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    Character » Cipher appears in 249 issues.

    Mysterious woman who appeared to inform Ink that the Young X-Men were in peril. Cipher has the mutant ability to phase through solid matter. Despite her similar name, she has no connection with the New Mutant, Cypher. She is currently enrolled at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Alisa Tager is later revealed to have been hiding at the school from an unknown threat.

    Is she Cyclops' spy at the Jean Grey Institute?

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    #1  Edited By PrinceIMC

    Cipher was brought into the X-Men by Cyclops and Jean Grey. She was Cyclops' secret weapon for a long time and I don't think she's ever had any interaction with Wolverine and she seems better suited to the Utopia X-Men. I can't help but think she'll at least be informing Cyclops about the activities at the Jean Grey Institute for Higher Learning. I can't believe that she just followed her friends.

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    #2  Edited By jordama

    I like this idea.

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    #3  Edited By joshmightbe

    I'm gonna go ahead and bet Cyclops is gonna turn full villain sometime in the next 5 years

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    #4  Edited By PrinceIMC

    I don't think she's there to undermine or sabotage the school but tell Cyke what Logan is up to? Hells yes. Might even provide Cyke an opportunity to help save the school at some point. Just because they don't see eye to eye doesn't mean he doesn't want to help protect them. I think that would be an interesting story down the line.

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    #5  Edited By XsPectre28

    i think she is genuine on Wolverines side. cyclops never wanted her to interact with the others basiclly she was in the school from the begining to spy for him she was his SAGE. that on top of everything else might have changed her outlook & she decided to go with students back to school plus most her friends went so...yea

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    #6  Edited By karrob

    @PrinceIMC said:

    I don't think she's there to undermine or sabotage the school but tell Cyke what Logan is up to? Hells yes. Might even provide Cyke an opportunity to help save the school at some point. Just because they don't see eye to eye doesn't mean he doesn't want to help protect them. I think that would be an interesting story down the line.

    Yeah I can see that

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    #7  Edited By luckydomino1

    when cyclops said your staying she had a don't get cocky look on her and said im not gonna be on the x-force for you

    so shes staying because she doesn't agree with the school thing her true loyalty is with wolverine so i dont think she is a spy however the cyclops came to talking with her about a new team and psylocke said that im basically a spycather who is a spy and then scott said if you wanna put it that way and then she said very well scott if you want me to be a spy i will be a spy so she could be or she isnt

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    #8  Edited By PrinceIMC
    @XsPectre28 said:

    i think she is genuine on Wolverines side. cyclops never wanted her to interact with the others basiclly she was in the school from the begining to spy for him she was his SAGE. that on top of everything else might have changed her outlook & she decided to go with students back to school plus most her friends went so...yea

    Actually she didn't interact with any of the other students because she didn't want to. She was in hiding from someone and was scared that if she revealed herself to anyone 'he' would find her. Cyclops and Jean Grey invited her to the school so she could have a safe place to live and she wouldn't have to reveal herself to anyone. That's why Cyclops started using her as a spy. If I were writing X-Men I'd say it was Emplate that was after her but more likely it's just been completely forgotten.
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    #9  Edited By ReVamp

    Doubtful.

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    #10  Edited By AgeofHurricane

    To be honest, what friends did she even have to follow ?

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    #11  Edited By Cytorrak

    I like that idea, but it was pretty clear to me when Schism happened that the writer didn't take any of the character's personalities or motivations into account, and was just grabbing all the characters he liked. Frenzy's entire motivation for becoming a good guy was that in the fake alternate reality Legion created she'd fallen in love with Cyclops and wanted to be good for him, yet following Schism she left with Wolverine.

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