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...a drop of joy–of laughter–that he has always provider her in a time of need.
Without Kurt's joy, the X-Men have lost their soul–a truth literalized in Piotr's open thirst for revenge even after his execution of Riptide.
Looking inward, Ororo can only find fault in herself...
...the personal costs of war.
Back in the makeshift infirmary, Moira and Sharon face a seemingly endless tide of death as Erik looks on, retraumatized by the memory of the cruelty of his youth strewn before him.
Ororo looks to Kurt, begging not just for his survival, but for...
...perfectly capture not only the horrible scope of the Massacre's tragedy, but the grief of its survivors.
The two primary points of view characters in UXM #212 are Ororo and Logan, who is at this point her lieutenant among the X-Men, each representing different angles of...
... the rookie cop is still an instrument of an oppressive tool of power used to punish–and murder–BIPOC and other marginalized folx.
The older officer explains to Joe that it's "them or us"–a disturbing parallel to the current culture among the police. He offers Joe an alibi...
..the mutant metaphor to police brutality against unarmed BIPOC as it validates the racist trope of "dangerous" minorities.
Where it does connect is through the institutionalized hatred which by issue's end the rookie cop has been socialized into.
For all his "good" intention..
...villain of the story in the news. Scared for her life, Scaleface shapeshifts but is quickly shot and murdered by the police.
The problem in this reading, of course, is that by virtue of her mutant abilities, Scaleface is armed; it then becomes inappropriate to connect...
...have a different perspective on mutants, his attempt is met with dismissal and open judgement of mutant kind. The police in X-Factor #11 are quite literally wielding Chekov's gun.
While I'm not sure Weezie was offering purposeful commentary on police brutality, the issue...
...of the Tunnels before Thor gives the deceased Morlocks their final rest in the flaming Alley.
But once above ground, Berserker realizes that he's landed his party in X-Factor's headquarters, and begins to lash out before Skids–who has clearly been brainwashed into now...
...an electricity-wielding mutant named Berserker attacks the embattled men as they make their escape from the tunnels–the latest example of the cost of mutant division in the series.
On the other side of the Tunnels, Jean, Scott, Artie, and an injured Warren are evacuating...
For an issue titled 'Redemption', X-Factor #11 spends a curious amount of time in Scott's self-pity in the wake of the Massacre and his many other poor life decisions since the series' beginning.
Mistaking Hank and Bobby for more Marauders, a breakaway sect of Morlocks led by...