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...hits this theme to an extent, but it more strongly takes shape during Logan's "test" of Betsy.
With the close bounds of the Giant-Sized recruits displaced by the Massacre's violence, there's a real tension and anxiety that runs through the scenes of candid mistrust...
With awareness of the Marauders' identities as (mostly) mutants, the question of "who" is to be trusted plays out in the issue's latter half, first playfully among the Mansion's temporary and permanent residents and later much more seriously.
The spar between Logan & Callisto...
...New Mutants, and it will continue to do so as her character is given a chance to develop during the Run.
Back at the mansion, Rogue (computer genius?) informs Ororo that it's no use fixing Cerebro–its mechanics go beyond her capacity.
(Which, were there any doubts of this?)
Having grown frustrated with playing second fiddle to the wildly successful Lila–and infuriated by the way her own career failed–there's a lot of malice to be taken advantage of within Ali.
Ali's thirst for fame has left her vulnerable before–like during the Gladiator arc of...
Interwoven throughout the Massacre's scenes of tragedy have been vignettes of Ali slowly succumbing to the corruptive influence of the entity Malice.
In her appearances in the Run–excluding her earlier moments during the Dark Phoenix Saga–Claremont has spent a great deal of...
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!
"JUST US, TWO ORDINARY HUMANS, RIGHT SHARON????" - Dr. Moira MacTaggart
For the #XSpoilers of it all, if it can even be counted as such still, Betsy basically saved the universe from a total reset.