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Jerusalem posted:It's been a long time since I read it, but if I remember correctly Magneto was using a drug (which itself was generated by a mutant, or actually the mutant WAS the drug? I can't exactly remember) that upped his powers but made him dangerously unstable mentally which was the explanation for why he was pulling the dumb poo poo? The drug itself was part of a sentient antediluvian bacterium that sought only to destroy mutants, and this bacteria - Sublime - was implied to be the reason people hated and feared mutants to begin with. Like, it's a sapient bacterial parasite that has totally colonised the human race and causes them to hate mutants as a result. But also as well as being a universally present parasite in all humans, it can possess specific people and use them as host bodies? But it doesn't usually do this, and also, it can't possess mutants, unless they ingest it through an aerosolised street drug, in which case it can. Morrison's run doesn't hold up that well, I think. It has a lot of cool stuff (like Cassandra Nova), but I can't get past the "an evil bacteria from prehistory is behind everything and it turned itself into a mutant power-boosting street drug so that mutants would use it so that it could influence their behaviour". It just gets worse in Here Comes Tomorrow, where the villain is Sublime possessing Beast's body.
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