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...emotional isolation from the team, she's natural prey for the manipulative Spiral.

I've included it at the of the thread for legibility purposes, but spread throughout the issue, her seduction by Spiral almost happens in slow motion as we watch helplessly as the X-Men take...

...something of a hard "reboot", one thankfully (at least, in a literary sense) found in the halls of Spiral's Body Shoppe.

Rachel's time on the Run has centered on her complete, albeit impossible, desire to be something other than what she is, and between this and her total...

...especially when Claremont makes SURE to comment on his weight notwithstanding, the man is at least given the opportunity to die in peaceful satisfaction of his valor.

Nimrod teleports away and Tessa extends amnesty in Shaw's name to the team so that both may escape detection.

...to highlight the ultimate heroism of his final sacrifice.

For a C-list-at-best member of the Hellfire Club, Leland is given a fairly moving and honestly tragic send off as Claremont narrates these final moments of his life.

The optics of his death ending in heart attack...

...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...

...and not just the X-Men.

Allegiance for the sake of their species' survival has come up repeatedly since in X-History (e.g. the current Krakoan status quo, Mike Carey's work with the Acolytes during Legacy post-Messiah CompleX), but UXM #209 is the issue that realizes the...

..."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...