X-Man series 1-75. Opinions?

[HarmonicFlo]

Hey guys. This thread is about Nate Grey. what did you think of him? do you think he was the most powerful mutant to exist?

Were you happy that Joe Quesada killed him off because the writers did a bad job and sales went down? Use this tread to discuss.

I've worked hard to make a website [i'm new to that sorta thing], a petiton, and a forum.

Please point to http://Www.NateGrey.r8.Org for my site.
Please point to http://Www.NateGreyForums.r8.Org for my forum.

IF you couldn't care less but would like to sign JUST the Online PETITION to bring him back : http://www.petitiononline.com/NateGrey/

Thanks

[The Mirrorball Man]

He won't be brought back unless a writer has a good idea and Marvel agrees with him.

I really liked the shaman angle, but didn't care for the character before that.

[The Fury]

Technically he's not dead, just dispersed upon the populace of Earth.

[mattbib]

Technically he's not dead, just dispersed upon the populace of Earth.Sounds pretty dead to me.


I liked some of the series. While I liked the later Shaman concept, I think it was way too much a departure. It didn't evolve smoothly and was kind of jarring. I liked how the series ended and would not be interested in seeing him resurrected.

[The Mirrorball Man]

Technically he's not dead, just dispersed upon the populace of Earth.
Yeah, X-Man is a super-powerful mutant who's the equivalent of our universe's Cable (although X-Man doesn't come from the future), and was brought to our reality when his parallel timeline ceased to exist. Later, he became the shaman or the mutant tribe and then got dispersed upon the populace of yet another parallel Earth.

Good luck to anyone who wants to bring him back.

[Ryan K]

HarmonicFlo, you have 4 posts on this website. 4.

And every one of them is a new thread you've started about Nate Grey/X-Man and your petition. We get it.

X-Man [Nate Grey] (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=147028)
Bring Back Nate Grey (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=86072)
X-Man/Nate Grey Petition & Website (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=75157)

[Daithi]

Yeah, X-Man is a super-powerful mutant who's the equivalent of our universe's Cable (although X-Man doesn't come from the future)

Neither does Cable :)

[The Mirrorball Man]

Neither does Cable :)
What I like about CBR is that, as surprising as that may sound, I always manage to run into people who are bigger smartasses than me. :)

[Ryan K]

151 signatures. In 14 months.

Marvel's gonna be rushing to the presses.

[Daithi]

What I like about CBR is that, as surprising as that may sound, I always manage to run into people who are bigger smartasses than me. :)

Well if you believe anyone who corrects your information is a smartass then no wonder you run into so many.

Anyway I think the only way X-Man comes back is on eXiles or if Cable is de-aged again.

[The Lucky One]

151 signatures. In 14 months.

Marvel's gonna be rushing to the presses.

I admire anyone willing to make an effort to save their favorite character or rescue them from obscurity; it worked for Spider-Girl (4 times), and I sincerely wish something like that had been done for Young Justice.

BUT... you're quite correct, Ryan, that posting the same thing 4 different times and having no other interaction with the community is the wrong way to go about things. And not to sugarcoat it, I'd be willing to bet cash money that a petition asking Marvel NOT to bring back Nate Grey would garner more signatures.

-D

[Beast]

They should do a One-Shot. X-Man vs. Sublime.

It can be a grand battle between the dispersed molecules of X-Man and Sublime. :D

[Frodo-X]

Exiles would be a decent place for him. He wouldn't be redundant with Cable.

The only problem is that Exiles already have Blink and Sabretooth. Throw in Nate and you run the risk of turning it into the Age of Apocalypse show.

[Mikl C]

.....did anyone else get an Email?

[Syzygy]

Neither does Cable :)

So sorry; must disagree.

Cable does come from the future. While he was born here, he spent less than a year here as an infant. He grew up in the future, all his formative years were spent in the future. His socialization, cultural perspective...all from the future.

For all intents and purposes, in every way a person is psychologically and sociologically put together, the 21st century is a foreign era to him. Being born here and spending time here as a baby, briefly, while it may be enough for legal citizenship, doesn't make him a psychological native.

And--with all due apologies to those who love him--IMO, Nate Grey should stay dead. And Cable, Bishop, and Rachel should probably follow. All this alternate Earth stuff is getting totally ridiculous. Normal X-Men continuity is convoluted and contradictory enough.

I'm terribly sorry to sound so churlish, but I was just reviewing the history of some of these alternate/future Earthers last night on UncannyX-Men.Net and while I was midway through, suddenly, it all turned to utter gibberish in my brain and sounded so fraking ridiculous, I though I was reading my little brother's fanfic.

