Flashback Uncanny X-men -1
Issue Summary:
Sanctity travels back in time, and is confronted by
Rachel Summer (Phoenix), who has followed her, to stop her from altering the
future. The thing is that she was able to put deep in Master Mold programming to
hunt down the 12.
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
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This issue is the starting point for the 12 story
line.
X-men -1: Xavier and Magneto have a chat.
Excalibur -1: Is Amanda predestined to become the new Magik
by Belasco?
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| These are the 4 different cover to X-Men 1, When I was a Kid I bought all four of them thinking they were different issues I was pist to find out that I had gotten 4 times the same issue jajajaja |
X-men 1: A New X-men Team has formed, the Blue team and Gold Team,
just in time to stop Magneto the is back and is pist, and he has brought new
friend the Acolytes.
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
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Introduction of the Acolytes.
Mags is a Villain again.
The Good:
The new team presented is the Blue team which is my favorite line up of X-Men ever.
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| One of the coolest 90's cover |
Uncanny X-Men 283: First issue for Bishop who has arrived to the
present hunting Fitzroy.
X-men 20: The Original Pyslocke is back, ¿so who is this other Ninja
Pyslocke in the first place?
Uncanny X-men 290: Forge leaves the X-men and ends his
relationship with Storm to take care Mystic that has gone gaga after Destiny’s
death.
Rating: 6
X-Factor 81: X-Factor goes up against Cyber.
X-Men 8: Bishop meets Gambit, who he accuses him for being
responsible for the end of the X-men from the future.
X-Cutioners Song
Stryfe posing as Cable tries to assassinate Charles
Xavier, causing the X-Teams to go after Nathan and X-Force setting the stage
for Stryfe’s vengeance against Cable, Apocalypse and Xavier’s dream.
Characters:
Heroes: X-Men Blue/Gold, X-Factor, X-Force
Antagonist: Apocalypse
Villains: Stryfe, MLF, Mr. Sinister, Dark Riders,
Famine, War, Caliban
Sporting Cast: Val Cooper
Issue Summary:
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Uncanny X-Men 294: Stryfe posing as Cable tries to
assassinate Charles Xavier, while Jean and Scott are kidnapped by the Four
Horse men of Apocalypse.
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X-Factor 84: X-Force arrive to the crime scene to
investigate what has happened why would their leader try to kill Xavier, and
the young mutants cross paths with X-Factor who are guarding the site.
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X-Men 14: It’s revealed that Mr. Sinister is behind
Jean and Scotts kidnapping trading them to Stryfe for a mysterious canister
that has genetic information that Sinister desires.
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X-Force 16: X-Men and X-Factor hunt down and
capture X-Force, while Mr. Sinister feed false information to the X-men telling
them that Apocalypse is behind the assassination plot of Xavier.
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Uncanny X-Men 295:
Apocalypse has reawaken and seek out his horse men, to find out way they
have taken the initiative in capturing Jean and Scott, to find the X-men has
gotten to them first.
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X-Factor 85: Wolvy and Bishop are hot on Cable trail, while the X-men and
X-Factor engage the MLF
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X-Men 15: battle rages on with the MLF, while
convinces Wolvy and Bishop that he didn’t shot Xavier
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
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we discover that Stryfe and
Cable are clones and that one of them is the true child of Cyclops and Madelyne that
was sent into the Future.
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The Legacy Virus
The Bad:
The Good:
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This is one of the X-verses
best crossovers
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X-Men Vs X-Force
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The Origin of Cable start to be
shown
Rating: 10
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| This issue actual explains the Origins of Mojo's race |
Shattershot
Arize the creator of the slaves of the Mojo-verse has
escape to and it’s up to the X-men to protect him from being captured.
Characters:
Heroes: X-Men Blue and Gold, X-Factor and X-Force
Antagonist: Shatterstar
Villains: Mojo
and his crazy crew and the other mysterious Mojo.
Sporting Cast: Arize
Issue Summary:
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X-Men Annual:
Arize escapes to Earth and is saved by the X-men, defeating Mojo’s
forces.
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Uncanny X-Men Annual: Gold team stops another group
leadered by a rival Mojo trying to kidnap Arize.
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X-Factor Annual: X-Factor stops Spiral from killing
Arize, making him responsible for what she has become.
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X-Force Annual: In the future the Spineless ones
have been defeated but Shatterstar rule is even more despotic.
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
The Bad:
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The whole story could have been told in one Annual
or two at most.
The Good:
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Crossover explains the origin of Mojo and the
Spineless Ones and that they are evil because of Arize’s mistake.
