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Realizing that Gyrich's blast has seemingly deprived her of her Carol-obtained strength and invulnerability, Rogue's awareness of further threat to Ororo's ability and the responsibility erasure of those abilities would place on her as their custodian leads the girl to unleash...

...comes to the teenager's mind, when the looming promise of Gyrich's assault on Rogue comes to fruition in a space that was once the teenager's place of refuge and peace.

Gyrich's heavily armed unit sets upon her; with little concern and a shoot first, talk later attitude.

...has always been a theme central to Rogue's character, but Ororo's distinction that to take a mutant's (or anyone's) identity without their consent is an inherently violent act is an important one given the issue's context, and only one I recognized returning to the Run...

...of her mutant abilities to her new friend.

The candidness between the women almost boils over into a fight, before Ororo–acting in a comfortable capacity as mother figure–recognizes that nearly all of Rogue's experiences with her powers have been acts of violence. Consent...

...as has Xavier's promise to help the girl develop control over her mutant abilities.

These internal conflicts are ripped wide open in UXM #185, but, as she's beginning to learn, the X-Men never need be alone. Storm arrives and Rogue recounts the tragic first appearance...

...panel work is growing increasingly complex–and while not on Sienkiewicz levels of insane–is still put to good use to carry the issue's readers through a heartbreak, seconds-long phone call between Rachel and the man revealed to be her father, Scott Summers.

...as an adult, my relationship to this issue and the darker stories to follow has shifted; UXM #185 isn't just a story about Gyrich's ray gun.

Today, it's a story of violence, of flawed parenting, of consent, and of the specific cruelties only a government can show...

...although it seems he has (unshockingly) learned nothing from the experiences.

With the threat of Selene alleviated–at least for now–the X-Men surround Rachel, finally face-to-face with this timeline's X-Men for the first time.

The discrepancies between pasts now too great...

Selene's power is at this point seemingly unmatchable; her psychic vampirism even counteracting Rogue's own life-force draining touch.

The experience leaves Rogue shaken–is this what *her* mutant touch feels like–setting up her flight to Mississippi in the book's next issue...

...to the girls aid. Even through their united strength, the X-Men prove incapable of defeating the ancient mutant sorceress without Xavier's intervention, allowing her to escape back into the crowded city.