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Summary
Rogue was separated from Carol Danvers in Uncanny X-Men #269.
Rogue was ultimately saved from being taken over by Carol Danvers by Magneto, who combined them back into a single body, without Carol’s persona
Comic Book Questions Answered is a feature where I answer whatever questions you folks might have about comic books (feel free to e-mail questions to me at brianc@cbr.com). Today, I explain when and how Rogue was finally freed of her Carol Danvers personality.
An interesting thing I have noticed recently, with the success of X-Men ’97, is that I have a number of fans who were readers of the X-Men in, say, the 1990s or the 1980s, and they’re now invested because of the X-Men ’97 cartoon, and they want to know more information about the series and its characters since they were last following the X-Men. That was the impetus behind a recent question I had about the relationship between Rogue and Captain America (asked by someone who last read the X-Men in the 1990s, and didn’t recall Cap and Rogue having any sort of friendship).
Well, similarly, reader Jean M. wrote in to ask about something I noted in a recent column about how Rogue and Captain America had a child in an alternate reality. In that, I mentioned the old status quo of Rogue having the memories and personality of Carol Danvers (then Ms. Marvel) trapped in her mind. Jean recalled that at from back in the day, and wanted to know how it was all resolved. Here we go!
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When we first met Rogue in Avengers Annual #10 (by Chris Claremont, Michael Golden, and Armando Gil), we discovered that she had absorbed Carol Danver (Ms. Marvel)’s memories and superpowers…
After Rogue served as a super-villain for a couple of years, she ended up joining the X-Men in Uncanny X-Men #171 (by Claremont, Walter Simonson, and Bob Wiacek), as she desperately needed help with the fact that she couldn’t even tell what memories were hers any more…
Rogue served with the team for a while before she heard a distress signal from Carol Danvers’ old boyfriend, Michael Rossi, and suddenly, Carol’s personality took over, which caused some major conflicts in Uncanny X-Men #188 (by Claremont, John Romita Jr. and Bob Wiacek)…
Rogue took control back eventually, but it was a weird situation for a number of years.
A particularly notable time when Carol took oover occurred when Wolverine and Rogue were captured in Genosha, and they were stripped of their powers, and so Carol took control of Rogue’s body in Uncanny X-Men #236 (by Chris Claremont, Marc Silvestri, and Dan Green), with Rogue’s permission, to get them out, using her old secret agent skills…
This made it a lot harder for “Carol” to ever go back to being the lesser personality, and she kept taking over Rogue’s body, and even made her wear Carol’s old Ms. Marvel costume in Uncanny X-Men #246 (by Claremont, Marc Silvestri and Dan Green)…
So how did it all end?
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How was Rogue finally freed of Carol?
In Uncanny X-Men #247 (by Claremont, Silvestri, and Green), the X-Men fought against Master Mold and Nimrod, and during the battle, Carol was knocked out cold, and so when she woke up, Rogue was back in control of her body (and pissed at the costume she was wearing). Ultimately, the X-Men came up with a way to get rid of Master Mold and Nimrod, but it involved taking them through the Siege Perilous, and Rogue had to go through it with them to make sure they went….
Over twenty issues later, in Uncanny X-Men #269 (by Claremont, Jim Lee, and Scott Williams), we see what happened, as Rogue and Carol now exit the Siege Perilous SEPARATED. They are at the X-Men’s home base, but that had been taken over by the Reavers. Rogue no longer has Ms. Marvel’s powers, so she is in trouble, but then Carol shows up to save her…
Carol, though, of course wants to settle things between her and Rogue, but Rogue instead absorbs Gateway’s teleporation powers, and escapes. Carol gets to her just as she leaves, but they are sent to different places. Rogue goes to the Savage Land, and Carol ends up on Muir Isle. The problem is that the Shadow King had taken control of Muir Isle, and so he corrupts Carol, and makes her his servant…
He sends Carol to the Savage Land to get Rogue for his army. The problem is that when Carol alive, she’s basically like a skeletal creature…
As it turns out, since Carol isn’t REALLY Carol Danvers, but just a split piece of Rogue, she can’t actually exist by herself. Only one of “Carol” and Rogue can survive, and “Carol” plans it to be her. So she plans on killing Rogue, and taking over her body…
Luckily, Magneto shows up in the nick of time, and blasts “Carol,” and takes her down….
When Rogue woke up, she discovered that it WAS true that only one of them could live, and Magneto used his machines to make that call, and he combined them back into a single body, only now Carol’s memories and emotions were totally gone (and again, of course, these were just Carol’s memories and emotions from the point where Rogue absorbed them. This was not the “real” Carol Danvers)…
I always thought it would have been cool if, when Magneto did this, the real Carol had gotten her emotions back, but that’s not how it worked out (I’ll do a bit soon showing you how Carol got her emotions back. It took a WHILE).
There ya go, Jean! Thanks for the question! If anyone else has a comic book question they’d like to see answered, drop me a line at brianc@cbr.com!
“}]] When she gained Ms. Marvel’s powers, Rogue also absorbed Carol Danvers’ memories and personality. When did Rogue finally get rid of that personality? Read More