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Magneto’s defensive-yet-excessive response to Callisto again highlights the subtext of the scene: Magneto wants to go back to his old ways; he does not like failure, and he is indeed rationalizing his choices, just as Moira accused him of earlier. 6/10
The scene comes in hot with Magneto pounding his fist on a desk and spouting off like his old Silver Age self, “How dare you presume to judge me, woman?!” We pan out to see Magneto (in his original costume) staring down an unphased Moira. 2/10
Her character arc then becomes a story of self-definition in the absence of these external forces. By the end of her time in UXM, she is lost completely and utterly, but finds herself again in Claremont’s Excalibur, reborn (because Phoenix) as a confident and assertive hero. 4/4
There’s an argument to be made that many of the unique ideas that manifest in Uncanny X-Men, including the codename and backstory of Illyana Rasputin, come forward from a small occult store in Chelsea and the culture surrounding it. #xmen 1/10
After that, she has her courage tested by a Reaver-Dog, resulting in her personal epiphany that “I feel sort of good too. Like this was a test and I like passed. I mean I don’t need to be afraid anymore, of anyone…It’s them better be scared of me! ‘Cause I’m Jubilee!” 10/11
From there, she undergoes two superhero rites of passage. In the first, she cobbles together a costume from pieces of clothing she has stolen from other X-Men, thus clearly illustrating her symbolic function as the individual personification of “the next generation of X-Men” 9/11
This leads her into the base where she explores the treasure vault, steals food, observes an Outback baseball game, and reflects upon her unusual life experiences in the usual Jubilee style of bombastic excess and self-delusion masking a tragic veneer. 7/11
Gateway points Jubilee to shelter, revealing yet another unresolved mystery about the Outback base: a desert crater. “It’s like what you read about in earth Science 1. When they set off a nuke, y’know it gets so spectacularly hot at ground zero the dirt is melted into glass” 6/11
The nom de plume could perhaps be connected to the unusual narrative strategy that Claremont undertakes: writing the story entirely within the narrative voice of Jubilee herself – a difficult ask of a middle-aged male author. 3/11
We also get the third iteration of the fastball special (one that's not even listed in the Marvel database on the subject); a scene of Storm showing both devastatingly on-point fashion sense and deep reflection on team chemistry (a key aspect of her later leadership ability); 5/8