onslaught appreciation

[gambitxremy]

EARLY HINTS

0) X-Men (2nd series) #25
1) Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #322
2) X-Force (1st series) #46
3) X-Men (2nd series) #46
4) X-Force (1st series) #52
5) X-Men (2nd series) #49
6) X-Men (2nd series) #50
PROLOGUE

7) Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #333
8) Excalibur (1st series) #99
9) X-Man #15
10) X-Man #16
11) X-Man #17
12) Cable (1st series) #32
13) Cable (1st series) #33
14) X-Men (2nd series) #53
15) X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #11
16) Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #334
17) X-Men (2nd series) #54
18) Onslaught: X-Men
PHASE & IMPACT 1

19) Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #335
20) X-Man #18
21) X-Force (1st series) #57
22) Cable (1st series) #34
23) Incredible Hulk (2nd series) #444
24) Avengers (1st series) #401
25) Excalibur (1st series) #100
26) Fantastic Four (1st series) #415
27) X-Factor (1st series) #125
28) Generation X #18
29) Wolverine (2nd series) #104
30) X-Men (2nd series) #55
PHASE & IMPACT 2

31) Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #336
32) X-Factor (1st series) #126
33) Cable (1st series) #35
34) X-Force (1st series) #58
35) Incredible Hulk (2nd series) #445
36) Iron Man (1st series) #332
37) Avengers (1st series) #402
--) Punisher (3rd series) #11
38) X-Man #19
--) Green Goblin #12
39) Fantastic Four (1st series) #416
40) Generation X #19
--) Amazing Spider-Man #415
41) Wolverine (2nd series) #105
--) Spider-Man #72
42) X-Men (2nd series) #56
43) X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #12

EPILOGUE
44) Onslaught: Marvel Universe
45) Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #337
46) X-Men (2nd series) #57
47) Onslaught: Epilogue

Do u have to read all those I just want the main story

[JackalsIII]

http://www.uncannyxmen.net/node/5494

I'm pretty sure all you can read is Onslaught : X-Men / Onslaught : Marvel Universe / Onslaught Epilogue and be good. Those would probably reference, with footnotes, the other key issues.

The way it was structured, the issues all do lead into those first two key issues.

[Baron of Faltine]

Even Doom was there

Dr.Doom, even if technically a villain, had been present in 99% of major event/crossover since orginal Secret War. It ain't summer withot Doom. He is like the soul of the party.

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

Onslaught the love child of xavier and magneto




onslaught is Xavier's dark side

Onslaught was a combination of Magneto's malevolence and Professor X repressed anger.

[Londo Bellian]

I have to say, Capcom sure made an awesome and snk-level boss out of Onslaught in the first MvC game. Story-wise, he became powerful enough to warp the multiverse to merge the game-MU with the AU settings of the various Capcom games to bring their characters in.

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

Wow! I did not know about The X-Men team-up with the Micronauts to defeat the Entity, the dark side of Professor X. http://www.therealgentlemenofleisure...nauts-1-4.html

[AbnormallyNormal]

I can think of about four interesting plot points which occurred during Onslaught:

1) Students begin to question Xavier, their faith shaken, he is no longer so deified

2) Dark Beast posing as actual Beast is undone

3) Joseph starts to become more of a heroic Magneto and ally of the X-Men, and relationship with Rogue

4) Wolverine being shown in his extremely weird bizarre "hyper healy animalistic" state with that godawful mask

5) Juggernaut beginning to become redeemed/sympathetic?

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

My first exposure to Onslaught was Marvel VS Capcom 1, and I think it's solely because of that game that people even remember and look back fondly on Onslaught to begin with. And the sad thing is, among the VS Series Marvel final bosses, he's the only one that has absolutely nothing going about him today.

X-Men COTA had Magneto, Marvel Super Heroes had Doctor Doom & Thanos, X-Men VS Street Fighter & Marvel Super Heroes VS Street Fighter had Apocalypse, and Marvel VS Capcom 3 had Galactus.

That's to bad.

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

The Onslaught Saga was one of the first comic stories I ever read.
(I think it was 6 tpbs collecting entire story, including tie ins)
I loved it back then, but sadly it hasn't fully withstood the test of time.
Some of the X-Men stuff is still pretty good, particularly the Juggernaut & Onslaught revealing himself stuff.



But the tie-ins ..... yikes, the Avengers & Fantastic Four must have been all over the place back then.
No wonder they got erased from existence for a few years.

Still it got me hooked on X-Men and introduced me to the Avengers, so it served it's purpose well.

I loved the Juggernaut & Onslaught revealing himself stuff.

I also loved that the Avengers & Fantastic Four were "all over the place" as you put it. Btw I LOVE this double-page spread!

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

I hated the Onslaught idea and had hoped never to see it again. I did not enjoy Skullslaught either.

To me, Onslaught was fine. I did not buy the comics featuring Skullslaught.

[AbnormallyNormal]

Yeah re-reading Onslaught the complete epic is shocking, it really brings you back to the time when X-Men utterly dominated the Marvel U

All the other teams and heroes were so incredibly subordinated it was amazing

The Hulk tie-in issues were by far the worst of the bunch btw

Well so were the SpiderMan ones. Those issues simply were so irrelevant to Onslaught but they were included in The Complete Epic for some reason

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

For the fans, there is an Onslaught Omnibus coming out on July 14th, 2015. It's been highjacked by the Avengers of course it's official title is X-Men/Avenger Onslaught Omnibus. I don't even remember how many Avengers issues actually tied in, but the thing has 1296 pages which is pretty freaking huge. The X-Statix Omnibus (the biggest one I have, it's a brick) is only 1200 pages.

I just recently was made aware about this; http://notahoaxnotadream.blogspot.nl...t-omnibus.html

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

1) Students begin to question Xavier, their faith shaken, he is no longer so deified

There was a to me remarkable use of continuity;
X-Men vol. 2; issue 53 revealed to Jean Grey that Xavier secretly harbored a forbidden love for his favorite student. While this had been established as far back as vol. 1; issue 4, it had been all but fogotten until being brought to light once more by Onslaught.

[AbnormallyNormal]

There was a to me remarkable use of continuity;
X-Men vol. 2; issue 53 revealed to Jean Grey that Xavier secretly harbored a forbidden love for his favorite student. While this had been established as far back as vol. 1; issue 4, it had been all but fogotten until being brought to light once more by Onslaught.

Yeah to me that's one of those like "different societal standards" things that you can exploit if you want to as an author but I mean come on lol.... but yeah a LOT of stuff Xavier did in the 1960s seriously comes off as terrible jackass stuff now

[TakoM]

Yeah re-reading Onslaught the complete epic is shocking, it really brings you back to the time when X-Men utterly dominated the Marvel U

All the other teams and heroes were so incredibly subordinated it was amazing

The Hulk tie-in issues were by far the worst of the bunch btw

Well so were the SpiderMan ones. Those issues simply were so irrelevant to Onslaught but they were included in The Complete Epic for some reason

I think the story was the most epic one which Marvel has ever released because everything at the end had meaning. (explained by Apokalypse, the Authors and Uatu's voice in small though bubbles)
Most of the heroes could show how much of a heroes they were(except I think Spidey and Hulk and Dr.Strange was the only hero which was powerless at that time)
and a lot of stuff had consequences like that the heroes were gone(for sometime) you can say everything what made the Onslaught story great , Hickman did the opposite of it in SW.~.*