Age of X-Man: The X-Tremists #5 (spoilers/discussion)

[Anduinel]

Whew!

After the way Nextgen and The Amazing Nightcrawler wrapped, my big fear for this finale was that there was going to be an event-mandated mindwipe for all these characters. Nope! Instead, we got a glorious riot and some really nice moments for each member of the team:

- In brief flashback, Jubilee remembers Shogo, realizes they're trapped in a lie, and proceeds to start burning shit to the ground
- Picking up from the end of the last issue, Northstar, Rictor, and Bobby join her in wrecking the joint
- Ric goes off specifically to blow the doors off the Danger Room, so I wouldn't be surprised to see him in the Prisoner X finale
- In a feat of enormous psychic badassery, Besty restores the memories of every mutant whose mind she was supposed to have erased, which starts secondary riots
- Fred gets his own moment of badassery as he stands between Betsy and a mob the size of a small town



- Bobby gets his memories back and has a moment where he just sort of... breaks.



- Jean-Paul acts as the team's bedrock. Vengeful, vengeful bedrock.



This book was definitely slow to build momentum, but these last two issues were superb. Great way to close things out, and I really hope this crew gets their licks in during the Omega issue.

[Tycon]

They referenced it. Leah, the madness of it all.

[Beetle]

Well this had a much better ending than Marvelous X-Men or NextGen. I'm glad that it didn't end with another mindwipe

Although apparently in Marvelous X-Men when they've found Moneta's body, Betsy has already betrayed Department X

[tornshattered]

No, you're crying!!

[comeatmebro]

No, you're crying!!

Not at all

[Dante Milton]

This had the best conclusion of the AoXM books I've been reading so far, very cathartic. I kind of loved Jubilee's reaction to dead Moneta, like oh well she's probs not real anyway. I just hope some of them are around for the final confrontation with Nate in the Omega issue.