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<blockquote data-quote="Samnell" data-source="post: 4317554" data-attributes="member: 130">Shortly before they went mutant terrorist, it was picked up in an X-Force plot. I don't think they explained it there either.It might be something that was written in with the intention of explaining later and then plans changed. X-Men continuity is littered with those, including some that were very ominous at the time. I recall a book from ca. 1990 that made note that the government was rounding up mutant children. Considering the era and the fact that it's an X-Men book, that was probably meant as a major piece of information. Never heard from again.Something that was definitely meant to be a major thing was Doug Ramsey being infected with the Transmode virus. The dangers of his bonding with Warlock were talked up repeatedly, and yet Doug once even fed Warlock from his own lifeforce and (in one of my favorite stories) they do a full gestalt routine where Claremont tells us the two find it difficult to distinguish between themselves. They did a whole issue where Doug dreamed that he had been infected, transformed, and killed all the New Mutants. Then he wakes us, goes and combs his perfect 80s hair in the mirror, and the panel zooms in on a small piece of Warlock-style circuitry in his eye. This would have been about a year or eighteen months before Claremont left the title so it was probably a longterm plan of his. When Douglock came along, they gave him an unconnected origin. He was entirely Warlock, just with Doug's memories.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Samnell, post: 4317554, member: 130"] Shortly before they went mutant terrorist, it was picked up in an X-Force plot. I don't think they explained it there either. It might be something that was written in with the intention of explaining later and then plans changed. X-Men continuity is littered with those, including some that were very ominous at the time. I recall a book from ca. 1990 that made note that the government was rounding up mutant children. Considering the era and the fact that it's an X-Men book, that was probably meant as a major piece of information. Never heard from again. Something that was definitely meant to be a major thing was Doug Ramsey being infected with the Transmode virus. The dangers of his bonding with Warlock were talked up repeatedly, and yet Doug once even fed Warlock from his own lifeforce and (in one of my favorite stories) they do a full gestalt routine where Claremont tells us the two find it difficult to distinguish between themselves. They did a whole issue where Doug dreamed that he had been infected, transformed, and killed all the New Mutants. Then he wakes us, goes and combs his perfect 80s hair in the mirror, and the panel zooms in on a small piece of Warlock-style circuitry in his eye. This would have been about a year or eighteen months before Claremont left the title so it was probably a longterm plan of his. When Douglock came along, they gave him an unconnected origin. He was entirely Warlock, just with Doug's memories. [/QUOTE]

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