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...the scene can also be read as a rebuttal to her cartoonish villainization during DeFalco's limited series.
Her teaching methods have fomented Manuel's sociopathy, and, rather than take accountability for *her* sins, deprives the wicked boy of his empathic abilities after...
Charles' greatest sin to date is his unethical relationship with Gaby Haller, first introduced to us in UXM #161 and revisited here, during his time as her "therapist", helping her from the catatonia she was left in following her trauma during the Holocaust.
The impropriety...
...likely intended, come back to haunt him.
David's "codename" of Legion, which invokes the biblical hivemind, is fraught with its own troubling legacy of historic understandings of mental illness as demonic possession, but further implies that Charles' sins are legion–are many.
...David Haller–a boy defined by his battles with mental illness–in ways that honored his story without failing to acknowledge its many ill-aged elements; chiefly that since 1985, our understandings of mental illness and diagnosis have greatly improved, even if the stories we...
@uncannyxcerpts Seriously! For what was more/less a “one-shot” issue when there’s a WHOLE LOT happening on either side of the issue, it was surprisingly affecting.
But god, JRJR should never be allowed to draw non-deformed children ever again.
Nightmare fuel:
Paralleling Kitty's own arc across the book, the immature Katie grows up, finding the words to comfort Annalee and promising their friendship, inviting her over for the coming Thanksgiving.
But despite the issue's happy ending, above ground, trouble is brewing: Magneto is back.
...where she again proves her worth as an X-Men, taking down multiple members of the attacking Morlock faction.
Kitty's compassion is what qualifies her as a potential team leader; first when she insists a non-violent solution, and second when she relents recognizing there's...
...siblings defend their "mother" from the X-Men's attack, and the team is split up by the assault. Rogue runs in with Leech, and the two mutants' powers cancel each other out.
Rogue is forced, for the first time since Gyrich's attack, to defend herself without her abilities...
The room is quickly swarmed by Morlocks, accompanied by the physically disfigured and mentally altered remaining Power siblings.
While Annalee's grief is certainly earned by the traumas cast upon her by human society, there's no question that her methods are cruel. The Power...