Whatever happend to Nate Grey?

[Angel of Death]

I followed the entire series when I was in middle/highschool and remember some lame story where he became an Indian Shamman or something?

Didn't he just *POP* disapear?

Someone refresh my memory, it's been years since I joined the 'Corps and seen my collection.

[Huzzah!]

I never read it but i know he sort of dispursed his molecules all over the world or some such goofy shit.

But it did give me a good idea for a one-shot


X-man molecules against Sublime molecules

Microscopic kung fu fighting

[Beast]

Yeah, he's dead. Came up against an alien known as 'The Harverster' who planned to harvest the earth for food. Nate Grey disperesed his molecules into every living being around the globe to spoil the crop, so they would be useless as a food source. Or some crazy crap like that. Heh.
Eventually he caught wind of a plot to destroy the earth by a malevolent alien species and decided to intervene. This ancient alien race had infused the primordial waters of earth with their seed, assisting the evolutionary jump. They had waited for millions of years and had now come to harvest what they had planted. After trying to fight the alien, Nate had an ephiphany: the way to counteract the alien seed would be to disperse his essensce into every living thing on earth. So, embodying the heart of hero, Nate sacrificed his life to stop the alien menace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Man

[Angel of Death]

What a waste. Was there an editorial reason for aborting a promising charactor like that?

http://philippe.tromeur.free.fr/marvel/images/NateGrey.jpg

[Huzzah!]

i guess they thought cable was the better version

which i can contest, he is not

[The Lucky One]

Nobody liked him... I guess that probably had something to do with it.

-D

[Affinity]

Why are we randomly hotlinking images again?

[CPT Space Bomb]

X-Man was the shizizle! Nate will always be the king of temper tantrums. Okay, okay, Namor the Avenging Son, you can be Number 1. Now would you let go of my jaw!

[Sean Whitmore]

What a waste. Was there an editorial reason for aborting a promising charactor like that?


Yeah, editors likes books that don't suck.

Just kidding. ;)

Seriously though, Nate was always a concept that desperately needed a reason to exist (and even more desperately needed a reason to have an entire series dedicated to him). So he was already bad off when Counter-X or Revolution or whateverthehell Warren Elli's revamp was called came along and drove three series into the ground.


SEAN

[lonewolf23k]

Considering Nate was essentially one of the most powerful telepaths and telekinetics on Earth...

...I find it hard to believe his mind would be completly extinguished even after his body was entirely destroyed.


...There's room to bring him back as a disembodied entity of pure thought.

...Maybe.

[Sean Whitmore]

...There's room to bring him back as a disembodied entity of pure thought.

...Maybe.


They should totally do bodiless Nate vs. the Shadow King!

It would be the most boring fight ever!

SEAN

[Effect]

What was the name of his series anyway?

Is he ever mentioned by characters in the current titles (not now but before), when he died? Do they know he's dead or think he's alive somewhere?

[shakespear]

Was he x-man?

I picked up a crapload of those issues free comic book day

[Sean Whitmore]

Nate Grey's book was indeed X-Man. Which made little sense, as his name wasn't X-Man, and he was never a member OF the X-Men.


SEAN

[The Sword Is Drawn]

Nate Grey's book was indeed X-Man. Which made little sense, as his name wasn't X-Man, and he was never a member OF the X-Men.


SEAN

Yeah, but that was the books title. It was part of the Age of Apocalypse when it started and proved popular enough to go ongoing.

[Zero Hunter]

I always thought it would have been a better idea to have merged Nate and Cable at some point into one character.

[The Adventurer]

Nate should have become Strife.

So that Cable's history could happen in some fashion.

[CPT Space Bomb]

In reference to Nate coming back from the dead....It's very possible and easy to do. He's already willed himself back from the dead once. And he created Madaylne Pryor from his mind and she was a self-contained being.

And in regards to X-Man making sense, IT DOES MAKE SENSE if you think about it. What was Sinister always trying to get. Scott Summers and Jean Grey's DNA. When He finally got them, he was able to create a new being, X-Man. Makes sense to me.