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Welcome back folx–the Mutant Massacre is finally over! But can its impacts ever truly leave us?
Tonight we're reading UXM #214, a story about identity and trust in the aftermath of a crisis that furthers Ororo's restocking of the X-Men by reintroducing Alison Blaire to the team.
Magneto when he comforted Bobby in @meakoopa’s Voices: Pride vignette https://t.co/CPVMhewHzt
@GentlyPress I’m not entirely sure she would have said no… it would give her an opportunity to take revenge against the Marauders I am CERTAIN she would perceive as “taking care” of her people
And there’s a real… sadness drawn by Davis into her body language at the end of UXM #213
...and a new direction to take into the darker years to follow.
Despite the frills and chiffon shoulder poofs, the X-Men (and we readers) can see past that now. Betsy is exactly the kind of member to fit the X-Men...
For better or for worse.
Welcome to the team, Psylocke!
...implications. Betsy, resilient and stubborn as ever, projects telepathically once again, asking to help the X-Men in their mission. What she is suggesting is frankly, a really good idea that is literally only turned down for Dramatic Plot Tension™️.
She is refused by Ororo...
...been effectively erased by the pyre's flames–is devastating to realize, especially when it's Callisto who takes note of that too great cost.
There is some speculation that the lightning might have been generated by Ororo, the uncertainty of which enrages Callisto for its...
...Ororo's burden as leader of the team and the depth of her survivor's guilt; she's also the only mutant left there who will address her not with deference, but the forceful type of wake-up slap she needs.
While Ororo is facing her greatest failure as leader of the X-Men...
...has any benefits, it's to give Erik the opportunity to attempt to amend his powerlessness in the face of the genocide he survived in his youth.
Easily the most powerful mutant at the Mansion, it's a subversive thing to see his gift used, for once, not to destroy...