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Recently, The Lord of the Rings arrived in the world of Magic: The Gathering. The Magic card collection, titled Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth, brought to life many epic moments and characters from The Lord of the Rings. But Magic also took the set one step further. The company created a special version of “The One Ring” card that was serialized as one of one. Yes, there was only one card made of this Ring of Power, and it was hidden throughout all The Lord of the Rings Magic cards released. Of course, this started a frenzied search to find the One Ring that was not dissimilar to the one we saw in The Lord of the Rings movies—my precious, etc. But now Magic‘s One Ring has officially been discovered. Does that many evil wins? We guess only if the card isn’t destroyed.
We’ll have to see what comes next. Rare cards can often sell for quite a bit of money, and this one is as rare as they come. We also don’t yet know who found this special One Ring Magic card. But we hope they’re a Hobbit, ready to travel to the depths of the fiery Mount Doom. Or, we hope they’re having a good day, anyway.
As is the case with Rings of Power, we’re sure we’ll hear more about the fate of this ring/Lord of the Rings Magic card very soon. Or maybe Sauron will take over, and we’ll know for sure what has gone down.
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Recently, The Lord of the Rings arrived in the world of Magic: The Gathering. The Magic card collection, titled Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth, brought to life many epic moments and characters from The Lord of the Rings. But Magic also took the set one step further. The company created a special version of “The One Ring” card that was serialized as one of one. Yes, there was only one card made of this Ring of Power, and it was hidden throughout all The Lord of the Rings Magic cards released. Of course, this started a frenzied search to find the One Ring that was not dissimilar to the one we saw in The Lord of the Rings movies—my precious, etc. But now Magic‘s One Ring has officially been discovered. Does that many evil wins? We guess only if the card isn’t destroyed.
We’ll have to see what comes next. Rare cards can often sell for quite a bit of money, and this one is as rare as they come. We also don’t yet know who found this special One Ring Magic card. But we hope they’re a Hobbit, ready to travel to the depths of the fiery Mount Doom. Or, we hope they’re having a good day, anyway.
As is the case with Rings of Power, we’re sure we’ll hear more about the fate of this ring/Lord of the Rings Magic card very soon. Or maybe Sauron will take over, and we’ll know for sure what has gone down.
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After the series finale of The Walking Dead, many fans were left wondering how Maggie and Negan’s stories would merge together for Dead City. Negan left our group to head off with his pregnant wife Annie to start their family elsewhere while Maggie continued as the leader of the Hilltop. When they reunited in Dead City, Maggie asked the exact question that fans wanted to know: What happened to Negan’s wife Annie and their child? Negan finally decided to answer her inquiry in episode three and yes, it involves heartbreaking violence.
Negan tells Maggie that he lived in a cabin outside of New Babylon with Annie and Joshua, his son. (This further confirms that Dead City is more than 12 years into the apocalypse.) Annie went into town to do trading one day and didn’t return by nightfall. Negan knew something was amiss, so he went out to look for her. He found Annie and she’d been robbed and badly beaten. Despite Annie pleading with him to let it go, Negan found the five men at a drinking hole and killed all of them.
Afterward, his family went on the run and the transient lifestyle was hard on Annie. Negan put Annie and Joshua on a wagon train to Missouri, telling him that he would be right behind them. Instead, he stayed behind and hopes that they are okay. Of course, Maggie doesn’t have a ton of sympathy for him and, to be honest, it is hard to.
Negan is likely leaving out some details about this situation that we may learn later in Dead City. But, based on what we know, his choice to stay behind makes no sense. He has no reason to want to stay in the area, especially considering that he’s a wanted man. We know that he’s running from the New Babylon authorities for those murders. But their reach/jurisdiction doesn’t extend out to Missouri as far as we know. Negan and his family would have been safe to start a new life that’s far removed from the East Coast. Why would Negan let his family go without him? Does he have the first clue where they are in Missouri? Why would they go to Missouri? And will he eventually look for them?
Now that we know what happened to Negan’s wife Annie and their son, it all seems a little too convenient. There’s no other solid rationale behind this decision except to push them out of the picture so he could go on this dummy mission with Maggie. His situation also explains why he’s being such a fatherly figure to Ginny. He’s missing out on Joshua’s life and may never see him again. Annie and Joshua probably won’t reunite with Negan in Dead City but, assuming they are still alive, maybe Negan’s story will eventually end with him heading to Missouri. That is, if he survives his impending encounter with the Croat.
