It's not like that plot device was any worse than any number of plot devices used in comics to power down characters who have gotten out of control.
In fact, Rogue is a great example, because she had the exact same issue. Some idiot writer (Claremont, I think, in the terrible X-Treme X-Men) decided it would be neat if she could use the powers of every single person she had ever touched. Obviously, she had to be clumsily powered down a year or two later.
But there's a much stronger similarity in this very episode. In Exiles, Morph had been killed and no one knew what to do with Proteus, who was the book's main villain and was, at the time, inhabiting Morph's body. The solution was to trick him into thinking he WAS Morph. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
I'm sure it's not intentional, since it's pretty obscure at this point, but I thought the similarity was interesting.
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Date: 2009-04-30 11:57 am (UTC)In fact, Rogue is a great example, because she had the exact same issue. Some idiot writer (Claremont, I think, in the terrible X-Treme X-Men) decided it would be neat if she could use the powers of every single person she had ever touched. Obviously, she had to be clumsily powered down a year or two later.
But there's a much stronger similarity in this very episode. In Exiles, Morph had been killed and no one knew what to do with Proteus, who was the book's main villain and was, at the time, inhabiting Morph's body. The solution was to trick him into thinking he WAS Morph. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
I'm sure it's not intentional, since it's pretty obscure at this point, but I thought the similarity was interesting.