When did gideon die?

[shades of eternity]

When did gideon die?

I'm refering to the year in real time.

Did the "highlander restraining order" happen before or after AOA. I thought it was before.

[fishtaco]

This belongs in the "questions" thread. And he died in 1996, I believe. Whichever year X-Force (1st Series) #52 was published in.

[Mikl C]

I had a Gideon toy when I was like 6. I had no idea who he was. Random!

[streator]

it was april of 1996, x-force 53.
http://www.uncannyxmen.net/covers/xforce/xforce53.jpg

[shades of eternity]

and aoa was in 1995/1996, grumble

he really is dead due to copyright infringement.

it stinks cause they could do so much with the character

[Matthew K.]

When did gideon die?


when he realized people weren't big fans of his Bible he died...died of a broken heart. :(

quite tragic

[shades of eternity]

...but his legacy lives on by duplicating its affect in hotels everywhere :-p

[The Sword Is Drawn]

What was the copyright infringement involved? Gideon was a character I never really read, but remember only from Fleer cards and other stuff.

[Nevets F]

The Externals, Gideon, Candra, Nicodemus, Krule, and the others were said to be ripoffs of Highlander.

[The Sword Is Drawn]

The Externals, Gideon, Candra, Nicodemus, Krule, and the others were said to be ripoffs of Highlander.

In as much as they were seemingly immortal?

That's hardly an exclusive concept.

[streator]

In as much as they were seemingly immortal?

That's hardly an exclusive concept.
that they were a secretive clan of immortals who realized that they were immortal upon their first death and played various roles throughout history.

[The Sword Is Drawn]

that they were a secretive clan of immortals who realized that they were immortal upon their first death and played various roles throughout history.

Is borderline copyright infringement...

Ah yes. I see.

[Nstar83]

I don't think externals are anymore a copyed idea then say the kheran characters of wildstorm.THey are to date imortal or living thousand of years an did things thru out history.SOme of them are even swords men yet highlanders franchaise owners haven't bothered them.Now if the externals were all carrying around swords an suppose to kill each other till thier was only one left for the prise then its definatly a rip off,thyere have been imortyals in so many genres an they have always played major roles in history I don't see why they got on marvels case so much

[shades of eternity]

now that the highlander franchise is on the ropes , can they bring back gideon without too many problems?

[Mikl C]

Selene ate the externals!

[The Sword Is Drawn]

now that the highlander franchise is on the ropes , can they bring back gideon without too many problems?

A new ongoing Highlander Comic Book series is just being launched, actually. So that might prove a problem...

[jarrod]

Selene ate the externals!
It's always fun to see Selene munch crappy characters.

So are Selene, Apocalypse and Cannonball officially the last remaining externals?

[Mikl C]

Cannonball was retcon-ed out of being one. I'm not sure Apocalypse is either- he's not immortal. I could be wrong. Did Candra ever show up again after they blasted her gem?

[North]

Cannonball was retcon-ed out of being one. I'm not sure Apocalypse is either- he's not immortal. I could be wrong. Did Candra ever show up again after they blasted her gem?

I thought they retretconned him back into an external again?

[brundlefly]

I thought they retretconned him back into an external again?

I think now he's immortal just not an external. All of the benefits with none of the copyright issues. :D

[Golon9977]

I don't think the original posted mean which issue Gideon died. He meant when was his first death that he found out he was an immortal.

IIRC, Gideon was in the same voyage that Columbus was in. So he died around the 1490s from a vitamin C deficiany. Um...I cannot recall the dieases.

[Mikl C]

Scurvy? Arrr.!

[Golon9977]

yes scurvy