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Origen of Spiral
Rating: 6
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| The Definitive Magneto Battle |
Fatal Attractions
Magneto is back and has created a new orbital station
called Avalon, a new refuge for mutant feeling operation, the problem is that
his Acolytes are causing all kinds of trouble on earth leading into conflict
with the X-men, X-Factor and X-Force
Characters:
Heroes: X-Men,
X-Factor, X-Force
Villains: Magneto, Acolytes, Exodus
Issue Summary:
X-Factor 92: X-Factor clashes with the Acolytes, Fabian Cortez tries
to convert Quicksilver to their cause, and the villains expose the US government
for creating a new generation super high
tech Sentinels.
X-Force 25: Cable is back right on time for the arrival of Exodus
that has take the old New Mutant members of the team to Avalon, leaving the
rest of X-Force behind. Ticked off Cable takes what's left of his team to
Avalon to find out who is behind all of this, only to discover it is Magneto
and he has stolen Cable's old base Greymalkin, Cable battles Mags but get his
butt kick but is able to save his team and his old friend the AI Professor.
Uncanny X-Men 304: Magneto arrives to Majik's funereal, to confront
Xavier and offers the X-Men to join him on Avalon, all the X-Teams go up Mags
but Colossus side saving Magneto from defeat and joining the Acolytes.
Uncanny X-Men 25: Mags sends a message to Earth not to mess with
Avalon, with a colossal EMP blacking out the planet, Xavier creates a task
force to take Magneto down but things go wrong, Mags pull the metal out of
Wolverine pushing Xavier to mind wipes his old adversary.
Wolverine 75: Having lost his metal skeleton has pushed his power to
the brink, almost not surviving.
Excalibur 71: Kitty confronts Colossus over his decision in
joining the Acolytes.
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
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Wolverine loses his claws.
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Magneto get mind wiped.
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Xavier is infected with the
evil part of Magneto's mind and becomes Onslaught.
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Colossus joins the Acolytes.
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Cable is back.
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Rusty and Skids become Acolytes.
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We discover that wolverine had
natural bone claws under his metal claws.
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Wolvy leaves the X-Men for a
time.
The Bad:
The Good:
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Multiple Man duping inside of Meloncamp was super
cool.
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This arc is probably the definitive X-men battles
against Magneto.
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Its freaking hardcore for Magneto pulls the metal
out of Wolverine
Rating: 10
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| Stop killing Jamie |
X-Factor 100: X-Factor set out to stop Heaven, but to their surprise
Multiple man
ask Heaven to help him cure his legacy virus, but she fails
showing she was a fruad.
Lasting Repercussions:
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Madrox stay dead for a while.
Uncanny X-Men 307 and X-Men 26: Check out my Blood Ties post
Uncanny X-men 308: Scott and Jean
reveal that they are going to get married.
Ratting: 6
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| Banshee is back |
Phalanx Covenant
After the events of the X-tinction Agenda Genoshan authorities experiment with Warlock
Techno organic virus to create new type of living sentinel, the Phalanx. But the Phalanx has
taken up their own agenda and the whole planet is in danger.
Characters:
Heroes: X-men, X-Force, Excalibur, X-factor, Banshee,
White Queen, Sabertooth and Future members of Generation X
Villains: Phalanx, Cameron Hodge, Stephane Lang,
Shinar
Issue Summary:
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Uncanny X-Men 316/X-men 36: The Phalanx starts
hunting the Next Generation of Mutants, and we have Banshee saving White Queen
from being kidnapped by the Phalanx.
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Uncanny X-men 317/ X-men 37: Banshee and crew set out to save the next
generation of Mutants, the young mutants are liberated but Blink sacrifices
herself to save her new friends.
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X-factor 106: X-Teams regroup in France to plan a
counter attack on the Phalanx, Douglock Kidnaps Cannonball, Wolfsbane and
Forge.
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| Introduction of Gen X Character |
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X-Force 36:
Douglock set his crew to destroy the beacon that the Phalanx has created
to call Technarchy to consume the planet.
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Excalibur 82: X-Teams destroy the beacon.
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Wolverine 85/Cable 16: X-teams destroy the last remnants
of the Phalanx
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
·
Crossover present the members of Generation X
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Douglock finally free of the control of the Phalanx
The Bad:
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616 Blink dies almost immediacy after she is
presented.
The Good:
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A new spin off title is born from this crossover
Generation X.
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¿Who is Douglock?
Rating: 9
Excalibur 85: Kitty give the Soul Sword to Amanda.
X-Factor 107: Strong Guy battle the Blob in a zero story punch out
issue that I just love.
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| Series promised a lot but never really delivered |
Generatin X
Issue 2:
Penance on
the loose.
