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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
The followers and the false faces Masque’s group is unsettling before all of its individual members have even been identified. Jean’s encounter around the ruined mansion in Uncanny X-Men #261 leads into a situation where familiar appearance...
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Callisto: the former leader becomes the target Callisto has done terrible things herself. Her introduction involved kidnapping Angel and deciding what his life was going to be. That history makes her more complicated, but it does not make w...
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Masque: having control is the point Masque was cruel when Callisto could still put limits on him. Giving him more authority makes that cruelty much harder for anyone around him to escape. The power itself is horrifying because of how direct...
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The Morlocks under Masque The Morlocks deserve a separate update for the period when Masque is controlling his own group in the tunnels. Their original introduction and this later story are dealing with very different situations. In the fir...
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The New Mutants reunion: Charles has to choose again New Mutants #50–51 brings Xavier’s two lives into the same place. His students reach him in space, and suddenly the school is no longer something he is worrying about at a distance. The c...
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Lilandra and the crew: everyone already has a life here Lilandra cannot be reduced to the person who takes Xavier away from the X-Men. Her political situation is one of the reasons the Starjammers are in danger in the first place. When she...
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Xavier: leaving Earth begins as a rescue Xavier’s departure in Uncanny X-Men #200 is easy to flatten into “he went to space with Lilandra.” The circumstances are much more serious than that. He is gravely ill, and Lilandra’s link with him a...
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Binary on the crew: the power has a job to do Binary is visually enormous. The fire, the white costume, the way Carol seems to belong against a field of stars. It would be easy to stop there and treat her as the crew’s biggest special effec...
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Binary: Carol gets to choose where she goes Carol’s decision to leave Earth deserves more attention than a line on a team roster. By this point she has been through Rogue’s attack, the loss of powers and memories, and the Brood’s experiment...
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Starjammers: what changes when Carol and Charles come aboard The Starjammers already got their introduction in this series, but their relationship with the X-Men changes quite a bit once Carol Danvers and Charles Xavier become part of their...
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SCP-097: Old Fairgrounds SCP-097 takes the sort of place that should belong to childhood memories and makes it dangerous long before anyone reaches the entrance. This entry involves harm to children, so the discussion here stays away from t...
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SCP-096: The "Shy Guy" The worst part of SCP-096's basic rule is how ordinary the mistake can be. Looking at a face is something people do constantly, often before deciding whether they even want to pay attention. Building a horror premise...
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SCP-095: The Atomic Adventures of Ronnie Ray-Gun An incomplete set of old comics is a pretty good way to get a reader's attention. SCP-095 takes that familiar problem and gives the missing issues much worse implications than an unfinished c...
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SCP-094: Miniature Event Horizon There is something especially uncomfortable about a threat you could walk past every day and barely notice changing. SCP-094 gives the Foundation a problem that can look almost manageable for an entire caree...
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SCP-093: Red Sea Object SCP-093 is the kind of entry where the object in containment turns out to be the smallest part of the story. It starts with a little engraved disc that changes color when somebody holds it. Leave it unattended away f...
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SCP-092: "The Best of The 5th Dimension" SCP-092 takes a ridiculous premise and follows it into some really unpleasant places. It's a collection of 3,125 CDs connected to The 5th Dimension, and playing one on a normal CD player subjects eve...
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SCP-091: Nostalgia Imagine looking back through a wedding video and noticing a tissue box you now feel strangely attached to. You remember it being there. You remember it at the reception. Somehow, you even remember it on the honeymoon. Non...
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SCP-090: Apocorubik's Cube There's something especially unsettling about a puzzle that keeps working on itself. SCP-090 resembles a black Rubik's cube covered in tiny glowing designs, except each face has ten thousand squares. It shifts a r...
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I don't know if it's in all of them because I've just now noticed, but in the Red Agent writing, all throughout Human Order and Island of Dr. Moreau, it's not just one character but multiple. Anytime they're in a big fight and things get re...
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Skids is the one who has to make the terrible practical decision in New Mutants #87. Rusty needs help, the people holding them have made the situation worse, and the MLF is offering a route out. The choice is made under pressure, not in the...
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