Scott & Jean's Wedding: Apocalypse & the Burning Teddy Bear

[Pixie_Solanas]

lol what a fiasco. The Pryor-Summers wedding went off flawlessly. Jewels from Van Cleef & Arpels, gown by Halston.

[Foon4000]

[Mikl C]

That dress DESERVES to be burned. Apocalypse: fashion police. He should have ended the issue by bestowing on her a more fitting gown.

[darknessatnoon]

That dress DESERVES to be burned. Apocalypse: fashion police. He should have ended the issue by bestowing on her a more fitting gown.

Parts of it look techno-organic. Maybe the plan was to bond the dress to her body permanently.

[Mikl C]

Maybe Jean is upset that Cyke is gripping her left hand so hard it's turning blue.

[teddyeatsyourface]

D@n that site is great. They have so much cool stuff!

Though this punched me in the face:

“Some people can view it as just pure pride in their work. I know Peter David takes tremendous pride in the work he does at the moment he does it, but once he leaves a series he doesn’t care what happens next because there is not an ongoing relationship. There are times I wish I could divorce myself that completely, especially from the X-Men. I look at that and I think, this is my entire working life, up until two years ago, and it’s taken them 18 months to gut it like a fish, to trash the characters, to kill off a tremendous amount of the context and cast, and to turn it into, to me, a parody of what it was.”

[RoguishGurl]

I can't get past that hideous dress.

[alf_to_the_rescue]

That is a very shitty dress. It's a better world it never happened with her in that.

[MartinRedmond]

Jean was in her colonial period then.

[worstblogever]

Jean is on actual fire, and Iceman, with the ability to make it cold and douse the flames just stands there, is my other thought.

At least put the goddamn bear out, Bobby!

[coveredinbees]

While scouring the internet for dirty Maddie Pryor scans, I came across a blog which had done some interesting archival research. Apparently, Scott and Jean were to originally be married in the pages of X-Factor, drawn by Whilce Portacio. Marvel changed plans, though, and the closest that Whilce would get to drawing Jean's big day was Jean ruining Storm's big day in preparation for her own!

Here's the original promo shot:

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from the blog:

- sources cited (for ZNOP)

What do you all think of Jean's shitty dress and burning teddy bear?

I like the cape she's sporting.

[Havok83]

Im glad they got married the way they did

[Pixie_Solanas]

Jean was in her colonial period then.

She is in firm lockstep with whatever's DOWDIEST.

[witchboy]

Obvious flaws aside, this looks really intriguing, and more interesting than the relatively boring wedding they did have. I assume the teddy bear had something to do with baby Chris/Nate? It seems kind of wrong that the wedding wasn't allowed to take place in X-Factor since that's where the 05 had been for many years at that point, it was their book.

[Scarlet Silence]

I wonder what the teddy bear was meant to symbolize. It seems to be put there very pointedly. Does the artist relate the teddy bear to a personal tragedy? Was there a scene with Nathan Christopher being abducted, and they merely find a flaming teddy bear and possibly an empty crib in his stead? Is it simply the continued cluelessness artists at the time had about what people wear or own outside of their uniforms and superhero gadgetry?

Perhaps CBR can look into it for one of their features.