Rating: 7
Generation X Issue 6:
Emma Frost
has been captured by Marrow, but is able to escape before her students arrive
to rescue her.
Rating: 8
X-Factor 110: X-Factor trying to save Lili Cheney from aliens.
X-Factor 111: Strong gets almost killed and left in
coma, trying to save Lila Cheney from a group of angry aliens.
Excalibur 86: The team heads to Genosha to
investigate the civil war raging on between
humans and mutants, someone is giving the humans a unfair upper hand.
Lasting Effects:
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Black Air replaces WHO in the paranormal
investigation in great Britain.
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Pete Wisdom, a member of Black Air, is introduced
and will join Excalibur over time.
Legions Quest
Legion Travels to the past to fix things for his daddy, Xavier, by
killing Magneto. ¿What could go wrong?
Characters:
Heroes: X-men, Cable, Domino
Antagonist: Legion
Villains:
Sporting Cast: Shi’ar
Issue Summary:
X-men 40: Legion Arrive to the Past
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
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Age of Apocalypse
The Bad:
The Good:
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Age of Apocalypse
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We can see the early relationship between Mags and
Xavier.
Rating: 10
Uncanny X-men 322: An entity called Onslaught has punched the snot out
of Juggernaut and has him running scared.
X-Men 42:
Exodus discovers a person floating in space, it turns
out to be Holocaust from the Age of Apocalypse and he battles Exodus destroying
Avalon, Magneto space station.
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
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Holocaust has arrived to Marvel
616
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Death of Acolyte Milan and
Rusty Collins
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Destruction of Avalon
Rating: 7
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| Finally during this time X-Men were being published in Argentina, so I didn't have to depend on my dad bringing them from his trips to the US |
X-men 44:
Cyclops and the Acolytes are lost in down under and
able to find one of the X-men’s old bases that they used in the late 80’s,
while Colossus is rescued by Calisto.
Rating: 6
X-men 45: We discover that there is a relationship between Gambit and
Mr. Sinister.
Rating 6
X-men 47:
X-babies on the loose Bishop and Gambit try to find
the little kiddies before Mojo’s minions do. Dazzler saves the day and takes in
the X-babies.
Rating: 6
Excalibur 92: Colossus after a brief battle with
Excalibur, thinking that he was still an acolyte, after everything is cleared
up he joins the team.
X-men 49:
Dark Beast is tracking Bishop, he knows that he’s the only one that can
blow his cover because of his knowledge of the Age of Apocalypse, when he
discovers the existence of the 616 Beast.
Rating: 8
Generation X Issue 10-11
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| Best battle in the whole series |
Someone has
made Banshee terribly sick and it’s up to Chamber to find out.
Characters:
Heroes: Generation
X
Villains: Omega
Red, Emplate
Antagonist:
Supporting
cast: Magneto
Issue
Summary:
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10 Banshee falls sick and we find out that Omega Red
is responsible.
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11 Chamber battles Omega Red and is able to defeat
him.
The Good:
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We discover that when Banshee was young and a Spy
he hunted down the man that would become Omega Red, and that he was sent by
Magneto.
Rating: 8
Uncanny X-men: Who is this man? Is it Magneto? Why is he so young? Nope he Joseph Mags Clone we discover this latter.
Generation X Issue 12-16
Emplate
attacks Generation X
Characters:
Heroes: Generation
X, Bishop
Villains: Emplate
Antagonist:
Supporting
cast:
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12-13 Emplate Captures the Generation X kids, wants
Penance back.
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14-15 With Help from Bishop Gen X defeat Emplate and
saves Penance, but Emplate leaves a parting gift.
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Synch is left under Emplate control Gen X has to
fight him to release him from Emplate control.
Issue
Summary:
Repercussions
and Lasting effects:
·
What the relationship between Penance, M and
Emplate?
Uncanny X-men 328:
Sabertooth manipulates Boom Boom into attacking him,
and accidently freeing this feral mutant, Pyslocke jumps in to save her but is
almost killed by creed.
Uncanny X-men 331: Iceman has been gravely injured by
one of Onslaughts minions and he seeks help from the White Queen.
Rating: 8
Excalibur
94:Captain has a dream with visions of the future, where everything has
gone to hell and Douglock seem to be responsible.
Excalibur 95: X-man has discovered that Excalibur is affiliated
with Xavier and he almost destroys the whole team.
Excalibur 96-98
A new Hellfire Club is rising
to power in London and they have Kidnapped Douglock for their nefarious plans.
Characters:
Heroes: Excalibur
Villains: Hellfire
Club, Mountjoy, Black Air
Supporting
cast:
Issue
Summary:
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96 A new Hellfire club is rising to power in London.
