Hey Rachel, do you know what's up with Mikhail Rasputin these days?

You mean Colossus and Magic's big brother?

I think he's still stuck in the dark zone, Miles.

The dark zone, is that the reality where he married a princess?

Oh, no, no, no, that's the void, where he got trapped when he was still a cosmonaut

after the Soviet government faked his death in an explosion.

But the X-Men got him out, right?

Yeah, but not until after he'd accidentally killed his wife and wiped out at least

one major urban center, which kind of became a theme with him

you know good intentions and all that.

Huh but that was before he accidentally infected Ilana with a legacy virus via a time loop.

Right that didn't happen until way later in the Truth or Death miniseries.

Oh, okay, so the Dark Zone is the dimension where he went to turn the Morlocks into a terrorist group.

No, that's the hill. The Dark Zone is where he ended up after he allied with Mr Sinister to try to kill all the

Rasputans.

Why would they do that?

And isn't Rasputin a really common last name in Russia?

That's like setting out to kill everyone with the last name Smith.

Well, in the 616, apparently there's only one Rasputin bloodline, and it goes straight back to the

Mad Monk himself, Grigory Affemevimovich Rasputin.

I know I'm going to regret asking this, but how to sinister tie in?

Well, he was trying to set things up so there'd be only one rasputin left, at which point,

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