>>108245114Got the details wrong
1. He was supposed to be a generic Mojoverse freedom fighter (liefeld's version) and asexual
2. Jim Lee snuck in the idea of Shatterstar being Dazzler/Longshot's kid.
3. Fabian Niceiza hated this idea and killed Dazzler/Longshot's baby off off-panel and also made Shatterstar gay for Rictor.
4. Jeph Loeb had a plan for Shatterstar being Dazzler/Longshot's kid after all, who was sent back in time and raised as Benjamin Russell, who was then mindwiped and sent back to the future and then ended up back into the past. Also, to have him come out of the closet. Bob Harras hates Dazzler/Longshot with a passion and fired Loeb mid-storyline and his replacement keeps Shatterstar in the closet and does a garbage "Shattershot is killed and his mind is transferred into Benjamin Russell's body in the past by Spiral, who may or may not be related to Russell, who also happens to be Shatterstar's identical double but we aren't explaining why" conclusion to the arc, then quietly orders the next full time writer on the book (Moore) to write out Shatterstar.
5. Years later PAD gets a new X-Factor book and he makes a huge fucking deal about how Rictor is 100% straight and fuck you "Shatterstar/Rictor" shippers. But no one buys X-Factor V2 and with the book about to be canceled, PAD caves and brings Shatterstar back and outs him as gay/pairs him with Rictor in a desperate bid to get people to buy that garbage book of PAD's.
6. X-Factor gets canceled and before it goes away, PAD is forced to spend his final issues clearing up unresolved plot issues such as Shatterstar and Polaris's pasts. For Shatterstar, he reveals that yes, he is Dazzler and Longshot's kid BUT tosses in a twist where Shatterstar is also Longshot's father, due to present day Shatterstar being kidnapped by Arize and Mojo, who steal Shatterstar's DNA to create Longshot.
