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...against his behaviors in UXM #204.
The outcome of his fall in battle remains unclear as the tension in battle shifts toward Harry Leland's last stand in defense of his species.
Claremont has put a lot of energy toward identifying Leland's cowardice, a criticism that works...
...who strikes out against his leader's command and dives into battle unprepared against their ever-evolving opponent.
Kurt's last highlights in the Run have tried to content with his sensation-seeking, leaving something retrospectively ominous in Judith Rassendyll's warning...
...makes clear fairly early into the fight, but there's a real sense that Ororo believes there's a dignity in dying united than in helpless factions as Nimrod would prefer.
While the Inner Circle agrees to settle scores later and join the fight for their salvation, it's Kurt...
...takes command of both teams of mutants in what may be their final stand against their seemingly inevitable genocide.
There is no guarantee that the combined forces of X-Men and Inner Circle will be able to overtake the unkillable Nimrod–something von Roehm's terrible death...
..."meat" of the mutant metaphor–the concept of mutants as a monolithically oppressed sub-group of humanity–really clicked.
The allegory has always been present in Claremont's Run, but UXM #209 is one of the earliest moments that worst of humanity is the enemy of all mutants...
...Nimrod who seeks mutant extinction? But what if, on the inside, that same genocidal robot wants to help a kid get his math homework done–and is even confused by his own budding compassion.
UXM #208 doesn't go many places because it spends most of its pages treading the...
...these grey spaces.
Sebastian Shaw is a wicked, vile man; and yet when he's written as he is in UXM #208, it's hard not to root for him against Selene's designs on the Hellfire Club?
The Hellfire Club is an unrepentant force of corruption, but compared to a monster like...
...but beginning him to do so just as her mother had tried to do once before.
Rachel's tragedy hasn't ended quite yet, but that doesn't mean it hasn't hit its lowest point.
Snikt!
...for release from the temptations of the Dark Phoenix.
This issue is very much Rachel's Dark Phoenix Saga–and proof to the suggestion that Jean's heel turn was a reaction to the violences committed against her more than it was an inability to manage her cosmically powerful...
...UXM #207, her distorted reflection in the barely reassembled mirror perfectly capturing the girl's internal state.
As Logan stirs awake from his injuries, it's revealed that his presence in Rachel's dreams is hardly coincidence, but rather the outcome of some cry for help...