I believe we should keep most of this stuff in Exiles, and only introduce time travel and cross-time travel into normal continuity in very limited doses.

Peace,
Syzygy

[Gene M.]

.....did anyone else get an Email?

I did once. I never knew so many people were concerned with how I measured up "down there".

[Erik Lehnsherr]

I love and miss Nate Grey more than anybody. Those around here often say "we already have a Cable" but Cable has always sucked to me. Ever since they did the reveal where they had him be the son instead of the more interesting Stryfe, he's been a lost cause. That's why it so refreshing to see Cable done correctly in the Age of Apocalypse. If you were a faithful reader of the Claremont Excalibur series in 2004, notice that in #5, my letter gets published and I specifically ask for him to use Nate Grey since I knew he could bring back relevance to a character that was misunderstood by alot of nagging X-fans.

[The Mirrorball Man]

If you were a faithful reader of the Claremont Excalibur series in 2004, notice that in #5, my letter gets published and I specifically ask for him to use Nate Grey since I knew he could bring back relevance to a character that was misunderstood by alot of nagging X-fans.
You're a real Cassandra.

[Christopher O]

I'd be willing to bet cash money that a petition asking Marvel NOT to bring back Nate Grey would garner more signatures.
I'd sign it. He's redundant in almost every way, and he's so terribly convoluted. Why bother?

[rilokyle]

I liked the series for the most part. However, I hated the counter-x crap because they killed off Maddie and it went to crap in my opinion. I wish we could have gotten so more resolution. I mean, whatever did happen to Threnody? She had Nate's child and never got to tell him- I wish he had found out somehow before he died. And I also wish we could have gotten some more resolution between Maddie and Nate. Even though they're kinda related in some alternate universe sorta way, I liked them together.

[Faded]

So sorry; must disagree.

Cable does come from the future. While he was born here, he spent less than a year here as an infant. He grew up in the future, all his formative years were spent in the future. His socialization, cultural perspective...all from the future.

For all intents and purposes, in every way a person is psychologically and sociologically put together, the 21st century is a foreign era to him. Being born here and spending time here as a baby, briefly, while it may be enough for legal citizenship, doesn't make him a psychological native.

And--with all due apologies to those who love him--IMO, Nate Grey should stay dead. And Cable, Bishop, and Rachel should probably follow. All this alternate Earth stuff is getting totally ridiculous. Normal X-Men continuity is convoluted and contradictory enough.

I'm terribly sorry to sound so churlish, but I was just reviewing the history of some of these alternate/future Earthers last night on UncannyX-Men.Net and while I was midway through, suddenly, it all turned to utter gibberish in my brain and sounded so fraking ridiculous, I though I was reading my little brother's fanfic.

I believe we should keep most of this stuff in Exiles, and only introduce time travel and cross-time travel into normal continuity in very limited doses.

Peace,
Syzygy

*sigh*

Again, I must agree. ;)

I don't know if its just my displeasure of Nocturne in New Excalibur or what, but I've been growingly unfond of time/dimension displaced characters in the main universe--whether I like the character or not.

House of M would've been the chance to perhaps get "real" versions of some of these characters, but it didn't happen (then again, that could just make it worst).

[Frodo-X]

I don't know if its just my displeasure of Nocturne in New Excalibur or what, but I've been growingly unfond of time/dimension displaced characters in the main universe--whether I like the character or not.

House of M would've been the chance to perhaps get "real" versions of some of these characters, but it didn't happen (then again, that could just make it worst).

I think Marvel keeps doing the alternate universe thing 'cause it's fast and easy. Rather than have two characters get together, have a kid, and watch the kid grow up, we get an adult version immediately.

That way they get the new character without disrupting the current ones.


But it is getting old.

[fishtaco]

I'm terribly sorry to sound so churlish, but I was just reviewing the history of some of these alternate/future Earthers last night on UncannyX-Men.Net and while I was midway through, suddenly, it all turned to utter gibberish in my brain and sounded so fraking ridiculous, I though I was reading my little brother's fanfic.Dude, that's the way it has been for like, the whole MU for years now. Character histories get more and more convoluted and contradictory each time a new writer sets the character(s) in a new direction. I think just about every single character that has a spotlight on UXN by this time has a convoluted history. Just about all of them.

[Tobias March]

They should do a One-Shot. X-Man vs. Sublime.

It can be a grand battle between the dispersed molecules of X-Man and Sublime. :D

Don't forget Proteus!