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...and the reality that often, even marginalized folx perpetuate and participate in white/cis/hetero/male supremacy. (Which as a queer, *but* white cis man, is something I've had to contend with my own role in.)

Returning to the issue's plot, Rachel again senses the Beyonder...

people and consider its morality, and gives those same groups the opportunity to see themselves on the page.

But, when it's used poorly, it at best accidentally mocks those same oppressions and at worst blames them on the oppressed.

UXM #196 meets both ends of that spectrum...

...like this, that happen over a single page, that make that literary feat possible.

Rachel's time on the book may be comparably brief to the rest of its cast, but her arc is so well-handled that it feels far longer than it lasts.

Her dark future is a natural extrapolation...

...with Kurt–despondent after meeting the cosmic entity–Claremont again proves that superheroism isn't all sunshine and keys to the city–it comes with trauma and loss and fear.

The Uncanny X-Men are so beloved because they feel like actual, living people, and it's moments...

...dread hangs over the book that builds with each reappearance of the Beyonder.

Arguably a Secret Wars II tie-in, UXM #196 never feels bogged down by that whole mess's content–rather, Claremont uses the Beyonder as a plot device rather than a plot driver.

His presence works...

...has less to do with her mutant identity and more to do with the Strucker twins general awfulness and Naziism, it sets the tone for the rest of the issue.

Even as the team meets at a deli (and talk among each other as if the person next to them can't hear them?), a sense of...

...of a wicked man, but that it doesn't even offer the context of the Shadow King's possession until much later; Xi'an's weight is to be assumed related to her heel turn, not her psychic assault by the Shadow King.

The shame of New Mutants #31 is that it mars an otherwise...

...as a grotesque creature couldn't possibly be a woman–that to look as the possessed and victimized Karma does belies any femininity you might possess.

The cruelty of New Mutants #31 isn't just that it warps a girl *introduced* to us as victimized once again at the hands...

After being suggested over the last two issues, Karma's puppetry of the Arena is only formally revealed when Sam confronts her face to face.

The subtext of his response, "Glory! It's a girl!" communicates that we should all be shocked that what Claremont wants us to see...

...even in a Run as celebrated as Claremont's–because the truth is that these stories are, in fact, harmful.

They equate the size of one's body with amoral wickedness, ironic given the specific underpinnings of the mutant metaphor that encourage us to think the opposite is true.