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newnumber6This will be a 'whenever I feel like it' type thing, where I take some comic, tv show, or movie, and what I'd do with it if I were put in complete charge of everything that happens. Mostly this is for my own amusement, and so I have a record I can look back on eventually and laugh at myself and my arrogance. Usually it's because I see something wrong with the way it's going now, but sometimes it's just because I just enjoy thinking about what I'd do with it if the facts conspired to put me in charge. In most cases, I'll choose as though I took over from where it is now, but I might occasionally do ones where I go back in time to some critical point and go from there. Rarely will it be a huge detailed plan, mostly general ideas and directions.
This time: Exiles comic (minor spoilers ahead for recent Exiles stuff), starting from nowish.
Exiles has always had a few problems, in that it slips too easily into routine, with the Exiles being forced to correct 'awful' worlds. Once in a while it breaks out of the mold and we get a world which is different, and may need something corrected, but isn't necessarily all apocalyptic, and that's what I'd like to see more of. Another of the problems is the whole mechanics behind it, what with the Timebroker and whether he really exists and what his agenda is. The final problem is the lack of any real ongoing plot. Not only is every adventure pretty well a self-contained story in a world they'll probably never go back to, but there's a high character turnover rate. There'll also continue to be a focus on ongoing character issues and interactions, which is really the best way to go with a 'disconnected wanderers' ongoing plot.
So, my plan, first do an introductory arc, just to establish things. Use some standard thing like Tony Stark as the Sentinel, an anti-mutant crusader. The world isn't a dystopia though, it's about on the level of the normal MU, mutants are generally hated and feared but it's not universal, and not one where everyone's in concentration camps. The mission would probably be something along the lines of preventing the Mutant Registration Act.
Next arc would be something more apocalyptic, except the mission goes badly wrong and the Tallus winds up in the hands of someone from that world, I'm thinking Forge, working with Magneto, but it's not set, and could be someone like Dr. Doom, or even Reed Richards. Whoever it is has enough tech nohow to overcome the Tallus' normal operation and use it to send him (and a small team of his own) to other worlds, leaving (in a cliffhanger) the Exiles stranded on that Earth.
They eventually decide to try to move on past the world, they have togo to the Watcher and use his alternate-universe device. There they get the first hints that the Watchers are aware of and opposed to the Exiles teams; they're not actually repairing the timeline as the Timebroker claimed, they're just redirecting them in certain ways for a specific agenda (the Timebroker himself may even be a Rogue watcer). Since the Watchers don't interfere whether for good or for ill, they're still not sure that this necessarily makes the Timebroker bad guys, and they still have to get to do something, so the transfer to the world of the current story-arc, where it looks like the Weapon X team is killed, and get a broken Tallus leftover from Weapon X there to get in touch with the Timebroker. They manage to get it working again and are moved on to another world (with replacements for those gone missing), but things are different. They're not transported near the scene of the action, and the goals are vaguer.
There's little direct communication with the Timebroker, new replacements haven't even met him directly, the existing people have to fill newcomers in. It's as though the Timebroker has lost power. Future stories balance normal style missions and ones where they're actually sent to fix things that the person who stole the Tallus from them has set wrong. Doubles of the characters would also play a more significant role; we barely saw alternate versions of the same characters, but as sometimes they'll have to hang around for a time to figure out their mission, people will have time to either look themselves up, or to have to take their own place in order to expedite matters.
Of the characters (assuming, probably wrongly, that all of the Exiles survive the latest story arc):
Morph - Drop him, early. I just don't think I could write his particular style of humor. I'd probably have him shot by the Tallus-thief with something that sends him to a random world, allowing him to potentially pop up on the normal Marvel earth if anyone else wanted to use him.
Blink - Keep. She doesn't exist in the standard Marvel Universe, and the group needs a teleporter.
Mimic - Keep for a little while, but eventually kill him off cause we can't let Blink and Mimic be happy together. ;).I'd replace him with Powerpack (below).
Sasquatch - Keep for a little while. Not that I particularly like her, but she's a decent brick and I don't want to kill off everybody right away.
Nocturne - Keep her. She's one of the cores of the book, in my opinion.
Illyana - Drop her, the team doesn't need two teleporters, and she's been a pale shadow the original Illyana. Might give her a happy ending, going home or staying on a world where her family's alive.
New Characters:
Julie Power, Powerpax: Something like 14-15 years old, becoming something of the 'kid' of the group, but because she has the powers of her whole family (flight, gravity manip, personal density control, and disintegration/energy bursts) she fills the varied powerhouse role that Mimic leaves. Since I've mentioned I'm a fan of stories with groups of people disconnected from their own lives but forming a surrogate family, a teenager in the group, one who isn't battle-hardened like most of the others, I think helps balance the people out. She's also not a mutant which'll become important in some stories, since she can't be traced by Sentinels. In her home timeline she's the last one of her family left free from Snarks.
Some kind of energy projector, male: I'm think a version of Banshee, perhaps, or maybe Rictor. Or maybe go the 'future' route, like with Nocturne, and make a character who's the son of Banshee and Emma Frost from a world where they got together during Generation X, with sound powers that include hypnotism via sound.
The last one being open, still, maybe a completely new character just to show that the Marvel Universe hasn't shown all the superheroes around. Probably male, because with Morph and Mimic gone, the only male would be the energy projector above.
Also, to replace the Weapon X team (although it'd be revealed they've been operating longer than the Exiles), I'd have a new covert ops team they occasionally run into, composed of alternate universe versions of Shadowcat (Shield Agent), Cypher, Mystique (X-Man), Steve Rogers (not Captain America, but still a recepient of the Super-Soldier serum, but was more a Black Ops soldier) or possibly Frank Castle in the same role; a Super Soldier experiment of Vietnam, left to be a covert operative, and probably a couple others, maybe some new ones. They're sent in to worlds where there's not supposed to be any evidence of their interaction.
