Skills
Jamie retains the knowledge and memories of his dupes when he reabsorbs them. http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/...tor20007dz6.jpg
He’s learned a diverse variety of skills and experience from sending out and reabsorbing dupes.
to be fair, madrox's powers are defying their own definitions post-madrox LS. i said it somewhere before, but in the scene where madrox absorbs the two dupes [buddhism style] that were flung out tryp's window, he says he got DNA samples from them. that shouldn't be possible, considering he established in the LS that he doesn't absorb physical traits from his dupes, but rather their synaptic fluxes, etc. that's why he was drunk with no blood-alcohol level, and why he appeared no different after absorbing the kwai-chang dupe...
and, on another note, i've been meaning to make this thread for months and months. i just haven't had the time or patience to sit down and scan all my issues [several of which, from x-factor volume 1, were recently ruined in a storm.] i've got the madrox LS, all of x-factor volume dos, a bunch of AoA appearances, and still a handful of volume 1 books. the renegade dupe's first confrontation and all that. give it time, and i'll have something to add.