Comics Question about the Legacy Virus

[ToriL90]

How exactly did the Legacy Virus get settled? It was something about Colossus killing himself with the cure, but I can't make any sense out of it. I didn't read the comic version - I'm stuck with the brief outline provided by Wikipedia. Can anybody explain to me how Colossus killing himself cured everybody else?

 

[OutcryX]

The cure was an airborne antigen that could only be released by a mutant activating their powers. Colossus felt compelled to be the one to do it.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

He took one for his sister. Best big brother ever

 

[Cdnmouse]

He took one for his sister. Best big brother ever

Well he didn't really take one for his sister, wasn't she already dead when he did the sacrifice? It was more of a "I don't want others to die like my sister thing"

 

[OutcryX]

Right. that and he had such an unnatural attraction...i mean attachment to his sister, it is as if he couldn't wait to die to be with her again

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

Never remembered much about those two's dynamic...

Good God, tell me you're just kidding for the sake of shock value.

 

[OutcryX]

Never remembered much about those two's dynamic...

Good God, tell me you're just kidding for the sake of shock value.

I am kidding but dayum..did that boy love his kid sister

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

Thank God.

Well, she's his kid sister. Of course he'll love and be overprotective in a way that is in no way reminescent of Tony Montana's.

 

[OutcryX]

yeah Tony and his sister's relationship was...gross....i didnt like Scarface


you know that whole doing my cousin thing in Godfather III was soo distracting i barely noticed that Al Pacino started playing himself instead of Michael Corleone

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

yeah Tony and his sister's relationship was...gross....i didnt like Scarface

Scarface was funny. And yeah, the sibling thing was f****n creepy.

Real life story.

I convince one of my pals to watch the flick for the first time. He likes Pacino and mob flicks. Instantly becomes his #1 flick ever. Knows pretty much all the dialogue and s**t.

After like 3 months, I'm past my "My God, what have I done?" phase and point out the creepy bro/sis relationship.

He's like "What the hell are you talking about?"

 

[Havok83]

Thank God.

Well, she's his kid sister. Of course he'll love and be overprotective in a way that is in no way reminescent of Tony Montana's.

yeah just be glad Colossus doesnt love Illyana like Ultimate Pietro loves Ultimate Wanda

 

[OutcryX]

Scarface was funny. And yeah, the sibling thing was f****n creepy.

Real life story.

I convince one of my pals to watch the flick for the first time. He likes Pacino and mob flicks. Instantly becomes his #1 flick ever. Knows pretty much all the dialogue and s**t.

After like 3 months, I'm past my "My God, what have I done?" phase and point out the creepy bro/sis relationship.

He's like "What the hell are you talking about?"

wow...perhaps he got all caught up in the obscene amounts of cocaine on scene as well as the coke snorters and guns going off every 30 seconds and the ultra-violence to notice that Tony was sexually attracted to his sister...and she to him

 

[ToriL90]

The cure was an airborne antigen that could only be released by a mutant activating their powers. Colossus felt compelled to be the one to do it.

That doesn't really make sense to me. Wouldn't it only work in close proximity to where it was released?

 

[Spidey]

That doesn't really make sense to me. Wouldn't it only work in close proximity to where it was released?

Airborne viruses/antigens can spread all over the world, because they pass from host to host.

 

[ToriL90]

Airborne viruses/antigens can spread all over the world, because they pass from host to host.

So basically, the cure for the virus acts like a virus?

 

[Spidey]

So basically, the cure for the virus acts like a virus?

Yeah, you could say that. Antibodies are really just viruses that happen to be beneficial to living organisms. They spread and mutate in much the same way.

 

[ToriL90]

Yeah, you could say that. Antibodies are really just viruses that happen to be beneficial to living organisms. They spread and mutate in much the same way.

Why would they want to make the cure like that, instead of making it a shot or a pill or something like that?

Sorry if I'm asking too many questions, but I'd like to incorporate the Legacy Virus in my X-Men 5 movie script, so I'd like to understand its conclusion before using it.

 

[Spidey]

Why would they want to make the cure like that, instead of making it a shot or a pill or something like that?

Sorry if I'm asking too many questions, but I'd like to incorporate the Legacy Virus in my X-Men 5 movie script, so I'd like to understand its conclusion before using it.

Something having to do with the cure only being effective when administered by the same method as the virus, which originally came from the mutant Infectia. She was the first to contract the Legacy Virus and her body realeased it as an airborn pathogen when she died.

Beast was able to synthesize a cure, but it would only work with a mutant injecting themselves with the virus, followed by the cure, then activating their powers, so Colossus stepped up to the plate and volunteered in light of the fact that his sister, Illyana, was dying from the Legacy Virus. When the virus killed him, his body mutated Beast's cure and released it as an airborne antigen that would pass from mutant to mutant until it spread to the entire world.

 

[ToriL90]

It kinda makes sense now. It must be a pretty potent cure to spread to every mutant. Thanks for explaining.

 

[OutcryX]

I actually thought it was Stryfe who released the legacy Virus when he died and as a cruel joke made the cure have to be released much the same way

 

[Spidey]

I actually thought it was Stryfe who released the legacy Virus when he died and as a cruel joke made the cure have to be released much the same way

Stryfe released the initial virus, but Infectia was the one who passively mutated and created the new strain inside her body that killed all the mutants, if I remember.

 

[Caliber]

He took one for his sister. Best big brother ever

Sounds like a good family there.