All throughout December, we will be examining comic book stories and ideas that were not only abandoned, but also had the stories/plots specifically "overturned" by a later writer (as if they were a legal precedent). Click here for an archive of all the previous editions of The Abandoned An' Forsaked.

Today we look at Falcon and his candidacy for X-Men membership...

Enjoy!

In Captain America #174, Professor X suggests that the connection that the Falcon had between he and his bird, Redwing, might be a telepathic bond - perhaps even a MUTANT one....



Christopher Priest pursued that thought in the 1980s Falcon mini-series, when a Sentinel identified him as a mutant...



and the Falcon even thinks about it himself...





However, it never really was followed up and in the Avengers 2001 Annual, Kurt Busiek had Jarvis officially explained away as a malfunctioning Sentinel...