Comics Blogging For Exiles Fans: Is Mimic Dead?

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In the latest issue of Exiles (#73) we discover that Proteus has indeed sapped all of Mimic's life force, leaving his body a shriveled husk. But is he dead?

I say no. I think that Mimic mimicked Proteus' power and is now traveling along with him whenever he possesses someone. My evidence for this:

(1) Mimic was able to fight Proteus to some degree; Proteus mentionedi nthe rpevious issue that Mimic was fighting him, trying to "go steel," which would have killed him.

(2) Moreover, in this issue he expressed surprise at how fast Mimic's lkife force was being up. This would make sense if Mimic was copying his powers. As Mimic can copy a power at half-strength, if he was copying Proteus he would increase life force usage by 50%, thus making Proteus use up his energy in 2/3 of the normal time.

So I think that Mimic is now a disembodied "possessing entity" for lack of a better term.

That is all.