Madelyne stood coldly to one side, watching. This was the first time she had met Jean face-to-face in reality.
The feeling was strange. They were both familiar and unfamiliar to each other—unfamiliar because this was their first meeting, familiar because they looked so alike. It was like looking into a mirror.
Madelyne was very curious about exactly what still made her different from this woman.
As Jean's clone, Madelyne had begun imitating her every word and action from a very young age.
Mr. Sinister had secretly observed Cyclops and Jean for nearly thirty years. He believed the two of them were the key to the future world. This Human Geneticist, who had lived from the Victorian Era to the present day, had collected countless records. His achievements were astonishing.
Over the course of those observations, he developed some entirely new impressions.
He came to see Cyclops as his own son. What had begun as exploitation gradually became appreciation and approval.
He gave up on the idea of creating a Cyclops clone, because he would not lay a hand on his own family.
But he felt no psychological pressure whatsoever about cloning Jean.
Madelyne was unique, but Jean's clones were not.
Mr. Sinister created a great number of clones and had them begin imitating her bit by bit from childhood.
He had them live in the room where Jean had lived as a child, with every detail arranged identically, then observed their different reactions in the same environment through cameras.
He had them reenact several major events from Jean's life, such as the day her powers awakened and the day she first met Professor Charles. Through those events, he gradually corrected the subtle differences between the clones and the original. Among them, Madelyne was undoubtedly the most outstanding.
Was she like