Then Uncanny #207 takes things in another ugly direction. Rachel goes after Selene intending to kill her. This is someone who has attacked her and murdered a man who tried to he…

Then Uncanny #207 takes things in another ugly direction. Rachel goes after Selene intending to kill her. This is someone who has attacked her and murdered a man who tried to help her, so the anger has a very specific history. Wolverine intervenes. He tries to stop her from carrying out the killing, and when she refuses to back down, he stabs her. That's a brutal thing to have happen between teammates. Whatever Logan believes he's preventing, Rachel is the one left with his claws through her. She survives and escapes, but she's hurt and isolated when Spiral approaches her. The path out of that encounter takes her into Mojo's world. By the time Rachel returns, she has been through another stretch of exploitation instead of getting the help she needed after leaving the X-Men. She keeps finding herself around people who see what her power can do for them. Being an X-Man hasn't protected her from that, and neither has being Phoenix.