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Find Your Own Fire
Originally posted by KK the Great
It's been done.Over and over again.
"Amputate the future" is just purple prose. I realize that you're very impressed by it. That's the point of purple prose. It sounds impressive by design.
But you don't get to upgrade the feat just to match your level of enthusiasm over the purple prose used to describe it.
She removed Sublime. In doing so, she effectively amputated the future. Removing Sublime is how she amputated the future. The feats are one and the same. Removing Sublime doesn't become more impressive just because she described it in an overblown, flowery manner.
Co-sign.
Why does removing Sublime result in amputating the future? Because the terms disinfection, surgery, and amputate are all attributed to Sublime. The first two, undoubtably. The last term, within the same sentence as she is describing Sublime. All pretty much interchangeable. You're making a false distinction between the three. Fact is, she's still holding onto Sublime and speaking about Sublime when she uses all three terms. Moreover, the handbook confirms that extracting Sublime affected the entire future reality:
Originally posted by GalacticStorm
Removing Sublime from reality [B]150 years AFTER the creation of HCT is NOT going to automatically amputate that entire future.Your opinion makes no sense im afraid.
Of course shes speaking in the past tense because its something she's done before she speaks to the Consciousness.
Jean extracted Sublime on panel and held him in her hand. She was still standing in that future. She THEN goes on to say (with Sublime in her hand) that she amputated that future because of Sublime. Not as a result of getting rid of Sublime.
Whether you like it or not, Jean states she amputated the future after having already been shown to have extracted Sublime. She says she had to and gives Sublime as a reason and this follows her having already extracted Sublime.
It states nowhere in a Marvel publication that as a result of removing Sublime that she amputated the future.[/b]
Only, it does make sense. And it's illustrated on-panel, confirmed by Jean and the Phoenix Force in a conversation and endorsed by secondary sources.
Of course Jean stated she amputated the future after having extracted Sublime. That's what making statements about past events means! What aren't you grasping? Stop complicating the absurdly simple. I order a pizza. I then say to someone, "I had to order some food." What incongruity is there between the two? None.
Reread the handbook entry. More importantly, I don't have to to rely on secondary sources. Go ahead and stop dodging the obvious question: Where in the comic did Jean perform this tumultuous and astronomical universal/temporal feat of telekinesis? Where's the panel? Answer the underlined question.
Originally posted by GalacticStorm
Where is the precedence for that in a Marvel publication?My point is stated clear as day and supported by references to her having severed the future, references to Jean manipulating the atoms of an entire universe as a part of her abilities.
Where is your point about an automatic amputation of the future as a result of removing some bacteria stated? 🙄
Precedence?
Legion killed Xavier. That nullified the entire 616 timeline and crystallized it.
Bishop saved Xavier. That undid the crystallization of the entire 616 timeline.
Captain America decided not to kill Red Skull when he was accessing Galactus' Worldship. This prevented the Cosmic Cube power from flowing into Korvac and stopped the rise of Korvac's dominion over Earth.
Future Kitty Pryde transplants her mind into present Kitty Pryde, preventing Senator Robert Kelly's assassination, preventing Earth-616 from spiralling into the Days of Future Past future.
Dr. Strange and Illyana perform a spell that caused Nimrod to retroactively appear and kill a mugger in a subway station. This mugger was attacking a victim who held Kulan Gath's amulet, which required blood for him to be freed. This nulliifed the events that gave rise to Kulan Gath's dominion over Earth.
Little things can lead to big changes. That's a popular form of chaos theory. Did you ever read The Nail by Alan Davis? Superman crashlands as a baby. But a nail causes a flat in the Kents' tire and they never find and adopt him. After this small change, Olsen takes over the world killing heroes left and right, Batman goes to hell for murdering Joker. Olsen is ultimately defeated when his final battle with the JLA leads them to an Amish village and his superpowered form is defeated by a simple Amish farmer to the astonishment of all. Who was it? Superman, found and raised by an Amish couple that taught him pacifism. Because the fight was brought to him, he defeated Olsen.
And you're asking me with incredulity as to how small things like removing a sentient bacterial colony or nudging Scott's will to love and live could cause an entire future to be amputated?