Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4548390-20161221060524/@comment-1894786-20170110060824

Ben 1,000,911 wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Ben 1,000,911 wrote: No this is Ben Reilly, everyone from Clone C is the real deal, for those of you who haven't kept up with the story. I'm just very glad they didn't, and would be extremely disappointed if they pulled a stupid twist like that

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I thought the Ben's flashbacks revealed that they are still very much clones, but with the consciousness of the deceased, making them "real" but also not. Normally I'd agree, but Marvel and this wiki sure doesn't. Why? The most obvious example I can think of is Professor X. I mean NOW he's dead, but another time he died, he was just revived in a cloned body. It wasn't even the recreated original body as in the case of Clone Conspiracy, this was a legit clone body. And Professor X's real consciousness, even up to the moment of his death, was put into it. It meant he could walk (until he couldn't), and it is all the same genuine Professor X article on here. A clone of a deceased person is like the new Red Skull running around. His consciousness stems from a certain moment in the original Red Skull's life, not from right when he died in the Captain America: Reborn limited series.

That help? Still confusing as all hell, but at least these clones seem to have the memories of the original up until death (as shown in "The Night I Died"). Then again, this is comics. I'll never not be confused.