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8/12 Then Hodge brings a demon into it. In X-Factor #32, he makes his bargain with N'astirh, offering information about mutant children in return for protection from destruction at his enemy's hands. The deal matters later because Hodge's survival has a supernatural explanation. The machinery is only part of what keeps him going. It also tells you where the limits of his supposed concern for humanity are. He's willing to help a demon get children if that gives him an advantage. Whatever he says about protecting people, the actual decisions keep coming back to preserving himself and hurting mutants. That willingness has been there in the Right's methods already. With this bargain, it gets even more explicit. He can make people into targets, tools, or bargaining material depending on what he needs at the time. Being a child doesn't protect anyone from that, and neither does having once trusted him.