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It’s an uncanny truism of the Marvel Universe that no character exists in isolation. Instead, each is eternally bound by a cosmic interplay of relationships, rivalries, and revelations. While the Marvel Cinematic Universe has done a fantastic job of adapting these connections to the silver screen, there’s a particular thread that has yet to be pulled. Once tugged, this thread could unravel a whole new narrative of how the X-Men’s Rogue got her powers and what that power has do with Ms. Marvel.
For the uninitiated, Rogue is an integral part of the X-Men team. Most of us remember her as the invulnerable, energy-draining, Gambit-smitten heroine from 1992’s X-Men: The Animated Series. However, before she became a hero whose legacy is basically set in stone now, Rogue actually made her debut in the X-Men comics as a villainous character in 1981’s Avengers Annual #10, where she fought Carol Danvers — also known as Ms. Marvel at the time — and stole her powers. So, basically, all of Rogue’s powers we came to know and love in The Animated Series weren’t as in-born as one would initially think.
For those who aren’t that familiar with comic book history, Rogue’s innate power is to absorb the memories, abilities, and life force of anyone she touches. Though it sounds cool, given the potential to become the ultimate, omni-versal mutant, these powers led Rogue down a tragic path of fear and isolation that has become central to her character. It’s actually this very ability that set the stage for a dramatic encounter with Carol Danvers that would forever change the course of both their lives.
1981’s Avengers Annual #10 opens up with a scene in which Carol Danvers, acting as Ms. Marvel at the time — instead of her usual Captain Marvel moniker — falls off the Golden Gate Bridge. This is of course odd for an overpowered superhero with superhuman strength, speed, and the power of flight, who could easily take and dish out a headbutt to Thanos himself in the films. Headbutt narratives aside, the altercation between Rouge and Danvers led to the birth of one of the coolest X-Men ever.
With help from Professor X, it was revealed that Carol was completely stripped of her powers. Her memories, at least most of them, were also gone. Later in that issue, we see Rogue overpowering the entire Avengers team singlehandedly thanks to the superhuman durability, power, speed, and complete tactical knowledge of the entire team’s fighting capabilities — courtesy of the powers and know-how she absorbed from her battle with Ms. Marvel in the opening of the comic book issue.
But Rogue’s actual attack and confrontation with Ms. Marvel wasn’t actually seen in this issue. The actual event was revealed more than a decade later in 1992’s Marvel Superheroes #11, an issue in which, after a series of events, Rogue confronts Ms. Marvel outside the latter’s apartment in San Francisco. Needless to say, Ms. Marvel overpowered Rogue by taking the battle to the sky over the Golden Gate Bridge. In a desperate situation, and on the verge of a very far plummet, Rogue was forced to touch Danvers, ungloved, which activated her mutant draining abilities.
However, being inexperienced with the use of her power, her draining touch lingered too long on Ms. Marvel, resulting in a permanent transfer of her superhuman strength, endurance, and flight. Unfortunately, she also absorbed Carol’s memories. This admittedly gave her a massive tactical advantage but also a massive amount of guilt and personhood trauma for robbing Carol of her life’s essence, leaving Ms. Marvel with nothing else but a devious after-image of Rogue stamped inside her mind.
It’s precisely this story line that presents a narrative goldmine the MCU has yet to plunder. 2019’s introduction of Carol Danvers in Captain Marvel, along with the imminent arrival of the X-Men to the MCU, provide a perfect narrative crash trajectory to dive deeper into the shared trauma, guilt, and redemption that defines the relationship between Rogue and Ms. Marvel. There’s truly limitless potential here. The MCU is quite good at making complex and tragic origin stories, with superheroes coping with their destructive powers and learning how to overcome their barriers and become forces for good.
This could very well tie into a cinematic trilogy, with the first movie being Rogue’s origin story, her struggles with her destructive powers, her eventual run-in with Ms. Marvel, and the fateful altercation which changed their lives and intertwined their fates forever. A follow-up could explore Carol’s struggle, memory loss, journey of acceptance, and her eventual rise as Binary and then her rise again as Captain Marvel, whom we already met in her own movie.
The last movie could be a shared storyline in which the two super-heroines battle with guilt, resentment, acceptance, and forgiveness before teaming up to address a common threat. It would really be a miss for the MCU not to explore this relationship, especially when we consider just how deeply rooted it is in Marvel’s history. The potential for powerful storytelling is there, and fans would be clamoring to theater seats if Kevin Feige and other creatives behind the MCU were to harness that potential.
In the end, the Rogue/Ms. Marvel relationship is one of those interconnections that is born from an intimate narratives that makes the Marvel Universe so very human, green rage monsters and techno dem-gods aside. It would be a shame for the MCU to miss out on the opportunity to give the true backstory on how Rogue becomes, well, Rogue.