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97 Douglock is kidnapped by the Hellfire Club
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98 Excalibur attack a Black Air facility trying to
find their teammate.
Uncanny X-men 332:
X-men are
trying to find Wolvy to save him from his own wild side.
X-Factor 121:
Forge finally embraces magic again to
help him defeat the evil Advisory.
Rating: 9
X-Factor 122: Sabertooth goes rogue.
X-Factor 123: X-Factor battle the
Hound
Rating: 6
Uncanny X-men 333: Jean and Gambit infiltrate the
presentation of a government plan called Zero Tolerance, Onslaught saves the
two heroes when they are about to be trapped
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
·
Introduction of Bastion
Rating: 7
X-Factor 124: Random is back
Rating: 6
Onslaught
Xavier has gone bananas, and he has converted into a super malevolent being
called Onslaught, and he’s going make the world a better place for mutants, like it or not.
Characters:
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| Onslaught |
Heroes: X-men,
Avengers, Fantastic Four, Spider-man ( Ben Reilly), Peter
Parker, X-Factor, Punisher, Green Goblin, Wolverine, Electra, Fantastic Force,
Inhumans, Black Panther, X-man, Joseph, Juggernaut, Shield
Antagonist: Random
Villains: Onslaught, Dark Beast, Post, Holocaust, Sentinels,
Havok, Fatale
Sporting Cast: Franklin Richards, Watcher, Apocalypse,
Gateway, Ozymandias
Issue Summary:
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Uncanny X-men (UX) 334: Onslaught tries to recruit Jean
Grey to his cause. And Juggernaut has returned to the Marvel Universe.
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X-men (XM) 53: Juggernaut arrives to the X-mansion looking
for help from Jean to discover, ¿who is Onslaught?
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XM 54 Jean discovers that Xavier is Onslaught.
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Onslaught X-Men: Onslaught reveals himself to the
X-men, and mops the floor with them, Dark Beast Joins Onslaught.
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Wolverine 104: With the help of Gateway Wolvy and
Electra discover that Onslaught was born when Xavier mind wiped Magneto and is
part of Mags dark soul fused into Xavier, creating the bases for this dark
entity.
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X-Men Unlimited: Thank to Onslaught Cain Marko is
trapped in the Gem of Cyttorak it takes the help of Doctor Strange to get him
out alive
X-men/Doctor Doom:
We discover that when Xavier mind wiped Magneto, Doom
tried to capture Onslaught’s essence for his own use, but failed.
UX 335: Apocalypse has reawakened to observe the
rise of Onslaught. The Avengers have arrived to the X-mansion to help the X-men
after the fall out of the first battle with Onslaught. X-Force also joins the
crusade.
Fantastic Four 415: Onsluaght kidnappes Franklin Richards.
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X-force 57 Sinister is
after Nate Grey but X-force wont let him take the young Mutant without a fight.
But Sinister overpowers the young heroes.
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X-Factor 125: X-Factor tries to stop Onslaught’s minions
from activating an army of Sentinels.
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Amazing Spider-man 415: Spider-man (Ben Reilly)
tries to defend the city from the Attack of the Sentinels.
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Green Goblin 12: Goblin goes up against the
Sentinels.
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Punisher 11: Sentinels take down Shields Helicarrier.
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Spider-man 72: Peter Parker helps Ben in the battle
against the Sentinels.
Hulk tries a surprise attack on Onslaught with a few
Avengers, but they all get killed in their first try. Good thing it’s just an illusion
Onslaught is just mentally messing with Hulk.
Iron man 332: Iron man with the help of Wakandan Tec create special head set that block Onslaught's mental powers.
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Avengers
402: The Avengers defeat Post and Holocaust.
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X-men 56:
Joseph joins the battle against Onslaught.
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Fantastic Four 416: Onslaught attacks the Fantastic
Four.
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UX 336: Thor
rescues Xavier from Onslaught.
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Marvel Universe Onslaught: Heroes defeat Onslaught, but
seemly sacrificing themselves.
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
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The Return of Juggernaut to Marvel Universe, he had
gone for a short time to the UltraVerse.
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Xavier looses powers for a time.
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Heroes Reborn, check out this post.
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Thunderbolts, Heroes for Higher, Alpha Fight… teams
that fill the void of the Avengers and the Fantastic Four.
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We discover that Random is actually a kid.
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Hulk and Banner are divided into two beings, Banner
ending up in the Heroes Reborn Universe.
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No more smart Hulk.
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Onslaught essence will survive in the Heroes Reborn
Universe and will make its way back as the Red Onslaught in the Axis.
