. I like Silent Moebius, but you never should have been let at the X-Men...