Context: They're talking about restoring a scorched savage land to its former state.
I can't think of a mutant who:
Can serve as a focus catalyst
Has a primal nature in sync with the land
Is a man
Is dead in 1988
Havok knows
Edit: I just realized he must be thinking of Garok the petrified man (the person that ended up being the catalyst in the issue) and not some other candidate. I don't think he's a mutant and idk how Havok knows about him, but he does have a connection with the land and he was thought dead
An unsatisfying answer since Thunderbird wasn't around long enough to demonstrate how in sync with the land he was, but I think this is really the only possibility
Edit: I just realized he must be thinking of Garok the petrified man (the person that ended up being the catalyst in the issue) and not some other candidate. I don't think he's a mutant and idk how Havok knows about him, but he does have a connection with the land and he was thought dead
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jordanlund@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 106d
IIRC Wolverine was presumed dead in 1988.
After the Mutant Massacre (#210 to #219) the X-Men were thought dead and set up in Australia of all places (#229 to #269).
That would have started in May, 1988.
Then again, Havok was also in that group...
Lojcs@piefed.social · 4 pts · 106d
Context: They're talking about restoring a scorched savage land to its former state.
I can't think of a mutant who:
Edit: I just realized he must be thinking of Garok the petrified man (the person that ended up being the catalyst in the issue) and not some other candidate. I don't think he's a mutant and idk how Havok knows about him, but he does have a connection with the land and he was thought dead
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 106d
The guy from the savage lands who could absorb power and focus it and use it himself?
Whom I'm pretty sure would be revived if a mutant touched his corpse?
I dunno, I mainly know him from the Game Gear game, and I don't even remember his name.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 106d
Sauron.
aviationeast@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 106d
Was wolverine dead then or saber tooth?
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 106d
Definitely not Wolverine. Sabertooth I don't know, but I don't expect he would be helpful.
SGforce@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 106d
Swamp thing?
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 106d
That's DC, not Marvel. Marvel's version is Man-Thing.
Both cribbed from a 1940's character called "The Heap"!
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 106d
Off the top of my head I would guess Thunderbird.
Ka-Zar would be another obvious choice, but I don't think he died until much much later
Lojcs@piefed.social · 3 pts · 106d
An unsatisfying answer since Thunderbird wasn't around long enough to demonstrate how in sync with the land he was, but I think this is really the only possibility
Edit: I just realized he must be thinking of Garok the petrified man (the person that ended up being the catalyst in the issue) and not some other candidate. I don't think he's a mutant and idk how Havok knows about him, but he does have a connection with the land and he was thought dead
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 106d
Alpha Flight's Shaman as well, but he was alive and kicking in 1988.
NightFantom@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 106d
"a living being..."
"I can think of one person who'd fit that bill perfectly" "Unfortunately he's dead"
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