#in all likelihood he'll just stay dead though

[sammysdewysensitiveeyes]

This is still me on my Morph kick, but I would be very interested to see the original 616 Changeling return on Krakoa, just to see how the writers would handle him.  (I’m using “him” here for the comics character, because as far as I know he identifies as male in the comics.  Although Exiles Morph was basically born as a vaguely humanoid white-glob, so it wouldn’t surprise me at all if he was non-binary as well.) 

Original Changeling was very different from the Morph character, he was much more of a classic villain, generally cold and callous.  He worked for the Mutant Master as part of Factor Three and was seeking to bring about WWIII, with the idea that mutants would dominate the earth after humanity wiped itself out.  He then turned on Mutant Master when he began to suspect his motives. Mutant Master was revealed to be an alien who wanted to wipe out both humans and mutants, at which point both Factor Three and the X-Men teamed up to defeat him.  A few weeks later, Changeling shows up at the X-Mansion, telling Xavier he has terminal cancer and wants to spend his last months making up for his misdeeds.  Xavier has to go away for awhile, and asks Changeling to take his place (seriously, Charles, you’re gonna put your students in the hands of the only recently reformed villain?  But it’s okay, Xavier can tell Changeling is sincere with his telepathic powers, so that’s totally fine.)  Changeling then sacrifices himself in battle to defeat another enemy, and dies as “Xavier.” 

So, this is obviously a more serious character, who seems like an experienced criminal, initially quite ruthless.  Which is very different from the more light-hearted animated series Morph, and the heroic AoA and Exiles Morph.  I really want to know how that personality shift happened.  I know the real reason.  They re-wrote Changeling as Morph for TAS, and made them nicer and more comic-relief so their death would be sympathetic.  That version of the character was then transplanted back into the comics as AoA and Exiles Morph.  But I mean....in-continuity, I want to know how original Changeling wound up so different from his alternate counter-parts.  AoA Morph apparently started out as the villainous Changeling, felt remorse for his actions, and developed the more wacky personality to cope with the horrible world he was living in.  Exiles Morph was never a villain, and I can’t imagine animated Morph starting out as part of Factor Three.  So what the hell happened with 616 Changeling? 

Given that there are various AU’s in which a normally heroic character is evil, or at least misguided, it would be kind of funny if 616 Changeling is actually the “evil” mirror-universe version of the character, and every other Changeling/Morph in the multiverse is generally a good guy person.

Anyway, I would be fascinated to see how a resurrected Changeling would be written on Krakoa.  Would he be a reformed criminal, and still a more serious version of the character?  Would he adopt the silly personality of the other Morphs, because “Fuck it, no one remembers how I used to be anyway, and I’m gonna reinvent myself.”  Would he declare himself retired like Five in Season 3 of Umbrella Academy, and just hang out on the beach in old man clothes?  If they really wanted a “new” Changeling, I can also imagine a scenario in which 616 Changeling, hanging out in the Waiting Room, decides he is at peace and doesn’t want to come back, and sends an alternate version of himself through to resurrection instead.