Wolverine #55, will Sabertooth really die for good?

[PhotoJones]

Weird. Do people call her "Anna Marie" or do they call her "Anna" or "Marie" separately?

From what I've read in Carey's run, people either call her "Rogue" or "Anna". It's actually pretty jarring at first, reading an actual name atrributed to her instead of a codename.

 

[squeekness]

"Coming next summer: Rogue Origins"?

They dealt with that in her 12 issue sorta run a while back. I am also fairly certain the money she got and the house came to her through Mystique.

 

[Manic]

Rogue got the money from Destiny. Remember, Destiny helped Mystique raise Rogue. When she died a few years back, she left Rogue a house in New Orleans and a few million dollars from her ill-gotten gains over the years. Rogue used some of the money to buy a house in California (Valle Soleada was like a suburban beach-front Mutant Town), which I suspect she still owns.

Am I the only one who read X-Treme X-Men? Rogue and Gambit spent half of the time powerless, bumping uglies while they had the chance. That's when Gambit first started calling her Anna.

 

[squeekness]

X-Treme was a waste. I think Claremont forgot who Gambit was, he was written so out of character.


Oh and Marvel sucks for killing off Sabes.

 

[jaydawg]

He'll be back. His power is healing. I'm sure somewhere down the line (the Wolverine movie perhaps?) someone will figure out how to get some of his blood and clone him or something. He's been persumed dead before anyways.

 

[Fading]

Just read it, I'll put it in spoilers just in case.

Spoiler

Yup, Sabertooth is dead, no dancing around it for writers, it was definitive. Wolverine chopped off Sabertooth's arm with the sword, Sabertooth held his arm to the stump out of instinct and the arm fell right back down, it didn't attach. Wolverine commented that it negates healing factors. Then Wolverine said he'd give Sabertooth one last chance to stop him, Sabertooth growled and said "do it..." and Wolverine chopped his head right off, and left Sabertooth's body to the wolves instead of burying him.

Then Wildchild told Wolverine all about Romulus, and how he's been messing with Wolverine's mind for years (must be telepathic), and how Wolverine represents the best of all of them, then Wildchild disappears and it ends.

So Sabertooth is definitely dead, had his head lopped off with a healing factor negating sword.

 

[IFryKids]

It'll probably just end up being some lame clone or something.

 

[Obi-John-Kenobi]

No.

 

[Fading]

It'll probably just end up being some lame clone or something.

As far as I can tell Wildchild confirmed it was Sabertooth. He said there is always a blond and dark haired one, and one must always die. Also Marvel's been building it as their final battle for a long time now.

I like Sabertooth, but it seems pretty final when you read it. Maybe 7 or so years down the road from now an author will come up with some completely ridiculous storyline to talk their way out of it, but it's gonna be real hard. The captions and story went out of their way to paint it with finality.

 

[squeekness]

I don't know, did Sinister ever clone Sabes? I thought he couldn't for some reason.

 

[PhotoJones]

Is it revealed who Romulus is and what his motivations are?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Is it revealed who Romulus is and what his motivations are?

He's Remus' brother and a descendant of Aeneas. His motivation is that he wants to found Rome someday. It's a pipe dream, but he hopes that with time and a lot of elbow grease, he and his brother can get it done.

Oh yeah, he secretly plots to kill Remus, too.

 

[PhotoJones]

He's Remus' brother and a descendant of Aeneas. His motivation is that he wants to found Rome someday. It's a pipe dream, but he hopes that with time and a lot of elbow grease, he and his brother can get it done.

Oh yeah, he secretly plots to kill Remus, too.

*Sigh*

 

[TheCorpulent1]

*Sigh*

What? Keep an eye out; this could be the start of one of the great coming-of-age tales of our time.

 

[squeekness]

LOLs.

 

[PhotoJones]

What? Keep an eye out; this could be the start of one of the great coming-of-age tales of our time.

It would've been cool if Logan (or Logan's ancestors) dated back to the birth of Rome.

 

[Fading]

It would've been cool if Logan (or Logan's ancestors) dated back to the birth of Rome.

Wildchild said Romulus is the first of their kind. So they date back to then, and even before then. My guess is he's a telepath and he was showing Wolverine what he saw with his own two eyes, making Romulus one very old man lol.

 

[PhotoJones]

Wildchild said Romulus is the first of their kind. So they date back to then, and even before then. My guess is he's a telepath and he was showing Wolverine what he saw with his own two eyes, making Romulus one very old man lol.

Eh...those kinds of retcons never sit well with me. Introducing a character who's been around for thousands of years, pulling strings leaves me with the question of, "Why haven't we seen him before?"

It's tough to make those kinds of things work.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It's stupid for Wolverine to be a member of some ******ed wolf race too, but you seem to be swallowing that one just fine.

 

[jaydawg]

I don't know, did Sinister ever clone Sabes? I thought he couldn't for some reason.

Sabertooth was the only Maurader not to be cloned.

 

[PhotoJones]

It's stupid for Wolverine to be a member of some ******ed wolf race too, but you seem to be swallowing that one just fine.

Yeah, I don't know man. I have literally no reaon to like this. It's a Wolverine story, full of retcons, and I don't really like the art. And yet somehow, I'm finding it to be pretty enjoyable.

Beats me.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Maybe you're indifferent enough to Wolverine that you don't really care. You're not really finding it enjoyable, you're finding that it merely doesn't piss you off. Just a theory.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

No, I'm actually enjoying it. I really like Loeb's characterization with Logan, T'Challa and Storm.

Then I fear you're too far gone to help.

 

[PhotoJones]

Maybe you're indifferent enough to Wolverine that you don't really care. You're not really finding it enjoyable, you're finding that it merely doesn't piss you off. Just a theory.

No, I'm actually enjoying it. I really like Loeb's characterization with Logan, T'Challa and Storm.

 

[Fading]

I don't have a scanner of my own, but my friend does, gonna get him to scan it for me later so I can show Sabertooth's death, in spoilers of course. Normally I wouldn't care, but it is the death of a long running character, so like 2 or so pages of what leads up to it. Will have to wait a little bit tho til he gets home.