Okay, so we all know there's a bunch of Bad Futures in Marvel that have been averted through various forms of timedickery.
What miffs me is, why has no one from said Bad Futures tried to once again set history on the 'right' tracks? Basically, by pulling the same 'Set Right What Once Went Wrong' shtick the heroes do?
It rarely, if ever, happens in Marvel. It's nearly always the heroes going back to avert the bad future, not the villains going back to ensure it happens and/or 'fix' the attempt by the good guys to undo it.
The closest thing was Nimrod, and Nimrod wasn't so much protecting his future, but rather trying to make it even better by preemptively taking out problem mutants before they became problems. Then, well, we all know how that ended.
So the proposal is, why not have the villains realize that their timeline is actually the result of an impressive series of coincidences happening, and setting out to ensure they happen, because they aren't likely to happen naturally (and possibly, the fact they actually interfered may be the only reason why their future even exists, if left to its devices, the timeline will never go their way - don't think too much on it, it's a self-sustaining paradox timeline (it would have never existed if not for tampering, and yet tampering from it is necessary for it to even exist - X-Man was a walking paradox of that type, and was just fine), and like all such things, it's fairly common in Marvel...
I thought about this while working on both my New Vegas fic (which I intend to complete this weekend, a series of nasty circumstances kicked my ass in the last few days) and a new X-Men based idea which basically boiled down to a Terminator attempt going wrong, ie a traveler from a Bad Future accidentally traveling SIDEWAYS in time and landing in a timeline where their future won't happen - I'll post the details in another thread. I thought the bad guy point of view would be more interesting for once.
Thoughts?
What miffs me is, why has no one from said Bad Futures tried to once again set history on the 'right' tracks? Basically, by pulling the same 'Set Right What Once Went Wrong' shtick the heroes do?
It rarely, if ever, happens in Marvel. It's nearly always the heroes going back to avert the bad future, not the villains going back to ensure it happens and/or 'fix' the attempt by the good guys to undo it.
The closest thing was Nimrod, and Nimrod wasn't so much protecting his future, but rather trying to make it even better by preemptively taking out problem mutants before they became problems. Then, well, we all know how that ended.
So the proposal is, why not have the villains realize that their timeline is actually the result of an impressive series of coincidences happening, and setting out to ensure they happen, because they aren't likely to happen naturally (and possibly, the fact they actually interfered may be the only reason why their future even exists, if left to its devices, the timeline will never go their way - don't think too much on it, it's a self-sustaining paradox timeline (it would have never existed if not for tampering, and yet tampering from it is necessary for it to even exist - X-Man was a walking paradox of that type, and was just fine), and like all such things, it's fairly common in Marvel...
I thought about this while working on both my New Vegas fic (which I intend to complete this weekend, a series of nasty circumstances kicked my ass in the last few days) and a new X-Men based idea which basically boiled down to a Terminator attempt going wrong, ie a traveler from a Bad Future accidentally traveling SIDEWAYS in time and landing in a timeline where their future won't happen - I'll post the details in another thread. I thought the bad guy point of view would be more interesting for once.
Thoughts?