We discover that Caliban
has a special programming by Apocalypse to take out Sinister
Zero Tolerance
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The Bad:
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Sort of creepy the revelation that Xavier had
sexual feeling for Jean.
The Good:
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We discover who betrays the X-men, the reason
Bishop comes back in time.
Rating: 9
Annnual 1996: Every X-Team get together at the mansion.
X-Factor 127: Mystic makes a couple of Friends of Humanity pay for
attcking a young mutant.
X-Factor 128: X-Factor capture the mysterious mutant that has been
following them, and it Multiple Man.
X-Factor 129: Multiple Man is back and we learn what
happened to him.
X-Factor 130: X-Factor has to protect the mutant hating politician Gaydon
Creed from Mystic who is out to kill him. Now he gets assassinated,¿ but who
pulled the trigger? it seems that Raven didn’t do it. We discover in the X-men
Forever it’s a time displaced Mystic.
Rating: 9
X-Factor 131:
Havok breaks dark Beast out of prison.
Uncanny X-men 338: Angel gets his feathered wings back,
the metal wings no more. X-Men battle Pyro who is dying of the legacy virus
Rating: 8
Uncanny X-men 339:
Spider-man drops in to warn the X-men that Graydon
Creed wants JJ Jameson dead because of incriminating info against the anti
mutant politician, but to the surprise of the X-men Havok
and Gen-Nation attack him JJ. The X-men save JJJ’s life, Cyclops battles his
brother trying to knock some sense into him. Bastion kills the informant so the
info doesn’t get out any ways.
Rating: 8
Excalibur Issues 104-105
Douglock wants to know if he’s
really Doug Ramsey back from the dead. While the MLF attacks to obtain the
Xavier Protocols.
Repercussions
and Lasting effects: Douglock discover he’s not Doug
X-men 57:
Xavier is taken into custody over the whole Onslaught debacle.
X-Men 59: Hercules drop in for a visit to the X-men
Excaliber 106
Colossus
confronts his old teammates the Acolytes to leave Exodus’s cause
Rating: 6
Rating: 6
Generation X Issue 17
Skin and
Chamber battle Executioner, and defeat him.
The Good; it’s
a fun issue and it shows how Skin can hold up on his own.
Rating: 7
X-Men Unlimited 14: Franklin Richards dealing with the
loss of his parents.
Generation X Issue 25
A deranged Black
Tom attacks Banshee, wanting revenge for taking Teresa from his life.
Issue
Summary:
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Black Tom attacks Banshee for a final show down
trying to destroy everything that he loves, especial the Gen X kids.
Repercussions
and Lasting effects:
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| Banshee Vs Black Tom |
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Franklin Richards escapes Tom’s attack with his
friends Howard the Duck, Artie, Leach, Tana Nile and Man Thing, spin off miniseries
Day Dreamers will emerge from this.
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Mondo betrays the Team, he was always a secret
agent of Black Tom
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Jubilee is kidnapped by Bastion.
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Bastion Kills Mondo
The Bad:
The Good:
·
This comic has a classic show down.
Rating: 9
X-Men 60: Shang Chi drops in to help the X-men investigate the Hellfire club.
X-men 64: Kingpin offers the X-men the cure to the
Legacy Virus, Storms destroys it, she’s no willing to make a packed with the
devil.
Uncanny X-men 345: Introduction of Maggot, one of the oddest
X-men ever.
Rating: 7
Zero Tolerance
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| Bastion please kill Jubalee |
Characters:
Heroes:
X-men, Generation X; X-force, Cable, Caliban, Sabra, Shield, and Xavier
Villains: Bastion,
Prime Sentinels, Master Mold, Juggernaut and the MLF
Antagonist:
Robert Kelly, Gyrich
Supporting
Cast: Daria, Iron man, Angel, G.W. Bridge, Sledge, Vanisher
Too much bad
stuff has happened with mutants lately, with Onslaught, the assassination of Gaydon
Creed and many other mutant attacks, the US government launches operation Zero
Tolerance which will resolve the mutant problem in the country.
Issue
Summary:
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Generation X (GX) 27; Bastion tries to break
Jubilee so he can obtain all of the X-men’s secrets.
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X-men (XM
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X-force (XF) 67; The MLF has taken over research
center and X-force jumps in to save the hostages.
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XM 66 Prime Sentinels attack a hospital and Cecilia
discovers that she is a Mutant, and she is saved by Iceman escaping just in
time.
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Wolverine (WV) 115 Wolvy breaks loose and starts
causing trouble at the Zero Tolerance’s base of operations which is at old Hulkbuster base. Breaking the X-men
free and escaping.
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Cable (CB) 45 Cable infiltrates the X Mansion to
rescue Caliban.
