Agreed completely it looks like his one personality trait besides snarling at people, specially Lorna is grief and this just doesn´t make sense given his personality over at planetsize and just could Leah stop trying to ruin Lorna and Magneto´s relationship? I was so happy for Lorna getting her Phd a Magneto in character would have congratuled her, especially given his own investigations he used to do under pseudonyms so it would be nice to see them exchange pappers some day.
Yes I think this is the old backup Wanda but her backup should not be that old imo, she just discovered she wasn´t a mutant during Uncanny Avengers, unless Xavier knew all this time, including during HoM and decided to not tell anyone, which I don´t think really happened.Wanda (?) appearing at the end definitely threw me for a loop.
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"To the X-men then, who don´t die the old fashioned way and no matter how hard we try, none of us die forever" Uncanny X-Men #270, Jean and Ororo
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This whole issue felt like a huge missdirect. So I refuse to speculate on any of this for now and just take it for what it is.
Also, nice to see teams meet and not fight.
Also, >_> Pietro and Northstar be cute.
I hope that Raven has nothing to do with any of this and is really just finding the whole ordeal funny hence why she's just spying around. Bonus points if she gets popcorn at some point.
Idk. Hope wanting Magneto to rush before the X-Men take the Avengers to Wanda makes me think Wanda was revived, and she wanted them to encounter New Wanda before being able to confirm the "original" really was dead
Plus if it's an illusion they'd need to constantly make a fake Wanda show up all the time since they'd need everyone else to think she was alive.
On a side note to me the writing of Stark flirting (or whatever he was doing) with Emma right after Jean offers condolences is just atrocious. It is not at all in keeping with the somber reality or gravitas of the entire episode. I know Emma doesn't give a damn but the writer(s) are all over the place, to depict Stark acting like that in front of Vision and other team-mates in the face of what happened is just insulting imo
I loved this issue. Not sure what Hope is up to, but glad she is given a role and mind beyond just "the five". Unless Xavier is the one that woke up Magneto and used a image of Hope since that's who Magneto saw in their earlier torture and then Xavier can stay out of the spotlight. Though my first thought was Hope killed Wanda, I know think she just knows more than we do. The body was missing, and Hope knows. That's not something normal with the resurrection process.
Even though it was a classic villain reversion, I felt Magneto was pretty good and the fight was fine enough. When Wanda first appeared I thought it was great to address the foolish death and get it out of the way - clearly the trial of Magneto goes deeper than that. Being right after the mystical Wanda page made me think it was actually her returning via whatever magic, but lots of people here seem to think it's an early backup or illusion or fake. Either Mystique had something to do with it, or she's there so Hope can use her powers to stall and impersonate Wanda.
I expect more regarding the resurrection process since they made a point of brining it up and how they don't want humans to find out. And why were so many people hanging out in the arbor magna?
On another note, thanks Hope
This would be really funny, I would love it, like here´s Raven trying to burn it all down for Destiny and take revenge on Erik and Charles and she finds out Magneto is kind of doing this on his own because someone decided to mess with one of his kids, I could picture her just enjoying the irony and see if she can do the same with Xavier.
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"To the X-men then, who don´t die the old fashioned way and no matter how hard we try, none of us die forever" Uncanny X-Men #270, Jean and Ororo
Magneto: The master of magnetism Appreciation 2022
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Maybe Mags just loves Wanda more than Lorna I wouldn't put it past him to rank his children. I' sure Lorna's above Pietro but just below Anya.
There could be something like that but my feeling about this is that this story is suggesting he doesn´t care about Lorna at all and only cares about Wanda as his daughter, which has never been true, not even when they were not official family, until Leah started to write them on X-factor.
It´s a bad mix of "strong woman fights back evil dad and Dad only cares about one daughter trope" which I could do without, as little as they have interacted, their relationship already was way more complex than that.
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"To the X-men then, who don´t die the old fashioned way and no matter how hard we try, none of us die forever" Uncanny X-Men #270, Jean and Ororo
Magneto: The master of magnetism Appreciation 2022
Polaris: The Mistress of Magnetism Appreciation 2022
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Enjoyable read, but the issue treats telepathy as trivial when the implications are staggering.
Casually considering mind-wiping the Avengers as a throwaway gag (all so Emma can save the day once again while flauting her sexuality)? That is a pretty serious thing, and raises the question of why all the Telepaths don't just mind wipe the bad guys away. Aside from the obvious (there would be no story if they did that), if the argument is because the mutants are good guys and so wouldn't do that, it still makes no sense in this case.
In the same issue, we have Hope arguing that telepathic methods can be a form of torture, so the portrayal of telepathy abuses is all over the place.
Tony pointing out that he came prepared to counter Magneto while not having any Psi-blockers also seems like a plot contrivance. (My big pet peeve is how the bad guys always have Psi-blockers that are able to neuter the telepathic heroes, but when villains have access to telepathy, like the Red Skull or Sinister, the heroes all suck).
"To the X-men then, who don´t die the old fashioned way and no matter how hard we try, none of us die forever" Uncanny X-Men #270, Jean and Ororo
Magneto: The master of magnetism Appreciation 2022
Polaris: The Mistress of Magnetism Appreciation 2022
House of M Appreciation 2022