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...is the pathway to that salvation–is only understandable to him given his inexperience with multiplicity and an identity of his own.

It's the same logic which Rachel, even if unintentionally, uses to justify her plan to destroy the universe, missing the trees for the forest...

...a reality-displaced, almost godlike being whose ascension has come at the cost of her humanity.

While the Beyonder's focus that humanity might only be saved through absolute unity may seem noble, the logic behind it–that only a unity undefined by individual identities...

...of undoing her great work in saving the universe from utter destruction by rebooting the universe.

If Rachel is a parallel to Erik's experiences with the Holocaust–as she reminds us while draining her team of their life forces–she is as much a parallel to the Beyonder...

...sees herself as humanity's sole, almost messianic savior–singularly tasked with humanity's redemption.

The singlemindedness of her plan to kill the Beyonder comes–not unlike Rogue's "amends"–as another means of restoring her mother's legacy, even if it comes at the cost...

...with the rest of the X-Men to clean up the more recent wreckage of their actions fighting the Beyonder.

Even though he doesn't arrive in issue until its ending, the ripple of his horrible acts in New Mutants has reached into Uncanny, with Kitty again manifesting the armor...

...similar themes to LifeDeath II, where Ororo learned to navigate and balance the ways of the "old" and "new" worlds after witnessing technology (and greed associated with it) undoing the success of Shani and Mjnari's tribe.

The final interesting moment in the issue comes...

...death while working for Twelvetrees.

"Natural" mutant life being ended by technology has been a long-running theme of the series–and the basis for Forge's crime against Ororo–with which the reveal of Jack's death by Twelvetrees technology tracks.

Twelvetrees' greed traces...

...and are especially resonant given their presence in her "worst nightmare" as it were.

When the zombies are revealed to be real, not imagined, Ororo flashes back to a conversation with a newly widowed woman whose grief motivates Ororo to investigate the nature of the man's...

Not-Forge's presence isn't the only through line I found to the LifeDeath books, either.

After her initial depowering and in the issues that followed, Ororo saw herself as half alive: not quite dead but not living, either.

The undead zombies are almost symbolic of the state...

...surprisingly immersive, which can be a real gamble when it's used.

While the backup to Classic X-Men #20 can be read purely as filler, I found its themes to run fairly parallel to LifeDeath I and II, even if Ororo's wardrobe firmly places it long before either story.