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| Bone claws please go. |
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XF 68 MLF and X-force, discover that the whole
hostage situation was a trap they were prime sentinels out to trap them, they
barely escape. To Dominos bad luck she crosses paths with a Prime Sentinel that
has major personal issues against her and she wants pay back.
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GX 29: Gen X kids running for their live in LA while a horde of
Prime Sentinels are hunting them.
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XM 67 Iceman and Cecilia still on the run.
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WV 116 Wolvy discover that prime Sentinel are
really people that have lost their arms, legs or any major organ and get healed
for free but really are converted into prime sentinels.
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CB 46 Cable frees Caliban.
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XF 69 Domino is depowered, X-force is able to rescue
captured members.
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XM 68 Marrow and Sabra join Iceman and Cecilia Reyes
in their battle against the Sentinels.
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WV 117 Wolvy rescues Jubilee.
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CB 47 Cable battles Bastion, he’s not what he
seems, Cable barely makes it out alive.
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XM 69 Iceman battles Bastion and in the middle of
the battle Shield steps in and takes the villain into custody. What the
Hell¿?¿?!!!
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WV 118 Bastion leaves a parting gift a bomb in
Cyclops’s chest.
Aftermath:
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| At first I didn't like this arc it anti climactic, but over time with the revelations of who is Bastion I've learned to love it. |
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XM 70 X-teams reunite back at the Mansion and have
a little spat with Juggernaut over property rights of the Mansion.
Repercussions
and Lasting effects:
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Jean Grey has a vision with Iron man witch is
trapped in the Heroes Reborn Universe, but she doesn’t comprehend what she has
seen.
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New X-men Cecilia Reyes, Maggot and Marrow.
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Dani Moonstar blows her cover as a Shield agent
infiltrating the MLF.
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Dani rejoins X-force and Iceman rejoins the X-men
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We learn more about Domino’s origins.
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Domino gets depowered for a while.
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The Vanisher returns.
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The X-team that was in space finally comes back
The Bad:
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There are a few fillers in this crossover.
The Good:
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Actually pretty cool that we don’t find out who is
Bastion and how he ties into the X-men past.
·
Even though Bastion has been lurking around awhile
this is his grand presentation.
X-Men 74: Angel ventures into the morlock tunels to confront his
demons over losing his wings, but bumps
into the Abomination, thankfuly Marrow saves his team mate.
X-Factor 143: Havok goes up for his final showdown
against Dark Beast. And the XUE's are look for Alex Summer.
Rating: 7
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| They should make a X-Men movie where they clash agianst this line up of the Brotherhood. |
X-Men 77+78: X-Men battles with Shadow King, stopping him from
taking over the world.
·
Psylocke traps Shadow King
inside of herself and if she uses her telepathy he'll escape so she scrafices
this part of her power.
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Telepath in other titles were
actually affected during the battle, Cable is almost taken over with his TK
virus.
X-Men 80: The X-Men battle the New X-Men, trying to stop them from
attacking the space shuttle, but we discover that Xavier and these new X-Men
are actually fake made of hard light that the one responsible is a sentient
Cerebro that has gone bad.
Uncanny X-Men 363: X-Men on the run from Cerebro and searching for
Xavier they discover that he's under the protection of the Brotherhood of Evil
Mutants.
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| Bafm vs Lockheed, yes! |
Excalibur 118-119: The Bamf's
attack and their master is Nightmare but Pete Wisdom proves that he's not afraid of nothing defeats the demon easily.
Excalibur 122-123: In Peru Excalibur encounters a
group of Prime Sentinels that actual ask for their help to stop a crazed
prisoner, the Mimic.
Lasting Effects:
·
Mimic joins Excalibur Briefly till the title is
canceled in a couple of issues.
Marvel Fanfare 8: Luke Cage and
Iron Fist go after the Constrictor, the thing is the heroes have a run in with
and old partner of his Sabertooth. The heroes and Tooth track down Constrictor
but things goes south with Sabertooth, X-factor jumps in right on time to take
back their rogue teammate.
Uncanny X-Men 335:
X-Men battle Alpha Flight
Rating 8
X-Factor 136-137: Sabertooth breaks loose and almost kill
all of his old team mates.
Rating:8
X-Factor 138: Sabertooth battles Omega Red
Rating: 7
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| The end of X-Factor, Havok will start in the Mutant X title, that I loved |
X-Factor 148: Havok is a hero agains, he explains to Polaris the he was working undercover against Dark Beast.
Rating: 7
X-Factor 149:
The time displeased Greystone tries to return to his
time, and Havok tries to talk him out of it because he doesn’t know what he’s
doing. The device that Greystone had made
explodes but Havok is transported to the Mutant X Universe, but presumed dead
in Marvel 616.End if X-Factor for a long long time.