Anyway, that's just a rough outline of my initial ideas formed over the last few days. Thoughts welcome.
This time: Exiles comic (minor spoilers ahead for recent Exiles stuff), starting from nowish.
Exiles has always had a few problems, in that it slips too easily into routine, with the Exiles being forced to correct 'awful' worlds. Once in a while it breaks out of the mold and we get a world which is different, and may need something corrected, but isn't necessarily all apocalyptic, and that's what I'd like to see more of. Another of the problems is the whole mechanics behind it, what with the Timebroker and whether he really exists and what his agenda is. The final problem is the lack of any real ongoing plot. Not only is every adventure pretty well a self-contained story in a world they'll probably never go back to, but there's a high character turnover rate. There'll also continue to be a focus on ongoing character issues and interactions, which is really the best way to go with a 'disconnected wanderers' ongoing plot.
So, my plan, first do an introductory arc, just to establish things. Use some standard thing like Tony Stark as the Sentinel, an anti-mutant crusader. The world isn't a dystopia though, it's about on the level of the normal MU, mutants are generally hated and feared but it's not universal, and not one where everyone's in concentration camps. The mission would probably be something along the lines of preventing the Mutant Registration Act.
Next arc would be something more apocalyptic, except the mission goes badly wrong and the Tallus winds up in the hands of someone from that world, I'm thinking Forge, working with Magneto, but it's not set, and could be someone like Dr. Doom, or even Reed Richards. Whoever it is has enough tech nohow to overcome the Tallus' normal operation and use it to send him (and a small team of his own) to other worlds, leaving (in a cliffhanger) the Exiles stranded on that Earth.
They eventually decide to try to move on past the world, they have togo to the Watcher and use his alternate-universe device. There they get the first hints that the Watchers are aware of and opposed to the Exiles teams; they're not actually repairing the timeline as the Timebroker claimed, they're just redirecting them in certain ways for a specific agenda (the Timebroker himself may even be a Rogue watcer). Since the Watchers don't interfere whether for good or for ill, they're still not sure that this necessarily makes the Timebroker bad guys, and they still have to get to do something, so the transfer to the world of the current story-arc, where it looks like the Weapon X team is killed, and get a broken Tallus leftover from Weapon X there to get in touch with the Timebroker. They manage to get it working again and are moved on to another world (with replacements for those gone missing), but things are different. They're not transported near the scene of the action, and the goals are vaguer.
There's little direct communication with the Timebroker, new replacements haven't even met him directly, the existing people have to fill newcomers in. It's as though the Timebroker has lost power. Future stories balance normal style missions and ones where they're actually sent to fix things that the person who stole the Tallus from them has set wrong. Doubles of the characters would also play a more significant role; we barely saw alternate versions of the same characters, but as sometimes they'll have to hang around for a time to figure out their mission, people will have time to either look themselves up, or to have to take their own place in order to expedite matters.
Of the characters (assuming, probably wrongly, that all of the Exiles survive the latest story arc):
Morph - Drop him, early. I just don't think I could write his particular style of humor. I'd probably have him shot by the Tallus-thief with something that sends him to a random world, allowing him to potentially pop up on the normal Marvel earth if anyone else wanted to use him.
Blink - Keep. She doesn't exist in the standard Marvel Universe, and the group needs a teleporter.
Mimic - Keep for a little while, but eventually kill him off cause we can't let Blink and Mimic be happy together. ;).I'd replace him with Powerpack (below).
Sasquatch - Keep for a little while. Not that I particularly like her, but she's a decent brick and I don't want to kill off everybody right away.
Nocturne - Keep her. She's one of the cores of the book, in my opinion.
Illyana - Drop her, the team doesn't need two teleporters, and she's been a pale shadow the original Illyana. Might give her a happy ending, going home or staying on a world where her family's alive.
New Characters:
Julie Power, Powerpax: Something like 14-15 years old, becoming something of the 'kid' of the group, but because she has the powers of her whole family (flight, gravity manip, personal density control, and disintegration/energy bursts) she fills the varied powerhouse role that Mimic leaves. Since I've mentioned I'm a fan of stories with groups of people disconnected from their own lives but forming a surrogate family, a teenager in the group, one who isn't battle-hardened like most of the others, I think helps balance the people out. She's also not a mutant which'll become important in some stories, since she can't be traced by Sentinels. In her home timeline she's the last one of her family left free from Snarks.
Some kind of energy projector, male: I'm think a version of Banshee, perhaps, or maybe Rictor. Or maybe go the 'future' route, like with Nocturne, and make a character who's the son of Banshee and Emma Frost from a world where they got together during Generation X, with sound powers that include hypnotism via sound.
The last one being open, still, maybe a completely new character just to show that the Marvel Universe hasn't shown all the superheroes around. Probably male, because with Morph and Mimic gone, the only male would be the energy projector above.
Also, to replace the Weapon X team (although it'd be revealed they've been operating longer than the Exiles), I'd have a new covert ops team they occasionally run into, composed of alternate universe versions of Shadowcat (Shield Agent), Cypher, Mystique (X-Man), Steve Rogers (not Captain America, but still a recepient of the Super-Soldier serum, but was more a Black Ops soldier) or possibly Frank Castle in the same role; a Super Soldier experiment of Vietnam, left to be a covert operative, and probably a couple others, maybe some new ones. They're sent in to worlds where there's not supposed to be any evidence of their interaction.
Anyway, that's just a rough outline of my initial ideas formed over the last few days. Thoughts welcome.
