I don’t know how I didn’t realize that until now. Oh, and those extra Apocalypses turn out to be decoy robot Apocalypses, and the real Apocalypse is now some kind of bloated Peter Griffen looking Apocalypse.
Again I have to ask, why does Apocalypse need all these decoys and henchmen and soldiers. He could single handedly kill all these people in about 2 minutes. (X-Factor #67 – June 1991)
Isn’t this how it always goes in comics. No, our heroes did not die in the obliterating atomic space explosion that happened at the very end of the last issue. They conveniently wrapped themselves in a telekinetic life support bubble. Within the vacuum of space. And then the Inhumans saved them. I don’t know why I get so worried about these superheroes! Nothing bad ever actually happens to them! Even Ship is still alive somehow, and they’re the one that blew up!!
One time in my high school psychology class, we did an exercise where everyone in the class sketched a picture of the human figure and then the instructor described a list of analyses based on what we drew. For instance, she said that if you applied strong shading to an area of the body, you may feel insecure about that area. After she said this, I stole my best friend’s picture when he wasn’t looking and shaded in the crotch, and then I put it back on his desk. Then I yelled “hey everybody look Dave shaded in the crotch on his!” and everybody laughed. This cover reminded me of that. You know, now that I typed that all out, I think I told that story on my blog before. Sorry everyone. (X-Factor #67 – June 1991)
OKAY OKAY I FOUND SOMETHING THAT I NEED TO SHARE!!
So in What The World Needs, Ocean says “keep your head down and things will look up” now this seems like a throwaway line. However…
If you listen to A World Inside, which to my knowledge was supposed to be Karnak’s number, he says “afraid you’re gonna miss it if your eyes are on the ground, so raise your head up and take a look around”
This connects to the whole theory of WHY he made Ocean go first. WHY he gave her the final vote. He KNEW she was wrong, and the whole competition was for Ocean to realize that.
We also go to the script. Karnak says, and this isn’t the exact line bc I can’t remember the whole thing, but he says ‘the winner shall redeem the loser and complete the whole’ and the way it’s delivered makes it seem like a cutoff but that IS the cutoff. Ocean is the winner. She always has been. She was in life, so it was HER job to redeem the loser, Jane (or Penny), in order to finally rest. To complete the whole.
Anyways if my English teacher lets us write an essay on anything for finals like I’m hoping since he tends to do that I’m writing it on this subject since it’s ALL THERE for me to draw points from