Rating: 7
X-Men 87: X-Men battle Magneto, but to their surprise Mags has been given
control over Genosha becomes officially it ruler.
Lasting Effects:
·
Joseph dies to save the world.
·
Magneto becomes the ruler of
Genosha
Uncanny X-men 368: Joseph’s funeral, aftermath of the
X-men’s defeat at the hands of Magneto.
Rating: 7
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| Xavier vs Galactus, yes this happens |
X-men 90: Xavier in a last desperate attempt, he tries
to mentally stop Galactus from consuming the Skrull home world, but the
Devourer is just too powerful.
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
·
Marrow gains more control over her powers
Rating: 8
X-Men 92: Deathbird
betrays Bishop after they discover that the meteor that they found is
something else (Note its actually the Living Monolith and she give him to
Apocalypse, we learn this latter)
X-Men 93: Mystic is in trouble and Rogue with Kitty
try to help her discover who is after her.
X-Men 94: Someone is hunting down the 12.
Saga of the Twelve
Finally after all these years the Twelve mystery is
revealed, we discover why Apocalypse wants to hunt them
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| I had been waiting for the 12 story arc for years and this crossover was a freaking let down |
down.
Characters:
Heroes: X-Men, X-Force, Cable, X-Man, Mikhail,
Sunfire, Magneto, Generation X
Antagonist:
Villains: Apocalypse, Living Monolith, Deathbird/War,
Wolverine/Death, Ahab (Famine), Caliban/Plague, Skrulls, Shadow King, Bastion.
Sporting Cast: Mannites
Issue Summary:
·
The Astonishing X-men1-3: X-men arrive to the Hulkbuster base to save
the Mannites from the mysterious Death the new horseman of Apocalypse, who ends
up killing Wolvy in their final standoff.
·
X-men (XM) 95: X-men set out to stop a Skrull
secret plan, that involves kidnapping X-men, but when they try to take them
down Death drops in on the fight and in the heat of the battle it’s revealed
that Death is the real Wolverine.
·
Uncanny X-men (UX) 376: Xavier discovers in Destiny’s
dairies that Apocalypse is hunting down the 12.
·
XM 96: Apocalypse is hunting the 12, War/Deathbird
captures Iceman, Wolverine/Death captures Mikhail, and Famine/Ahab does the
same to Sunfire.
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| I can't understand how Marvel screwed up this crossover adding the Skrulls in the mix |
·
Wolverine (WV) 146: X-Men hunt down Death/Wolverine
trying to knock some sense into to him, only Pyslocke mental attack finally
reawakes there friend.
·
WV 147:
Angel developed new energy wings and heals Abraham Kieros.
·
UX 377:
Apoc. Captures Xavier, Magneto, Bishop, Polaris, Cyclops, It revealed
that the Twelve are really parts of a celestial motor that he Apocalypse fuse
himself to a new perfect host, X-man.
X-Men Unlimited (Age of Apocalypse) 26: Final battle in the future
the X-Men battle the Apocalypse's Four Horsemen
(Note: Eric the Red has become death as Wolverine's replacement).
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
·
Wolvy is killed but he’s a
Skrull, the real Wolverine is Death one of Apocalypses horse men.
·
Wolvy gets his Claws back.
·
Death hacks Bastions head off.
·
The return of Living Monolith,
and he’s more powerful because Havok is in the Mutant X reality.
The Bad:
·
The K-Skrulls and Skrulls in general.
The Good:
·
Bishop briefly rejoins the X-men
Rating: 8
Mutants no More
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| Finally confirmed High Evo and Sinister were friends |
High Evolution is tricked by Mr. Sinister to depower
mutant on the planet, so he can secretly start his own experiment that will cause
utter chaos on a global scales, it’s a good thing the X-men Stop him right on
time.
Characters:
Heroes: X-men,
Antagonist: High Evolution, Magneto, Acolytes,
Villains: Mr. Sinister, Brotherhood of Evil Mutants,
Rebel Genoshans
Sporting Cast: X-Force, Cable, X-man, Generation X,
Bishop, Xavier and his Stupid K Skrulls
Issue Summary:
·
Uncanny X-Men 379: High Evolution decides that there
should be no more mutants.
·
X-men 99: X-Men are dealing living with no powers,
Sinister betrays High Evolution..
·
Uncanny X-men 380: X-men battle Mr. Sinister to
regain their power.
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
·
It’s finally confirmed that
High Evolution’s long time collaborator is Mr. Sinister.
·
Polaris has joined Magneto in
Genosha
The events in this arc are going to piss off the Neo that will be the X-men lamest villains ever.
