Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Is It Still Lurking In The Distance?

When the current volume of Guardians of the Galaxy started, the first issue ended with Mantis speaking to the recorder device they have set up. She mentioned how she can see the future, but can tell her team what's coming, and specifically, she can't tell them that one of them will betray the rest in nine months. I think she said nine months?

Has that happened yet? I was thinking about it today, and I don't think it has. I suppose Star-Lord having Mantis mentally convince some of the team to join up could be considered a betrayal, but that had already happened, and Mantis was describing knowing of this betrayal as a result of her precognitive abilities, which wouldn't be necessary since she took part in it. Drax did kill all of them during the Secret Invasion arc, though he had his reasons and it didn't last, and nobody seemed terribly bothered by it. Cosmo might be considered part of the team, and he was harboring Skrulls during that same arc. Again, he had his reasons, and everyone seemed to get over it was they understood his reasons.

Honestly, I don't think a big enough deal was made of those events for them to be the betrayal. Most likely, it hasn't been nine months yet for them. You know how time in the comics moves more slowly than it does for us, and it's been less than a year for us. So it's probably still on the horizon, though I wonder whether it'll come during War of Kings, or in what comes after.

There is another possibility. Starhawk came back from the future to prevent certain things from taking place and dooming his/her time. I'm pretty sure Mantis admitted at some point that she couldn't perceive the future as it relates to Starhawk. So maybe Starhawk's unexpected arrival has changed things sufficiently that the betrayal never takes place at all.

2 comments:

Seangreyson said...

I wonder if it has anything to do with the deal with the Dragon/Demon/Elder God thing Phyla made to get Moondragon back.

CalvinPitt said...

Seangreyson: I imagine it does. I think all this stuff is tied together somehow.