Nimrod??

[zinderel]

OK, I did a search, didn't see anything addressing this particular issue yet, but...

In a letters page, Kyle and Yost excitedly relate that this new Nimrod is the Nimrod they grew up with in the 80's.

OK.

WTF?

Didn't the Nimrod from the 80's go through the Seige Perilous and become Bastion?

Are we ignoring this little bit of continuity since it happened in the 90's and the 90's are somehow untouchable and bad? Or are we just dealing with lazy writers?

[Mariah]

Could be a little bit of both, or it could be a nimrod from another alternate dimension.

[Beast]

There's only one thing to do in cases like this... Blame Wanda! :D

[The Fury]

Maybe Kyle and Yost are a bit excited really.

Nimrod is now known as Template now. And is still alive and about somewhere. (This is after being Bastion and being destoryed and everything).

[ReaderX]

Of course, Nimrod did back himself up in an issue of Cable. He could have been lurking in a factory computer somewhere waiting to be reconstructed, like a PC virus waiting for the right key combination to attack.

[Barnaby]

In my opinion, Marvel tried to get rid of Nimrod (for some unknown reason...) and turned him into Bastion after all the Siege stuff. They expected Bastion to be some top villain and and to kick some serious @ss, but the fact is Bastion turned out to be a little of a disapointment and the fans liked the original Nimrod much more, so Marvel got rid of Bastion (turning him into Template or something...) and brought back the original Nimrod that the fans (me included) liked much better than the Bastion character. They now find some excuses for his return, tie some loose ends (leaving some "untied", just in case...) and there you have the original Nimrod which isn't the original Nimrod!:rolleyes:

But this is just my opinion...;)

[The Fury]

But this is just my opinion...;)
What you do have though is a Nimrod. And one that should be as powerful as the original. (Even if it is missing a few limbs). the original was messed up alot and as a time traveling being it is easily sorted.


Still a poor man's 'The Fury' though. :D

[Tilt]

Not exactly, the real Nimrod was so advanced he was becoming human to the point telepathy could affect him, and by the end he was trying to help the X-Men.

[Metallurgique]

The Nimrod which appeared in X-force was a different Nimrod - "Nimrod Red" was a prototype which somehow came to life after it was mysteriously imbued with some technology from the future that it's creators - Government scientists - didn't know about.

In the end, Cable reasoned with Nimrod Red and it figured out that to accomplish it's mission of eliminating all mutants, it would require so many human casualties as to make the entire mission illogical. It shut itself off, and Cable took the magic "personality chip" out of it, giving it to Forge at the end of the arc. Nimrod Red was then, I think, dissassembled.

In Marvel time, It's been, I think only two and a half years since the siege perilous/roma arc concluded. K&Y were careful to note that Nimrod appeared to Stryker two years previous to the attacks on the school.

Yost also stated in another thread that the Siege Perilous was likely going to be used as the explination for the return of Nimrod 1.

I didn't read the Bastion/Zero Tolerance stories when they were new. I preferred old Nimrod from the early eighties. I am not thrilled about the level of death in NXM, but I do like K&Y's revival of the original Nimrod.

[fishtaco]

This is what I like to call "convolution", and how it harms the potential of today's stories.