X-Men #1 Discussion Thread [Spoilers]

[Veitha]

Sorry if my summary sucks, first time doing it and not a native English speaker. I tried my best.

• The comic book opens up with a flashback to Xavier giving Scott his ruby quartz glasses. Charles tells Scott that He doesn’t have to go through life blind just because he’s not one of them [humans] °
• The attack on Orchis starts the same as the preview. We get a nice scene of Magneto opening up the ceiling of the Orchis base and being snob. He asks Polaris to make sure he gets no rubble and no rabble beneath his feat when he lands. Polaris follows his request and opens up the floor while also immobilizing all the Orchis soldiers with a single gesture (nice showing for our girl Lorna).
• There’s a vibranium door between the team (Storm, Cyclops, Magneto and Polaris) and the datacore containing precious Orchis information. A soldier asks the lead scientist whether or not they should destroy the core since there’s redundancy between that particular datacore and other Orchis servers, but the scientist refuses to lose all that knowledge. They inject themselves with a serum that turns them into human/gorilla hybrids (posthumans experimentations I guess) while Magneto opens up the vibranium door.
• Magneto starts fighting the Gorilla Men, while the other three go looking for mutants that are held captive in there. There’s a nice scene with Storm planting a Krakoan flower and using her powers so it grows into a portal. Suddenly one of the tubes holding mutant hostages opens up and a black and white girl comes out of it. She tries to mindcontrol them, but it doesn’t work. Polaris suggests that she’s from the future and she’s apparently a posthuman (Black Telepath maybe?) but she’s not fully formed. Before they can interrogate her, she teleports and disapperars. They do not follow her because they first need the Council to make her the priority for the mission of the team (that has been going nonstop for a week attacking Orchis bases). Instead, they go on and save the mutant children that Orchis had trapped in the base.
• The children are brought to Krakoa were Cecilia Reyes checks them out. She says they now live in a paradise full of telepaths, empaths and healers, so any physical and psychological trauma is going to go away. Everyone is happy and safe now.
• Storm keeps being a bit too happy to fight for Krakoa, while Magneto is essentially treated like a god/celebrity among the Krakoans. Polaris and Scott comment on that. Polaris seems a bit skeptical about it all, while Scott makes a big speech on finally having realised the dream. And he believes it 100%.
• Back to the Orchis Forge where Director Devo is holding a funeral for the men that died in the X-men attack in HoX 4-5, while also spitting hate towards mutants. Omega Sentinel is there, and she’s much more balanced in her report of the attack. She says that conflict was unavoidable since mutants and humans are two species sharing the same environment, and one species (the humans) making such bold moves as creating the Mother Mold would cause the other species (mutants) to take action. Director Devo explains that he adapted the Stark-Richards design of the Sol Hammer to turn it into the Forge, so he takes the blame for the mutant repercussion but he seems to be pretty passionate about keeping fighting.
• We’re on the moon, where both Cyclops and Corsair have arrived. The Blue Area of the Moon Krakoan Biome is the Summers House, where the Summers Clan (plus Jean and Wolverine) live together and it also serves as a departure point for attacks (as seen in HoX 4). A Summers Clan/Starjammers dinner is held, and we have some funny moments here (particularly Vulcan/Logan and Cable/Raza moments are quite fun). The most important thing is that Havok gives Corsair a Krakoan Flower that will connect the Starjammer and that particular Krakoan Biome (not the main Island as far as I understood).
• Infographics with the infamous Wolverine/Jean/Cyclops rooms lol.
• Talk between Corsairs and Cyclops with Scott displaying Krakoan dishwashing tech. Mostly about Scott still being a fighter but finally being happy with his family.
• Last scene is Doctor Gregor and Director Devo talking. Devo was born blind, but with tech he was able to gain enhanced vision (posthuman stuff always lurking). Gregor wasn’t at the funeral because she was working on a secret project… bringing back his husband through a crystal that I suppose could be a Nimrod thing(?) or something similar to a M’Kraan Crystal(?). She’s mad. Quite mad.



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