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Brian Floyd
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Magneto was turned into a baby by Alpha The Ultimate Mutant, and when he was restored to adulthood, he was younger than he was before.
The problem is that Magneto and Professor X were supposed to be around the same age. When Xavier was cloned after what happened with the Brood, his new body wasn't made younger. |
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 22 October 2019 at 2:22pm | IP Logged | 2
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That’s okay. In X-MEN 1, Xavier was in his early twenties.........
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Jeffrey Rice
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He is an old soul.
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Eric Sofer
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Brian F. - when Xavier was cloned, how do we know he wasn't youthened? Of course, if he were de-aged, then a lot of the X-Men would now be older than he, but when the Brood infected them, their physiognomies were reset, and then they had residual mutation energy that un-oldened the other X-Men so that-
Holy crap, Mr. Byrne is right! Just IGNORE this shit. I hate to be insulting, but that Brood was a pure steaming pile of dung. And it was another element that seemed to recur a few times... hell, I'm surprised they didn't, like, help the Silver Surfer a couple times so that they weren't REALLY evil...
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Adam Schulman
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That’s okay. In X-MEN 1, Xavier was in his early twenties.........
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I honestly thought he was supposed to be around 33, even when I finally read X-MEN #1 (1963).
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Eric Smearman
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As a kid, I always thought that Prof. X and Reed Richards were in their forties.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 23 October 2019 at 6:43am | IP Logged | 7
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As a kid, I always thought that Prof. X and Reed Richards were in their forties.•• Stan established Reed as being in his late thirties. In a letter column, tho, so perhaps some would say that doesn't "count".* During my tenure on FANTASTIC FOUR, I had Reed celebrate his 40th birthday. ---------------- * That same LOC response set Sue "in her twenties", which meant the closest she and her hubby could be in age was about nine years.
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Michael Penn
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I'm sure being able to probe pretty much everybody's mind would "age" you, considerably!
I don't think it's at all wrong to celebrate a birthday in a comicbook, and you could easily fudge the age, e.g., just have Ben make a crack about Reed being an "old man," no specifically visible candles on a cake, etc. In any event, though, how many times has Bart Simpson turned 10? It's comicbooks! Have fun! Don't obsess!
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 23 October 2019 at 8:42am | IP Logged | 9
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I DID put 40 candles on Reed’s cake!
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Michael Penn
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What about the extra one for good luck?!
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John Byrne
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Reed is stitious, but he’s not superstitious.
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Marc Baptiste
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| Posted: 23 October 2019 at 9:29am | IP Logged | 12
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I'm now "older" than Reed Richards - somehow it just doesn't seem right.
Sigh.
Marc
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