The Good: Xavier abandons his X-men for his stupid
K-Skrulls, I hope they never come back
Rating: 7
Search for Cyclops
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| Marvel why do you hate Apocalypse so much? |
Apocalypse by mistake has taken Cyclops for
his host body instead of X-man; now the villain is on the run, with Cable and Phoenix
hot on his trail.
Characters:
Heroes: Cable, Phoenix, Cyclops
Antagonist: Gauntlet
Villains: Apocalypse, Anais
Sporting Cast: Blaquesmith, Ozymandias, Caliban
Issue Summary:
·
1, An amnesiac Scott is on the run with Apocalypse’s
personality slowing trying to take over heading to Akkaba. Gauntlet ( the
Former Dark Rider) try to kill his former master
·
2 Scott can't seem to stay out of trouble.
·
3 Caliban is also hunting of Apocalypse, and it’s revealed that
Blaquesmith has sent Gauntlet after Scott over fears that Cable doesn’t have
the guts to kill his dad.
·
4 Cable and Phoenix have their final battle with Apocalypse,
heroes are able to separate Apocalypse’s essence from Scott, and kill En Sabah Nur .
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
·
Scott will be tainted by
Apocalypse, he be a bit darker and more unpredictable from now on.
·
Caliban is set free from Apocalypse’s
control
The Bad:
·
Apocalypse is dead; it will take forever for writers
to bring back my favorite villain.
·
Anais will be totally forgotten after this series.
Rating: 7
X-Men Forever
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| This incrediblely good arc sadly marks the Begining of a terrible phase for the X-Men the introduction of the Neo, which I have sold that whole part of my collection. |
Characters:
Heroes: Jean Grey, Iceman, Toad, Mystic , Juggernaut
Antagonist: Prosh
Villains: Stranger, Gaydon Creed, Magneto, Sentinels,
Hydra
Sporting Cast: Celestial, Robert Kelly, Forge, Freedom
Force, Destiny, Death, Living Tribunal, Infinity, Chaos, Order, Eternity,
Death, X-Men
Issue Summary:
1: Prosh arrives on Earth and assembles a X team to
search for clues to discover who is the menace
that wants to destroy all mutants, recruiting Jean Grey, Iceman, Toad, Mystic
and Juggernaut. Prosh sends the X-Men falling through the time stream to find
out who is this secret menace and uncover some of the X-men's best kept
secrets.
2: While time
jumping Mystic is confronted by Legion who had
just killed Destiny, while Iceman discover new aspects to his powers.
3: Jean discovers that the universal abstracts (
Marvel universe deities) are worried of
the potential of Mutants and their role in the universes future, while the Toad
remembers that the Stranger had come to Earth to study mutants.
4: Hero are ported to the Days of the Future past.
5: We discover that in future Cain Marko actually
becomes a hero and Iceman's powers have grown even more, surviving being
totally shattered. When X-Men ported to the present they discover that Prosh
was preparing them to make them take him down.
6: After defeating Prosh the real menace appears, the
Stranger, who has established that Mutants are a danger to the Universe and it
balance of power, but the X-Men stop him.
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
·
Mystic power are upgraded and
she gets the X-Men movie look after this story.
·
Toad powers get a upgrade and
he takes a X-Men movie look after this story.
·
Iceman is shown to be a Alpha
level Mutant, like Jean Grey.
·
Jugy is sort of put on the path
to become a hero, that will characterize him during the 2000's.
·
We discover that Mystic was the
one that actually killed Gaydon Creed, her own child back while she was in
X-Factor.
·
We Discover that Legion killed
Destiny because she had foresaw the Age of Apocalypse and Legion's telepathic
mind couldn't take the vision so he lashed out and killed her.
·
We get glimps of the
relationship between Magneto and Astra.
·
Toad is a child of Black Womb
project, and Juggernaut's father worked
on that project with Destiny.
·
It seems that Mutants will
evolve to become Eternity, so Stranger wants to stop this, that's way he
appeared during the 60's kidnapping Magneto and Toad.
·
Events in this arc push Mystic
to kill Robert Kelly.
The Good:
·
These arc actually finishes of
a ton of dangling plotlines, it's fantastic.
·
Toad and Mystic take more of a
X-Men movie look after this movie.
·
Nice detail of having Cable
falling sick when Prosh arrives.
Rating:
X-Men 107: Earth has become a alien prison planet, Rogue has a run
in with the Blood Brother, saving one of the K-Skrulls who has arrive on Earth
with a message from Xavier, informing of the return of Bishop
Lasting Effects:
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The return of Bishop
X-Men Annual 1989:
