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...was still willing to work with–and mostly believed in–existing power structures to preserve human life after the Holocaust destroyed his own.

His faith in humanity lingered–a demonstration of what remnants of his capacity for hope remained, only to be crushed by backup's end.

...the once-evil Master of Magnetism but for the attention and care it pays its antecedents, beautifully culminating the first decade of Claremont's Run on Uncanny X-Men.

The past, present, and future all bore witness to Erik's trial; now they'll all bear witness to his promise.

...deaths at the flood's hands.

Erik manages to make it to the surface with Charles in tow, landing them in a garden–important symbolically as a place of restoration, healing, and personal growth–where a dying Charles begs Erik to take up his dream.

The intimate moment shows...

...the floor beneath him and the judges.

The personal nature of the revenge scheme starts to come into view for the trapped mutants as they announce their combined hatred of Erik, Charles, and Gaby.

Erik still has trouble putting a name to the faces but prepares to sacrifice...

...would no sooner see him burn for his crimes.

It is an important turn for Erik–this is the first time in continuity he's fought not just to preserve human life, but some of the highest symbols of their dominion over his species.

His defenses are broken as the twins shatter...

...come to meet in the years to follow long after this trial.

The issue returns to the mission of stopping the von Strucker twins, and the symbolism of the descendants of Nazi's fighting to undermine the future of "descendants" of a Holocaust survivor are inescapably present...

...for their attempts to survive their oppression by whatever means necessary.

It's Erik's testimony–and full, out loud admission of his long alluded to motives to defend his people against another genocide–that hits this nail on the head and best predicts the statesman we'll...

...next attack.

All of these threads can make it feel like the problems faced by mutantkind are the result of Erik's and Xavier's mistakes, but UXM #200 makes clear that the responsibility lies in the lap of the oppressor–and that the marginalized should not be condemned for...

...which makes the foreknowledge of his children's pain and trauma all the more devastating.

If Kitty is to represent the hope for a better future, then Rachel is a reminder of the consequences of failure; her hound marks returning as she tracks down the twins ahead of their...

...fallibility of human institutions as a means of delivering "justice" upon mutants; an element of the mutant metaphor, sadly, advanced by the failures of our own criminal legal system in regards to race, gender, and sexuality.

Even Scott's knowledge that the Avengers and FF...